Ray Gronberg
Recent Stories
Data center tax breaks
It’s looking increasingly possible state officials will reel in at least some of tax breaks and other incentives they’ve made...
WARN attacks Stein
Gov. Josh Stein attempted veto last year of Senate Bill 266 and its relaxation of the state’s carbon-reduction targets gets...
Liquor law
North Carolina’s liquor-control laws are antiquated and need a major overhaul, to allow more retailers to join local ABC stores...
Berger: Answers needed on WakeMed cost impact
WakeMed and Atrium Health need to come to the table “prepared to answer” concerns about whether their proposed merger will...
Rocky Mount preps for budget cuts
Rocky Mount is probably two years away from returning to full financial normalcy, its city manager told the Local Government...
Charlotte’s borrowing
State Auditor Dave Boliek thinks Charlotte’s government is borrowing entirely too much money. The latest such request, reviewed and approved...
N.C. A&T trustee resigns
Mark Copeland, vice chair of the N.C. A&T State University board of trustees, resigned from that post last week. Copeland’s...
House Dems agreed with Burgin on merger oversight
House Democrats have lined up behind a merger-oversight bill for hospitals that’s substantively identical to the one Sen. Jim Burgin,...
WakeMed makes its case
WakeMed officials say cost-cutting pressure from the federal and state governments and competition from UNC Health and Duke Health mean...
Wake delays WakeMed/Atrium merger vote
Wake County Commissioners have agreed to delay consideration of a contract change that would clear the way for the proposed...
Burgin proposes clampdown on hospital mergers
Sen. Jim Burgin, the Harnett County Republican who co-chairs the Senate’s Health committee, got wind of the prospective Atrium Health/WakeMed...
Republicans suggest revamp of fuel-price riders
A trio of House Republicans wants legislators to revamp North Carolina’s power-pricing system, to give Duke Energy and other utilities...
Atrium/ Wake Med merger update
If history is any guide, the impending merger of WakeMed with Charlotte-based Atrium Health “will not benefit the public,” State...
