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The Debrief: Budget deal imminent, campaign finance issues, Freedom Conservatism, and Barbie

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...

A night at ‘Barbenheimer’ Part 1: Barbie’s critics miss the point

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...

Stein moves to lower diesel costs after NC farmers seek relief

Gov. Josh Stein takes action to provide relief to NC farmers from rising diesel prices.

NCInnovation approves audit amid grant accounting dispute

The board voted 7–3 Tuesday to approve its fiscal year 2026 audit over objections from NCI board member Art Pope, who sought a delay to address disputed grant accounting in earlier years.