It wasn’t that long ago that North Carolina had something of an inferiority complex to its southern neighbor, repeatedly losing out on automotive and other major manufacturing jobs deals to South Carolina.

Speaking of Cooper and the state’s influx of federal funding, the governor spent Tuesday afternoon in the tiny Sampson County community known as Ivanhoe. He was there to promote a project you don’t often see: The creation of a brand new water distribution system to serve a rural community.

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The N.C. Local Government Commission declined to support a public-private development partnership that aimed to reshape a downtown Wilmington block that houses the city’s main library.

Should lawmakers go ahead and finalize congressional and legislative districts for the 2024 elections? That’s the suggestion that Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue, D-Wake, made during a news conference Wednesday.

State Budget Director Charlie Perusse will retire in November after serving Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration since he took office. Cooper announced Monday that Perusse will be succeeded by his chief deputy state budget director, Kristin Walker.

State legislators will likely take at least part of the credit for keeping the ACC from moving its headquarters to Orlando.

The state budget bill enacted this year covers a third of the cost of the new Carolinas Aviation Museum, which will break ground later this month.

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The legislative oversight committee probing delays in hurricane recovery efforts has asked three of the top disaster relief leaders in Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration to speak at the panel’s Wednesday meeting.

The N.C. ABC Commission needs a new warehouse to store the state’s liquor supply, Chairman Hank Bauer told fellow commissioners last week.

Broadband internet expansion efforts took a big leap forward in recent weeks as the N.C. Department of Information Technology awarded $267 million in “GREAT” grants to internet providers, doling out the majority of the $350 million in federal funding the legislature allocated last year.

Student loan forgiveness is a taxable event for North Carolina state taxpayers, the state Revenue Department said in a press release Wednesday.