It’s easy to celebrate free speech when the speaker says things you like. It’s easy to embrace the procedural rights enjoyed by criminal defendants when you’re sure they are innocent.
No reform of our financing system, no matter how carefully designed and skillfully marketed, can generate enough revenue to fund all desired roads at a cost that won’t provoke intense opposition.
North Carolina policymakers have set firmer priorities within the state’s transportation budget, initiated new user-funded projects, and redirected gas taxes to their proper use of constructing or maintaining roads.
Education reform in North Carolina cannot proceed effectively without a broader consensus about standards and accountability.
In the first half of a pro/con exploration of new toll lanes for Interstate 77, a national expert endorses the plan.
Improving the flow of people and goods through North Carolina’s worst traffic bottlenecks has broad benefits.
Our challenge is not simply to inform policymakers and the public. First we have to convince them to discard the faulty information they already "know."
Time to clear out my notebook again, with comments on video gambling, transportation, university funding, and financial reform.
Tossing a pot of money into the basket and watching immature politicians fight over it may be entertaining, but it’s not a transportation policy worthy of the name.
As much as possible, one ought to pay according to how much one derives benefits from the existence of the highway.
There are reports out of the General Assembly that Gov. Easley is gaining support for his proposal to redirect $700 million of bonding authority attached to the Highway Trust Fund. The legislature is drifting way off course, here.
