Budget & Taxes The Senate’s budget, unveiled The Senate’s budget proposal for the 2025-27 biennium is going to include $638 million in additional funding for the new...
Local No title In my Henderson Dispatch days, I drove home along U.S. 1 down to Interstate 540 about four times. A couple...
Local Malpractice Business groups are warning that a medical malpractice case currently pending in the state Court of Appeals could have dire consequences...
Local A House bill for Charlotte’s transit funding There are now two bills pending in the General Assembly that would give Mecklenburg County via referendum to add up...
Local Raleigh’s runway The Triangle’s “most important two miles of pavement” is a case study for why the juice isn’t worth the squeeze...
Local Taking the politics out of local land-use battles? Lewisville Republican Rep. Jeff Zenger and nearly two dozen of his colleagues want local officials to face civil-court liability, for...
Education Student-visa pullbacks “federal issues,” Berger says Senate leader Phil Berger isn’t signaling any intention to go to bat with the state’s Congressional delegation for the international...
Budget & Taxes Berger and the budget The Senate will release its draft of the budget for the 2025-27 biennium Monday night, Senate leader Phil Berger says....
Health Care PBM update The Senate’s getting into the pharmacy benefits manager game. On Thursday, the chamber’s Health Care committee endorsed Senate Bill 479,...
Local Solar-farm limits debated Advocates for the solar-power industry are deploying property-rights arguments to oppose a bill pending in the House Agriculture and Environment...
Local Flood plains A mountain-county senator says if state officials want to exempt the reconstruction of Helene-damaged buildings from flood-protection rules, they also...
Elections Sen. Measmer, arriving soon Cabarrus County Commissioners Chairman Chris Measmer will take former Sen. Paul Newton’s seat, once Gov. Josh Stein formalizes the choice...
Local More Selectsites on tap? Tuesday’s Senate Commerce hearing on Senate Bill 664 also saw members agree to use the bill as a vehicle to...
Local JMACs and tire makers The Senate’s Commerce and Insurance committee has endorsed a bill that’s designed to give a couple of tire manufacturers a...
Local Friendship with trade-war targets? Just in time for a global trade war, House members have proposed a pair of resolutions that profess the state’s...