Budget & Taxes Tales from the crypto House members have approved and sent to the Senate a bill that would allow North Carolina’s treasurer to place up...
Health Care PBM bill clears House House members voted 106-9 on Tuesday to pass their chamber’s version of a bill that would put some new restrictions...
Local “Paper towns” bill advances Last year’s deannexation of a portion of Summerfield may prompt a broader review of the state’s minimum-services “paper towns” originally...
Budget & Taxes The push to crossover has begun But it remains to be seen whether one of the session’s potentially most significant and controversial pieces of legislation, House...
Budget & Taxes N.C.’s investment kitty, checked State Auditor Dave Boliek reports that the state treasurer’s office was managing $172.8 billion in cash and investments for the...
Budget & Taxes Poll finds opposition to part of Senate energy bill A Michigan-based interest group says a poll it commissioned found widespread opposition to the idea of allowing companies like Duke...
Local Wolfspeed faces shareholder lawsuits My boss, Dave Mildenberg, took a look last week at Wolfspeed’s problems, which include a widely-shorted stock and a $575...
Education State of education The folks at Best NC issued their 2025 state education fact book. There’s a lot of data in there, culled...
Local Boom staying home for engine-test work Boom Supersonic has announced that it will test key components of the engines for its planned supersonic airliner at a...
Local HUD approves plan for Helene CDBG aid The Trump administration has signed off on North Carolina’s plan to deploy $1.4 billion in CDBG disaster recovery money to...
Health Care Berger on the children’s hospital The Senate’s budget, passed on Friday, contains $638 million in additional state spending for the new children’s hospital the UNC...
Local Home bill moves forward While the Senate was haggling over its budget proposal Wednesday evening, a House committee was endorsing a bill that could...
Local Measmer moves in Cabarrus County’s new state senator, Chris Measmer, took the oath of office on Tuesday and is now on the job...
Local House bill targets Charlotte Water river draw Charlotte Water’s interest in obtaining an additional 30 million gallons a day allocation of Catawba River basin water continues to...
Local Flood repair A proposal to give victims of “historic flood events” like Hurricane Helene a building-code waiver so they can rebuild in...
