North Carolina’s unique county clustering process is a way of balancing constitutional requirements of keeping counties whole and having equal populations of legislative districts. The county clustering process is simple…
Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper pulled $50 million from reserve accounts and funds set aside for summer reading camps (which will not occur this summer for obvious reasons). Districts and…
The N.C. Department of Public Instruction released estimates for the distribution of $100 million in lottery funds for school facilities. Charter schools are not entitled to lottery funds for this…
Here I go, here I go, here I go again (again?) Readers, what’s my weakness? (financial data published by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction!)
Rockingham County Commissioner Keith Mabe will spend the holidays in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of driving while intoxicated in September. N&R reports Mabe was transferred to the…
One of the many issues under debate in the North Carolina House this legislative session is what to do about private ownership of dangerous animals. House Bill 554 was filed…
RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees topped $1,900 per person in Greensboro during the 2012 budget year, a total that helped the city drop nine spots to No. 17 in…
In an unsigned opinion from the entire court, the N.C. Supreme Court sided with N.C. legislators today in a dispute over access to the NC Pre-K program. Supreme Court justices…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has vacated most of a lower-court order and ruled that two fired Chapel Hill sanitation workers can continue their wrongful-discharge…
Click here to view and here to listen to Michael Lowrey discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees topped $1,935 per person in Greensboro during the 2011 budget…
The N.C. Court of Appeals offered a mixed ruling today in a case challenging the state’s Felony Firearms Act, which limits ex-felons’ right to own guns. A judge had ruled…
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Michael Sanera discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees topped $1,835 per person in Winston-Salem during the 2010…