North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey reinstated three high-ranking state officials after firing them as part of a power struggle with the General Assembly. State law required him to.
Years after more than 1 million North Carolinians struggled with long delays in receiving their unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic, state legislators are seeking answers on what went wrong and how to fix the problems in the future.
Republican lawmakers passed bills this year reworking key state boards and stripping the governor s office of some of his appointment powers. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper sued over that legislation.
A new state law will make UNC Health and ECU Health workers ineligible for the state pension plan. Hospital leaders say they ll create a better retirement system. But North Carolina Treasurer Dale Folwell says it threatens the pensions of all state workers.