Wednesday, January 25, 2017

The John Hope Franklin Memorial Highway

McClatchy DC reports that as one of his final acts before leaving the Obama administration, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, formely Charlotte's mayor, "signed proclamations . . . calling on the North Carolina Department of Transportation to name a yet-to-be determined section of interstate in Mecklenburg County the 'Julius Chambers Memorial Highway' and a portion of I-85 in Durham County the 'John Hope Franklin Memorial Highway.'"  More.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article128437219.html#storylink=cpy