A newly built Brightline passenger train awaits shipment from Siemens Mobility’s rail factory in Sacramento, California. Brightline, Siemens Mobility Siemens, which says it’s already the biggest...
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National Geographic’s Pictures of the Year contest photos for 2023
National Geographic announced the winning photographs from its first “Pictures of the Year” photo competition. The contest, which opened to U.S. residents in early December, invited reader...
State Lawmakers Move To End Restriction On Sale Of Adult Seltzers
Most states tax adults seltzers made with distilled spirits at a much higher tax rate than seltzers … [+] whose alcohol is not derived from spirits, even though the latter has similar or even hi...
State Restrictions On Abortion Pills Challenged In New Lawsuits
Topline Two lawsuits filed Wednesday in North Carolina and West Virginia are asking for the states to lift restrictions on abortion pills, arguing that federal rules allowing them should outweigh stat...
Tom Doak Tapped To Design Pinehurst’s 10th Course
Raw land in Aberdeen, North Carolina where Tom Doak course will be built. Pinehurst Golf’s already Sasquatch-sized footprint in the heart of the Carolina Sandhills is about to grow even larger with a ...
Boom Supersonic Says It Doesn’t Need The Usual Gang Of Subsonic Engine Makers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl introduces new engine at Piedmont Triad International Airport in … [+] Greensboro. Ted Reed Let’s just say upfront that most people in aviation don’t think Boom ...
Supreme Court Questions GOP-Led Case That Could Upend U.S. Elections
Topline The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday over the question of whether state legislatures should have unfettered power to determine election rules, with even some conservative justices signaling th...
Residents Of These Five States Are Weeks Away From Getting An Income Tax Cut
Income tax cuts take effect in five states in the first month of 2023. Getty Millions of Americans will see their state government take a smaller bite out of paychecks when 2023 begins in a few weeks....
North Carolina Quarterback Drake Maye Emerges As Heisman Candidate, Top NFL Draft Prospect
North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye (10) looks to pass as Wake Forest linebacker Ryan Smenda Jr. … [+] (5 ) runs towards him during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Winston-S...
Battleground State Candidates Embrace Moderate Brand Despite Immoderate Positions
North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Cheri Beasley speaks to a crowd (Photo by Sean … [+] Rayford/Getty Images) Getty Images As the 2022 midterm elections hit the home stretch, Democratic ...
How One Governor Boosted Competition In The Health Care Market, But Shunned It With Medicaid Contracting
North Carolina lawmakers recognize the benefits of promoting competition in the health care sector. … [+] Yet the state Department of Health and Human Services has awarded key contracts in an un...
How Do We Transition To Clean Transportation? ‘MOVE – Mobility Re-Imagined’ Answers
A New York city subway train on May 17, 2021 (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA … [+] WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images What’s the tipping point to clean transportatio...
State & Federal Officials Increasingly Seek Policy Change Through Litigation Instead Of Legislation
President Joe Biden & North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Someone at the IRS criminally leaked confiden...
Atlantic Packaging Continues Its Mission Of Leading Change
Atlantic Packaging creates fiber-based alternative packaging, like the packaging for this surfboard, … [+] to help reduce plastic waste and increase recycling. Image courtesy Atlantic Packaging ...
Purple State Governor & 2024 Presidential Prospect Proves He’s No Moderate
President Joe Biden talks with North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and EPA Administrator Michael Regan, … [+] after arriving at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Copyright ...
Toyota says it will invest extra $2.5 billion in North Carolina plant
A Toyota dealership in Yokohama, Japan, photographed on Feb. 7, 2021. The firm is trying to make headway in the increasingly competitive electric vehicle market. Toru Hanai | Bloomberg | Getty Images ...
World Golf Hall Of Fame Moving To Pinehurst In 2024, Partnering With USGA
The exterior of the World Golf Hall of Fame, which is relocating from St. Augustine, Florida, to … [+] Pinehurst, North Carolina. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Im...
Atlantic Beach Pie Is The Dessert You Will Make All Summer Long
A buttery lightly salty cracker crust holds a creamy sweet and tart lemon filling in the summer … [+] dessert that you can’t stop baking—and eating Elizabeth Karmel Bill Smith is a North C...
Supreme Court Takes Up Case That Could Make It Easier To Overturn Elections
Topline The Supreme Court may soon give state legislatures total control over their states’ elections—and make it much easier for them to overturn the results—as the court announced Thursday it will t...
North Carolina’s Opportunity To Ban Health Industry Gag Clauses And Unleash Price Transparency
This piece was co-written with Cynthia Fisher. Jason Dean from Tennessee needed stitches on his knee after a minor accident last year. He went to a local hospital that told him insurance would cover t...
South Carolina Lawmakers Reach Deal To Cut Income Tax For Millions Of People & Thousands Of Small Businesses
The South Carolina State House getty Governors and lawmakers in 14 states enacted income tax relief last year and eight states have already approved income tax cuts so far this year. South Carolina is...
How The Flat Tax Revolution Of 2022 Was Sparked In North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina getty A reporter for WUNC — the NPR member station covering Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill — referred to North Carolina as the “Rip Van Winkle State” during the June 3 episod...
Major Donation To New Dental School Benefits A State In Need Of More Dentists
North Carolina gets its third dental school in 2023. getty North Carolina’s newest dental school recently received a major boost with the May 9 announcement of a $32 million donation from the Rick and...
Trump-Endorsed Ted Budd Wins North Carolina GOP Senate Primary
Topline Trump-endorsed Rep. Ted Budd will be the Republican nominee for North Carolina’s open Senate seat, the Associated Press projected Tuesday night, marking the latest nod to the former president’...
Racing Returns To Historic Nascar Speedway This Season
North Wilkesboro Speedway was a short track that held races in NASCAR’s top three series from … [+] NASCAR’s inception in 1949 until its closure in 1996, including 93 Sprint Cup Seri...
Mark Meadows Removed From North Carolina Voter Registration Amid Election Fraud Investigation
Topline Mark Meadows was removed from the registered voter list in North Carolina, according to the North Carolina Board of Elections, as the state investigates allegations the former White House chie...
Kansas Wins Men’s NCAA Basketball Championship, Knocking Off North Carolina 72-69
Topline The No. 1 seed Kansas Jayhawks defeated the No. 8 seed North Carolina Tar Heels 72-69 to win the NCAA men’s basketball national championship Monday night, claiming the fourth men’s title in th...
If North Carolina Can Slay Mike Krzyzewski, Duke And Destiny, Kansas Doesn’t Have A Chance
NEW ORLEANS, LA – APRIL 02: Head coach Mike Krzyzewski of the Duke Blue Devils speaks during his … [+] final post-game press conference after their loss to the North Carolina Tar Heels dur...
The Duke Vs. North Carolina March Madness Matchup By The Numbers
Mike Krzyzewski has already rewritten the college basketball record books. But Saturday’s Final Four matchup with North Carolina could go down as one of the most important games of his distingui...