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ECONOMY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Wherever you sit down to dinner on Thursday, chances are you’ll have a bit of North Carolina with you, as the Tar Heel State is a top producer of both turkeys and sweet potatoes.
A new report from the Secretary of State’s office shows charitable giving in North Carolina is drastically down.
A key measuring stick again lists Forsyth County among the top counties economically in North Carolina.
Film industry boosters say interest in producing movies and TV shows has dropped dramatically as the state prepares to launch a scaled-back grant program to replace generous tax incentives eliminated last year.
EDUCATION
The State Board of Education is suing the state and the Rules Review Commission, claiming that authority given the board in the state constitution exempts its policies from commission oversight.
The State Board of Education will hold a conference-call meeting Monday to hear from the College Board, which developed the class for high school students, and from a leading national critic of the revamped course.
Although the gap between Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina is rather wide on a number of issues — tax policy, Medicaid expansion, and campaign-finance laws come to mind — there are still some prospects for bipartisan cooperation in 2015 and beyond.
ELECTIONS
Supreme Court Associate Justice Cheri Beasley won her re-election campaign against Forsyth County lawyer Mike Robinson despite vote tabulation errors discovered in several counties throughout the state.
ENERGY
The chairman of a North Carolina environmental committee says they are looking at beneficial uses for millions of tons of coal ash being stored in waste pits.
HEALTH CARE
North Carolina’s medical examiner’s office sent a memo to doctors in its Raleigh department, asking them to do fewer autopsies. The pathologists followed their instructions.
The method by which death certificates are assembled and preserved in North Carolina is really getting old.
LEGISLATURE
Rep. Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, spent the past four years as then-Speaker Thom Tillis’ Rules Committee chairman, the affable technician who oiled the gears of legislative progress.
North Carolina laws taking effect Monday will add protections for Venus flytraps, let children in eight counties shoot BB guns unsupervised and allow criminal defendants statewide to have their case decided by a judge instead of a jury.
TRANSPORTATION
Now, the last corner of the property that has helped support his family since 1935 is part of a legal fight over land rights being waged from Winston-Salem to Wilmington against the N.C. Department of Transportation and its road-planning practices.
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