It's Morning Edition on 90.7 WFAE and WFAE.org. I'm Marshall Terry. OK, so now we're going to get an update on what's been going on at the General Assembly in Raleigh this session. But instead of focusing on the typical big bills like the budget, we're going to look at some fishy business lawmakers have been up to — literally. For more, I'm joined now by reporter Mary Helen Moore. She covers the general assembly for WFAE and other public media stations.

It’s an awful feeling when your car is towed. You not only have to scramble to find out where your car went, but often there’s no way to know what you’ll be charged, because in North Carolina, towing companies have been able to charge whatever they like. But that could change under a bill that state lawmakers are now considering.

NC educators try to mitigate risk of learning loss. How schools in Transylvania and Ashe counties have fared since Helene.

As part of the “battery belt,” North Carolina will soon be home to four lithium-ion battery factories, the power behind electric vehicles. But President Trump’s sweeping federal reconciliation bill eliminated tax credits for purchasing an electric vehicle, raising concerns about the future of the industry.

Construction in Charlotte is still slow. New quarterly data from CoStar show the number of new apartments and industrial projects have dropped sharply, while almost no new offices are being built. WFAE's Marshall Terry and The Charlotte Ledger's Tony Mecia discuss this, and other business stories, on this week's BizWorthy.

In closing arguments, attorneys for the plaintiffs, including the NAACP, described a rushed and secretive process that resulted in the maps used in the 2024 election.