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The North Carolina Supreme Court overturned its own 2022 decision in the long-running Leandro school funding case.
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Most of South Carolina’s Republican candidates for governor met Wednesday night in Newberry for their first debate of the campaign, focusing heavily on affordability in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states. -
There’s a new benchmark to assess how well North Carolina is faring economically. The state Commerce Department launched the County Economic Vitality Index tracking unemployment, wages, median household income and educational attainment. One of the big takeaways is that suburbs may be on the rise. -
The North Carolina Governor’s Highway Safety Program, in collaboration with the national nonprofit Dedication To Community, launches its Traffic Stop Safety Program this month. -
A hearing on having a moratorium on data centers brought up memories of removal and extraction. -
The N.C. Department of Transportation this week released a tweaked design for the I-77 toll lanes.
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A revised NCDOT plan for I-77 would save six homes from demolition, though 36 others remain in threatened. Most of S.C.'s Gubernatorial candidates met Wednesday for their first debate. Duke Energy asks permission to raise rates. The City of Charlotte plans to spend $650 million in taxpayer money to renovate Bank of America Stadium.
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