Medicaid transformation will be a casualty of the budget stalemate. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday, Nov. 19, that Medicaid transformation would be placed on hold indefinitely. That announcement came hours after Sen. Joyce Krawiec, R-Forsyth, issued a news…
Did Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration require operators of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to provide Cooper a $57.8-milion “mitigation fund” before the state would approve the portion of the pipeline heading through North Carolina? Reporting by Carolina Journal suggests it did. The results of a legislative investigation into the issue will be…
Hurricane victims, struggling rural hospitals, and the state Department of Transportation will get an infusion of cash. Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday, Nov. 18, signed two bills into law that aim to stabilize the DOT and rural hospitals, as well as provide disaster relief for victims…
Reforms to the Innovative School District are here to stay after Gov. Roy Cooper allowed Senate Bill 522 to become law without his signature. S.B. 522 made several changes to the Innovative School District, a school turnaround program which gives an…
Struggling rural hospitals are in luck. Gov. Roy Cooper has signed the rural hospital loan program into law. Senate Bill 537 creates a $20 million loan program, which will funnel taxpayer dollars to distressed rural hospitals. The program will operate under…
Mecklenburg County voters rejected a plan to raise the sales tax to fund arts and parks. The quarter-cent tax would have taken the county’s rate from 7.25% to 7.5%, but 57% of voters said no. The Mecklenburg Tax Alliance,…
The N.C. Department of Transportation shouldn’t manage its own finances, N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell says. The transportation department overspent by about $2 billion, and Folwell is calling for a shakeup in department management. He wants the governor to sack N.C. Transportation Secretary…
N.C. lawmakers are once again haggling over how to begin drawing new voter maps. This time, North Carolina’s congressional districts are at stake. On Tuesday, Nov. 5, legislators met in a special Joint Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting, the result of an ongoing congressional redistricting lawsuit,…
A big change to the state Medicaid program remains unfunded, increasing the risk of costly delays in Medicaid transformation. The legislature adjourned without passing funding for Medicaid managed care — a transformation that will privatize Medicaid by paying managed care companies $30 billion over five years…
The House passed a franchise tax cut and expanded film grants despite an attempt to shoot down the expansion of film grants. Rep. Larry Pittman, R-Cabarrus, tried to strip the film tax credits from Senate Bill 578. In the spirit of Halloween, he likened them…
