The Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce will hold a special business briefing on the I-77 toll plan Tuesday Aug. 18 from 6:30 to 8 pm at The Galway Hooker Irish Pub in Kenton […]
Aug. 7. The Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce will hold business briefings on I-77 tolls on two consecutive Tuesdays, Aug. 11 and Aug. 18, from 6:30 pm to 8 pm […]
A fundraiser for WidenI77 on Sunday, July 26 at Lake Town Tavern on West Catawba. Ten percent of all from noon to midnight will help fund the legal battle against private toll […]
June 29. Lake Norman-area business leaders, ranging from bankers and racing executives to commercial real estate brokers and manufacturers, will travel by bus to the North Carolina State Capitol tomorrow to visibly […]
The WidenI-77.org anti-toll group is holding a cook-out/fundraiser to pay for the lawsuit against NCDOT and Cintra. On Saturday from 6-9 pm, there will be an old-fashioned cook-out at Hubbard Farm, 14720 Brown Mill Road, Huntersville, […]
June 10. By Dave Yochum. While it wasn’t as strong as toll opponents had hoped, the Town of Davidson has officially expressed its concerns with the NCDOT/Cintra plan to widen I-77 […]
June 2. By Dave Vieser. The Cornelius Town Board unanimously passed a strongly worded resolution calling on the NCDOT to terminate its contract with Spanish based Cintra/I-77 Mobility Partners to build […]
May 29. UPDATE. You might call it a sea change—a broad transformation—that is under way at the upper levels of Cornelius power: Kurt Naas and the Widen I-77 lawsuit against […]
May 28. By Dave Yochum. Speaking at the “Emergency Call to Action” for Lake Norman business owners, UNC-Charlotte Professor Emeritus David Hartgen said plans to widen I-77 with tolls will have dire effects […]
ANALYSIS. May 26. An “I-77 Business Transportation Summit” will be held at Michael Waltrip Racing at 4 pm Thursday. The hosts are power brokers in the Lake Norman business, tourism and economic scene: Larry Johns, […]