In Thursday's newspaper
Road work faces delay due to lack of savings
Road construction in the Triad and across the state could be delayed because the state has spent its savings for road projects faster than anticipated over the past two years.
The N.C. Department of Transportation is trying to cut the amount of money it will spend on road contracts this year by at least $560 million.
Read the article
PART agrees to transport Dell workers
Dell employees could use public transportation to get to the new computer plant in Winston-Salem, but just how they will get there has yet to be determined.
Read the article
Comments (1)
To report abuse of the comment feature on this site, please use the feedback form at the bottom of any page.
Having grown up in New York City, I am intimately familiar with governments becoming sufficiently large and burdened with welfare state spending to the extent that other worthy initiatives are crowded out. It becomes more difficult to perform the tasks that are arguably the central functions of government. North Carolina, while it may never get as bad as NYC did, is headed down this path.
Inidentally, on a matter which is somewhat related, it has been a periodic complaint of AAA that the federal government does not release a sufficient portion of the highway trust fund for use by the states. It would be interesting to know to what degree this may be a problem for our state.
Posted on February 10, 2005 10:44 AM