Ray Gronberg

Ray Gronberg is a veteran journalist who has covered city halls, universities and the tech industry for the Durham Herald-Sun and the Raleigh News & Observer. Most recently, Ray was the managing editor of the Henderson Dispatch, covering a three-county area.

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New Hanover County to go ahead with Project Grace.

New Hanover County permission to take on $57 million in debt to go ahead with Project Grace.
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Truist board to shrink

Truist Financial is cutting its board of directors from 21 to 13 directs effective Dec. 31.
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U.S. Departments of Education and Agriculture address funding disparities

N.C. A&T’s shortfall relative to N.C. State University is the second-largest disparity among the 16 states the U.S. Departments of Education and Agriculture targeted with letters issued Monday.
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Elon's Charlotte law school

Elon University has applied to the American Bar Association for a school of law to be located in Charlotte.
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Sunday sales at ABC stores are one step closer

The chamber’s Alcoholic Beverage Control committee gave the revised Senate Bill 527 a favorable report on Tuesday and sent it on to the Finance committee.
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Casino legislation under debate

Moore has said, and said again on Tuesday, that casinos proposal needs majority support from the chamber’s Republicans for it to see the floor.

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N.C. is solid No. 2 in national park benefits

Park Service sites in North Carolina served about 20.1 million visitors. Only sites in the District of Columbia (39.4 million), California (38.2 million) and Virginia (22.5 million) collectively received more.
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Another North Carolina furniture maker has closed

The Mitchell Gold Co., which does business as Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, notified workers on Saturday that it was going out of business, with the wind-down and terminations beginning that day and final days of employment in late October.
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Court upholds use of law against pension spikes

Passed in 2014 (by a unanimous House and a 34-15 bipartisan majority in the Senate), the law tries to limit pension-payment increases that flow from late-career salary changes, as legislators were tired of seeing people on the state payroll get big raises just before retiring just so their pension would balloon.

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