The N.C. Department of Transportation’s financial woes may be over, but its headaches live on. After the department overspent by $2 billion, the legislature gave the department $200 million, but at a price. The department must undergo a performance audit, and…
The state House has passed a new congressional map, giving Democrats a better chance to pick up U.S. House seats in 2020, based on recent voting history. The new map in House Bill 1029 was proposed Thursday, Nov. 14, by House Redistricting Committee Chairman, Rep.
For several North Carolina counties, the General Assembly’s new election maps may misrepresent the actual population counts by around 20%. That’s because lawmakers have to rely on 2010 census data until no later than 2021, when the next set of data is published. From 2010 to…
Road construction will begin to ramp up again early next year, but contractors say they will suffer in the meantime. After the N.C. Department of Transportation overspent by about $2 billion, it suspended work on 900 projects late this summer. But Transportation Secretary James Trogdon says…
They’re back. Lawmakers will return to Raleigh Wednesday, Nov. 13, two weeks after adjourning a very, very long session. For the next week or so, legislators will consider congressional map recommendations from a special redistricting committee. But leaders are noncommittal about whether they will…
Bruce Clarke couldn’t help his client, so she called a lawyer and ended up with a bill near $1,000. “Is that the end of the world? It might not be to many, but she’s on a business that operates on government grants, and she barely makes…
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…
The General Assembly is moving quickly to produce new congressional maps in time for the 2020 elections. Four different groups collaborated on separate map drafts in the redistricting committee room Friday, Nov. 8. All drafts are due Nov. 12. Several have been published on the…
At the nation’s largest employer of the blind, only a skeletal crew of workers remains. After IFB Solutions lost its Veterans Affairs contracts, the nonprofit lost 99 jobs, and the layoffs aren’t over in its optical lab in Winston-Salem. In total, some 137 employees, including 76…
Harry Smith, the former leader of the University of North Carolina System board, during his tenure was publicly described as “hands-on,” or “very involved” in the operations of the university system and its 17 campuses. A new trove of emails released by the…
