A bill filed in the House last month is meant to encourage healthy eating in schools, particularly healthy food grown or produced in North Carolina. Thing is, this bill does nothing of the sort. The measure, House Bill 136, promotes Muscadine grape juice in public schools and the state’s colleges and universities — as part...
Gov. Roy Cooper says the state Division of Employment Security is buried under a “mountain of claims,” receiving more than 20,000 requests for Unemployment Insurance benefits Sunday, March 29. By contrast, the agency dealt with about 25,000 claims a month during the Great Recession and is set up to handle about 3,000 claims weekly. But...
A corporate tax cut expected to pass at the end of the General Assembly’s session surprisingly wound up on the cutting room floor. The House Finance Committee killed a franchise tax reduction bill Wednesday, Oct. 30, even though Republicans, who hold the majority, previously supported it. The bill was complicated by an unrelated provision added...
