North Carolina can add another item to its crowded shelf of accolades: according to a newly updated study, our state’s road system ranks second in the nation in performance and cost-effectiveness. The Reason Foundation has just released the 27th Annual Highway Report. It was brainchild of my longtime friend and colleague, the late UNC-Charlotte professor...
While Charlotte is known as the Queen City, the behavior of its leaders sometimes invites comparison to a different monarch: Hans Christian Anderson’s newly “clothed” Emperor. Earlier this month, the tale was restaged with House Speaker Tim Moore in the role of the plain-spoken youth. Appearing at a Charlotte Business Alliance forum alongside Senate leader...
As North Carolina keeps growing, so will the need for our governments to ensure the adequate provision of an essential service: mobility. As they tackle the problem, policymakers need to keep two facts in mind. First, while the state legislature has enacted several necessary reforms of how we fund highways and streets, the job is...
The regulatory barriers placed on the need to develop natural resources to provide vital economic infrastructure have reached a crisis.
A national expert offers five reasons to rely on fees to guide N.C. Department of Transportation decisions.
If you talk a lot about “urban” issues such as the optimal location of light-rail lines or “rural” issues such as the plight of family farms, most of the population will tune you out.
Roy Cooper knows that winning one of the closest gubernatorial election in American history, by two-tenths of a percentage point, wasn’t exactly a compelling mandate for full-throated progressivism.
State senators fear a new Megaproject Fund could erode a key 2013 transportation reform.
In the second half of a pro/con exploration of new toll lanes for Interstate 77, a Mecklenburg County commissioner explains why he opposes the plan.
A new study that claims $11 of economic impact from every $1 of government spending ignores basic economic principles.
If Charlotteans want something else to grumble about, the city’s ranking in a recent congestion study may do the trick.
