I have a number of updates for you today, so be sure to read all the way through.
First, the Joint Transportation Appropriations Committee met today and heard presentations of varying levels of cuts to the NCDOT Aviation and Ferry Divisions. The Committee will continue on Ferries tomorrow, hear from the Rail Division, and then hear […]
Billboard bill another sign of disdain for municipal decisions.
Two things are troubling about Onslow Republican Sen. Harry Brown’s proposed Senate Bill 183, purporting to establish standards for “selective vegetation removal” and erection of outdoor advertising.
It does a few other selective things, too, such as allowing private interests to remove roadside trees and bushes that might […]
The Senate has taken another step toward hitting the pause button on involuntary annexations.
Senators by a 36-12 vote gave their final approval to a bill that would place a moratorium on involuntary annexation until July 1, 2012. The bill now goes to the Senate.
The bill, sponsored by Sen.Andrew Brock,R-Davie, would not affect voluntary annexations.
It’s one […]
The NCACC Executive Committee, consisting of President Joe Bryan (Wake County), President Elect Kenneth Edge (Cumberland County), First Vice President Howard Hunter III (Hertford County), Second Vice President Mary Accor (Cleveland County) and Executive Director David F. Thompson, met separately with Speaker of the House Thom Tillis (Mecklenburg County) and Senate President Pro Tem Phil […]
RALEIGH – Census data released this week suggest that Fayetteville will lose political power at the state capital to North Carolina’s faster-growing major metro areas.
Meanwhile, politicians and political observers are examining the data to figure out how the numbers will translate into new or lost power for the Republican and Democratic parties in Raleigh and […]
Among the things that make North Carolina such an interesting place to live are its sometimes-baffling – and sometimes not baffling at all – contradictions.
In a transportation trifecta, state and federal officials pledged Friday to accelerate the widening of Interstate 485, pay for a new airport control tower and help extend Charlotte’s light-rail line to UNC Charlotte.
Gov. Bev Perdue joined U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Sen. Kay Hagan and other officials at the Charlotte Chamber for a roundtable discussion […]
This week the Joint Transportation Appropriations Committee will be looking at the $78 million in public transportation grants. At the Committee’s request NCDOT will offer varying levels of cuts to the grants and the impacts of those cuts. The Committee will walk through a similar process for aviation, ferry, rail, and the bike/ped divisions […]
RALEIGH – Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that several Urban Loop projects scheduled to begin between 2014 and 2019 will begin earlier, due to available cash and cost savings from a favorable construction environment. While no additional money exists to add new Loop projects to the construction schedule, the N.C. Department of Transportation […]
Greensboro Mayor Bill Knight wants more “breathing room” between now and the implementation deadline for the Jordan Lake Rules.
Knight has submitted a proposal to amend the current rules, and garnered support from other big-city mayors at last week’s North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coalition winter meeting in Greensboro.
Burlington leaders expressed some support for the idea, […]
