If legislators cut tens of millions of dollars out of public-safety spending, they’d better do so intelligently.
On the corrections side of the public-safety budget, that means spending what state money will remain after the $2.4 billion budget shortfall is closed on the most dangerous criminals while punishing others more creatively.
The Justice Reinvestment project, a bipartisan, […]
Durham, N.C. — As many as two-thirds of the people who work in Durham County don’t live there, according to local estimates, and some local officials say those commuters are getting a free ride when it comes to county services.
“(Commuters) don’t really contribute to the tax base in that way, so this is way for […]
The Greensboro City Council held a special called meeting Monday afternoon, Feb. 21 at 4 p.m., to discuss the legislative agenda – the bills that Greensboro asks the North Carolina state legislature to pass.
Only four members of the council showed up for the meeting – Mayor Bill Knight, and Councilmembers Zack Matheny, Robbie Perkins and […]
Greensboro Mayor Bill Knight has asked state officials to give cities four more years to clean up streams feeding Jordan Lake, the Triangle’s primary water supply. “Since the rules were put in place, a lot has happened in our economy,” Knight told members of Guilford County’s delegation to the General Assembly on Wednesday. He said […]
A delegation of Gaston and Mecklenburg residents fighting the proposed Garden Parkway toll road traveled to Raleigh on Wednesday to tell state lawmakers the $1 billion project is a waste. Most legislators listened with genuine interest, but group members said Rep. William Current Sr., R-Gaston, was apparently upset with the lobbying. “He was belligerent, insulting […]
U.S. Senator Kay Hagan was in Greensboro Thursday to meet with the North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coalition.
While chatting up the crowd, Mayor Bill Bell of Durham asked what was going on with the possible government shutdown if federal legislators cannot reach an agreement to fund government operations.
Hagan said she has heard people who say, “Bring […]
GREENSBORO — They all want to add jobs.
But first, city and state leaders will have to survive another difficult budget year.
“We are picking up the pieces now in North Carolina,” Gov. Bev Perdue told mayors and city managers Thursday at the winter meeting of the N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition at the Proximity Hotel.
Perdue briefed representatives […]
GREENSBORO — The state’s economy and budget took center stage on day one of the North Carolina Metropolitan Mayor’s Coalition meeting.
There was considerable praise for the proposed budget of featured speaker Gov. Bev Perdue, which would balance the state’s books without seriously impacting the revenues of municipalities.
Perdue, mayors and city managers from the state’s 27 […]
The state would start using cameras to nab speeders around schools and road construction sites under new legislation filed by Rep. Rick Glazier. Glazier, D-Cumberland, wants a pilot program to authorize speed cameras in up to 15 school zones and 15 highway work zones at a time. It would continue for 15 years, with the […]
Gov. Beverly Perdue rolled out a budget plan Thursday that seeks to close a $2.4 billion budget gap by cutting 10,000 employee positions, consolidating agencies and programs and extending a temporary sales tax. Perdue said her $19.9 billion spending plan would make North Carolina more efficient while protecting the jobs of all teachers and teacher […]
