Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday took quick and decisive steps toward repealing annexations in the works by Wilmington, Southport and other municipalities across the state and making it more difficult for cities and towns to annex residents involuntarily.
Two separate annexation bills were approved by two state Senate committees on Wednesday – the opening day in […]
Greenville leaders last week presented the city’s legislative initiatives to the area’s local legislative representatives for the May 16 State Legislature short session.
Sen. Louis Pate, a Republican, and Democratic Reps. Marian McLawhorn and Edith Warren heard from Mayor Allen Thomas, Interim City Manager Thomas Moton and City Attorney David Holec, who researched and drafted […]
The city of Monroe has been named one of the Top 10 Successful Aviation and Aerospace Clusters in the South for 2012 by Southern Business and Development magazine.
Monroe has worked to diversify its economy following the Sept. 11 attacks. In the past decade, the city’s economic development department has worked to create the state’s […]
Greensboro, NC — Mayor Robbie Perkins is one of six American mayors heading to Israel for the 28th annual Israeli Mayors Conference.
They will meet with 45 mayors from around the world.
Mayor Perkins says we have a strong Jewish community, and he hopes the visit will help him sell the Triad and North Carolina as […]
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s state government revenues remain slightly above projections used in forming this year’s budget after the all-important April tax collections arrived.
The N.C. General Assembly’s top staff economist told legislative leaders Tuesday to expect $233 million more than was originally expected for the year ending June 30, with slight changes possible. Barry Boardman […]
Wilmington’s red-light cameras will likely survive in next year’s city budget. But they still face possible elimination at the state level. City council members have said they support the program, which was included as a possible cutback in a March budget presentation. The SafeLight program, which operates red-light cameras at 13 locations in Wilmington, costs […]
Metro Charlotte’s improving smog problem placed it 18th-worst among U.S. cities, the American Lung Association says in annual rankings, down from 10th-worst the past two years. The ranking is for ozone, or smog, an invisible gas that in the Charlotte area comes mostly from vehicle tailpipes, power plants and industrial emissions. Mecklenburg County has been […]
If tolls are imposed along Interstate 95, Cumberland County Commissioners want the people and companies who live and work along the corridor to get a discount. The state Department of Transportation has said its plan to widen and resurface I-95 throughout the state will attract businesses to nearby communities and improve their economies. Commissioner Jimmy […]
Avery and Mitchell are two North Carolina counties similar in many respects. New U.S. Census Bureau estimates show that between 2005 and 2009, for every one person who moved out of Avery County, two people moved in. But in Mitchell County, just to the south, five people moved out for every one who moved in. […]
As our little electric train pulls away from the admissions building, it’s already clear that High Point University looks like no campus any of us has ever seen. Piped-in classical music drifts across freshly planted flower beds as a student guide, steering a golf-cart-style “engine,” tows our group of six parents and teens past statues […]
