Senate Bill 434 has a pretty inspiring title: “An Act to Amend Certain Environmental and Natural Resources Laws.” But the significance of the legislation is far greater than the…
The North Carolina House of Representatives has released its budget and, as I expected, there are few policy changes that affect local government operations. But there is, on page 300,…
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 2007, the North Carolina General Assembly approved a local option sales tax for counties. Essentially, it allowed counties to impose an additional quarter-cent sales tax if it was approved…
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…
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…