photo by Bob GearyA freight train chugs past the West Hargett Street intersection: When the rail corridor is widened, it will slice into the Citrix buildings On Friday, we reported the good news about Raleigh’s Union Station, Phase 1: It’s fully funded at $60 million. In the buildup to that announcement, I heard one other, […]
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Breaking: Tony Tata may be shown the door by school board
Update, 4:24 p.m., Tuesday: The Wake County Board of Education is currently debating a motion to fire Superintendent Tony Tata. The Wake County Board of Education met behind closed doors for a little over three hours this afternoon on a “personnel issue” widely understood to be the status of Superintendent Tony Tata. When the session […]
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The good news in Raleigh: Union Station, Phase 1, is fully funded at $60 million
I see that it was just 15 months ago — last June — when the state DOT made its first public pitch for turning the old Dillon Supply fabrication building, also known as the Viaduct Building, into a new Amtrak station for downtown Raleigh. file photo by Bob GearyThe Viaduct Building inside — it needs […]
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More on the Wake school assignment plan, v. 3: The still-unsettled question of diversity
[Update: And sure enough, while I was writing this, the board majority has reversed course and decided to publish the staff’s list. Hope it works out for them.] The original post — Like most people, I think, who were listening to the discussion at the Wake school board Tuesday night, my first response to the […]
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Wake school assignment plan v. 3: Return of the Jedi (or, Place Takes Base)
In our first installment, a.k.a. the 2009 elections, the Republic came under attack by, er, Republicans, who soon overthrew the old regime of student assignments in Wake County’s public schools. Diversity as a goal was out. Base assignments were out. Choice was in. In the sequel, the 2011 elections, the Republic struck back, ousting the […]
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Residents sue over jacked-up property values
Document Download the Brandy Creek lawsuit It was the ultimate in speculation. Officials from Roanoke Rapids, a town about an hour northeast of Wake Forest near the North Carolina-Virginia line, thought if the town built a theater, a really grand theater, where I-95 intersected little except grass and sky, a tourist attraction would be born. […]
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Case closed: Two years later, remaining Buen Pastor defendants free of deportation threat
It was Easter weekend in 2010 when members of a small Hispanic church, Iglesia Buen Pastor, while returning from a religious exercise in Texas, were pulled over by federal agents in Louisiana for looking suspiciously like they might be immigrants — undocumented immigrants, even. Those with no children were deported immediately. Those with children were […]
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A journey through the 2012 Democratic National Convention
More photos See our PhotoShelter photography archives for all of Sam Trull’s photos from the 2012 DNC. She is steady on her feet, and her eyes are aglow. “I pledge allegiance to the flag,” former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords begins, “of the United States of America.” Shot in the head by a man outside a […]
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This weekend: Kids, paint, wall, Sparkcon! BESTRaleigh!
Raleigh Children Invited to Paint Downtown Raleigh Mural this weekend. ow.ly/dDkJT— BEST Raleigh (@BESTRaleigh) September 11, 2012
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Democrats in Charlotte: From their hearts.
I’m back in Raleigh and collecting my thoughts about the Democratic National Convention for an Indy story next week. My logistics in Charlotte were tricky and didn’t leave time for blogging after Monday morning. blurry photo by Bob GearyMy vantage point Tuesday at the Time Warner Arena. Fortunately, I could watch on the big screen […]
