(The Center Square) – With the change in leadership for the organization that handles the national hotline not showing direction sought, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson is on board with nearly every other attorney general in the country requesting the help of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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(The Center Square) – Zero emission vehicle registrations are in decline and charging stations for them are rising, says a report from the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management in conjunction with Wednesday’s observance of Earth Day.
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(The Center Square) – Already championed as a military-friendly state, North Carolina’s public university system is a step closer to enhancing its alliance with students planning to serve or having already done so.
The Senate Rules Committee, when session... Read more
(The Center Square) – The route to making elevators great again, literally per the bill title, doesn’t even have opposition from Democrats in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Make Elevators Great Again, known also as House Bill 559,... Read more
(The Center Square) – Alena’s Law would create an exemption from the seven-year requirement when a person has likely died in an area hit by a natural disaster.
Among final actions Thursday before the Easter break, the legislation passed... Read more
(The Center Square) – Ten categories of flags are approved to be flown or displayed on property owned by the state of a political subdivision of the state, says a proposal passed in the North Carolina House of Representatives and awaiting action in the Senate.
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(The Center Square) – Taking video footage of military bases using a drone could land some in hot legal water if proposed bipartisan legislation becomes law.
The Drone Espionage Act, introduced by Reps. Jen Kiggans, R-Va. and Don Davis,... Read more
(The Center Square) – Former minority party leader Dan Blue of Wake County and Julie Mayfield of Buncombe County are on record as the lone Democrats in the North Carolina Senate favoring repeal of what critics say are burdens imposed by certificate of need laws.
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(The Center Square) – Planning and response to Hurricane Helene with early voting already underway has been deemed worthy of an award for the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
Fifty-three programs from 258 nominations earned the Exemplary Contingency... Read more
(The Center Square) – Twenty-two bills are on the first day’s docket when North Carolina’s House of Representatives resumes its long session following a break for Easter.
The Senate also returns on April 28. Both chambers, in a joint... Read more
(The Center Square) – Restrictions on K-12 students’ use of cellphones is in the Senate’s state budget proposal and in legislation originating in the state House of Representatives that has reached the Senate’s rules committee.
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(The Center Square) – The budget passed by the North Carolina State Senate on Thursday includes $25 million to pay for weight loss drugs for state employees, only a fraction of the $100 million requested.
Four Democrats were for... Read more
(The Center Square) – Easter holiday weekend gas prices in North Carolina, on average for a gallon of unleaded regular, are 30 cents below the national average of $3.16.
County averages of $2.92 to $3.16 are sprinkled from the... Read more
(The Center Square) – Within North Carolina’s $111.1 billion agriculture industry, American tariff target China is the leading export market including for pork, poultry, lumber and tobacco.
The 2024 agricultural exports there topped $691 million. President Donald Trump’s moves... Read more
(The Center Square) – Not a single member of the North Carolina House of Representatives opposed a prohibition of hostile foreign governments such as China or Russia from purchasing farmland and property within 75 miles of a miliary installation.
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(The Center Square) – The North Carolina Senate’s version of a state budget for the next two years breezed through three committees Tuesday with few changes or opposition.
The proposed budget, Senate Bill 257, includes income tax cuts, and... Read more
(The Center Square) – North Carolina is ranked No. 4 in the country in economic outlook in the 18th annual Rich States, Poor States ranking.
Fifteen state policy variables are measured in the ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index, released... Read more
(The Center Square) – Planning spending of $65.9 billion over two years, North Carolina senators late Monday released their fiscal plan that includes $1.3 billion tied to Hurricane Helene and modest teacher raises and bonuses pushing the average pay to $62,407.
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(The Center Square) – Six state temporary housing units are occupied as western North Carolina continues to get on its feet from Hurricane Helene, the state auditor’s office says.
Two are in McDowell County, and there is one each... Read more
(The Center Square) – Senators in North Carolina are scheduled to work a budget proposal through three committees Tuesday.
The 2025 Appropriations Act, known also as Senate Bill 257, is to be heard first in the Appropriations/Base Budget Committee.... Read more
