You’ll have to wait for a fuller account in an upcoming Business North Carolina of Friday’s NC Leadership Conference, but we can quickly offer some highlights. The morning’s first panel focused on North Carolina’s continued population group and saw one participant, Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, D-Wake, say permitting reform has to be part of the solution […]
Senate leader Phil Berger is less than impressed by the Charlotte City Council’s reversal of its support for adding toll lanes to Interstate 77 from downtown to the South Carolina border. The council’s 6-5 vote earlier this week could — if it holds up — set the stage for the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization […]
Senate Democratic Leader Sydney Batch, D-Wake, has walked back her caucus’s support of the Medicaid rebase bill that it has already voted in favor of passing. She put out a letter on Friday asking the Senate’s Republican leaders to pull back the bill and rewrite it to drop three of its provisions. One of those […]
Democratic leaders aren’t keeping up with the Joneses — or one Jones, specifically — when it comes to fundraising for General Assembly races. House Majority Leader Brenden Jones, R-Columbus, reports that he’s raised $537,080 through mid-February for the 2025-26 election cycle. House Democratic Leader Robert Reives, D-Chatham, has raised $236,407 for the election. Senate Democratic […]
