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Regulation or rigged game: Giving local builders a fair shot
Permitting and inspection fees can add anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000 to a home. Large developers are much more equipped than local builders to absorb and manage these costs through scale and volume.
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Tooth decay to America
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AI will aid transit, not transform it
Outside of a few highly dense markets, transit’s primary function is to provide essential mobility for those who cannot drive or afford their own vehicles.
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Bill would offer small businesses more flexibility, cost savings in health plans
Forty-four states allow employers with two or more employees to purchase level-funded plans, including neighboring states like South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia.
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Court battle highlights CON’s negative impact on competition
The battle for a new MRI scanner in northeastern North Carolina exposes flaws in the state's certificate-of-need regime.
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Put down your weapon!
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Wildlife Resources Commission should stay out of shrimp-trawling debate
The WRC message explained why one should support the ban on shrimp trawling in inside coastal North Carolina waters and invited her to contact her legislators to support the ban.
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Regulations on NC nurses are unfair, anticompetitive, and expensive
APRNs are educated and trained to collaborate with other health-care professionals; they do not need a law to mandate artificial business relationships with physician “supervisors” to provide quality care.
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That all depends…
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Lawmakers aren’t deadlocked on regulation
For more than a decade, lawmakers have used both fiscal and regulatory policy to make North Carolina a more attractive place to live, work, and do business.
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Laying groundwork for response, recovery as hurricane season approaches
Within 15 hours of receiving an urgent request from NC’s Department of Public Safety, Amazon delivered more than 19,000 ounces of baby formula to the Joint Force Headquarters in Raleigh so the state’s National Guard could get the supplies to Asheville.
