The great spending binge

Boliek: Financial distress becoming trend in NC cities

State Auditor Dave Boliek says his office is seeing a growing trend of financial difficulties in municipalities across North Carolina.

FDA: PFAS levels dropped more than 90%

NCWQA tells lawmakers PFAS minimization is working and state level legislation is not needed at this time.

How an NC academic publisher ended up under FTC sanction

Robert Tian appears prominently in both the Allied Academies and the North American Business Press publishing networks. It is unclear what the relationship between these two large publishing groups may be or if they are both part of a wider network.

The right balance of tech for NC schools

Despite the good intentions of many school leaders and teachers, we are concerned by growing evidence that suggests those tools are harmful for our children’s learning and development and undermine our own efforts to promote intentional screen use at home.