NC Senate bill seeks to cut adult care home inspections
An N.C. Senate bill seeks to reduce adult care home inspections. Bill sponsor Sen. Jim Burgin says the bill grew from talks with home operators.
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Will NC lawmakers make their deadline for a budget deal? Stein is unconvinced, but hopeful.
Whether NC House and Senate members will have a budget deal by mid-June remains to be seen, but as the 2026 hurricane season kicks off, recovery from 2024’s Hurricane Helene is still not fully funded.
Brooks Fuller of Common Cause North Carolina on proposals to make voting in our state harder
Republican leaders at the General Assembly and the state Board of Elections are advancing new proposals to make voting in our state harder and more complex and we’ll get the details from the Policy Director of Common Cause North Carolina, Brooks Fuller
Duke University says data center will boost ‘environmental responsibility and sustainability’
Duke University plans to build a small data center at Central Campus, potentially the first of several similar-size projects, which has raised questions among some faculty about whether the energy- and water-intensive endeavors could derail the institution’s climate commitments.
Homeland Security retreats on plan to get data on mail-in voters
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is walking back, for now, a plan to sweep up data on millions of Americans who vote by mail under President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail ballots.
Gov. Josh Stein signs executive order to tackle housing affordability
Gov. Josh Stein on Tuesday signed an executive order directing cabinet agencies to work together to increase housing supply.
NC committee votes to put ‘right to work,’ ‘right to farm’ amendments on 2026 ballot
NC Senate lawmakers could vote as soon as Tuesday on whether to put constitutional amendments for the “right to farm” and “right to work” on the ballot.
NC Senate moves constitutional amendment on local property tax increases to the November ballot
With NC Senate OK, voters will decide in November whether to write General Assembly control over local property tax increases into the constitution.
Trump order limiting voting by mail will stand for now, federal judge rules
The decision by D.C. District Court Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, represents a setback for Democratic groups, lawmakers and other groups including the NAACP that have sued to stop the order ahead of the midterm elections in November. The March 31 order faces at least five lawsuits.
DoD tweaks organized religion list after complaints of Latter-day Saints snub
The Pentagon changed course Monday after its removal of dozens of religious denominations from a list of recognized faiths drew intense criticism over the weekend from Utah Republicans incensed by the failure to classify the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Christian denomination.