$520M puts fast trains on fast track (News and Observer)
North Carolina is expected to receive $520 million today as part of $8 billion in federal economic stimulus funds President Barack Obama will distribute in 31 states to start building a national high-speed rail network.
The president touted high-speed rail in Wednesday night’s State of […]
Foxx: Obama focus is jobs (Charlotte Observer)
After Tuesday’s vote in Massachusetts, the Obama administration appeared to step up its emphasis on getting Americans back to work, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx said this morning.
Foxx met with officials during the U.S. Conference of Mayors conference in Washington.
Voters in Massachusetts said concern over the economy and frustration […]
The Mayors’ Message to Washington: Funnel Aid Through the Cities (Politics Daily)
In a week when attention was paid to politics and partisanship on a national level, mayors meeting with President Obama and cabinet officials were preoccupied with concerns closer to home like unemployment and the economy.
It’s not that results from the Senate race in Massachusetts […]
US Transportation Secretary Urges Swift Passage Of Jobs Plan (Down Jones Newswires)
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called Thursday for “swift passage” of a jobs-creation package in Congress to bring down double-digit unemployment figures.
LaHood said he met in the morning with Sen. Richard Durbin (D., Ill.), the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, to press for the package to […]
Main Street Chases Transportation Money (The Center for Public Integrity)
Last September, city fathers in Dubuque, Iowa, lured three members of the White House cabinet to the banks of the Mississippi River on the same day they welcomed officials from one the world’s biggest corporations, IBM. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson […]
Number of N.C.’s voters up 1.2M (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
RALEIGH – A new analysis of North Carolina voter registrations shows that the decade just passed was one of change for the state’s electorate.
Numbers released yesterday by elections watchdog Democracy North Carolina show that the number of independent voters in the state has increased by 83 percent […]
Panel studying NC govt pensions has first meeting (Associated Press)
RALEIGH, N.C. The chairman of a blue-ribbon commission examining North Carolina’s pension system for public employees says it may not be serving the needs of everyone in the government work force.
North Carolina State University economics professor Robert Clark said at Monday’s first meeting that the Future […]
Wilson resigns from turnpike board (News & Observer)
Lanny Wilson is sworn in to testify at a State Board of Elections hearing in October on possible campaign violations by former Gov. Mike Easley and the state Democratic Party.
Lanny Wilson, a Wilmington developer and lawyer who resigned last week from the State Board of Transportation, notified the […]
Whose Running and Whose Not – North Carolina General Assembly (North Carolina FreeEnterprise Foundation)
America’s 75 Worst Commutes (The Daily Beast)
They are the highways to hell in the country’s most gridlocked cities. The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to determine your ultimate morning nightmares. How did your commute rank?
Bumper-to-bumper traffic is America’s collective nightmare, and like the movie Groundhog Day it repeats on a daily basis.
Congestion consumes billions of […]
