The NCACC Executive Committee, consisting of President Joe Bryan (Wake County), President Elect Kenneth Edge (Cumberland County), First Vice President Howard Hunter III (Hertford County), Second Vice President Mary Accor (Cleveland County) and Executive Director David F. Thompson, met separately with Speaker of the House Thom Tillis (Mecklenburg County) and Senate President Pro Tem Phil […]
RALEIGH – Census data released this week suggest that Fayetteville will lose political power at the state capital to North Carolina’s faster-growing major metro areas.
Meanwhile, politicians and political observers are examining the data to figure out how the numbers will translate into new or lost power for the Republican and Democratic parties in Raleigh and […]
Among the things that make North Carolina such an interesting place to live are its sometimes-baffling – and sometimes not baffling at all – contradictions.
In a transportation trifecta, state and federal officials pledged Friday to accelerate the widening of Interstate 485, pay for a new airport control tower and help extend Charlotte’s light-rail line to UNC Charlotte.
Gov. Bev Perdue joined U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Sen. Kay Hagan and other officials at the Charlotte Chamber for a roundtable discussion […]
This week the Joint Transportation Appropriations Committee will be looking at the $78 million in public transportation grants. At the Committee’s request NCDOT will offer varying levels of cuts to the grants and the impacts of those cuts. The Committee will walk through a similar process for aviation, ferry, rail, and the bike/ped divisions […]
RALEIGH – Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that several Urban Loop projects scheduled to begin between 2014 and 2019 will begin earlier, due to available cash and cost savings from a favorable construction environment. While no additional money exists to add new Loop projects to the construction schedule, the N.C. Department of Transportation […]
Greensboro Mayor Bill Knight wants more “breathing room” between now and the implementation deadline for the Jordan Lake Rules.
Knight has submitted a proposal to amend the current rules, and garnered support from other big-city mayors at last week’s North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coalition winter meeting in Greensboro.
Burlington leaders expressed some support for the idea, […]
City leaders say they are concerned about rumors that the state, faced with a $2.4 billion budget deficit, might pass the responsibility for taking care of state roadways on to cities.
“If we were asked to look after all the state roads with no funding, it would be a very, very substantial burden on us,” Raleigh […]
DURHAM — Lobbying groups for the state’s cities and counties have joined forces to oppose an N.C. Senate bill that would override laws in Durham and other places that bar digital billboards along major roads.
The opposition includes the N.C. League of Municipalities, the N.C. Association of County Commissioners, the N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition, Preservation North […]
A moratorium on municipal annexations of unincorporated areas in North Carolina has received preliminary approval by the Senate. The Senate agreed Thursday 38-11 in favor of the pause until July 1, 2012. Sen. Andrew Brock, R-Davie, said the time-out will give interested parties the chance to work out annexation law changes. North Carolina is one […]
