Health Care State Health Plan adds rural Atrium hospitals to mid-price tier State Health Plan officials have added a dozen Atrium Health hospitals and clinics to the plan’s middle-cost tier, but Atrium’s...
Education BOG asked to keep reins on campus construction A proposed rewrite of the UNC System’s construction-project policy would retain for the Board of Governors the ability to veto...
Education A fourth of K-12 students are in two places Here at Business North Carolina, we remain bemused by some of the numbers in the analysis of school enrollments that...
Budget & Taxes Every UNC university with athletics subsidizes it Not a single one of the UNC System’s schools is able to pay for intercollegiate athletics with just the revenue...
Economic Development NC and Chemours make a deal North Carolina has struck a $590 million deal with Chemours and its corporate cousins to settle one of lawsuits spawned...
Education Charter advocates ponder school-choice patterns About 25% of North Carolina’s K-12 school children attend a charter, private or home school, but the pattern of choice...
Education UNC schools slip in FIRE free-speech rankings Five UNC System universities, including both its flagships, lost ground in the updated campus-free-speech rankings issued by the Philadelphia-based Foundation...
Local Splitting biz property in divorce: Call an accountant A recent N.C. Supreme Court decision portends big changes in how business property gets parceled out when a couple divorces,...
Economic Development ESPN: Nashville’s MLB bid is lacking Amid all the talk about Raleigh’s pursuit of a Major League Baseball team, there’s been an assumption that Nashville, Tennessee,...
Budget & Taxes Lottery and online games: Big growth, low return The N.C. Education Lottery’s fastest-growing new offerings also generate the lowest rate of return for North Carolina’s schools, State Auditor...
Local NY on the NC Whenever I visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, I always get a kick out of their...
Budget & Taxes Major cities to get more LGC scrutiny Touting it as a major shift, State Treasurer Brad Briner and his aides say they’re going to subject North Carolina’s...
Education K-12 test scores continue post-pandemic rise Students in North Carolina’s K-12 public schools are doing better on their end-of-grade tests, but across the state only 59.2%...
Elections Berger Jr. not seeking re-election to Supreme Court North Carolina’s Supreme Court is assured of getting at least one new justice at the end of the 2028 election...
Economic Development JetZero lines up more money JetZero says it’s lined up $100 million in loans that will help pay for “tooling and production facilities” at the...
