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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

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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

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...
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...
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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...