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North Carolina lobbying pulse for policy influencers.

Raleigh, NC
Joined April 2026
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Wall Street's Biggest Landlord Now Lobbying Raleigh Single-family rental giant Progress Residential hires three lobbyists in three weeks as Congress' ban bites but Raleigh's regulatory reforms allow densifying what it owns in large counties. lapelintel.com/wire/wall-str… #ncpol #ncga
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North Carolina is creating a new market for independent contractor benefits, bringing app-based businesses like @Uber @DoorDash, banks, insurers, and financial administrators with overlapping influence networks under a new framework on January 1. lapelintel.com/wire/north-ca… #ncpol
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North Carolina is moving building-code administration from the Office of the State Fire Marshal @NCInsuranceDept to @NCDOL with $2 million in transition funding, new statewide permit fees, and authority to seek court enforcement of code interpretations. lapelintel.com/wire/nc-moves…
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North Carolina's 2027 Tax Changes Put Sportsbooks, ABC Stores and Financial Regulators on New Compliance Timelines Senate Bill 595 will require state income-tax withholding on qualifying gambling winnings beginning January 1, make cash rounding mandatory at ABC stores in July, and delay a revised tax-penalty system until 2030. lapelintel.com/wire/north-ca…
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North Carolina's new development incentive gives builders a substantial tax advantage on qualifying unsold property, but municipal and county boards control where it becomes available. #ncpol
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$AAPL Raleigh Lobbying Roster Overlaps with @TheRTP Foundation as its Proposed Campus in North Carolina Sits Undeveloped Apple's delayed project now sits alongside a changing financial outlook for its global hardware business:
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.@tiktok_us registers a new Raleigh lobbyist as North Carolina's attorney general challenges its platform design in court, lawmakers negotiate restrictions on minors' social-media accounts, and the company's reorganized U.S. business faces mounting financial and regulatory obligations. lapelintel.com/wire/tiktok-a…
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State CIO, a former lobbyist @EQVStrategic, must evaluate North Carolina's enterprise identity systems by July 2027 and competitively solicit replacements if existing services @NCDIT fail new standards; firms represent potential vendors $KD $YOU $SAIL.
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Nashville child-safety nonprofit @WiredHuman enlists former Lt. Gov. Dan Forest to lobby this week as lawmakers negotiate restrictions on minors' social-media accounts and the state prepares to allocate hundreds of millions from its Meta settlement.
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Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturer Kyowa Kirin has registered life science industry lobbyist Joe Lanier of Milestone Strategies to represent its interests in North Carolina as construction continues on a biologics facility in Sanford. lapelintel.com/wire/kyowa-ki…
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Charlotte's stadium financing emerged through a sequence of legislative tax authority, City Council approvals, land-use proceedings and state borrowing authorization that avoided a public bond referendum. lapelintel.com/wire/moore-va…
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Wilmington Chamber CEO Natalie English Ends State Lobbying Registration @ILMchamber
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The change comes as the organization navigates competing positions on the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, a suspended $1.35 billion harbor expansion, and new medical school planning at UNCW.
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The Carrboro education consultancy behind Opportunity Culture expands its registered lobbying roster to five as lawmakers quadruple funding for advanced teacher salary supplements.
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