North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell has submitted a framework for draft legislation that introduces a monthly $25 employer match for nearly 350,000 active members in the Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS), Consolidated Judicial Retirement System (CJRS), Legislative Retirement System (LRS) and the Optional Retirement Program (ORP).
Hal Weatherman was victorious over his second primary opponent Jim O’Neill on Tuesday for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in North Carolina. With more than two-thirds of precincts reporting on Tuesday night Weatherman had 76% of the vote compared to O’Neill’s 23.8%.
North Carolina is holding its second primary today. Polls will be open from 6:30 am to 7:30 pm. To be eligible to vote, you must either be a registered Republican or an unaffiliated voter who either did not vote in the March 5th primary election or voted the Republican ballot in the primary.
The Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM), along with the Fiscal Research Division of the NC General Assembly, announced Friday downward revisions to their consensus tax revenue forecast for the biennium. The adjustments, representing a less than 1% change, were due to lower than anticipated processed tax filing revenues following the April 15 tax deadline.
A damning new report released Wednesday by North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell shows that 340B hospitals in North Carolina are overcharging cancer patients in the State Health Plan on average over five times the cost of cancer drugs.
Braxton Winston, the Democratic candidate for North Carolina Labor Commissioner, was blasted Monday on Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police’s Facebook page for offering condolences for the four officers killed in an ambush on April 29 in East Charlotte.
The North Carolina Senate Appropriations Committee moved forward with a bill Wednesday that would fund scholarships for the estimated 54,800 applicants on the waitlist for Opportunity Scholarships.
In-person early voting for the May 14 second primary/runoff election began Thursday at 8 am. It will end on Saturday, May 11 at 3 pm.
Before the short session began in the General Assembly Wednesday, Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper laid out his recommended budget proposal for the last time as governor.
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...
In what might be called a case of whiplash, Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast has once again changed plans for its $4 billion electric vehicle factory in Moncure, Chatham County.
