(WED 6/20)Wake Commissioners Scuttle Vote on Transit Tax

RALEIGH - Some three dozen people delivered impassioned pleas Monday afternoon to the Wake County Board of Commissioners, urging them to place a half-cent sales tax on the November ballot. Their appeals fell on deaf ears. By a 4-3, party-line vote, in a meeting lasting more than five hours, the Republican-led commission voted not to convene a public hearing about the tax increase - a...

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