NORTH CAROLINA NAMED NATION’S ‘TOP BUSINESS CLIMATE’ FOR 5th CONSECUTIVE YEAR (Governor Press Release)
RALEIGH – Gov. Bev Perdue announced today that North Carolina remains the state with the “Top Business Climate,” according to Site Selection magazine. It is the fifth year in a row and the eighth time in nine years that the state has […]
Metropolitans in the Middle – Federalism, Regions and States (The Brookings Institution)
Some great back and forth about U.S. federalism has been banging around the web lately, with Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein wondering whether America actually needs states and Josh Patashnik over at The Plank defending them.
Yglesias is particularly good here when he notices that […]
Six-Month Highway Bill Extension Now Likely in Senate (CQ Today Midday Update)
The Senate is scrapping plans for an 18-month extension of surface transportation law and is now working instead on a six-month extension, a Democratic aide and industry officials confirmed Friday.
Barbara Boxer , D-Calif., and James M. Inhofe , R-Okla., — the chairwoman and […]
DOT stimulus funds going further than expected (WRAL.com)
The North Carolina Department of Transportation is anticipating another $100 million in federal stimulus funding for highway and bridge projects after project bids have come in less than anticipated.
“The general overall savings is around an average of 20 percent, so far, on projects,” Victor Barbour, the DOT’s administrator […]
Project Ricochet aims to deflect gangs
RALEIGH– Ambitious. That was the sentiment among an influential group of community leaders and activists who gathered in downtown Raleigh this week to discuss a new way to save area youth from the lure of gangs and crime.
Some present noted that similar efforts in recent years began with unbridled optimism […]
State forced to free 20 violent criminals (News and Observer)
Twenty murderers, rapists and robbers sentenced to life in North Carolina prisons in the 1970s will be released at the end of October as a result of recent court rulings.
Most of the inmates are in their 50s and 60s, but many of them were convicted years […]
Gov. Perdue Appalled at Ruling that Cuts Short Life Sentences (Governor’s Press Release)
Governor concerned about immediate release of 20 violent offenders, dozens more upcoming
RALEIGH – Gov. Bev Perdue this week asked her attorneys and the N.C. Department of Justice to review all options available to the state to reverse and delay the N.C. Supreme Court […]
U.S. transportation secretary says Oberstar bill must wait (NPR)
by Madeleine Baran, Minnesota Public Radio
October 15, 2009
St. Paul, Minn. — U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood voiced the White House’s opposition Thursday to the speedy passage of Rep. James Oberstar’s $500 billion six-year federal transportation bill.
In an interview with All Things Considered, LaHood said the White […]
Not all Perdue’s BOT picks big givers (News and Observer)
Submitted by bniolet on October 16, 2009 – 8:49am.
Campaign finance records reveal varied political pedigrees for Gov. Beverly Perdue’s newest picks for the state Board of Transportation.
Perdue is reappointing one board member who was a major contributor in her run for governor, Bruce Siceloff and David […]
Dallas considers plans for downtown streetcar line (The Dallas Morning News)
By RUDOLPH BUSH
Dallas could have a downtown streetcar system up and running within five years if an ambitious plan being hashed out at City Hall becomes reality.
City Hall still hopes to build the line with the help of federal and state funds. But many City […]
