North Carolina continues to wait and see if the state Supreme Court will address a trial judge’s $1.7 billion education funding order. The state Appeals Court threw out that order, but the case could head to North Carolina’s highest court in the weeks ahead. State Treasurer Dale Folwell said the waiting should be a moot...
After a decade of financial struggle, the small town of East Laurinburg in Scotland County could soon cease to exist. It could be the start of a trend: State Treasurer Dale Folwell now warns that a growing number of North Carolina towns are at risk of insolvency. To date, a half-dozen other small rural N.C....
Whatever you think of it, political polarization hasn’t yet hunted split-ticket voters to extinction. They still matter — and candidates know it.
Repairing roads damaged by hurricanes and paying property owners harmed by the Map Act have been costly, but they do not fully explain the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s cash crunch.
