Web-first editions built from verified lobbying registration data, hand-curated metrics, and original reporting on the people moving North Carolina policy.
Eight operators, a 50-percent tax hike on the table, and a prediction-market ban working its way through the House.
March 11, 2024 was the first legal bet. Two years later: $13.2 billion wagered, $287 million collected, and a lobbying field running full speed — one bill to double the operator tax, one to shut out prediction markets. The names filing those briefs are familiar ones.
How North Carolina's local governments — and the lobbying bloc that defends them — are squaring up for a constitutional fight over the levy that funds counties and cities.
How NC's lobbying field shapes the competition for billion-dollar economic development projects
Hospitals, insurers, MCOs, doctors, and pharma — the most crowded lobbying field in the state
How Silicon Valley is reshaping North Carolina's power grid and political landscape