LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe said Wednesday he’s willing to let voters decide whether to raise taxes to help pay for badly needed improvements to the state highway system.
Beebe said he cannot support many of the proposals of a special panel that is recommending measures from fuel tax increases to tapping the state’s general […]
Former state Rep. Bill Daughtridge of Rocky Mount has been named interim chief of staff during the transition period for the House Republicans by incoming Speaker Thom Tillis. Daughtridge, a three-term lawmaker, and was the Republican nominee for state treasurer in 2008 losing to Democrat Janet Cowell.“Bill has already hit the ground running by participating […]
State Sen. Tom Apodaca, who will head the Senate’s powerful Rules Committee when the General Assembly reconvenes in late January, said Republicans likely will consider controversial budget-slashing solutions such as mergers of county and city school systems and cuts in education system administrative positions.
That could have a direct impact on Buncombe and Asheville, which have […]
The legislature’s new leaders prepare for tough work to bridge the budget shortfall.
RALEIGH Republican lawmakers are busy preparing for their historic transfer of power, taking a series of steps aimed at both confronting a projected $3.5 billion budget shortfall as well as mastering the mechanics of running a branch of government that has been in […]
During a tour and discussion Monday afternoon at the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Marine Sciences building, Gov. Bev Perdue stressed that although the university system is still key to the state’s economic growth, the private sector is going to have to fill some of the budget shortfalls.
“We have to have the private sector come […]
Gathered officials call for more regional coordination.
Regional transportation officials gathered Monday to find new ways to deliver projects as budgets shrink and state government turns to decentralized planning.
The basis of the meeting was a five-month study of the Charlotte region’s five transportation planning groups and similar organizations elsewhere. Centralina Council of Governments and the N.C. […]
WASHINGTON — Cities are bracing to lose millions of dollars in funding for transportation and community projects, from subway lines to youth centers, because of a renewed push in Congress to ban lawmaker-directed spending known as “earmarks.”
With the incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives committed to ending the practice and the Senate facing […]
ASHEVILLE — A capacity audience Wednesday urged the North Carolina General Assembly to raise the age at which children can be tried as adults in the state.
Youths who are 16 and 17 years old are currently charged as adults in the state. The law is different than all the states that surround North Carolina. In […]
RALEIGH – The classic spy show Mission: Impossible was exciting, excellent – and misnamed.
At the beginning of each episode, the Jim Phelps character played by Peter Graves would receive a recording that laid out a seemingly impossible mission. After the tape famously self-destructed within five seconds, Phelps and his team would then show that the […]
A new Public Policy Polling survey shows considerable support for having an independent redistricting commission to redraw North Carolina’s political maps next year. A plurality even would support calling a special legislative session to set up such a commission.
However, Republican legislative leaders who had supported setting up an independent redistricting commission to redraw political maps […]
