Ray Gronberg
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Odds and ends March 6
Sen. Julie Mayfield, D-Buncombe, isn’t particularly buying the idea that the state constitution’s ban on “exclusive or separate emoluments” rules...
House panel briefed on PFAS fight
Officials are hoping to destroy about 60,000 gallons of PFAS-containing firefighting foam that fire departments around the state no longer...
Senate revises Helene bill
Senators on Tuesday rolled out their version of the latest Hurricane Helene relief package for western North Carolina, positioning it...
Digital assets
One of House Speaker Destin Hall’s flagship pieces of legislation hit a speed bump in the chamber’s Commerce and Economic...
Budd floats port-security bill
North Carolina U.S. Sen. Ted Budd is wading into the port-security issue. Budd recently joined forces with Florida U.S. Sen.,...
Cabarrus County’s dueling hospital projects
Novant Health says its $336.4 million proposal to build a 50-bed acute-care hospital on the southwestern outskirts of Kannapolis is...
Duke and Novant collaboration
Only about a month after entering a joint venture with UNC Health on a new children’s hospital, Duke Health says...
UNC System adopts new protest policy
UNC’s Board of Governors has ratified a new campus-protest policy that requires protest organizers to give administrators at their campus...
Proposal renews call for cap on corporate home buys
A proposal to restrict corporate purchases of single-family housing that surfaced and got quickly pigeonholed in the House in 2023...
A battle for beds in Cabarrus County
Medical providers have filed new certificate-of-need applications that could result in almost $772 million of capital spending if all their projects...
With growth comes the need for more power
North Carolina’s continued growth spree is making even couple-year-old projections of future power-generation needs obsolete, Duke Energy executives recently told...
Is fixing DMV really a priority?
It may take moving the Division of Motor Vehicles out from under the state Department of Transportation’s bureaucratic umbrella to improve...
Local news effort grabs $2M from Knight, Google, Dogwood
There’s a common complaint across North Carolina that it’s harder to keep up with the news because of the declining...
