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By Thomas Goldsmith Dolores Gardner of Greenville looks forward to receiving farmers-market-fresh vegetables along with meals delivered to the home she shares with her husband Austin.  Those are coming from Pitt County Meals on Wheels in July as one of the services financed through Home and Community Care Block Grants, funds that are expected to

By Anne Blythe, Thomas Goldsmith, Rose Hoban, Taylor Knopf Two weeks have passed since Gov. Roy Cooper stood with Democratic and Republican lawmakers outside the North Carolina Museum of History to announce that, in a new spirit of bipartisan negotiating, both sides of the aisle had come to consensus on how and when to reopen

By Anne Blythe As North Carolina continues to battle COVID-19 in the coming year, Gov. Roy Cooper said on Thursday that he wanted state lawmakers to dip into the nearly $5 billion that they’ve set aside in a rainy day fund and agree to spend $695 million of that money on one-time teacher bonuses, hazard

By Anne Blythe North Carolina fitness centers and gyms have largely been closed for the past six months because the state’s public health team has had concerns that COVID-19 can spread more rapidly while people breathe heavily during physical exertion. Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he would ease statewide social distancing restrictions so

By Anne Blythe Gov. Roy Cooper presented a $25 billion budget proposal on Wednesday that would include a $988 million health care infrastructure limited obligation bond to support vaccine development, public health labs and health facilities at a time when interest rates are extremely low. The spending plan, which he titled Support for a Determined

By Rose Hoban Senate leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) outlined his chamber’s plan for spending in the coming two years Tuesday afternoon, with a $22.9 billion plan that focuses on tax cuts, increasing teacher pay and mostly tweaks to health and human services spending. The plan represents a 2.5 percent increase from last year’s $22.34 billion

Last year’s budget called for reduced reimbursement for physicians providing Medicaid. But the cuts have not been effective – until now. By Rose Hoban In the 2014 state budget passed last August, state lawmakers inserted what could be considered a poison pill for Medicaid providers: a 3 percent pay cut that for specialists could be

After the shock health care officials and advocates received when they saw the Senate budget, the House version presented yesterday was a welcome relief. By Rose Hoban In a document that reads as a sharp rebuke to the budget approved by the North Carolina Senate last month, the House of Representatives presented a budget for

In a short legislative session that’s moving quickly, Senate budget writers presented a document that many advocates found troubling. By Rose Hoban After a year of missteps by the Department of Health and Human Services and years of budgeting problems in the state’s Medicaid program, members of the state Senate sent a message to the

Gov. Pat McCrory presented his budget to reporters Wednesday. The document will be presented formally to the legislature Thursday morning. By Rose Hoban On the same day lawmakers at the General Assembly started their work for the short legislative session, Gov. Pat McCrory presented his budget adjustments for the 2014-15 fiscal year. In a plan