Driving back to the Stone Age

by Thomas Mills | Sep 22, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Transportation | 14 comments

In the News & Observer this morning State Representative Paul Stam said, “Light rail is sort of a dinosaur of the 20th century or the 19th century.” Well, that sure is the pot calling the kettle black. Stam is certainly a leading member of the GOP Flat Earth...

Worst Week in Raleigh: Tony Tata

by John Wynne | Feb 27, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Transportation | 8 comments

We’re having a Tony Tata beatdown today at PoliticsNC. Apologies for the title, which is kind of a misnomer. As it turns out, the reason Tata, McCrory’s Secretary of Transportation, is getting so much heat is precisely because he wasn’t in Raleigh...

It’s a gas, gas, gas

by Thomas Mills | Feb 12, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Tax Reform, Transportation | 4 comments

Before North Carolina Democrats got unceremoniously run out of power, they left a few important things undone that are now coming back to bite them. The first was redistricting reform. They were either so arrogant that they assumed they would always be drawing the...

The Streetcar to Nowhere

by John Wynne | Feb 9, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, Transportation | 5 comments

Liberals might be overly optimistic when it comes to high speed rail, but devotion to trains looks downright sensible relative to those who argue for the efficacy of streetcars. Voters despise streetcars; taxpayers have been opposed to them in almost every...

McCrory’s a little late on that transportation plan

by Thomas Mills | Sep 24, 2014 | Editor's Blog, NCGov, Transportation | 3 comments

Pat McCrory and company rolled out a $1 billion transportation plan last week. What took him so long? Imagine how different his tenure could have been if he had rolled into Raleigh pledging to update infrastructure in the parts of the state most hurt by free trade...

Fixin’ what ain’t broke

by Thomas Mills | Apr 29, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGov, Transportation | 2 comments

Pat McCrory came to Raleigh to fix what’s broken. Unfortunately, he’s also trying to fix what ain’t. Today’s News & Observer noted North Carolina’s pre-kindergarten program was listed as one of the top programs of its kind in the country. But instead of offering...