Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on the first day of testimony in North Carolina’s latest partisan gerrymandering trial. Lindsay Marchello reports on legislation that would block people from…
The City of Asheville is contracting with the FAA for a grant for runway construction at the Asheville Regional Airport. As with a former contract, the language in Section 18…
Chapel Hill’s ban on cell phone use while driving was supposed to take effect in just a few days, but now the town council is delaying it until October 1.…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court’s decision banning Chapel Hill from enforcing its towing and mobile phone ordinances. The appellate judges…
I have been criticized for blogging that children are the biggest driving distractions and that, if safety and distractions are truly what the nanny-staters are concerned about, then children, not…
Chapel Hill Attorney Ralph Karpinos was wrong, based on this ruling from Judge Orlando Hudson. Karpinos had said Chapel Hill’s ban on cell phone use while driving would hold up.…
Earlier this week I was nearly sideswiped by a car whose driver was distracted while driving nearly 70 miles an hour on the Durham Freeway. Was the culprit a phone?…
In the latest issue of Accident Analysis & Prevention, UNC researchers Arthur Goodwin, Natalie O’Brien, and Robert Foss examined the long-term effect of restricting teenage cell phone use while driving.…
Last night the nanny-staters on the Chapel Hill town council failed to secure enough votes to enact the ban on cell phone use while driving, but they’ll take it up…
I’ve blogged many times about my opposition to Chapel Hill’s push to ban cell phone use while driving. If distraction is the issue – and supporters of the ban say…
Sara Burrows reports for Carolina Journal Online about the lawsuits six N.C. cities have filed opposing the state’s recent annexation reform. John Hood’s Daily Journal offers a case against a…
Chapel Hill officials are working toward banning cell phone use while driving on town streets. Supporters of a ban say phones are a dangerous distraction. I continue to say that…