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Budd Introduces National Prescribed Fire Act of 2025

"By enabling the Forest Service to better conduct controlled burns of unchecked vegetation and scattered debris, we can protect our forests from catastrophic wildfires that may occur in the hottest months of the year."- Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC.

Katherine Zehnder
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Latest court CON dispute focuses on MRI for northeastern NC

North Carolina’s second-highest court could decide whether state regulators made the wrong choice when they allowed one health care provider to maintain a monopoly on MRI machines serving northeastern North Carolina. A three-judge Court of Appeals panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that pits Virginia-based Chesapeake Diagnostic Imaging Centers against Sentara Advanced Imaging Solutions and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

CJ Staff
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NC Senate passes REINS Act to address costly regulations, boost oversight

North Carolina may join a growing number of states to rein in bureaucratic rulemaking with passage of the REINS Act. The measure imposes new checks on unelected regulatory bodies to curb the economic burden of expansive government. It now goes back to the North Carolina House for consideration.

CJ Staff

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Supply-side policies boost North Carolina

After North Carolina conservatives won control of the General Assembly in 2010, they began a systematic application of supply-side principles to state policy. It’s been a phenomenal success — although I admit others might disagree if their definition of “supply side” differs from mine. The difference isn’t necessarily partisan. I know both Republicans and Democrats...

John Hood
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State asks top NC court to reject appeal in Sunday hunting case

State government lawyers are asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to reject an appeal in a recent case upholding government restrictions on Sunday hunting. Plaintiff Tim Oates is asking the state’s high court to overturn a unanimous April 16 decision from the state Court of Appeals. Appellate judges agreed that the laws governing Sunday hunting comply with the North Carolina Constitution.

CJ Staff