This week on “The Debrief”: * After weeks of apparent inaction, it looks as if the North Carolina General Assembly is close to a final deal on a state budget. * The NC FreeEnterprise Foundation calculates the rising costs of waging election campaigns in North Carolina. *When news broke that Attorney General Josh Stein’s campaign...
Movies are back! While they haven’t technically gone anywhere, as studios have continuously forced them onto the unsuspecting public (even during the past few years of the COVID-stricken world), the movies have finally returned to their intended form! For decades, the standard modus operandi of the average American moviegoer was to pile up all the...
North Carolina’s Medicaid program will expand on December 1 to offer fully subsidized health plans to virtually every legal resident whose household income is at or below 138% of the federal poverty line. Notice I said “offer.” Many individuals and households who’ll now qualify for Medicaid are already enrolled in other health plans, either through...
A new Civitas poll finds that 66% of North Carolina voters are concerned about crime and safety in their neighborhoods.