Perdue wants to get state moving (News and Observer)
Gov. Bev Perdue’s topic Tuesday was like the 1987 movie: “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” — or how to move people and goods around more efficiently.
So the governor showed up at a football field-size warehouse near Raleigh-Durham Airport, to sign an executive order creating The Governor’s Logistics Task Force, Rob Christensen reports.
The task force is a 27-member group, headed by Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton that will look at ways to make the highways, airports, sea ports and rail facilities work together more efficiently.
The governor didn’t outline how she planned to do this since there is little extra money in the state coffers for new spending. But both Perdue and Dalton said that despite North Carolina’s reputation for being a business-friendly state, it must continually look for ways to create more jobs and make the state more attractive for industry.
Perdue said most businesses that she recruits want to know about airports and highways.
The announcement was made at the Raleigh headquarters of Longistics, a shipping and warehousing company where Perdue watched Slim Jims being packaged.
Submitted by bniolet on 2009-12-08 16:32
