Dan Haggerty

3 weeks ago | wral.com | Dan Haggerty

President Donald Trump signed another executive order this week, taking the total up to 109 in a little longer than two months. Award-winning musical artist Kid Rock joined Trump as he signed an executive order aimed at protecting fans from "exploitative ticket scalping" and reforming the U.S. live entertainment ticketing industry. "Anyone who's bought a concert ticket in the last decade [or] maybe 20 years, not matter what your politics are, knows it’s a conundrum,” Rock said.

1 month ago | wral.com | Dan Haggerty |Paul Andy Specht |Miles Moraitis |Jack Hagel

Brad Briner left a career in high finance to pursue one of the highest-pressure roles in North Carolina government: state treasurer. The treasurer's department is responsible for managing one of the biggest pension plans in the nation, as well as overseeing health benefits for hundreds of thousands of current and retired state employees and their families. Briner, a former executive at a New York firm that managed investments for Bloomberg LP founder Michael Bloomberg, took office in January.

Sep 13, 2024 | wral.com | Dan Haggerty |Miles Moraitis |Ryan Bisesi

I've got Friday on my mind. Friday night and the lights are low. It's finally Friday, I'm free again. It's Friday, I'm in love. Gotta get down on Friday. Here we are folks, it's Friday. It's not just any Friday, it's Friday the 13th. Maybe you already knew, maybe you've been feeling the spooky vibes all day, keeping your head on a swivel for black cats. Friday lands on the 13th of the month about once a year. In the 80s, the "Friday the 13th" movies seemed to have a similar schedule.

Sep 11, 2024 | wral.com | Dan Haggerty |Mark Bergin |Allyson Lorick |Stephanie Beck

A WRAL News viewer named Pam submitted an email to ask about the North Carolina Supreme Court’s rulings that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name won’t be on ballots this year in North Carolina. Pam wrote, “[He] sued NC to get his name on the ballot. Then he sued to have it removed. How much did those lawsuits cost the [North Carolina] taxpayers?”When North Carolina’s 100 counties add up the cost to reprint millions of ballots, which finished printing in August, it will cost about $1 million to taxpayers.

Aug 15, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Dan Haggerty

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