Gov. Perdue Signs Executive Order Creating Logistics Task Force (Press Release)
RALEIGH – Gov. Perdue today signed Executive Order No. 32, establishing the Governor’s Logistics Task Force. The task force will make recommendations to ensure that people and goods are able to move efficiently across North Carolina. The order was signed at a signing […]
NCDOT Financial Update to Joint Legislative Oversight Committee
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Mayor Foy leaving legacy of collaboration (News and Observer)
CHAPEL HILL Meeting with elected officials from neighboring Carrboro and Orange County last week, Mayor Kevin Foy explained why Chapel Hill’s bus system declined to merge with the Triangle Transit Authority in 2003 and why the town’s public library won’t merge with Orange County’s library system now.
“Chapel […]
CHARLOTTE MAYOR-ELECT PREPARES TO TAKE OFFICE (Biz Journal)
A month after Anthony Foxx won election as Charlotte’s new mayor, the Democrat is poised to take office on Monday night.
Foxx stopped by the Charlotte Center City Partners board meeting yesterday afternoon and then took his daughter to The Square to light the Christmas tree outside Bank […]
Obama Focuses on Jobs, Infrastructure, Energy Rebates (Wall Street Journal)
‘Urgent Need’ to Boost Job Growth in Short-Term, President Says
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama proposed small business tax cuts, home retrofits and infrastructure investment as ways to accelerate job growth Tuesday, saying more programs are needed to boost the weak labor market and ensure the recovery […]
No formal opinion issued on I-485 plan (News and Observer)
Attorney General Roy Cooper said his office never issued a formal opinion on whether the Department of Transportation can use a new financing plan to pay for finishing I-485 in Charlotte.
Both Gov. Bev Perdue and transportation officials indicated a few days after the plan was […]
DOT shifts approach on loan for I-485 (News and Observer)
North Carolina won’t be on the hook for any money that a private contractor borrows to finish I-485, a Department of Transportation spokesman said.
That’s a shift from how Transportation Secretary Gene Conti described the plan when it was announced last month in Charlotte. The plan calls […]
Stimulus put 5,510 to work on road projects in N.C. in October, says NCDOT (Triangle Business Journal)
Transportation stimulus payroll dolled out in North Carolina in October rose by 23 percent compared to the previous month, according to data compiled by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
Contractors paid $5.3 million to 5,510 employees who worked […]
Highway money on states’ radar (Stateline.org)
States are hoping that a job-creating initiative to be outlined by President Obama on Tuesday (Dec. 8) will include billions of dollars for infrastructure projects. Meanwhile, recession-worn Michigan may be ineligible for $475 million in federal highway money next year because it can’t find $84 million in matching state funds. […]
Foxx takes handoff from McCrory (Charlotte Observer)
A crowd of hundreds watched as Anthony Foxx was sworn in as Charlotte’s new Mayor Monday night, after which Foxx gave a solemn speech noting the city’s tough economic climate and the need to create jobs.
Foxx mentioned some of the city’s struggles, such as the region’s 12 percent unemployment […]
