Faucette wins council seat by eight votes (The Times News.com)
Ronnie Wall will serve a second term as Burlington’s mayor and former mayor Stephen Ross will be back on Burlington’s council.
But the election-day surprise was that perennial candidate Celo Faucette squeaked into elected office Tuesday.
Faucette edged out Larry Sharpe — a 20-year county commissioner and one […]
Greensboro to get new mayor Dec. 1 (The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)
Bill Knight, who ran on a fiscal conservatism message, won the city’s close mayoral race Tuesday, edging out incumbent Yvonne Johnson 51.3 percent to 48.6 percent.
Out of 34,347 votes cast, Knight’s margin was 935.
On the Greensboro City Council, at-large seats went […]
Watauga County Court House: 8:10 p.m. – Mayor Loretta Clawson retains her title for another consecutive term after the Watauga County Board of Elections announced voting results.
Clawson won with a total of 787 votes, Tim Wilson landed second place with 474 votes and John Mena followed with 237 votes.
Check tomorrow’s edition of The […]
Bellamy, Manheimer, Smith, Bothwell appear to be in (Asheville Citizen Times)
STAFF REPORTS Challengers Esther Manheimer, Gordon Smith and Cecil Bothwell are virtually assured of election in the race for three open seats on City Council with all but one of the city’s 37 precincts reporting.
Both Councilman Carl Mumpower and Councilwoman Robin Cape are in line […]
18 CONTRACTS TOTALING MORE THAN $56.6 MILLION AWARDED FOR HIGHWAY PROJECTS ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA: Includes 11 funded through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Governor’s Press Release)
RALEIGH — Gov. Bev Perdue announced today that 18 contracts totaling $56.6 million have been awarded for highway and bridge projects across North Carolina, including 11 projects funded through the […]
Streetcars on the ballot amid trolley revival (Associated Press)
BOISE, Idaho — A streetcar revival in American cities isn’t just kicking up sparks from the tracks, they’re flying down at city hall, too.
In Idaho’s capital, a proposed $60 million trolley plan has become a major theme of local elections Nov. 3. Likewise, mayoral races in Charlotte, […]
NORTH CAROLINA NAMED NATION’S ‘TOP BUSINESS CLIMATE’ FOR 5th CONSECUTIVE YEAR (Governor Press Release)
RALEIGH – Gov. Bev Perdue announced today that North Carolina remains the state with the “Top Business Climate,” according to Site Selection magazine. It is the fifth year in a row and the eighth time in nine years that the state has […]
This is a presentation Susan Howard from the Governor’s D.C. office gave at the recent NCSITE Board meeting. Click here for the presentation.
Metropolitans in the Middle – Federalism, Regions and States (The Brookings Institution)
Some great back and forth about U.S. federalism has been banging around the web lately, with Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein wondering whether America actually needs states and Josh Patashnik over at The Plank defending them.
Yglesias is particularly good here when he notices that […]
Transportation Intergovernmental Advisory Group – Moving Forward
Meeting Facilitation Approach – NCDOT is recommending that the Department take on the responsibility of facilitating future Steering Committee meetings in lieu of hiring a consulting firm to provide these services.
10/22 Steering Committee Meeting Agenda:
I. Reconnect with Steering Committee Members (What’s working well, not so well, next steps, and […]
