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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
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North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell said Tuesday the decision to go with Aetna as the third-party administrator for the State Health Plan was in the best interest of plan members.
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 5:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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
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We welcome the opportunity to engage in a factual, thoughtful and transparent review of the State Health Plan’s contracting process for third party administration services going into effect two years from now.
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 10:33 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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A month after Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won a resounding reelection victory and declared that the state is “where woke goes to die,” the state’s second-largest school system signed a contract with an infamous peddler of “woke” partisanship to children.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 12:31 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A unanimous ruling from the N.C. Court of Appeals could reopen Wake County's scrap metal recycling contract process.
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 @ 12:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Biden administration cannot enforce its COVID vaccine mandate on federal contractors, according to a ruling on Monday.
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 3:26 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Two Years from Now, in 2025, the New Contract with Aetna Will Bring Lower Costs, Transparency, and Generate $140 Million in Administrative Savings
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 11:05 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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On Tuesday, United Airlines pilots rejected a contract offer, intensifying fears that upcoming holiday airline travel may be impeded in a major way. That followed a vote on Monday by Delta Airlines pilots to call a strike for a new contract.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 9:00 am
By: Daily Wire
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Students from N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill are asking the state Supreme Court to allow their breach-of-contract lawsuit to move forward.
Published: Thursday, November 24th, 2022 @ 9:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The University of North Carolina is urging the N.C. Supreme Court to step in and block a lower court ruling linked to student fees collected during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 1:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Real gross domestic product (GDP) is confirmed to have shrunk at an annualized rate of 0.6% in the second quarter of 2022, according to a Thursday report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 @ 8:40 am
By: Daily Wire
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A unanimous ruling from the N.C. Court of Appeals permits a COVID-related breach-of-contract lawsuit to move forward against UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State.
Published: Monday, October 10th, 2022 @ 10:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has received Russian citizenship on the order of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 6:03 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A U.S. defense contractor and his wife have been charged with identity theft after authorities say they lived under the identities of two children who had died in Texas.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 12:44 am
By: Daily Wire
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The U.S. Space Development Agency announced two contract awards on Monday to build 28 warfighting satellites that will track hypersonic missiles as the race to dominate space continues between global superpowers.
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 3:31 am
By: Daily Wire
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$172 million contract aiding illegal invaders
Published: Monday, July 18th, 2022 @ 6:11 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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In his April piece for the Martin Center, Adam Ellwanger critiqued “contract grading” as a symptom of “the war against academic excellence” and the broader societal movement toward “some fetishized notion of social justice.”
Published: Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 @ 7:35 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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When I was in high school in the mid-1990s, we were all required to swim in gym class. This was before wokeness.
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2022 @ 11:24 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has ruled, 4-2, that 220,000 state government retirees had a contractual right to premium-free health care benefits that had been promised to them. Now a trial court will have to determine whether state changes to those benefits a decade ago violated the contract.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 2:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Pharmacy Benefit Manager Contract Will Help State Health Plan Members
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 9:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Panthers offensive tackle Taylor Moton meets with the media on report day.
Published: Friday, October 15th, 2021 @ 8:03 am
By: Daniel Bunting
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission and the company operating the state’s liquor warehouses are trying to offer a modicum of relief to local boards suffering from problems with the global supply chain.
Published: Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 @ 5:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Taylor Moton signed a four-year, $72 million dollar deal to avoid playing on the franchise tag.
Published: Friday, August 6th, 2021 @ 7:40 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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The Panthers didn't need any reason to extend Taylor Moton beyond the fact he's really good at football.
Published: Thursday, August 5th, 2021 @ 12:02 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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Taylor Moton’s bumper contract extension proves beyond all doubt that competency is once again king within the Carolina Panthers.
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 1:49 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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The Panthers have secured a key piece of the team’s offensive line for years to come.
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 9:14 am
By: Daniel Bunting
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The Panthers still want to get a long-term deal done with their star right tackle Taylor Moton.
Published: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 @ 5:53 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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Pfizer covid injection contracts revieled
Published: Monday, August 2nd, 2021 @ 10:25 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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We are now just two days away from finding out whether Taylor Moton and the Carolina Panthers can come to an agreement on a long-term deal.
Published: Sunday, August 1st, 2021 @ 1:11 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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The Carolina Panthers are cutting it fine when it comes to a potential extension for stud right tackle Taylor Moton this offseason.
Published: Saturday, July 31st, 2021 @ 5:08 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission voted unanimously last week to recommend the state award a 10-year contract for warehouse services to LB&B Associates, the target of an audit in 2018 that has over the previous years cost the state about $13.5 million.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 12:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It wasn’t just Greg Olsen and Thomas Davis that hogged the limelight during a memorable retirement ceremony for the duo where they signed one-day contracts to officially leave their professional careers behind as members of the Carolina Panthers.
Published: Monday, March 15th, 2021 @ 10:37 am
By: Daniel Bunting
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Following the results from the latest COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, the East Carolina men's basketball program has paused all team-related activities.
Published: Friday, January 15th, 2021 @ 10:48 am
By: ECU Sports
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Move to new, cloud-based platform will save state time and money.
Published: Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 @ 4:15 pm
By: Governor's Office
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A pair of recent polls have found that Americans generally approve of the way the federal government and President Donald Trump have handled the response to the coronavirus crisis, but that a third of Americans fear they will die from contracting the virus.
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2020 @ 12:31 am
By: Daily Wire
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