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The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) will be voting Feb. 15 on a proposed study which will utilize managed lanes on Interstate 77.
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 12:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As candidate filing closed, many exciting races and storylines began to take shape in federal and statewide races.
Published: Wednesday, December 25th, 2019 @ 7:29 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As the weather warms today, North Carolina's interstates and major highways are returning to normal, but many secondary roads and neighborhood streets are still treacherous
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 @ 11:26 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Bob Rucho, Vickie Sawyer, A.J. Daoud, and William Howell are packed into a primary race where points of view are vaguely similar - but backgrounds span from experienced to outsider
Published: Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 @ 10:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Local and state emergency management crews are conducting damage assessments this morning after suspected tornadoes yesterday took one life and caused damage in Greensboro and Rockingham County
Published: Monday, April 16th, 2018 @ 5:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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State emergency and transportation officials are closely monitoring weather and road conditions, and are ready to respond if needed as North Carolina receives the season's first blast of winter weather, Governor Roy Cooper said Friday
Published: Friday, December 8th, 2017 @ 6:35 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Anderson was introduced to drugs and became addicted. She was trafficked in Charlotte, Washington, D.C., and many other U.S. cities
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2017 @ 8:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory says Roy Cooper, his Democratic successor, is repaying his trial lawyer campaign contributors by hiring them for expensive, politically motivated lawsuits against the GOP-led General Assembly
Published: Tuesday, June 20th, 2017 @ 1:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The special session of the General Assembly that convened today is taking a harsh view of the controversial plan to add high-occupancy tolling lanes to the center corridor of Interstate 77 north of Charlotte
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2016 @ 4:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Located in western Mecklenburg County, House District 92 is the rare legislative swing district in the state's most populous county
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2016 @ 10:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic incumbent Rep. John Ager and Republican challenger Dr. Frank Moretz have deep roots in Western North Carolina, and hold similar views on some matters.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2016 @ 3:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2016 short session of the General Assembly adjourned leaving plenty of items on the table, and some of them could be revived during the 2017 long session
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2016 @ 12:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Managed-lane opponents in Mecklenburg and Iredell counties aren't giving up after hearing the news that the Senate will allow the General Assembly to adjourn without taking up House Bill 954, a measure canceling the Interstate 77 high-occupancy or toll lanes project
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 @ 2:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Opponents of the proposed high-occupancy-or-toll lane project along Interstate 77 sense a bit of momentum after a bill ordering the N.C. Department of Transportation to cancel the project's contract overwhelmingly passed the House
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2016 @ 4:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would put the brakes on the Interstate 77 high-occupancy or toll lanes project in Mecklenburg and Iredell counties
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 3:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Efforts to block the controversial high-occupancy or toll lanes on Interstate 77 in Mecklenburg and Iredell counties gained momentum on Wednesday as a bill to cancel the project cleared two committees
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2016 @ 9:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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CityLab.com, a website on urban policy published by The Atlantic Monthly, reports that the High-Occupancy Tolling project on Interstate 77 north of Charlotte won a dubious honor, making the list of 12 “highway boondoggles” identified by U.S. PIRG, a group founded by Ralph Nader.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2016 @ 4:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even though Gov. Pat McCrory has said the tolling project along the Interstate 77 corridor north of Charlotte will go forward, it faces a challenge to its constitutionality, as well as allegations the contractor did not meet full-disclosure requirements.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2015 @ 4:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A group of Lake Norman-area business leaders traveled by chartered bus to Raleigh on Tuesday to urge state legislators to support a bill that would cancel the state’s contract with a private company to build and operate toll lanes on Interstate 77 between Charlotte and Mooresville.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite widespread vocal opposition from area business leaders and residents, Gov. Pat McCrory and North Carolina Department of Transportation officials maintain it is too late for the state to scrap the controversial 26-mile Interstate 77 tolling project between Charlotte and Mooresville in favor o
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 10:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A 26-mile stretch of Interstate 77 in the Charlotte area soon could become the first highway in the state to use flexible toll pricing. Plans call for the state Department of Transportation to enter into a public-private partnership agreement with Cintra Infraestructuras, a company based in...
Published: Thursday, September 25th, 2014 @ 6:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We’re getting a lot of propaganda about the importance of beating Democrats this year. But HOW do you sell that idea when you have some Republicans who are as into statism as the Democrats are?
Published: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 @ 3:13 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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State Sen. Jeff Tarte, R-Mecklenburg, believes Special Assessment District revenue bonds may be the fairest method of taxation for economic development infrastructure projects even if the financing instrument attracted only one successful applicant in the five years the bonds have been an option...
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 4:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This was supposed to be a great weekend for Thom Tillis. He's presiding over the state House at a historic time for the NCGOP. The state GOP convention was in his neck of the woods.
Published: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 @ 8:55 am
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina legislators seriously talked up tolls on I-95 in 2011 and 2012, but that idea got shot down by Renee Ellmers, Mike McIntyre, a number of legislators with districts along the interstate thoroughfare, and a huge outcry from the citizenry.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 5:57 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Iredell County commissioners unanimously found wanting a proposal to build a $452 million, 25-mile commuter rail line from the center of Charlotte through Huntersville, Cornelius, and Davidson, to a termination point near Mooresville.
Published: Friday, March 23rd, 2012 @ 2:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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