Tag: Sen. Ben Clark

By Anne Blythe “Fast and fair.” That’s how Gov. Roy Cooper describes the state’s mission to get coronavirus vaccines into as many arms across the state as possible. In a state with more than 10.5 million people, nearly 1.1 million of them have been fully inoculated against the now not-so-novel coronavirus that upended so much

By Rose Hoban By the time he reached Raleigh after six hours of driving, Dale Wiggins was angry that the lawmakers he was coming to see had already skipped town. Wiggins, the chair of the Graham County Board of Commissioners, came to Raleigh Tuesday to speak to legislators about enacting Medicaid expansion. But by the

A group of senators at the N.C. General Assembly wants to see better use of the state’s controlled-substance database as a way to reduce opiate abuse. By Rose Hoban Say you go to the dentist and need to have a root canal. As you leave, the dentist writes a prescription for a opioid pain reliever

NC senators passed a bill containing sweeping restrictions on abortions after a long and emotional debate on the Senate floor, watched by hundreds of protestors. By Rose Hoban On a party-line vote, state senators passed a bill to enact a number of sweeping changes to North Carolina’s abortion regulations that could have the effect of