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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is processing claims at the fastest rate in its history, hoping to avoid a significant backlog as hundreds of thousands of veterans apply for health care and benefits under the landmark toxic exposure law…Read More »
Raleigh Aug 17, 2022 Today, Governor Roy Cooper issued the following statement in response to a judge reinstating North Carolina’s 20-week abortion ban: “Although I disagree with this ruling, the vast majority of patients will still be able to access reproductive health…Read More »
By Joe Killian – 8/15/2022 NC Policy Watch A year ago this month, Barb Walsh was enjoying a feeling of pride for which every parent longs. Sophia, the second of her four daughters, had come through the COVID-19 pandemic, graduating from Appalachian…Read More »
RALEIGH Jul 29, 2022 North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey today announced the arrest of Shaquon Lashawn Burrus, 30, of 2375 Vineyard Drive, Winterville. Burrus was charged with seven counts of insurance fraud and seven counts of obtaining property by false pretense,…Read More »
988 has been designated as the new three-digit dialing code that will route callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (now known as the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), and is now active across the United States. When people call, text, or…Read More »
“Get Checked. Get Tested. Get Protected.” Raleigh Jul 25, 2022 The North Carolina Department of Health and Humans Services has expanded the list of higher-risk people who are eligible to receive the monkeypox vaccine to help prevent spread in the state. Vaccinations…Read More »
By Joe Killian NC POLICY WATCH – 7/25/2022 The latest poll results from the the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index show that Americans are exhausted with COVID-19 and its variants, with a majority saying they don’t believe they will ever be rid of the virus in their…Read More »
Monday, July 18, 2022 ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Today, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. sentenced John Paul Cook, 58, of Marshall, N.C. to ten months in prison, five of which the defendant will serve in home confinement, for defrauding the U.S.…Read More »
By Lynn Bonner – 4/7/2022 NC POLICY WATCH Michelle Skipper has a doctorate in nursing practice and diagnoses and treats patients in Laurinburg. Cindy Cross was diagnosed with breast cancer about 15 years ago and found compassionate medical care when she first visited Michelle…Read More »
By Lauren Ketwitz – 3/22/2022 NC POLICY WATCH On her morning commute to work, Dr. Laura Ucik, a rural family physician in the northern Piedmont of North Carolina, thinks about the patients who could have avoided serious illness and injury had they qualified…Read More »