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The North Carolina Court of Appeals has denied Gov. Josh Stein's motion to delay a case involving a dispute over appointments to judicial seats and the state Utilities Commission.
Published: Sunday, September 7th, 2025 @ 6:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state Supreme Court has granted a temporary stay to a Department of Transportation worker fired in connection with falsified bus driver recertification.
Published: Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024 @ 9:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state Court of Appeals split, 2-1, in ruling against state regulators and Duke Health in a dispute over a certificate of need.
Published: Friday, December 22nd, 2023 @ 5:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A fired state Department of Transportation worker urges the full 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals to rehear his lawsuit challenging the dismissal.
Published: Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 @ 12:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Associate Justice Michael Morgan will resign from the North Carolina Supreme Court during the week of Sept. 4.
Published: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 11:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Supreme Court Justice Michael Morgan will not seek a second eight-year term next year.
Published: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 @ 11:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A former powerful N.C. House Rules Committee chairman urges the N.C. Court of Appeals to allow him to pursue a political discrimination claim against the state agency that fired him last year.
Published: Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 @ 9:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Blue Cross North Carolina only Losing Bidder to Proceed with Litigation Against State Health Plan
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 2:51 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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North Carolina’s administrative code is cluttered with over 1,000 rules whose authorizing statutes have been repealed
Published: Saturday, March 25th, 2023 @ 7:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state has given WakeMed preliminary approval to build a new hospital in Garner and a new mental health hospital in Knightdale. The state also approved adding beds to both Duke Raleigh and UNC Rex hospitals.
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 12:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Jim Bostian, Aetna’s market president for North Carolina, addressed the State Health Plan Board of Trustees at their meeting Wednesday, with promises of building upon a seamless transition as the new SHP third-party administrator beginning on Jan. 1, 2025.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 5:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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
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The State Health Plan (Plan) received notice today that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina has filed a request for a contested-case hearing in the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 9:33 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled against a Central Prison staffer who claimed that whistleblowing blocked her from a promotion.
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2023 @ 8:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Longtime college basketball commentator Billy Packer died Thursday night at age 82. While most people remember Packer for his role in the sports world, Carolina Journal readers might remember his battle with state environmental regulators, documented by executive editor Don Carrington in May 2011.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A split N.C. Appeals Court panel has blocked a lower court order dealing with disputed state animal waste regulations. Those rules will be delayed as a legal dispute proceeds.
Published: Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 @ 12:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has granted a temporary stay in the N.C. Farm Bureau Federation's challenge of state animal waste regulations.
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 8:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new N.C. House bill would expand administrative law judges' ability to kill state government rules.
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2022 @ 8:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today the nomination of Judge Tenisha Jacobs to serve as Special Superior Court Judge with a designation to the Business Court.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 9:18 am
By: Governor's Office
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It's much easier for unelected bureaucrats to make rules than for elected legislators to pass laws, and that's a problem
Published: Saturday, March 5th, 2022 @ 3:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing Wednesday morning on the permanent expansion of allowable growler sizes in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 2:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NCACC Weekly Update — May 7
Published: Thursday, May 13th, 2021 @ 10:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — April 30
Published: Thursday, May 6th, 2021 @ 7:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As Carolina Journal has reported, the outcome of the election for three justices on the N.C. Supreme Court may determine whether state government returns to the structure it’s largely followed over the past half-century.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 @ 8:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper is suing to dismantle a powerful legislative check on executive power. The N.C. Supreme Court will eventually decide the issue.
Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2020 @ 4:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When she found a job in May, Greensboro resident Alyssa Trent started working in a call center for unemployment benefits.
Published: Saturday, July 25th, 2020 @ 3:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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You may remember from School House Rock that the way an idea becomes a law is it is introduced to the legislature as a bill and passed through the legislative process.
Published: Friday, June 12th, 2020 @ 9:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Spirits tastings in N.C. ABC stores have gone on without complaint or problem since September, when lawmakers amended state rules governing liquor.
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2020 @ 10:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Health management company Aetna has charged the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services with manipulating the process for awarding Medicaid managed care contracts to favor Blue Cross N.C.
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 @ 1:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has expanded the regions awarded to Carolina Complete Health Inc. to serve as a prepaid health plan under the state’s transition to Medicaid managed care.
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 @ 12:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The school year may be halfway over — or more — before the contract dispute between competing reading diagnostic companies is resolved, leaving students at public schools in limbo.
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 9:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The State Board of Elections said cybersecurity worries prompted a delay in certifying election system vendors to sell voting machines to counties.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 @ 9:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper today ordered all United States and North Carolina flags at state facilities to be lowered immediately to half-staff in tribute to former Representative John David Dingell, Jr. of Michigan. Rep. Dingell, Jr. is the longest serving member of Congress in our nation's history.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2019 @ 1:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell said he is awaiting guidance from lawyers before deciding whether to challenge an N.C. Court of Appeals ruling that allows four former school superintendents to collect an additional $1.7 million in retirement benefits from alleged pension spiking
Published: Wednesday, September 19th, 2018 @ 10:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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