The coronavirus has spread beyond the threat of infection. When North Carolina canceled elective surgeries, it froze almost all procedures that happen outside the emergency room. Blood tests, screenings, major surgeries — all are suspended, waiting for the ban on elective procedures to lift in North…
An obscure regulation could cripple hospitals’ collective ability to treat a coronavirus outbreak in North Carolina, says surgeon Jeffrey Singer, senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Experts don’t yet know the severity of the coronavirus, but they fear it could overwhelm the nation’s health care system.
North Carolina is grappling with systemic shortages in mental health care, and regulations are making it worse — often disproportionately hurting veterans and the state’s most vulnerable residents. But that could change. State regulations mandate life-long supervision for LPAs, so retired U.S. Marine and licensed psychological associate Karen…
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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…
If North Carolina’s nebulous criminal code isn’t confusing enough, the “elephant” metaphors lawmakers use to describe them are even less enlightening. At a reform-oriented summit hosted Monday, Oct. 21, in Cary by the Cato Institute and the John Locke Foundation, several lawmakers excoriated the state’s criminal…
The nation’s largest employer of the blind hasn’t decided which employees will lose their jobs, but 47 people will go in the first round of cuts. After a federal court ruling downgraded the preferential status of nonprofit employers of the blind and disabled, IFB Solutions lost…
Starting Monday, Aug. 5, bus riders to Research Triangle Park will be able to get free or discounted rides from Uber or Lyft to reach the last stretch of their destination. One transportation expert says this is a sign that public transit is on the way out. …
Navy veteran Scott Smith went to bed on a Friday night. When he awoke the next morning he was blind. Scott, who was a welder, suffers from optic neuropathy, which cost him his vision. He was afraid he’d never work again. But…
