RALEIGH — Jim Allen got a degree in materials engineering from N.C. State University. His specialty was in metallurgy, but he couldn’t find work in that area out of college and instead found himself in a job […]
RALEIGH — The North Carolina House announced Tuesday that they had completed work on the 2019-20 biennial budget. Co-chair of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Jason Saine (R-Lincoln), said the bill is a 3 percent increase over the 2018-19 budget, […]
RALEIGH — On April 16, the North Carolina House joined its Senate colleagues, who passed the bill the previous evening, in passing the “Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.” The legislation, Senate Bill 359, passed by a […]
GREENSBORO — After being charged earlier in 2019, former Pfeiffer University CFO Jeffrey Plyler pleaded guilty to a felony charge of “making a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement.” Plyler agreed to a deal in exchange for his guilty […]
RALEIGH — As the N.C. Republican Party deals with the reality of the indictment of their chairman, Robin Hayes, interest is turning to the state’s current Democratic Party chairman, Wayne Goodwin. Information continues to surface showing Goodwin’s long association with […]
RALEIGH — Legislation that would halt N.C. Treasury Secretary Dale Folwell’s plan to implement cost savings on the State Health Plan passed the House on April 3. The bill, H.B. 184, passed 75-36 with bipartisan support, but Senate […]
RALEIGH –– The country’s largest electric company was ordered Monday to excavate coal ash from all of its North Carolina power plant sites, mitigating the risk of toxic chemicals leaking into water supplies but potentially […]
RALEIGH — Two GOP legislative leaders, NC House majority leader John Bell (R-Wayne) and Senate majority whip Rick Gunn (R-Alamance), announced a bill, filed in both chambers, that would allow UNC-system schools to serve beer […]
RALEIGH — As Democrats make Medicaid expansion in North Carolina their legislative priority, Senate Republican health leaders introduced a bill they say will expand care to the truly vulnerable — the intellectually and developmentally disabled, […]
RALEIGH — Republicans in the North Carolina House filed a bill last week that would require sheriffs in the state to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (known as ICE) when they request immigrants charged […]
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