Instead of exploring ways to use state STIP funding to create regional transit opportunities, Republicans in Raleigh rather try to force tolls lanes onto communities.
Charlotte, and subsequently the CRPTO, listened to their constituents and now may be punished for it.
New: The municipalities that voted to rescind the I-77 toll lane project could have to pay NCDOT back for sunk costs.
I obtained a draft amendment circulating the legislature. It would be an amendment to HB1094. Lawmakers are expected to gut and amend it with a DOT omnibus. However there are some folks involved with this process who believe this is not the appropriate vehicle for this language and would rather see a version of this in the budget.
It would require municipalities to pay back NCDOT for the sunk costs proportionate to their weighted vote. So Charlotte would bare most of the more than $60 million for I-77. NCDOT would also withhold Powell Bill funds until paid in full.
More to come.
Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on.
This move strips nearly 2 million Tennesseans from the representation they deserve in TN state leg.
You were overcharged on your power bill. A court said you deserve a refund. Republicans in NC changed the law so you won’t get one. #ncpol Read @TerryBrownCLT op-ed here: https://t.co/MmuKHnMUmM
Governor Josh Stein is appointing former Meck County Health Director Dr. Marcus Plescia to the North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council.
Governor Stein also appointed east Charlotte Rep. Jordan Lopez to the North Carolina Interagency Council for Coordinating Homeless Programs
Mecklenburg County is issuing a measles exposure notice:
Vista Auction (2500 Sardis Rd.) on January 29 and 30 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Lidl (9318 Monroe Rd.) on January 30 from 2-4:30 p.m.
To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets.
They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.
Days like this remind me why it’s so important to get out into the community and actually build community.
This app is an echo chamber and so many that dwell on here are either unhappy, unwell, or both.
An utter failure of governance by Republicans in Raleigh.
Plenty of effort to redraw (an even more) rigged congressional map, but no concern for one of our core responsibilities to this state, or to ensure adequate funding is available for Medicaid.
As of today, North Carolina is the only state in the country without a budget.
The General Assembly needs to come back to Raleigh next week to fully fund Medicaid and then pass a budget that meaningfully invests in our people and our state.
Terrible language. Even more reason why we need more Republicans in power. You should apologize. Can't have Marxist Democrats in power, they'll allow murderers out all over the people of NC like what happened with Iryna Zarutka. @SenatorBerger@POTUS @matt_vanswol @RepDavidRouzer@StephenM@IngrahamAngle@bennyjohnson
Can’t pass a budget, but can pass a rigged map.
Can’t pay their teachers, but can do Trump’s bidding.
Can’t fund law enforcement, but can bend the knee to their Dear Leader.
What a disgusting display of party over country.
These fucking losers have complete control over the federal government and the state legislature and are still complaining that they don’t have enough power.
This map doesn’t “respect the will” of anybody except the felon in the White House.
Across the country, Democrat-run states have spent decades ensuring that Republicans would be drawn out of Congress. North Carolina Republicans will not sit quietly and watch Democrats continue to ignore the will of the people in an attempt to force their liberal agenda on our citizens. This new map respects the will of the North Carolina voters who sent President Trump to the White House three times. #ncpol