This is the 33rd and final research newsletter of 2018. What a year it has been! Publishing a hardcore policy newsletter every week would not be possible without a team…
As part of the US-Mexico trade deal that was announced last week, the Trump administration argued for and won a $16 per hour minimum wage for auto and auto…
Liberals like small homes that are close to shopping and attractions, while conservatives prefer to have larger properties and drive longer distances to the store. This is one of the…
Each February, the State Treasurer’s Debt Affordability Advisory Committee preempts the hopefulness of Groundhog Day with the publication of the annual Debt Affordability Study, the committee’s reminder that state…
Governments cannot realistically take enough money from citizens to pay for all the repairs and construction people say we need. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimated an unmet need…
Transportation planning in North Carolina took a wrong turn in 1987 when the General Assembly approved a controversial piece of legislation known as the Map Act. The Map Act…
Back in the spring, I wrote about a “bicycle superhighway” idea that was just starting to be kicked around. The concept was a five-mile path along I-40 between Raleigh…
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,…
