State legislators left Raleigh in late June for their summer break without having passed a budget for the next two years. That’s become the norm since Republicans took control of both chambers in 2011. Of eight tries, they’ve hit that start-of-the-fiscal-year target only twice. The exceptions were 2011 and 2017, both times after overriding gubernatorial […]| Business North Carolina
North Carolina legislators overrode Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of a bill that eliminates the state’s interim 2030 carbon-reduction target and makes it easier for Duke Energy to make customers pay for new power plants that are still under construction. Senate Bill 266 became law on Tuesday when the House voted 74-46 to ignore the governor’s […]| Business North Carolina