While folks inside the beltline in Raleigh were parsing every rumor about the budget dance between House and Senate leaders, a new national report provided a stark reminder of just how out of touch... Read More
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, July 24, 2014. The legislative majority’s disdain for the state’s largest cities continued to surface this week, this time in a bill to cap the county-controlled... Read More
Decades from now, when school children in North Carolina look back on 2014, they might hear about the massive coal ash spill into the Dan River and subsequent legislation requiring cleanup of Duke... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 25, 2014. More than 350,000 North Carolina residents signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and about 90 percent qualified for federal... Read More
An idea of just how big North Carolina’s coal-ash problem is can be found north of the Triangle on the Virginia border in Person County. There, one small step toward cleaning up accumulated decades... Read More
A major Medicaid overhaul that largely disregards the wishes of health care providers, the state House and Gov. Pat McCrory won overwhelming support in the state Senate on Thursday in a 28-17 vote... Read More
by Ann Doss Helms, Charlotte Observer, July 24, 2014. Conflict over disclosure of charter-school salaries flared anew Thursday as House Democrats said a Senate-approved bill shields for-profit... Read More
by Monica Laliberte, WRAL, July 21, 2014. Most people think they already pay too much for homeowner's insurance, but what if the bill suddenly jumped 33 percent or even 70 percent? Many people are... Read More
Critics of a just-passed Senate bill complain that it limits the ability of Wake, Guilford, and Forsyth counties to raise sales taxes to fund proposed rail transit systems in the Triangle and Triad... Read More
The Senate has given tentative approval to a package of sales tax and economic development changes, but not before laying bare simmering resentments between senators from rural and urban areas. Much... Read More
