#ncpol: Texas toll experience shoots holes in #ncga, McCrory admin spin
The day after the election, a Charlotte TV station went down to Texas to check out a toll project run by the same Spanish firm slated to take over the
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#NCGA: Oh, yeah. Here’s where the gas tax money goes.
We’ve posted previously about our frustration over paying an obscenely high gas tax while being told by Raleigh politicians that there is no money to maintain existing or build new
Continue readingI-77 Tholl Road Thom-foolery: *Pay no attention to those leaked state govt documents*
Political elites lusting for the installation of toll roads from Murphy to Manteo are having conniptions over reports that the first battery of tolls could cost commuters as much as $20
Continue readingGov. Pat & the DOT budget: ‘Bev did it, too’ is NOT an excuse
Republicans took over in Raleigh promising to change the culture — No More Business As Usual. Now we have our Republican governor defending a questionable practice by claiming he’s only doing
Continue readingHOT lanes have taxpayers hot under the collar
North Carolina legislators seriously talked up tolls on I-95 in 2011 and 2012, but that idea got shot down by Renee Ellmers, Mike McIntyre, a number of
Continue readingReading the tea leaves on Gov. Pat’s personnel moves
A recent personnel shuffle at NCDOT caught my attention. According to media reports, Deputy DOT secretary for transit Paul Morris was “removed” by newly-appointed DOT secretary Tony
Continue readingTony Tata, school buses, and NC’s educrat cartel
Democrat Gary Pearce is beside himself over the appointment of former Wake County Schools superintendent Tony Tata as state DOT secretary. (Gary and his buddy
Continue readingPaul Newby & The Supremes give NCDOT a reality check
Just in case you needed some evidence that elections MATTER, look no further than The North Carolina Supreme Court. Justice Paul Newby, fresh off of a tough
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Gov. Pat: Bev’s a disaster, but I’m keeping a lot of her people.
Pat McCrory, fresh off his rout of Walter Dalton in the governor’s race, is putting out the word that we shouldn’t expect “major personnel changes right away.” Wait a minute.
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Queen Nancy sticks it to NCDOT (DOT chief to “educate” us)
We here at The Haymaker have to stand up and applaud Her Majesty, The Queen of Pinehurst,(a/k/a Mayor Nancy Fiorillo) for speaking out
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