It’s looking like legislators are going to walk back a 2019 decision that allowed the Brunswick County Commissioners to farm out most all land-use decisions to appointed boards. Pending bills in both chambers say that going forward, the final decision in all development approvals will rest with the commissioners. House Bill 1222 has already passed […]
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 […]
