Budget, Taxation & Economy
NC’s Transportation Budget
View in your browser. Many of us followed the state budget debate throughout the summer. Most of the debate was focused on the General Fund, which is the primary fund…
Ferry
type of ship travelling over short to medium distances between two places transporting people, cars or trains and acting like a replacement for a bridge
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online on the debate over new ferry tolls for coastal North Carolina. John Hood’s Daily Journal dissects the dispute over the new Read to…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Senate and Governor on the Same Page with Budget
View in your browser. The long awaited Senate budget is here, along with all the debate that normally accompanies a budget. This year, the Senate and governor seem to be…
Transportation
NC Ferry Tolls Increase
Find the detailed article at: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/01/12/2602599/board-of-transportation-members.html
Liberty
Life’s Good When The Government Decides You’re The Winner
The Institute for Justice has taken on a Washington state case in which the government refuses to allow competition on a ferry route and has given a monopoly to one…
Transportation
A.G. sides with legislature in its feud with Perdue over ferry tolls
A new opinion from Attorney General Roy Cooper’s office takes the General Assembly’s side in the debate with the Perdue administration over new state ferry tolls. “We believe that an…
Liberty
New Carolina Journal Online features
The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Karen McMahan’s report on North Carolina’s pursuit of a federal high-risk health insurance pool. John Hood’s Daily Journal examines a proposal to increase…
Liberty
Bleary-eyed Senate Budget review
DMV reduces funds for maintenance of the State?s highway infrastructure ($7,709,150) while increasing funds for short line railroads by $2M and maintains funding for the Ferry division with $11,349,869. …
Liberty
Ferry flap leads to ‘deep regrets’
The N&O updates its front-page story.
Liberty
Scandalous Updates
Super sleuth, Don Carrington, gave Lockwood Phillips of WTKF an update on the latest news in the ferryboat scandal and the campaign finance hearings. In the ferryboat scandal, Jerry Gaskill,…
Liberty
Something Fishy on the Coast
This week, Don Carrington provided Carolina Journal readers with perspective and new details on the $834,000 Corolla-to-Currituck ferry project, as CJ published a 3-day series about the failed effort pushed…
Liberty
Basnight and the 1800-Foot Pier
The construction of a Corolla-to Currituck ferry has been a fiasco since the General Assembly appropriated $834,000 for the project in June 2003, at Sen. Marc Basnight’s urging. Don Carrington…