State reinstates pay for emergency work (Winston-Salem Journal)
Judges who fill in for their colleagues will now be getting paid again for their services.
The director of Administrative Office of the Courts suspended pay for emergency judges in April after the General Assembly cut the department’s budget by 6 percent.
Retired judges had agreed to volunteer after payment […]
Transportation Policies Have Miles to Go and Not Much Time (Washington Post)
October 3, 2009 “Darn — delayed by yet another stimulus-funded road construction project.” This thought, which recurs while I’m driving, provokes another: “Will all these widely dispersed road construction projects add up to something that improves mobility in the decades to come?”
If transportation planning […]
N.C. applies for $5B from feds for high-speed rail (AP)
North Carolina has applied to the federal government for more than $5 billion to improve rail service between Charlotte and Washington.
Gov. Beverly Perdue announced Friday state officials had applied for the second round of federal stimulus funds for four high-speed rail projects. The recovery law had […]
$8.7 BILLION HIGHWAY RESCISSION TAKES EFFECT (TRANSPORTATION WEEKLY)
Last night, after the Senate failed to pass legislation to the contrary (which would have died in the House in any case), the long-scheduled $8.708 billion rescission of highway contract authority balances held by states took effect pursuant to section 10212 of the 2005 SAFETEA-LU law.
17 Contracts Totaling More Than $65 Million Awarded for Highway, Ferry Projects Across North Carolina
RALEIGH — Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that 17 contracts totaling $65.2 million have been awarded for highway, bridge and ferry projects across North Carolina, including eight projects funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The N.C. Department of Transportation […]
What Comes Next for Our Metro Nation: The New Forces Driving Regionalism
Cities, Community Development, Economic Development, Regions and States
Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program
Thank you for the invitation to speak today. It is a pleasure to return to Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota.
And I think now is a particularly good […]
GOP Blocks Plan to Use Bailout Fund to Preserve $8.7B in Transport Money (DC.Streetsblog.org)
A bipartisan bid to extend existing federal transportation law for three months — and tap the TARP bailout fund to avert the cancellation of $8.7 billion in contract authority — was rejected on the Senate floor last night after GOP senators insisted […]
Transportation: Bid to extend highway funding hits procedural wall (The National Journal)
Despite backing from both parties, a Senate deal to extend surface
transportation law for three months and restore $8.7 billion in spending
authority collapsed Wednesday night when several Republicans objected to
the source of money to pay for the fix.
The breakdown came just hours before the existing […]
Senate clears stop-gap spending measure for Obama’s signature (The Hill)
The Senate passed a stop-gap spending measure, allowing government to continuing operating beyond Wednesday, the last day of the fiscal year.
The continuing resolution, cleared largely along party lines by the Senate on a 62-38 vote, extends funding to government agencies at the levels in the 2009 […]
Shortchanged again, WNC demands highway dollars back
Western North Carolina has steadily lost out on tens of millions in federal highway dollars over the past decade, despite the money being specifically earmarked for the region.
Mountain leaders sent a message to both Raleigh and Washington this week to restore a special pot of money for highway projects […]
