Ray Gronberg
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Wolfspeed signs $750 million deal
Wolfspeed and the Biden administration have signed a tentative deal that will provide the Durham-based chipmaker up to $750 million...
DOT and Helene
State Transportation Secretary Joey Hopkins says his agency has awarded an $8 million contract to Tennessee-based Wright Brothers Construction to...
Theory meets the real world
There’s more to say about Monday’s item on First Street Technologies’ pre-Helene report on disaster risks and the banking sector,...
Bank Resilience during disasters
Western North Carolina’s banks, like those in disaster areas before it, are resilient and should pass Hurricane Helene’s test with...
Disasters and banks
The same week that Hurricane Helene ravaged western North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia, a Washington-based climate-risk modeler issued...
NC Promise: Not for the summer?
The hold-harmless funding legislators pledged to give UNC System campuses that agreed to participate in the N.C. Promise tuition-cap program...
Lumber company on its way to Spindale
Finally, a bit of good news for our friends in the west: A Wisconsin-based lumber distributor is placing a distribution...
The NC treasurer’s race
Would-be state treasurers Brad Briner and Wesley Harris don’t just agree that the state needs to be more aggressive about...
NC Treasurer candidate Wesley Harris (D) on cost sharing
Harris didn’t attend this month’s review of the Cabarrus applications and so didn’t have anything specific to say about them...
NC Treasurer candidate Brad Briner (R) on Cabarrus deals
Briner attended the LGC meeting earlier this month that saw it OK $85 million in borrowing by Cabarrus County to...
Some hurricane-related tax relief
House Bill 149, the Helene relief bill, includes a section that’s designed to give people and businesses affected by the...
Post-mortem comes later, legislators say
Another point legislators stressed this week as they rolled out the Helene relief bill is that a deep-dive after-action review...
Republicans push back on New York Times article
Republicans in the General Assembly are pushing back on a New York Times article that contends their deregulatory instincts may...