Education Senate offers Heels, Wolfpack a trade Senate Republicans are willing to give the UNC Chapel Hill and NC State athletic programs a piece of North Carolina’s...
Local A bigger role for the Guard after disasters? Senate Republicans want the N.C. National Guard’s commander to take charge of state’s emergency response team in future disasters like...
Local Solar power Rep. Jimmy Dixon, R-Duplin, has scaled back a bill that that aims to curb the use of farmland for solar-power...
Budget & Taxes The Senate’s budget, unveiled The Senate’s budget proposal for the 2025-27 biennium is going to include $638 million in additional funding for the new...
Local No title In my Henderson Dispatch days, I drove home along U.S. 1 down to Interstate 540 about four times. A couple...
Local Malpractice Business groups are warning that a medical malpractice case currently pending in the state Court of Appeals could have dire consequences...
Local A House bill for Charlotte’s transit funding There are now two bills pending in the General Assembly that would give Mecklenburg County via referendum to add up...
Local Raleigh’s runway The Triangle’s “most important two miles of pavement” is a case study for why the juice isn’t worth the squeeze...
Local Taking the politics out of local land-use battles? Lewisville Republican Rep. Jeff Zenger and nearly two dozen of his colleagues want local officials to face civil-court liability, for...
Education Student-visa pullbacks “federal issues,” Berger says Senate leader Phil Berger isn’t signaling any intention to go to bat with the state’s Congressional delegation for the international...
Budget & Taxes Berger and the budget The Senate will release its draft of the budget for the 2025-27 biennium Monday night, Senate leader Phil Berger says....
Health Care PBM update The Senate’s getting into the pharmacy benefits manager game. On Thursday, the chamber’s Health Care committee endorsed Senate Bill 479,...
Local Solar-farm limits debated Advocates for the solar-power industry are deploying property-rights arguments to oppose a bill pending in the House Agriculture and Environment...
Local Flood plains A mountain-county senator says if state officials want to exempt the reconstruction of Helene-damaged buildings from flood-protection rules, they also...
Elections Sen. Measmer, arriving soon Cabarrus County Commissioners Chairman Chris Measmer will take former Sen. Paul Newton’s seat, once Gov. Josh Stein formalizes the choice...
