The audit committee for NCInnovation, the state-funded nonprofit at the center of recent legislative and financial scrutiny, has delayed approval of its latest IRS Form 990 following a detailed review revealing compliance issues, disclosure gaps, and unresolved questions about past filings. The decision came during a lengthy audit committee meeting this week, where external auditors...
North Carolina leaders and former Vice President Mike Pence discuss the climate of uncertainty caused by the current tariffs.
The board of directors of NCInnovation, a private nonprofit given $500 million in taxpayer money to fund grants facilitating the commercialization of public university research, met this week. Tension, and voices, ran high as staff and board members wrangled over how much the taxpayers deserve to know about their process.
There is broad agreement that North Carolina is better suited to handle redistricting in a more transparent fashion than a decade ago, but further improvements can be made to the process according to a wide spectrum of speakers at Duke University’s Redistricting and American Democracy two day symposium. The event included scholars, judges, and activists from...
A bipartisan group of state lawmakers Thursday introduced the second of what may be several measures to reform North Carolina’s redistricting process. The two bills share several sponsors. But House Bill 140, Fairness and Integrity in Redistricting, rolled out at a morning news conference, not only would change state law but also would ask voters...
Terry Stoops updates Leandro education court case; advocates push for juvenile justice reform; Art Pope on lessons learned from textile entrepreneur E.A. Morris; Tommy Harrelson on contributions by artist Art Newton; Rick Henderson on tax refund fraud
Becki Gray on the new state budget; Thom Goolsby on taxing internet-based sales; Gov. McCrory praises outgoing budget director Art Pope; Mark Prak on proposed FCC changes to media ownership rules; Terry Stoops on education funding in new budget
Art Pope made arrangements to leave a bundle of secret commands for Phil Berger to pick up in the parking lot of a Roses store near Greensboro.
Rick Henderson on Gov. Pat McCrory's first executive order; Mike Walden on 2013 economic forecast; John Hood on N.C.'s role in Revolutionary War; key McCrory appointees share their vision; Terry Stoops on remediation needed for N.C. high school graduates
By the logic of the auction house, neither Art Pope nor any other Republican donor could have “bought” the 2010 legislative elections.
The largest North Carolina grantmaker to public-policy groups is not the Pope Foundation but the left-leaning Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
Get Reminded When We Go LIVE on Election Night!
