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By Anne Blythe The courtroom on the seventh floor of the Wake County Justice Center was quiet as Judge Vince Rozier read a report from the mother of the 28-year-old defendant awaiting sentencing. That mother, Theresa Morris-Brown, is a petite 63-year-old woman with a gargantuan will to help the man she welcomed into her life

By Rose Hoban After several weeks of negotiations between the North Carolina Senate and the House of Representatives, the two chambers came together Tuesday to present a compromise budget they’ll be sending to Gov. Roy Cooper for his signature. But it’s likely Cooper will be vetoing it. For months, the governor has signaled that he

By Thomas Goldsmith Two Republican state senators on Tuesday proposed a package of health-care reforms, saying specifically that North Carolina should beef up help for people with intellectual disabilities before expanding Medicaid to additional hundreds of thousands of people. Sens. Joyce Krawiec⁩ (R-Kernersville) and Dan Bishop (R-Charlotte) proposed $41 million in state funding for the

By Rose Hoban Governor Roy Cooper rolled out his budget for the upcoming fiscal year Wednesday morning, presenting a $25.2 billion plan with one of the central provisions being extension of North Carolina’s Medicaid program to cover as many as half a million low-income residents of the state. Cooper was firm about widening the program,

By Rose Hoban Even before Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s team was able to email out a laudatory press release touting “common ground” in his proposed budget for the coming fiscal year, leaders of the Republican-led General Assembly had emailed reporters their own release, rejecting the governor’s plan and calling it an “unserious attempt to score

By Rose Hoban In rolling out his first budget, Gov. Roy Cooper said he will be able to increase North Carolina’s spending for the coming fiscal year by $1.1 billion. Cooper’s $23.48 billion dollar spending plan for 2017-18 emphasizes increasing teacher pay, increasing salaries for state employees across the board and builds on former Gov.

There are more seniors who have no one to look in on them when things go wrong. How should the state respond to them? By Thomas Goldsmith “‘There’s a woman on our block,’ the caller says, ‘who’s 80 years old and has quit going to the doctor. She’s hoarding, she’s not taking her meds and

By Rose Hoban State House lawmakers provisionally passed a $22.2 billion budget Wednesday that includes more than $5 billion for health and human services needs, which represents a decrease of about $190 million from what was budgeted for the upcoming year. “The first thing I’d like to say … there’s no harm in this budget,”

Care coordinators help connect individuals and their families to resources and relationships within their communities. By Taylor Sisk “She’s just such a wonderful mother,” Jill Long says of Monica Benge. That’s no small compliment under any circumstances, but Benge’s circumstances are considerable. Benge is mom to a son, Bradley, with cerebral palsy. Bradley is a