Adam Wagner
NC Newsroom Editor/ReporterAdam Wagner is an editor/reporter with the NC Newsroom, a journalism collaboration expanding state government news coverage for North Carolina audiences. The collaboration is funded by a two-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Adam can be reached at awagner@ncnewsroom.org
Wagner has more than 10 years of North Carolina reporting experience. Most recently, he served as Climate Change and Environmental Reporter at the News & Observer. There, he was part of a team that won several national awards for the investigative series Big Poultry, including an Investigative Reporters & Editors award and the Victor K. McElheny Award. As a reporter for the StarNews in Wilmington, he helped lead the team that broke the GenX/PFAS story. Wagner is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism & Honors program at Ohio University.
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Called the REINS Act, the legislation says the General Assembly must approve rules that meet certain cost thresholds. -
The relief package appropriates about $700 million to the state's Helene fund and sends $270 million to repair storm-damaged transportation infrastructure. -
Despite transportation funding concerns, NC legislature vote to allow Mecklenburg transit referendumMecklenburg County leaders want to put the transit referendum on the ballot this November. It would add a one percent sales tax to fund transportation projects. -
The N.C. House is seeking to prohibit people under 21 years old from buying or using hemp, a step widely seen as a necessary first step to regulate an industry that is largely without laws. -
The Senate proposal is very similar to how the chamber proposed to fund relief in its budget. It has millions for western NC roads and bridges, including private infrastructure. -
Supporters of the bill say private schools do not have school resource officers like their public counterparts. Opponents argue the person carrying the weapon will likely be largely untrained. -
Senate Bill 266 also shifts some costs of purchased power from industrial to residential customers by changing how they're calculated. -
If the bill becomes law, Mecklenburg County voters would vote as soon as this fall on a one percent sales tax to help fund billions of dollars of transportation projects. -
Democrats wanted to file a discharge petition to try to force a Helene bill with $435 million in relief funding out of Senate committee. -
The $7.4 billion nationwide settlement with provide state and local governments with funds for opioid treatment efforts, said NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson.
