Ray Gronberg
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Clawback lawsuit survives Pactiv’s dismissal bid
The state’s attempt to recover the $12 million in incentives it paid Pactiv Evergreen to operate the now-closed Canton paper...
Money for Helene-related road repairs still pending
Aid for the N.C. Department of Transportation’s road-restoration efforts in western North Carolina was conspicuous by its absence from the...
Railroad upgrades
The N.C. Railroad is getting $105.6 million from the federal government to fund seven upgrades in the Triangle and the...
ECU moves out provost, top lawyer
There’s been a big shakeup in East Carolina University’s senior staff, with Chancellor Philip Rogers announcing on Thursday that he’s...
Local incentives for Google data-center expansion
Google may invest $600 million to expand its Caldwell County data center and add as many as 30 jobs after...
Business aid: Loans or grants?
For the western North Carolina business community, probably the most important element of the bill is a $50 million allocation...
Legislators added $604.2 million in disaster aid money
Legislators on Thursday added another $604.2 million in disaster aid money to the state’s response to Hurricane Helene, to go...
Blue Cross settlement
A multi-billion dollar anti-trust lawsuit involving Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is in the process of being...
Helene recovery: A $53.6 billion question
Gov. Roy Cooper and his aides believe western North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene will ultimately consume about $53.6 billion...
N.C. Insurance and reinsurance
Monday’s item on insurance-company profitability in North Carolina has drawn reader mail, with the leader of the N.C. Farm Bureau’s...
FEMA’s risk index
Researching the reinsurance issue, by the way, took me down a rabbit hole that led to a look at FEMA’s...
Fixing the State Health Plan
Fixing the State Health Plan isn’t going to be easy, and it’s going to take the General Assembly’s help, this...
A suggestion for the Helene AAR
Andrew Dunn, former comms chief for Dan Forest’s 2020 gubernatorial bid, recently restarted his “Longleaf Politics” Substack and on Monday...
