Lawmakers have not bridged the disagreements that forced the General Assembly to abandon efforts last summer to reform the North Carolina's $14 billion Medicaid health insurance system for the poor... Read More
Lee County officials say the county deserves to be paid fees, potentially millions of dollars, by Duke Energy and a partner planning to bury coal ash there. Duke announced plans last month to start... Read More
What do Colorado, Texas, Utah, Massachusetts, and North Carolina have in common? Not much, it would seem. Yet according to the latest data, they are among the states leading the national pack in... Read More
Heard on the Street, December 2, 2014. It appears the rumors about Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker are true and that she will be leaving to take a job with Raycom Sports, based in South Carolina... Read More
Democrats looking to the future should look today to the swearing-in of four new Wake County Commissioners. They are a large part of why I told the AP’s Bill Barrow that the key to the party... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, December 1, 2014. Thirteen years ago, a group of fast-growing Triangle-area towns led by Cary won state permission to withdraw as much as 24 million gallons of... Read More
The N.C. Mining and Energy Commission finalized its rules for fracking after receiving more than 217,000 public comments identifying multiple areas of concern. As early as January, lawamkers could... Read More
The question of whether high school students should be taught that America’s status is “exceptional” compared with other nations dominated debate Monday over the redesigned Advanced Placement U... Read More
As the race for state House speaker heated up in recent weeks, Republican candidates for the post campaigned by sending letters to their colleagues about how they would lead the 120-member chamber for... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, November 30, 2014. After a short reprieve from tuition hikes, students at the University of North Carolina will pay more next year and the year after. The interim... Read More
