Internal polls and surveys conducted by Charlotte Area Transit System show strong majorities have favorable impressions of ...

Voters in four of Mecklenburg County’s six commission ... For example, in the recent 1-cent transportation sales tax discussions, my concern has been with transparency and the long term impact ...

Northern Mecklenburg County’s House District 98 features Republican Melinda Bales and Democrat Beth Helfrich, who are running for a seat currently held by outgoing Rep. John Bradford. Bales hasn ...

The town manager of Matthews this week dismissed “bad data” estimates used while considering whether to support a $25 billion ...

Sales tax increases to support public schools ... Even within the state teachers in Guilford County receive smaller local supplemental pay than teachers in Forsyth, Wake, Mecklenburg and Durham ...

No Mecklenburg County town got more funding from the most recent budget than Mint Hill. The town received more than $18 ...

Smokers would pay more for cigarettes purchased in Chase City under a proposed 15 cent-per-pack sales tax ... to the tax, calling it “regressive.” Jennings said tobacco has an important role in the ...

The first and, to date, only public-private interstate expansion in the state is the $655 million, 26-mile toll lane portion between uptown Charlotte north to Iredell County on I-77 opened in 2019.

Alston sees the sales tax as the only option the county has ... s supplement and 78% lower than the supplement in Mecklenburg County, according to data from the N.C. Department of Public ...

Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and most of the county’s towns are on board with draft legislation to get permission from the legislature for a sales tax referendum to pay for public transit and other ...

Election Day in the United States is now often considered election week as each state follows its own rules and practices for ...

Tammy Brankley Mulchi, R-Mecklenburg ... flowing through the 1% sales tax measure, an initiative voters approved in 2022 to raise money for capital upgrades to county schools.