Blight City is looking to revitalize a portion of its downtown. Over the past ten years the area has fallen into disarray and contains many abandoned, dilapidated buildings. Working with a couple of local developers, the city has developed plans … Read more

Blight City is looking to revitalize a portion of its downtown. Over the past ten years the area has fallen into disarray and contains many abandoned, dilapidated buildings. Working with a couple of local developers, the city has developed plans to purchase and demolish one of the buildings and construct a large parking garage in its place. The city also plans to improve several of the existing roads leading into downtown and to pave a few additional side streets.

Blight City is looking to revitalize a portion of its downtown. Over the past ten years the area has fallen into disarray and contains many abandoned, dilapidated buildings. Working with a couple of local developers, the city has developed plans to purchase and demolish one of the buildings and construct a large parking garage in its place. The city also plans to improve several of the existing roads leading into downtown and to pave a few additional side streets.

Having received lots of emails and phone calls after my earlier post on this topic, it seems worthy of a sequel.  Here’s a few of the more interesting questions from across the state this past week. How creative can a … Read more

Having received lots of emails and phone calls after my earlier post on this topic, it seems worthy of a sequel.  Here’s a few of the more interesting questions from across the state this past week.

Having received lots of emails and phone calls after my earlier post on this topic, it seems worthy of a sequel.  Here’s a few of the more interesting questions from across the state this past week.

UPDATE Summer 2024: The legislature further limited the authority for local governments to mandate connections. The specifics are discussed here.  UPDATE October 5, 2015: The legislature enacted S.L. 2015-246, which, effective August 1, 2016, prohibits a city, county, sanitary district, … Read more

Roland Spring has lived in his house for over twenty years in the Town of Waterworks, NC. Over the past year, Roland has noticed town workers doing significant construction work in the town’s easement at the front of his and his neighbor’s properties. He has not paid much attention to the nature of the work, assuming it had something to do with the drainage problems his street frequently experiences.

Roland Spring has lived in his house for over twenty years in the Town of Waterworks, NC. Over the past year, Roland has noticed town workers doing significant construction work in the town’s easement at the front of his and his neighbor’s properties. He has not paid much attention to the nature of the work, assuming it had something to do with the drainage problems his street frequently experiences.

Voting for president is weird. When we go to the polls at the general election in November and think we are voting for one candidate or another, we’re not.  Not a single North Carolinian voted for John McCain or Barak … Read more