Adam Wagner
Reporter at WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC)
Reporter covering climate change and environmental issues for @newsobserver. Formerly @starnewsonline. Tips? [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wunc.org | Adam Wagner
Solar energy companies would need to pay property taxes on nearly $6 billion in equipment if legislation that advanced out of the House Finance Committee on Tuesday become law. A 2008 bill from paying property taxes on 80% of the value of the equipment they install. It does not omit the land on which the equipment is installed from property taxes. That was part of an effort to incentivize solar development in North Carolina.
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2 weeks ago |
wunc.org | Adam Wagner |Mary Helen Moore
A bill filed Monday seeking to ban most abortions in North Carolina will not be heard in the N.C. House of Representatives or its committees this legislative session, House Speaker Destin Hall told reporters Tuesday. "I don't think there's any real desire in our caucus to hear that particular bill, and so it's not going to be heard in committee," said Hall, a Caldwell County Republican. House Bill 804 would ban virtually all abortions, beginning at conception.
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2 weeks ago |
wunc.org | Adam Wagner
North Carolina needs to shift how its pension fund is managed and how it makes its investments to hit key benchmarks, State Treasurer Brad Briner told a legislative committee last week. Briner, a fist-term Republican, said North Carolina's $127 billion in pension investments could be as much as $16 billion higher if the state had hit a benchmark of a 6.5% annual return on its investment.
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3 weeks ago |
bpr.org | Adam Wagner
North Carolina lawmakers are trying to cut down on kids' ability to access social media with a proposal that would set an age limit for when they can create accounts. "If you go out and you Google and you look anything up about the positive results of kids being on social media, you will find none.
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4 weeks ago |
wunc.org | Adam Wagner
A bill allowing law enforcement to fine people who are holding their pets or have them in their laps received bipartisan support Wednesday during a legislative committee meeting. Rep. Frank Iler, a Brunswick County Republican, said the legislation was inspired by his own observations driving around southeastern North Carolina. “A lot of folks seem to ride around in their cars with their animals — small to medium dogs, usually — on their lap.
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