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Members of the Glover family have lived for more than fifty-eight years in a one-story house on Raleigh’s Churchill Road, where they have often enjoyed afternoons filled with bright western sunlight. That was true, according to a court filing, until a developer proceeded with construction on a thirty-two-hundred-square-foot house on the 0.23-acre lot next door. […]
Presented with the kinds of cuts Wake County schools face in the new budget year, school board members said Tuesday it was time to sit down with their counterparts on the county commission to once again present the system’s “acute needs.” In a school board afternoon work session, financial officer Mark Winters presented a pared-down […]
A study released Monday shows major gender-based wage gaps among employees in Wake County, in many cases detailing larger gaps between men’s and women’s salaries than those seen in comparative markets in Boston and Austin, Texas. The Wake County Board of Commissioners received a report from a sixteen-member task force, a panel that resulted from […]
Three new candidates for Raleigh City Council had filed papers with the Wake County Board of Elections by the close of business Friday. They were Robert William Axtell and William Stacy Miller III in the at-large race, in which the top two vote-getters win spots on the council. (Incumbent at-large member Russ Stephenson has filed […]
Members of the Glover family have lived for more than fifty-eight years in the same one-story house on Raleigh’s Churchill Drive, where they have often enjoyed afternoons filled with bright western sunlight. That was true, according to a court filing, until a developer proceeded with construction on a thirty-two-hundred-square-foot house on the 0.23-acre lot next […]
Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane, officially filing to keep her job Thursday, says she’ll campaign on her record of leading a city where most residents are “pretty happy,” according to a survey. That doesn’t mean she’s brushing off the candidacy of banker-attorney Charles Francis, fifty-four, who became the first to file for mayor last week. October […]
The Reverend William J. Barber Jr. will remain barred from the General Assembly while a second-degree trespassing charge is pending, unless a judge authorizes his return, court records show. In a Wednesday hearing at the Wake County Justice Center, District Court Judge Michael J. Dennis upheld parts of a May 30 order that barred civil […]
Raleigh’s citizen advisory councils have been around for decades. And while some people seem to think they’ve outlived their usefulness, the CACsdesigned to advise the city on planning and other areashave enough clout to be an early issue in the October 10 mayoral election. Mayor Nancy McFarlane, expected to file for her fourth term this […]
Since 2008, as Wake County’s Register of Deeds office was losing track of more than $600,000, Durham County performed two hands-on audits of its equivalent office, catching a few problems and moving on. The difference? Durham Countylike Buncombe, Mecklenburg, and other North Carolina countieshas an internal audit department. Auditors working for the semi-autonomous panel check […]
Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane and challenger Charles Francis seem likely to remain the highest profile candidates in October 10 municipal elections, but city council races are starting to take shape as well. Among the council contents, filings submitted by Tuesday found at-large member Russ Stephenson opposed by Shelia Alamin-Khashoggi (formerly Shelia Jones). In District B, […]
