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Toyota, Kempower, and Epsilon Advanced Materials – all companies in clean energy industries – top the year’s $12.9 billion project list
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 @ 12:09 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The $1.09 billion discretionary grant will be used to build the initial leg of a passenger rail line
Published: Monday, February 26th, 2024 @ 10:14 am
By: Governor's Office
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Funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will also identify new routes for passenger rail within NC
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 9:14 am
By: Governor's Office
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Here’s my parting message for the year: “23 skidoo.” Readers “of a certain age,” know this early 20th century slang expression.
Published: Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 @ 5:19 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Ridership Hitting New Records on Piedmont and Carolinian Following Start of New Routes Nearly 66,000 people rode NC By Train in October
Published: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 @ 9:34 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Global rail systems company will invest $220 million in Lexington
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 3:53 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The president of the nation’s largest freight railway union is warning that Congress will likely get involved in order to resolve disagreements between employers and union members and steer clear of a strike.
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2022 @ 12:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Governor Roy Cooper says more people rode the N.C. Department of Transportation’s intercity passenger rail service in September than any previous month in the 32-year history of the NC By Train service.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 9:58 am
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Cooper Announces $100 Million Federal Grant for I-85 Corridor in Cleveland, Gaston CountiesGrants from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed by President Biden to widen lanes on I-85, provide safe pedestrian access and increase highspeed internet and electric vehicle charging infrastructure
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 11:56 am
By: Governor's Office
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Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, August 3, 2021
Published: Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 @ 3:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Let’s applaud Governor Roy Cooper for recognizing that North Carolina’s public infrastructure is inadequate.
Published: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 @ 1:13 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas today announced the release of the funding notice for eight different types of preparedness grants worth nearly $1.87 billion.
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2021 @ 12:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad F. Wolf announced the release of Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Notices of Funding Opportunity for eight DHS preparedness grant programs totaling nearly $1.8 billion.
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2020 @ 6:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory announced that North Carolina has secured a $25 million grant for the Charlotte Gateway Station project, a vital passenger rail connection for our state.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:54 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The cliché is that conservatives are stuck in the past, but the truth is that our ideas provide the best way to move into an increasingly turbulent future.
Published: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 3:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A few days a week, I ride a Triangle Transit 301 bus to and from the palatial Civitas HQ in the Warehouse District of Raleigh. But even as a transit rider, my blood runs cold when I hear government planners are plotting ways to bring throw taxpayers' money at light-rail systems and commuter rail...
Published: Wednesday, February 11th, 2015 @ 1:47 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory and Transportation Secretary Tony Tata are unveiling the Governor's 25-Year Vision for transportation in North Carolina today with a cross-state tour that includes stops in Wilmington, Greenville, Winston-Salem and Asheville to detail the challenges faced by and solutions...
Published: Thursday, September 18th, 2014 @ 10:21 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Several of my recent columns have addressed the statistical basis of political disputes over education funding, the state budget, and declines in North Carolina’s unemployment rate.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 7:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Charlotte tries to figure out how to pay for additional passenger rail service, Raleigh decides whether to join with Durham and Chapel Hill to create passenger rail service, and Triad communities decide whether to decide to create passenger rail service, those who pay close attention to actual...
Published: Thursday, November 14th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some Triangle politicians continue to push for a new taxpayer-funded regional passenger rail system. Adrian Moore, vice president for policy at the Reason Foundation, says passenger rail makes no sense for most American communities, including North Carolina's Triangle region.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2013 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The first two times I lived in Washington, DC - doing internships during the summer of 1987 and the spring semester of 1988 - I ended up taking the Greyhound bus back and forth to North Carolina several times to see friends or pick up some extra cash as a newspaper reporter in Nash County.
Published: Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The next time you hear a North Carolina politician talk about the "need" to use tax dollars or public debt to build a new ballpark, convention center, rail line, or similar luxury, ask them this simple question: how much more do you think we can afford?
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 @ 10:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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