North Carolina saw a 10.5 percent decline in the number of people signing up for insurance on the federal health marketplace under Obamacare for 2017. Only two other states had larger drop-offs. According to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 613,487 North Carolina residents…
RALEIGH — State Superintendent Mark Johnson will kick-off his listening tour of North Carolina’s public school system Friday. Johnson last month promised he would travel the state to hear concerns from each district. The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County district — where Johnson previously…
State Rep. John Torbett has filed a bill aimed at giving motorcyclists equal access to roads and parking lots or decks that are open to the general public. Torbett, R-Gaston, said the bill (House Bill 28)…
A panel of federal judges has denied a request from North Carolina lawmakers to delay an order to redraw state House and Senate districts by no later than March 15 and hold special legislative elections later this year. This upholds a ruling by the court Nov. 29. In August,…
Lawsuits. Veto threats. Power grabs. Protests. My rights, his rights. No one’s right. What a way to end 2016. Recovering from one of most contentious elections and a special session of the General Assembly tarnished by constitutional challenges, most North Carolinians are left asking, can’t we all just get…
Hyperbole is alive and well in Raleigh. The superlatives, at one point this week, were flying. Tuesday, lawmakers unanimously approved a $200.9 million disaster relief package for North Carolinians whose lives were uprooted this fall by Hurricane Matthew and western wildfires. The package, as we reported, includes $20…
It’s an interesting time for news reporters in North Carolina and across the country. Newspapers, for example, are closing and consolidating. The consistency and frequency in which this is happening isn’t alarming, really. It’s been going on for a while. It does, however, portend a certain future, which is by…
Even if our lawmakers do nothing else, it is quite likely that North Carolina will crack the top 10 in next year's ranking of state business tax climate.
Terry Stoops on Read to Achieve; state officials on effort to pay down federal unemployment debt; legislators on replacing privilege license tax; Revenue Dept. COO on scrapping TIMS project; Tyler Younts on N.C. law that hurts some property owners…
Rick Henderson on electioneering by local govts; Phil Bryant & Terry Stoops on pay-for-performance for teachers; John Stossel & Howard Dean debate health care issues; Kevin Duffus on history of Blackbeard the Pirate; Jon Ham on election "fact checkers".
