Ray Gronberg
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Burgin health-insurance mandate cap advances
Sen. Jim Burgin’s attempt to cap the number of health-insurance mandates embedded in state law cleared its first two committee...
Housing study findings
It’s not news that North Carolina has a housing shortage, but the NC Chamber, the N.C. Home Builders Association and...
Community colleges’ Boost
With help from a $35.6 million foundation grant, N.C. Community Colleges leaders are launching an effort they think will help...
Toyota factory ready to start deliveries
Toyota’s $13.9 billion battery factory near Liberty will start shipping product in April, company CFO Yoichi Miyazaki said Wednesday as...
House refines its latest Helene bill
State House leaders have come up with an initial plan for spending the additional $500 million they want to allot...
A bacon, egg and cheese to go, please
When I go home to Los Angeles, one of the very first things I do is go to In-N-Out for...
Herding senators
Judging from Tuesday morning, it’s easier to herd cats than to herd senators. Every biennium, legislative staff have to refresh...
Healthcare costs, mandates in the crosshairs
I was hanging out for the GOP caucus photo because I wanted to talk to Sen. Jim Burgin, R-Harnett, who’s...
More bad luck for Henderson County
Sen. Tim Moffitt, R-Henderson, reports that his county’s already hurricane-battered agriculture sector took another blow on Jan. 31 when Apple...
Another Helene relief bill in the works
House members are preparing what would become the fourth hurricane-relief bill legislators have considered since Hurricane Helene laid waste to...
Stein’s hurricane request
Gov. Josh Stein asked legislators to release $1.1 billion from the state’s reserves to fund an assortment of hurricane-relief efforts...
NC Chamber staying neutral in tariff battle
The NC Chamber isn’t joining its national counterpart in condemning the federal government’s prospective deployment of new tariffs against Canada,...
Trade war with Canada
The weekend’s other big news, of course, was President Trump’s declaration of economic warfare against Canada and Mexico. Trump invoked...
