On November 7, people in cities and towns across North Carolina will go to the polls to vote in local government elections. These are municipal, not county, elections, but not…
This week, the bids were all finally submitted for Amazon’s new HQ2. Raleigh shipped a 32-pound box (!) containing its proposal. Charlotte set up a website. Winston-Salem, Greensboro,…
Back in the spring, I wrote about a “bicycle superhighway” idea that was just starting to be kicked around. The concept was a five-mile path along I-40 between Raleigh…
This week, Carolina Beach’s Town Council met to discuss regulations on accessory buildings. According to the Town Council’s own documents, the discussion started because “A few of the Commissioners…
Over the summer, there’s been a lot of media attention focused on the Wake County Register of Deeds office. I blogged about it back in early August, and if…
On Thursday night, Guilford County Board of Commissioners voted 7-2 to hold a public hearing on using tax dollars – for the next 20 years – to build a proposed…
Sometimes, local governments seem to create solutions to problems that may not even really exist in the first place. And usually, when they do, those “solutions” create tremendous burdens on…
This week, the City of Kannapolis approved an incentive package. This sort of thing has become commonplace in recent years, and there’s nothing particularly unique about the Kannapolis deal. …
Over the past year, I’ve spent quite a lot of time writing about Rocky Mount’s ill-conceived event center, so when I received an invitation to a discussion about economic…
This week, the North Carolina General Assembly released its 2017-18 conference committee budget. And there are certainly implications for local governments! I’ve spent this week trying to figure out just…
