Ray Gronberg
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Stein team picks former Rep. Tine to head DMV
Former state Rep. Paul Tine is set to become the next commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles. N.C. Department...
Water rights near Triangle focus of Senate bill
Johnston County’s senator is pushing a bill he says could simplify his county’s water-resources planning. Senate Bill 605 surfaced in...
Tales from the crypto
House members have approved and sent to the Senate a bill that would allow North Carolina’s treasurer to place up...
PBM bill clears House
House members voted 106-9 on Tuesday to pass their chamber’s version of a bill that would put some new restrictions...
“Paper towns” bill advances
Last year’s deannexation of a portion of Summerfield may prompt a broader review of the state’s minimum-services “paper towns” originally...
The push to crossover has begun
But it remains to be seen whether one of the session’s potentially most significant and controversial pieces of legislation, House...
N.C.’s investment kitty, checked
State Auditor Dave Boliek reports that the state treasurer’s office was managing $172.8 billion in cash and investments for the...
Poll finds opposition to part of Senate energy bill
A Michigan-based interest group says a poll it commissioned found widespread opposition to the idea of allowing companies like Duke...
Wolfspeed faces shareholder lawsuits
My boss, Dave Mildenberg, took a look last week at Wolfspeed’s problems, which include a widely-shorted stock and a $575...
State of education
The folks at Best NC issued their 2025 state education fact book. There’s a lot of data in there, culled...
Boom staying home for engine-test work
Boom Supersonic has announced that it will test key components of the engines for its planned supersonic airliner at a...
HUD approves plan for Helene CDBG aid
The Trump administration has signed off on North Carolina’s plan to deploy $1.4 billion in CDBG disaster recovery money to...
Berger on the children’s hospital
The Senate’s budget, passed on Friday, contains $638 million in additional state spending for the new children’s hospital the UNC...
