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Top NC court tackles Currituck taxes, cannabis odor, Duke rates, more

North Carolina’s highest court has sided with Currituck County in an occupancy tax dispute, upheld convictions in two criminal cases involving marijuana odor, affirmed 2023 Duke Energy rate hikes challenged by the state attorney general, censured a Wake County judge, and ruled that a convicted murderer loses his right of direct appeal to the high court once he’s off death row.

CJ Staff
Opinion

Mergers only make hospital monopolies worse

Healthy competition benefits consumers through lower prices and improved quality. With NC's hospital markets already highly concentrated, officials should regard further mergers with suspicion, especially those hurried through under the cloak of darkness. 

Brian Miller, Ardis Watkins