Hickory Mayor Attends Metro Mayors Coalition Meeting in Asheville (WHKY-TV)
The N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition met last Thursday and Friday in Asheville to begin building their advocacy agenda for the 2011 General Assembly Session. Among those in attendance was Hickory Mayor Rudy Wright.
The agenda focused on crime, transportation, biotechnology and local revenues. During […]
Durham DA’s plight prompts rapid response (News and Observer)
DURHAM District attorneys’ offices across the state are about to get some relief from the understaffing that has plagued them since last spring.
Five vacant positions in Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline’s office prompted her to drop out of the county’s Crime Cabinet last week. The cabinet brings […]
Transport Playtime Is Over (Carolina Journal)
RALEIGH – To North Carolinians like me who grew up in a state once considered the epitome of rural and small-town life, the opportunities and challenges of urbanization still taking some getting used to.
Having lived in a few months in Los Angeles and a few years in Washington, I’ve experienced […]
Obama Offers a Transit Plan to Create Jobs (The New York Times)
MILWAUKEE — President Obama, looking to stimulate a sluggish economy and create jobs, called Monday for Congress to approve major upgrades to the nation’s roads, rail lines and runways — part of a six-year plan that would cost tens of billions of dollars and […]
DOT leader promises fewer politics, more results (Mooresville Tribune)
A top official of the N.C. Department of Transportation says Gov. Beverly Perdue has successfully taken the “politics out of transportation” in an effort to make the agency more effective.
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College crowd smokes ‘spice’ that imitates pot (News and Observer)
As college students return to the Triangle, some are cracking open lip balm-size jars and plastic bags of a legal herb product that mimics the effects of marijuana.
K2, or Spice, is a lab-made leafy green drug that looks and smells like oregano, with hints of blueberry, […]
Panel slot ‘can’t hurt’ (Womble Committee Appointment on NCBOT) (Winston Salem Journal)
It’s not a magic bullet, but it can’t hurt.
That’s what some transportation insiders are saying in light of Ralph Womble’s recent appointment as chairman of a state highway subcommittee dealing with traffic improvements.
Womble is the area’s representative on the N.C. Board of […]
Conti: Garden Parkway still on table (Charlotte Observer)
The state’s top road-building official said today that the federal government will decide in two or three months whether Gaston County’s Garden Parkway can be built, and that construction on the toll road could begin in a year.
N.C. Transportation Secretary Gene Conti said at the Regional Roads Conference […]
If voters approve, streets would get bulk of Charlotte bond money (Charlotte Observer)
Despite the recession, the city of Charlotte will ask voters to approve $204 million in bonds on Nov. 2, mostly for transportation.
The city said it has already budgeted money to pay for the debt, and that the property tax rate won’t increase to […]
