Leif Le Mahieu writes for the Daily Wire about major changes planned for the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The Environmental Protection Agency will save $300 million per year through a…
Forty employees at the state Department of Public Instruction were given layoff notices on Friday as part of a $5.1 million budget cut mandated by state lawmakers. Superintendent Mark Johnson…
WRAL reports that the State Board of Education approved their initial cuts to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) budget. The $2.5 million in cuts were mandated by the…
In the 2015-17 state appropriations bill, the NC General Assembly directed state education officials to cut 5 percent ($2.5 million) from the NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) budget over…
Jenna Ashley Robinson reports for Carolina Journal Online on the UNC system’s response to Recession-era budget cuts. Becki Gray’s Daily Journal focuses on key issues for the 2015 session of…
In a year when legislators need to find extra cash to fill a hole in a growing Medicaid program and also give teachers a pay increase, there is one area…
Gov. Pat McCrory issued a memo March 27 advising state agencies — excluding entitlements and K-12 public schools — to discontinue most salary increases, to limit purchasing to minimum amounts…
People who purchase health plans on the health insurance exchanges may be eligible for subsidies, depending on one’s annual household income. These sliding-scale subsidies offset one’s annual health premium. The…
Greensboro resident and DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos fires the department head of oral health following a tense meeting regarding budget cuts. Details of the meeting depend on the point of…
David Bass’ latest Carolina Journal Online report focuses on the N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching’s plan for coping with state budget cuts. John Hood’s Daily Journal offers an…
The health reform bill, also known as ObamaCare, could see millions, if not billions, of dollars in funding disappear thanks to the recent debt ceiling agreement. If the newly created…
“There’s a lot of really good energy going on that the agricultural extension has helped generate,” said Buncombe County Chair David Gantt. “Energy” is a word physicists and others tend…