North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina agencies can do a better job at writing contracts for private firms that provide government work to ensure the state is getting better service and more savings, a legislative report says. The study presented ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Pat McCrory’s top deputies on government spending and tax collections are leaving their posts. Budget Director Lee Roberts is returning to the private sector and Revenue Secretary Lyons Gray is moving to the state Utilities ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A new year means more than 20 new laws take effect Friday. Several focus on cars and driving. Others address abortion, taxes and unemployment. While citizens will notice some changes immediately, other laws won’t be felt for ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — DMV fees are going up on average 30 percent next month. The gasoline tax is now higher than if the previous formula remained in place. And an annual $200 million-plus transfer in highway funds to support ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — The longest-serving current member of the North Carolina state Senate abruptly pulled out of his race Wednesday to seek re-election next year. Sen. Fletcher Hartsell, R-Cabarrus, withdrew his name as a candidate in the late afternoon. He ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Advocacy groups and citizens sued North Carolina government leaders Tuesday over what they called a poor effort to fix previously disclosed problems that kept motorists and public assistance applicants from getting properly registered to vote. The state’s ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The list of people seeking to unseat GOP U.S. Sen. Richard Burr lengthened Tuesday as Democrat Chris Rey officially became a candidate, promoting his service as a small-town mayor, National Guard officer and operator of a ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democrats Marc Basnight, Tony Rand and Joe Hackney were the veteran political powerhouses of the North Carolina General Assembly in 2009. Within four years, they were all out of power and out of office — largely ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper on Monday urged Republican elected officials to pass legislation preventing people on the federal government’s database of known or suspected terrorists from buying guns in North Carolina. With the idea stifled again ...

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KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Pat McCrory says he won’t let opponents prevent the state from expanding what Republicans consider improvements to North Carolina’s economy and state government since he took office three years ago. McCrory held his 2016 re-election campaign ...