Wake County budget includes 10% property tax increase newsobserver.com/news/local/cou…

At current pace of 123 homes/month, ReBuild NC can finish most work around Thanksgiving 2025. It still has $60 million available between homeowner recovery and strategic buyout sources #ncga #ncpol

Latest from ReBuild NC shows roughly 100 completions in the past month. Of those still in the program, half are completed. At current pace, nearly all will be complete in April 2026 #ncga #ncpol

A House Oversight hearing began with DMV and its vendor blaming each other for problems and ended with questions of DMV’s compliance with state law 🧵 It was still not clear how a DMV “glitch” grew into a 300,000+ backlog in ID production. 1/6 #ncga #ncpol sites.ncleg.gov/houseoversight…

Key points from Jake Johnson op-ed questioning survey NCSBE board members used to deny party ballot access #ncga #ncpol 🧵 newsobserver.com/opinion/articl…

“I used to want to be happy. Now I just want to be useful.” nytimes.com/2024/08/17/mag… via @NYTimes

As Western North Carolina continues to respond to Helene, Andrew Dunn lisasorg prompted a check-in on recovery from Matthew and Florence. ReBuild NC #ncpol

Latest numbers from ReBuild NC #ncpol

NCInnovation's audited financial statement sheds light in some areas #ncga #ncpol sites.ncleg.gov/houseoversight…

Latest numbers from ReBuild NC

As DOGE considers requiring federal employees return to office, a new paper suggests remote work may be an indication of workplace quality for some jobs nber.org/papers/w33315

Yuval Levin suggests DOGE aim at reducing regulations. Spending is mostly entitlements and the federal workforce has already been outsourced nationalreview.com/2025/01/how-th…

The State Controller makes available government employee salaries, so Dawn B. Vaughan doesn't need to file freedom of information requests and the rest of us don't need to go through the News & Observer website ncosc.gov/salary_search

Not much movement in steps before construction with ReBuild NC

WNC chambers of commerce highlight local businesses, "the heartbeat of the community"

I will be citing examples from Dan Heath’s new book Reset when somebody tells me they need more people, more money, or new technology to improve operations