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When the new budget goes into effect next week, state lawmakers will have significant new investigative powers that Democrats compared to a “secret police force.” 

A change in the state budget gives expanded powers to an oversight commission headed by Republican leaders. Democrats say the commission will operate as the Republican-controlled legislature’s ‘secret police.’

The months-late state budget bill goes to Gov. Roy Cooper, who said he would let the bill become law without his signature.

A proposal last week by the N.C. Healthcare Association to the North Carolina General Assembly to modify certificate-of-need laws was more of a twig than an olive branch, according to Senate Leader Phil Berger, R- Rockingham.

A number of lawmakers have attempted to add LGBTQ rights via ballot initiatives, but have failed.

ROCKINGHAM—The second year of the biennium has started with a similar uncertainty as the first year. So, as omicron surges in Vermont, the first two weeks of the legislative session are remote. I was surprised to feel much more comfortable than last year sitting virtually in the Health Care ...

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