For the second year in a row, North Carolina earned the No. 1 position in CNBC's annual "America’s Top States for Business" rankings. Securing the top spot two years in a row is evidence that the pro-business and pro-growth reforms created and enacted by the Republican-led state legislature are working.
Attorney General Josh Stein today asked Sen. Ted Budd to support stronger protections for airline customers in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2023. In a letter to Sen. Budd, Attorney General Stein encouraged Sen. Budd to support an amendment from Sen. Ed Markey (Mass.) that would give state attorneys general the power to enforce federal law when the airline industry uses unfair and deceptive practices or unfair methods of competition.
RALEIGH — In a recent column, I argued that cities would draw more investment and job creation to their downtowns if people felt safer in them. Because the only North Carolina cities included in the national study I cited were Charlotte and Raleigh, some readers concluded that I thought the problem was limited to those two jurisdictions.
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has named Angela Hatchell as senior deputy commissioner of the Agent Services, Consumer Services and Regional Director divisions.
Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bills into law:
Senate Republicans released the following statements on Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes of Senate Bill 49, House Bill 574, and House Bill 808.
Senate Bill 626, which strengthens North Carolina laws regarding human trafficking, was signed into law today.
Democrats this summer are working to bring our country a step closer to socialized medicine by slipping a Bernie Sanders-backed pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform measure into a broader insulin cap package that is expected to receive a vote in the coming months.
Governor Roy Cooper released the following statement on the importance of separating Medicaid Expansion from the state budget:
RALEIGH — Has there even been a point of time in which so many public controversies rest on a single, abstract principle of constitutional government? I can’t think of one.
Some Members of Congress are pushing to change a little-known, but hugely influential airport rule that could seriously impact flights in and out of local and regional airports including the Fayetteville Regional Airport.
Faithful Christians all across America had good reason to celebrate Independence Day this year. In the week preceding the July Fourth holiday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two landmark decisions which significantly clarified and extended constitutional protection of religious liberty in American life and law.
