Local 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...
Education 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...
Local 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...
Elections 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...
Elections 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...
Elections 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...
Budget & Taxes 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...
Local 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...
Local 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...
Local House and Senate pass $273 million hurricane relief bill Senators and House members came together on Wednesday to pass a hurricane relief bill that represents a $273 million down...
Local Legislators helping legislators It’s obvious to anyone who’s looked at a legislator’s social-media feed (or U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards’ official website) that the...
Local Water, power and roads The day was one for mountain-county legislators to share their experiences and observations about the hurricane and its aftermath, and...
Health Care State, Wake and Raleigh join forces on incentives deal for medical-staffing company Weatherby Healthcare, a medical staffing company, has pledged to invest $7.6 million and to add 155 new jobs by 2029...
Local Company police under scrutiny A lawsuit spawned by October 2022’s mass shooting in Raleigh may put the state’s “company police” law — and one...
Local In court Taylor hasn’t responded to an email asking for comment, and as of Tuesday afternoon the eCourts case file doesn’t list...
