City & County Government

Since the idea was announced in 2015, I’ve been keeping an eye on a proposed ballpark in downtown High Point.  No one who’s read anything I’ve written…

This week, the Senate budget was released.  There are plenty of other provisions inserted into the budget bill that affects cities and counties, but those are mostly related to public…

In 2012, Rocky Mount started discussing plans for a downtown event center.  The plans were controversial, with supporters adamant that the project would bring much-needed economic revitalization to the area,…

Earlier this week, I got a call from a reporter at The News & Observer asking for comment on a proposed “bicycle superhighway” that would run parallel to I-40…

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written a lot about Major League Soccer (MLS) and the competing bids from Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham for a franchise.  If it feels like…

Tomorrow, Thursday, January 26, the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners will vote on a plan to build a new soccer stadium on the site of Memorial Stadium as part of…

This week, the Raleigh City Council adopted a Universal Living Wage policy.  They’re not the first city in the North Carolina to do so, and they’ll likely not be the…

I remember when Major League Soccer launched in 1996.  It was just a handful of teams, and none of them were close to North Carolina.  If you’d told me then…

In 2012, residents of Rocky Mount started hearing about plans for an event center. The city council was talking about a project that would spur downtown economic development and…

Local governments across North Carolina, like other employers, are wrestling with the question of how to provide quality health care to their employees in a cost-effective manner. This is…