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Brent Heath: Faster Labor Contracts Act (FLCA) bill

Lenoir County currently has a 3.5% unemployment rate, and the median income is just over $45,000. Legislation is moving through Congress that would hand Washington bureaucrats sweeping new authority over workplace contracts in eastern North Carolina and across the nation. As a conservative, I see this as disastrous, but this bill should gravely concern you regardless of your political affiliation. It will empower union bosses and unaccountable government arbitrators at the expense of workers and
businesses alike.

John Hood: Expand Options for Behavioral Health

RALEIGH — Do you or someone you know suffer from mental illness? I suspect most readers will say yes. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, behavioral-health disorders affect a fifth of adults and a sixth of school-aged children in North Carolina. One in 18 of us lives with a “severe mental illness,” defined as “a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder that results in serious impairment and interferes with or limits one or more major life activities.”

Today's NC Political News briefs

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina political developments this week include possible House action on vetoed bills, a state lawsuit over the VinFast manufacturing site, a western North Carolina manufacturing expansion, a legal challenge involving health care workforce loans and continued calls to replace the state’s aging election management system.