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NCGA oversight committee weighs using tougher audits to get DOT spending under control

Lawmakers are trying to fix the Department of Transportation’s spending problems that triggered mass layoffs, project delays, and chaos in the transportation industry.  The department’s overspending exposed failures in oversight, both in the department itself and in the Council of Internal Auditing. The department’s internal oversight is so ineffective that it violates state law, according...

Julie Havlak
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Cohen pacifies senators, wins unanimous confirmation vote

State Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Dr. Mandy Cohen has a sterling pedigree with Ivy League credentials and a previous job at the highest level of federal health care. She also has past links to a checkered VA Administration, the disastrous Obamacare website rollout, and a potential conflict of interest with a husband who...

Dan Way
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Audit: DHHS Medicaid Approval Procedures Shoddy

RALEIGH — A new state audit reveals shortcomings in the procedure used to approve doctors and other providers offering services for patients on Medicaid, the state’s health system for the poor and disabled. Department of Health and Human Services procedures are “wide open for fraud,” State Auditor Beth Wood said.

Barry Smith
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Coastal Wind Projects Come Under Fire

RALEIGH — Among the obstacles facing the Pantego project in Beaufort County are the potential for a Mitt Romney victory in the November presidential election, conflicts with military aviation training, and the prospect that the wind turbines will cause the death of too many birds.

Don Carrington