If tolls are imposed along Interstate 95, Cumberland County Commissioners want the people and companies who live and work along the corridor to get a discount. The state Department of Transportation has said its plan to widen and resurface I-95 throughout the state will attract businesses to nearby communities and improve their economies. Commissioner Jimmy […]
Avery and Mitchell are two North Carolina counties similar in many respects. New U.S. Census Bureau estimates show that between 2005 and 2009, for every one person who moved out of Avery County, two people moved in. But in Mitchell County, just to the south, five people moved out for every one who moved in. […]
As our little electric train pulls away from the admissions building, it’s already clear that High Point University looks like no campus any of us has ever seen. Piped-in classical music drifts across freshly planted flower beds as a student guide, steering a golf-cart-style “engine,” tows our group of six parents and teens past statues […]
MOORESVILLE, North Carolina (WCNC) – Thousands of people lined the streets of Mooresville, North Carolina Friday evening to welcome home a 22-year-old Marine who earlier this year lost parts of both of his legs in Afghanistan.
Family and friends surrounded the motorcycle where Corporal Garrett Carnes was, riding behind his father as it pulled to a […]
RALEIGH – New N.C. General Assembly district boundaries approved last year put North Carolina Republicans in the rare position of having the advantage over Democrats to preserve their new majorities in the legislature through the rest of the decade.
But the new district maps and the party that got to draw them for the first time […]
Three energy bills will reach the General Assembly next month
RALEIGH-A state Senate committee on energy policy on Wednesday approved a proposal to legalize fracking in North Carolina in a little more than two years, and during that period establish a new regulations to ensure the environmentally sensitive process of natural gas extraction is done safely.
The […]
Piedmont Crescent coalition to link I-85 metro regions
North Carolina’s most populous areas sit along Interstate 85 like beads on a necklace, but business and civic leaders in that highway-defined arc from Gastonia to Raleigh don’t necessarily view it as a region with common interests and goals.
But consider: That crescent through the N.C. Piedmont holds three […]
“We’re being strangled by the lack of action at the federal level. That’s why mayors are where the action is.”
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed uttered these words during a panel discussion titled “Cities 2012: Are Cities the New Global Building Blocks?” at the New York Ideas forum Tuesday, co-presented by The Atlantic, the Aspen Institute, and […]
A new report from Credit Suisse has been getting a fair bit of buzz in the business press, largely thanks to the graph below. The report focused on how urbanization affects developing economies. As an example of the differences between rural and urban productivity, researchers broke down government data on American GDP by state and […]
The Wilson City Council is repeating its opposition to tolls along Interstate 95, revisiting its 2006 vote against toll booths, taken when the North Carolina Legislature was just considering charging people to drive on I-95. Earlier this year, the state Department of Transportation announced it would spend more than $4 billion widening and improving the […]
