Senate leaders' efforts to rebalance how sales taxes are distributed throughout North Carolina met with a cool reception from members of the House and local leaders Thursday. Majority Leader Sen... Read More
North Carolina would create a new department to run its health insurance program for the poor and disabled under a bill the Senate Health Care Committee rolled out Thursday. The measure represents the... Read More
There are some really good things on the table as the budget conferees discuss, debate, compromise, and finalize North Carolina’s government spending for the next two years. Allocating more than... Read More
In 2011 our North Carolina Legislature refused to expand Medicaid to cover more of North Carolina’s “working poor” citizens under the Affordable Care Act enacted by Congress and signed into law... Read More
With a stopgap spending measure in place, some lawmakers believe efforts to get schools prepared for the new year are humming along as the General Assembly battles over a final two year budget plan... Read More
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act. Passed in 1965, this landmark legislation made the promise of the vote real for millions of Americans who had been excluded from... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, August 5, 2015. The resignation Wednesday of Dr. Aldona Wos, the embattled secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, was as overdue as it was... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 6, 2015. When Greensboro resident Aldona Wos was appointed secretary of the state Department of Health & Human Services, she agreed to a yearly salary of... Read More
by Laura Leslie, WRAL, August 5, 2015. State Senate leaders announced Wednesday they're willing to remove several major policy items from their budget plan in order to restart stalled negotiations... Read More
Democrats are surely and sorely tempted to blast Republican legislators for dallying and delaying the budget. Not so fast, my friends. Here, slow is good. Especially after Senate Capo Tom Apodaca... Read More
