17th United States Secretary of Transportation
Magdalene Horzempa writes for the Martin Center about an example of the UNC System’s struggle to maintain political neutrality. The law states that colleges should aspire to “institutional neutrality,” where…
Next year. The basics from the Charlotte Observer: A lawsuit alleging U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx performed little to no work in a past job at defunct Charlotte bus maker…
Yes, the UPoR headline will be that Jennifer Roberts was elected mayor, but the big underlying issue was turnout. Or rather the lack of turnout. In 2013, 96,356 people voted…
From McClatchy: Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was paid nearly a half-million dollars by a bus company while mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, even though he performed no work for the…
• Rep. Mark Meadows, R-11th District (at right), is out of the doghouse. For now. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who heads the committee on government reform, restored Meadows to the…
View in your browser. Late last week, the NC House began to release some of the details of its budget in sub-committees. Shortly after lunch on Monday the House released…
John Wynne lays out the case for and against Hillary Clinton naming former Charlotte mayor and current Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx as her running mate. I see the argument…
The first question is who will run on the Democratic side. The issue Democrats face is that they have no obvious candidate. That said, John Wynne of Carolina Strategic Analysis…
• The first poll of the 2016 election season (consider that) from Public Policy Polling finds Republican Gov. Pat McCrory in solid shape, leading likely Attorney General Roy Cooper, a…
Just when you thought the battle for control of Charlotte Douglas International Airport, couldn’t become more bizarre, it does. From the UPoR: Ten members of the 13-member commission were present…
Pretty much as expected. Patrick Cannon won the mayor’s race and Democrats won nine of 11 council seats. Again. Impact of a substantial tax increase passed earlier this year, a…
We need to bring back stocks to put arrogant civil service bureaucrats in when they engage in outrageous nonsense like this. Even when higher-ups were informed of the issue, they…