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This year’s state budget process may have been one of the most discordant in recent memory, but Western North Carolina’s legislative delegation was ab...

When Republican Sen. Kevin Corbin, R-Franklin, announced  during a March 25 listening session at Southwestern Community College that he intended to file a bill addressing the health care coverage gap, he also said he hadn’t quite formulated the particulars of it because he wanted to introduce something that would pass the Republican-controlled legislature.  With the insertion of specific language into placeholder bill S530  on April 5, Corbin — along with co-sponsors Sen. Jim Burgin, R-...