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Uncertainty over pandemic’s end complicates NC’s Medicaid budget

by Rose Hoban April 25, 2022April 24, 2022

By Rose Hoban What a difference a decade can make. Republican lawmakers raised a ruckus 10 years ago when officials from the state Department of Health and Human Services informed them that North Carolina had spent millions of dollars more than projected on the Medicaid budget. But this month, when Dave Richard, the DHHS head […]

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What is the state of medical marijuana legalization in North Carolina?

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Funds for opioid treatment in jails and after release; prison facility improvement in budget

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