After Republicans took control of the General Assembly in the 2010 elections, hostility to the state’s municipal annexation law came to a boil.
A rewrite of the law last year aimed to give more of a say to property owners in areas that cities wanted to bring within their boundaries. Understood was that many such owners […]
Less than a year afterNorth Carolina’s Republican-led legislature corrected the state’s involuntary annexation rules to uphold the ights of property owners, aWakeCountyjudge has single-handedly returned a freedom-robbing power to local governments.
Judge Shannon Joseph on Tuesday struck down the state’s new way for property owners in unincorporated areas to block forced annexation. Unless the ruling is […]
Earlier this month, North Carolina’s Division of Air Quality and Department of Motor Vehicles recommended exempting newer model cars from the state’s inspection process. Today, legislative auditors are ratifying that finding. From an audit summary released this morning:
“The Program Evaluation Division estimates a three-year exemption would save North Carolina motorists $9.6 million annually. This savings […]
RALEIGH – The next time you hear a North Carolina politician talk about the “need” to use tax dollars or public debt to build a new ballpark, convention center, rail line, or similar luxury, ask them this simple question: how much more do you think we can afford?
If North Carolinians weren’t already saddled with massive […]
A judge on Tuesday struck down a 2011 state law that provided for the undoing of recent annexations around Lexington and other cities.
The ruling potentially strips away a key element of laws that property-rights activists sought for years.
Wake County Superior Court Judge Shannon Joseph issued a written order Tuesday throwing out the petition process authorized […]
RALEIGH-Major portions of the new law designed to restrict municipal annexations in North Carolina were declared unconstitutional Tuesday by a Wake County Superior Court judge, undercutting a major policy plank of the GOP-led legislature.
Judge Shannon Joseph agreed with the arguments of five North Carolina towns, which asserted that the legislature overstepped its authority last year […]
Saffo said the purpose of annexation is to both extend city services to urban areas in the unincorporated parts of the county contiguous to city limits and to recoup costs incurred by the general public using city facilities, such as roads and parks.
Dallas Woodhouse, North Carolina state director for the conservative group Americans for Prosperity, […]
The state could put the brakes on job recruitment in eastern North Carolina if it puts tolls on Interstate 95, business leaders from counties bordering the highway say.
“It would put us at a competitive disadvantage,” said Allen Purser, president of the Roanoke Valley Chamber of Commerce in Halifax County. New and existing companies would […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge on Tuesday struck down the state’s new method for giving citizens of unincorporated areas the opportunity to block forced annexations by towns and cities. The ruling potentially strips away a key element of laws that property rights activists sought for years.
Judge Shannon Joseph issued a written order […]
RALEIGH – A plan to change the way North Carolina calculates its fuel tax could tamp down price fluctuations, says a legislator behind the effort.
State Rep. Mitch Gillespie, a Republican from Marion, says he and others want to do away with a variable component of the formula used to calculate the fuel tax. Under that […]
