New roads chief wades into old fight (Charlotte Observer)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2009
North Carolina Transportation Secretary Gene Conti, in Charlotte Wednesday afternoon, offered his thoughts on the much-maligned equity formula that distributes highway dollars.??”There is evidence that it’s helped rural NC develop faster,” said Conti, speaking to the Charlotte Regional Alliance for Transportation. “In […]
WNC gets less stimulus while better-off eastern NC fares well (Asheville Citizen Times)
August 2, 2009
Joel Burgess and Michael McGlone
High hopes surrounded the field in central McDowell County where an overgrown blackberry patch overlooks Interstate 40. County officials wanted federal stimulus money to help build a road and turn the land into an industrial park. Manufacturing […]
Governments fear losing business tax (Richmond County Daily Journal)
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Staff and Wire ReportsMunicipal governments may lose one means of taxing local businesses in this year’s state budget.
The privilege license tax is collected through a fee businesses pay to do business in a municipal government’s jurisdiction.
As the House and Senate haggle over what to do […]
Mayors: We'll spend stimulus wisely
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on January 17, 2009 – 2:21pm.
Nine North Carolina mayors made their case to Barack Obama's top staffers today.
As part of a group of several hundred mayors at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, the mayors heard from the president-elect's chief […]
