http://www.indyweek.com/citizen/archives/2011/03/08/go-go-and-maybe-someday-durham-orange-and-wake-on-12-cent-tax-for-transit Comments On: Go, go & maybe someday: Durham, Orange and Wake on 1/2-cent tax for transit by Bob Geary en-us Copyright 2013 Indy Week. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Indy Week readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Indy Week. pweber@indyweek.com (Indy Week Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 22:30:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by ct]]> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:08:41 -0500 Indy Week
But no, Raleigh cannot vote itself a sales tax increase. Under the General Assembly's authorizing legislation, only the county governments can do so, and they need voter approval in a countywide referendum.

Raleigh could pay for better CAT bus service from its own revenues, or even start a little light-rail trolley of its own somewhere, but it would have to do so with its own tax sources plus whatever it could get in grants from the state or the feds (i.e., not much in the current environment).
Posted by Bob Geary, INDY Opinion Columnist]]> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:40:53 -0500 Indy Week Raleigh, for all its merits, will always have the disadvantage of being stuck in Wake County, which, outside of Raleigh, is practically as provincially conservative as Johnston.
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