RALEIGH — North Carolina’s continuing struggles with unemployment paint a poor picture of the state’s strategy for attracting new jobs — especially the policy of awarding targeted tax breaks to favored companies. That’s the assessment of the John Locke Foundation’s chief budget analyst.
Shhh, don't tell anyone, but the CMS task force report contains many of the same ideas for school construction as a Locke Foundation report on the topic.
Don't look now but the Portland experiment with strict land use controls is having the desired effect of driving up the cost of living and pricing out families. How soon before Charlotte follows?
The speaker has again managed to show his disdain for an open political process by giving access to lottery deliberations to the friends of insiders.
The county's Historic Landmarks Commission has not given up on buying an Uptown property even though it wildly overestimated its value. It is an old, costly habit for the group.
City leaders opt to woo NASCAR officials with a parade route and millions in public money in hopes of landing a Hall of Fame. Good thing all of Charlotte's other problems are solved.
The Charlotte Regional Partnership's new boss could not reverse Pittsburgh's development woes. How will he fare here?
News that money is coming to improve I-485 should not obsucre the fact that Charlotte still has its road needs unmet. Time to get serious about new toll-based solutions.
From tearing down old malls to building new grocery stores to widening sidewalks, local leaders seem to have it all figured out.
This just in: There is no magical source of revenue that does not lead back to the pockets of local taxpayers.
Even if Charlotte spends $132 million on new arts projects the city could wind up with empty spaces and not much art.
