Among the many questions that’s hanging fire amid the House-Senate budget deadlock is the future of North Carolina’s coastal ferry system. The chambers roughly settled on a package of capital aid for the system, the Fiscal Research Division’s Aaron Cornell told members of the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight committee earlier this month. Senators proposed giving […]
An all-out crustacean and fish fight broke out Tuesday in the Senate Agriculture committee, thanks to a move by some of the chamber’s Republicans to ban shrimp trawling anywhere inside a half mile of North Carolina’s Atlantic shoreline. Sen. Bill Rabon, R-Brunswick, and other proponents argue the move will align North Carolina’s trawling regulations with those of […]
Senate Rules chair Bill Rabon, R-Brunswick, and 11 of his GOP caucus colleagues have put forward a plan to reorganize the Division of Motor Vehicles. Rabon’s Senate Bill 63 would set up a new Board of Motor Vehicles to supervise DMV, supplanting existing law that puts the division under the state transportation secretary. The new […]
