American intercity passenger rail operator
Introduction North Carolina has more than 80,500 miles of state-owned highways, more than any other state besides Texas. Unlike Texas, which owns one-fourth of the 322,000 miles of roads in…
Vivek Saxena reports for Biz Pac Review about one major publication’s response to President Biden’s likely re-election bid. The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board is out with a scorching…
Rich Lowry of National Review Online offers tongue-in-cheek predictions about future breaking news. Classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president were discovered in a popular Wilmington, Del., ice-cream…
Increased fuel efficiency and more electric vehicles may render the gas tax obsolete. New methods to pay for North Carolina roads must follow the user-pays principle, meaning drivers pay in…
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online highlights the difficulty of forcing people to get COVID vaccines. Lo and behold, it turns out that proposing and announcing a Covid-19 vaccine mandate…
Thirteen Republicans voted with the House Democrats on Friday to pass H.R. 3684, the $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill. Only 11%, $110 billion, is for traditional infrastructure. This is much less…
The infrastructure bill (H.R. 3684), passed by the U.S. Senate with bipartisan support on August 10, expands government power, puts America into more debt and sets the stage for a dangerous $3.5…
The “tantalizing prospect” as the Charlotte Observer puts it: a high-speed rail line from Charlotte to Atlanta that would reduce the trip to just two hours: The Charlotte-to-Atlanta portion of…
Scott Sumner begins a recent discussion of California’s ill-fated high-speed rail project by noting: In many ways, California is the ideal place to build a high-speed rail line. The state has two…
By now you’ve heard that Charlotte has been selected as host for the 2020 Republican National Convention. From the perspective of outside observers, it’s an interesting choice, given that the…
The North Carolina House of Representatives has released its budget and, as I expected, there are few policy changes that affect local government operations. But there is, on page 300,…
On November 8, voters in Wake County will be presented with a ballot full of national, state, and local races. But they will also face a question that could cost…