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Not only will voters in North Carolina cast their ballots in a U.S. Presidential race in 2024, but they'll elect a new governor for the state too as Democrat Roy Cooper wraps up his tenure.
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The Republican primary campaign for governor is already getting negative. Three of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s GOP opponents have recently gone on the attack.
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More members of the state commission that oversees local government audits are raising concerns about Elizabeth City's finances.
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell is calling on North Carolina lawmakers to pass new consumer protections addressing medical debt collections.
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Officials in Elizabeth City say they have submitted one of two overdue audits that drew the attention of the state treasurer.
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North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell announced on Saturday he will run for governor in 2024, a bid that will likely require him besting Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to earn the Republican nomination.While Republicans have controlled North Carolina's legislature since 2011
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This is now the fifth report issued by the treasurer's office critical of hospital finances. Folwell has called the state's hospitals a "cartel," and accused them of driving up health care costs.
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Health care accounts for one out of every $5 spent in the United States. Expensive drugs and medical devices have received public scrutiny, but only recently have hospitals come under the microscope.
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A group that advocates for communities impacted by private equity investments has asked the North Carolina retirement fund to stop investing with a particular private equity group. But the state's investment manager says the retirement fund has limited influence.
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell and the State Health Plan Board of Trustees announced Wednesday that they have to reinstate coverage of “medically necessary services” — including hormone replacement therapy and surgeries — which the health plan had provided for a single year in 2017.