Document Download the rezoning case and staff report Fun fact: All of the crushed granite used to build the new Triangle Expressway in Western Wake County came from the RDU Quarry in North Raleigh owned by Martin Marietta Materials. The not-so-fun fact, as far as the residents of the neighboring Wyngate subdivision are concerned: Martin […]
Bob Geary
Posted inNews
Colbert’s wet kiss for NCGOP’s ban on rising seas
h/t BlueNC (“North Carolina becoming a national joke”): Sea-level rise of one meter or more? There’s no way to know what that would mean. Because it’s metric. And other Stephen Colbert gems about what our NC Republicans are up to that, unfortunately, are both funny and true. The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political […]
Posted inNews
Travels with Carlie: Melbourne, Australia’s street art
Carlie Huberman, who grew up in Boylan Heights and graduated from American University last month, is now in Australia. She’s on the first leg of a five-month backpacking adventure that will take her to enough different countries that, when she rattled them off, it made me dizzy. Naturally, I thought of John Steinbeck’s Travels With […]
Posted inNews
Saturday: A fair in Raleigh of, by and for 99% of the people
Bicentennial Mall is the space between the Capitol and the General Assembly building, flanked by the state Museum of History and the state Museum of Natural Sciences. In other words, it’s a good place to visit on any given Saturday. Tomorrow, from 11-3, it will be especially good as (at last count) 19 progressive organizations […]
Posted inNews
Edwards verdict: He should be guilty. (Update x 2: But he isn’t.)
[Update 4: From WRAL: Edwards is acquitted of one count; mistrial is declared on the remaining five.] [Update 3: CNN has a succinct report. The jury remains deadlocked on five of the six charges against Edwards, including the conspiracy charge. It reached agreement only on Count 3, which involved Bunny Mellon’s money. The defense moved […]
Posted inNews
WakeUP to Paul Coble & Co: Stop blocking a public vote on the 1/2-cent transit tax for Wake
It’s been three years since the General Assembly passed the bill allowing voters in Wake, Durham and Orange counties to decide whether they want to build a public transit system, i.e., add a 1/2-cent sales tax for transit in their respective counties. Durham voters approved the 1/2-cent tax last year. The vote in the referendum […]
Posted inUncategorized
GOP plan would send public funds to private schools
A year ago, when the Republican-led General Assembly enacted a small tax-credit subsidy for special-needs kids whose parents transfer them from public to private schools, critics warned that it was just a foot in the door. Soon, they said, the GOP would try to divert a lot more public money from traditional K–12 schools to […]
Posted inNews
Sunday at the Capitol, 2 p.m.: Show support for equality, distaste for Amendment One
The bitter taste of Amendment One is still in our mouths as we approach a holiday weekend dedicated to the men and women who died fighting for — well, we say freedom. We say equal rights for all. Some of us, as Jane Lynch narrates in the video below, are still striving to make it […]
Posted inNews
Perdue: I’ll be in charge on fracking, thank you
Gov. Bev Perdue issued an executive order telling DENR and Commerce to study how fracking can be undertaken safely in North Carolina. The two departments are to form a working group and reach out to the General Assembly, which is considering a couple of different Republican bills aimed at allowing fracking. The order is open-ended […]
