Linsi Franklin of Wake County describes her struggles getting her son’s medicine approved at a news conference on insurance company prior authorization. (Photo: Lynn Bonner)
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Plans to increase state employee health insurance costs draw criticism
State employees are criticizing plans to make their health insurance more expensive, saying options officials are considering will hurt hiring and recruitment efforts and tarnish a benefit of working for the state.
Voting rights groups file sweeping lawsuit against NC redistricting plans
Voting rights groups in North Carolina filed a sweeping redistricting lawsuit last Tuesday that claims the Republican-led legislature violated federal law by racially gerrymandering the state House, state Senate and congressional plans for election districts.
NC voters demand an end to gerrymandering at hearing on new election districts
Voters told legislators Wednesday they are sick of gerrymandering because deeply partisan election districts erode democracy and make lawmakers unresponsive to residents' needs and opinions.
North Carolina's new abortion law is back in federal court
Under the state's new abortion law, doctors are not allowed to prescribe abortion pills before a patient's embryo is visible on an ultrasound, which happens at about five or six weeks.
Legislators will vote on a state budget with Medicaid expansion and without casinos
The Republicans’ Frankenstein experiment that sutured promised Medicaid expansion in North Carolina to expanded legal gambling has failed.