|
foreign funding is major target
Published: Thursday, June 11th, 2026 @ 5:22 pm
By: John Steed
|
|
An eight-mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville has been temporarily closed due to a string of “human and bear interactions,” the National Parks Service announced.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2024 @ 7:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Recently, Golden LEAF President, Chief Executive Officer Scott T. Hamilton sat down with the President of the BlueCross and BlueShield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Foundation Dr. John Lumpkin via Zoom and filmed an episode of Critical Conversations.
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 @ 9:49 am
By: ENC NOW
|
|
A Democratic Georgia state lawmaker in a deep blue district announced this week that she was leaving the party and becoming a Republican over the issue of school choice.
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 1:25 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
June's meeting comes as the state legislature develops the state budget, and candidates launch campaigns for 2024 elections.
Published: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 @ 12:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
The N.C. Senate gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that allows the non-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina and Delta Dental to reorganize and create a holding company for billions in surplus revenue.
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2023 @ 3:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
A bipartisan bill that would allow Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina and Delta Dental to reorganize and create a holding company that could transfer billions in surplus policyholder money passed in the Senate Commerce and Insurance Committee Wednesday.
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 @ 8:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
A bipartisan House bill that would allow Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina to reorganize and create a holding company that could transfer billions in surplus policyholder money is on its way to the House Rules Committee after passing in the House Insurance Committee Wednesday.
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 5:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Blue Cross’ restructuring: “The devil is in the lack of details.”
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 11:51 am
By: Tom Campbell
|
|
NC Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey spoke out against an N.C. House bill that would allow Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina to create a holding company in which it could move policyholder money.
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 8:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is going to court to challenge the recent decision to award a major State Health Plan contract to Aetna.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 9:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
The North Carolina State Health Plan announced in a press release on Friday that it had rejected protest appeals for the Third-Party Administrative Services (TPA) contract from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and UMR, Inc.
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
On Thursday, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) submitted a 14-page formal protest to Sam Watts, acting administrator of the State Health Plan, opposing the award of the plan’s 2025-27 third-party administrator contract to Aetna.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 10:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina will no longer be the third-party administrator for the State Health Plan come Jan. 1, 2025.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2023 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Mark O'Connor has bridged two worlds of music; consequently, for those of us that appreciate both traditional and progressive bluegrass / Classical string movements expanding our moods or spirits, we well appreciate the "An Appalachian Christmas" concept of lofty melodic expression.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 1:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Mark O'Connor has bridged two worlds of music; consequently, for those of us that appreciate both traditional and progressive bluegrass / Classical string movements expanding our moods or spirits, we well appreciate the Appalachian Christmas concept of lofty melodic expression.
Published: Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 @ 11:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Democrats have poured millions of dollars into the Washington Senate race, a deep-blue state that recent polls suggest Republicans may take back the seat that a GOP member hasn’t occupied since 2001.
Published: Saturday, November 5th, 2022 @ 8:05 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
The more liberal a state is, the more likely it is to be home to income inequality, according to a Daily Wire analysis of newly-released Census data.
Published: Sunday, October 16th, 2022 @ 4:03 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully launched its sixth human mission on Thursday, sending six people into suborbital space.
Published: Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 @ 12:04 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
JetBlue and Spirit Airlines announced a $3.8 billion merger on Thursday, one day after merger negotiations between Spirit and Frontier Airlines collapsed.
Published: Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 @ 3:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper joined Dominion Energy CEO Robert M. Blue to observe Dominion Energy wind turbines off the coast of Virginia and addressed the third North Carolina Taskforce for Offshore Wind Economic Resource Strategies (NC TOWERS) meeting in Elizabeth City.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 10:10 am
By: Governor's Office
|
|
It's been said North Carolina is politically a purple state, a mixture of red (Republican) and blue (Democrat). Now we might have to add green to the mix, since the Green Party has petitioned to gain statewide ballot access in this November's general elections.
Published: Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 @ 5:51 pm
By: Tom Campbell
|
|
With Florida rapidly turning from an evenly-divided state to one that is increasingly a red state, The New York Times turned to that great bastion of conservatism, Texas, and determined to turn Texas blue, published an opinion piece encouraging blue staters, especially Californians, to move there.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 10:08 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Over the July 4th holiday we experienced the traditional red, white and blue salutes to our nation, along with tributes paid the patriots who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2022 @ 12:17 pm
By: Tom Campbell
|
U.S. Rep Supported Democrat Gun Control After Tragedy. He Just Ended Reelection Bid Due To Backlash.A blue state Republican lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives who signaled support for Democrat gun control in the wake of the last week’s tragedy in Texas has ended his reelection bid due to the intense backlash he has received for his anti-Second Amendment stance.
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2022 @ 10:23 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday attempted to smooth over Democrats’ election night losses by claiming her party “had great wins” before listing wins in deep blue parts of the country where Republicans stood no chance.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 12:48 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
North Carolina is neither a red state, nor blue. It is increasingly becoming a gray state. In 1960 our state’s median age was 25.5 years.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 10:05 pm
By: Tom Campbell
|
|
In mid-March, three Russian cosmonauts arriving at the International Space Station (ISS) were photographed wearing yellow and blue flight suits, a move that led some to speculate they were supporting Ukraine, since those are the colors on the country’s flag
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 11:05 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Young “influencers” are coloring their tongues blue as they inform their audiences of the benefits of methylene blue, which is often used to clean fish tanks.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 4:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Even if things are still tense after the Tar Heels beat the Blue Devils during Coach K’s final home game this weekend, the counties where UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University respectively reside can come together on one thing: The need for indoor masking is officially over.
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 9:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Blue Cross NC funds ECU, ECSU partnership for student behavioral health services
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 12:19 pm
By: ECU News Services
|
|
The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 11:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Gabby Petito, 22, died of strangulation, Teton County Coroner Brent Blue said Tuesday at a news conference.
Published: Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 @ 9:16 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
This morning, Governor Roy Cooper, Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, Senator Dan Blue, Speaker Tim Moore and Rep. Robert Reives issued the following statement after Apple announced its decision to build a new campus in Wake County, hiring 3,000 employees and investing $1 billion.
Published: Monday, April 26th, 2021 @ 10:04 am
By: Governor's Office
|
|
This begins a new series of images from across North Carolina from my travels, and from the long intervals that I have spent with my camera making a record of where I have been.
Published: Monday, January 4th, 2021 @ 1:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
The left-wing group Progress NC describes itself as “a 501(c)3 non-partisan non-profit organization dedicated to informing voters of key public policy issues through traditional news media, online engagement, and hands-on communications trainings.”
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2020 @ 11:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
|
|
Mrs. Carolyn “Carrie” Joan Marpes Blue, age 72, a resident of Maurice Court, Cypress Landing, Chocowinity, died Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at her home.
Published: Monday, August 10th, 2020 @ 10:22 am
By: Announcements
|
|
Yesterday evening it was a great honor and privilege to attend the CCTA Back the Blue event in New Bern, where we had a chance to say thank you to some of the most outstanding law enforcement people in Eastern North Carolina.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2020 @ 11:57 am
By: Keith D Kidwell
|
|
Days after Blue Cross N.C. made national headlines for concealing the arrest of its CEO Patrick Conway, the state’s largest insurer gave up Friday, Sept. 27, on a $16-billion affiliation with its Pacific Coast counterpart, Cambia Health Solutions.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 3:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
In response to Hurricane Dorian, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) has taken steps to ensure customers’ access to their prescription drug needs are uninterrupted due to the aftermath of the storm.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 @ 1:35 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
|
|
As the Obamacare individual marketplace bleeds unsubsidized enrollees, Blue Cross N.C. is looking to reverse a surge of earlier premium increases.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2019 @ 5:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
|