A court case involving a Clemmons zoning dispute reminds us about the importance of property rights.
All the much-touted growth of 120-people arriving in the region per day is occurring in the surrounding counties.
Republican incumbent Tariq Bokhari (pictured) won the District 6 race, but Democrats kept a firm foothold in Charlotte’s election Tuesday, July 26, as they won the mayoral race and city council at-large seats.
Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker lost Tuesday to challenger Willie Rowe in a runoff for the Democrat nomination for sheriff of North Carolina's capital city. In the runoff to May's primary election Rowe took 75% of the vote to Baker's 25%.
Some financially strapped small and rural local governments across North Carolina are struggling to file on-time audits with the state, and that has prompted State Treasurer Dale Folwell to call on regulators to take a more active role in addressing the issue before serious problems like careless spending or even embezzlement occur.
The N.C. Court of Appeals has denied Raleigh’s request to take up a dispute involving city water and sewer fees. At stake are millions of dollars in fees charged from 2016 to 2018. The state’s second-highest court issued an order without comment Wednesday. The denial of Raleigh’s requested review means the lawsuit can proceed in Superior Court.
A member of the Wilmington City Council highlighted his city government’s inflation challenges during an appearance Thursday on Capitol Hill. Luke Waddell took part in a roundtable discussion led by Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
The regulatory barriers placed on the need to develop natural resources to provide vital economic infrastructure have reached a crisis.
Orange County property owners are urging the N.C. Supreme Court to take up their challenge against a local rezoning. The owners contend their case “involves legal principles of major significance to the jurisprudence of this State.”
The N.C. Supreme Court will not take up a lawsuit that claimed Greenville’s red-light camera program was based on an unconstitutional local law dealing with health. The state’s highest court dismissed the appeal without comment this week.
Greenville might soon join Wilmington and Fayetteville as the only N.C. cities employing civilian traffic crash investigators. But a state House committee has backed off a proposal to let Wilmington’s investigators start writing tickets.
