Businesses question fees for Internet cafes (Fayetteville Observer)
A lawyer says Fayetteville’s “oppressive” fees on sweepstakes lounges are designed to close them and might be challenged in court.
“You can’t tax something out of existence,” said Lonnie Player Jr., a Fayetteville lawyer representing owners of the lounges.
The city intends to charge each owner a “privilege license” of […]
Greensboro ABC manager elected to association post (Greensboro News and Record)
Katie Alley, the general manager of Greensboro’s ABC system, has been tapped as president elect of the North Carolina Association of ABC Boards, a group that represents the more than 160 local liquor boards across the state.
Alley faces scrutiny following a report released by […]
Perdue open to regulated video poker (News and Observer)
Gov. Bev Perdue, who signed into law Tuesday a ban on video sweepstakes games, said Wednesday she is open to regulating and legalizing the games.
Perdue made her comments after a signing ceremony for a different bill Wednesday. She signed the sweepstakes ban in private. On Wednesday, she […]
AASHTO Expert Urges “New Strategy” to make America’s Bridges Healthy (AASHTO)
Washington, DC – Built to last 50 years, the bulk of the nation’s 590,000 bridges are 43 years old; and 74,000 bridges (12.4%) are classified as “structurally deficient,” meaning that one or more aspects of a bridge’s structural condition require attention. […]
Rendell calls on lawmakers to act on road maintenance (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
HARRISBURG – Gov. Rendell said Monday “there is no excuse” for lawmakers to put off dealing with how to pay for maintaining Pennsylvania’s roads and bridges, setting the stage for a showdown over the state’s growing transportation funding problem.
Rendell said he wants legislators […]
Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement (Wall Street Journal)
Asphalt Is Replaced By Cheaper Gravel; ‘Back to Stone Age’
SPIRITWOOD, N.D.—A hulking yellow machine inched along Old Highway 10 here recently in a summer scene that seemed as normal as the nearby corn swaying in the breeze. But instead of laying a blanket […]
New Political Realities May Sidetrack the Transportation Reauthorization (Innovation News Briefs)
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Over the past eight months the U.S. Department of Transportation has been conducting a series of “listening sessions” around the country to solicit new ideas from stakeholders and interested citizens for the next multi-year surface transportation bill. The sixth and final session on the national […]
Frustration With Stop-Gap Transpo Funding Shows at DOT Town Hall (D.C. Streetsblog)
Agency Expects Congress to Authorize Third Round of TIGER Grants (D.C. Streetsblog)
U.S. DOT’s top leaders (save Secretary Ray LaHood) fielded questions about the next long-term transportation bill this morning as part of a “town hall” session at agency headquarters. The conference, the sixth and […]
Virginia senator will chair new two-state oversight board for fast trains (News and Observer)
Determined to dodge extra chores that could get in the way of their re-election priorities this year, two North Carolina politicians deftly engineered the election of a Virginia legislator today as the first chairman of the Virginia-North Carolina Interstate High-Speed Rail Compact.
Rep. […]
Editorial: Fight over video sweepstakes may not have had final round (Greensboro News and Record)
Although a statewide ban on video sweepstakes is on a fast track to take effect Dec. 1, the last word has yet to be heard.
It wouldn’t be the first time that gambling foes thought that they’d finally pulled the plug on […]
