Bills would transfer secondary road maintenance to counties or cities

By Ray Gronberg : The Herald-Sun
gronberg@heraldsun.com
Apr 4, 2009

DURHAM — Legislators have introduced three bills in the General Assembly that would force cities or counties to take responsibility for maintaining thousand of miles of road now controlled by the N.C. Department of Transportation.

One of […]

Privilege Tax talk at the General Assembly
(The Insider)
Tax Talk

Business lobbyists urged members of a legislative study committee to try to clean up what they say are haphazard, unfair local business privilege taxes. Andy Ellen, a lobbyist for the N.C. Retail Merchants Association, told members of the Revenue Laws Study Committee that the taxes range from […]

N.C. mayors extend palms

Published: Dec 16, 2008 12:30 AM
Modified: Dec 16, 2008 04:18 AM

DOT also has list for Obama's eyes
David Bracken, Staff Writer

Leaders of North Carolina cities are intensifying their lobbying for shares of the billions in aid that President-elect Barack Obama wants to restart America's economy.

Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker will hold a news conference […]

New roads chief wades into old fight (Charlotte Observer)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2009

North Carolina Transportation Secretary Gene Conti, in Charlotte Wednesday afternoon, offered his thoughts on the much-maligned equity formula that distributes highway dollars.??”There is evidence that it’s helped rural NC develop faster,” said Conti, speaking to the Charlotte Regional Alliance for Transportation. “In […]

WNC gets less stimulus while better-off eastern NC fares well (Asheville Citizen Times)
August 2, 2009
Joel Burgess and Michael McGlone

High hopes surrounded the field in central McDowell County where an overgrown blackberry patch overlooks Interstate 40. County officials wanted federal stimulus money to help build a road and turn the land into an industrial park. Manufacturing […]

Governments fear losing business tax (Richmond County Daily Journal)

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Staff and Wire ReportsMunicipal governments may lose one means of taxing local businesses in this year’s state budget.

The privilege license tax is collected through a fee businesses pay to do business in a municipal government’s jurisdiction.

As the House and Senate haggle over what to do […]

Mayors: We'll spend stimulus wisely

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on January 17, 2009 – 2:21pm.

Nine North Carolina mayors made their case to Barack Obama's top staffers today.

As part of a group of several hundred mayors at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, the mayors heard from the president-elect's chief […]