Within the space of a few minutes Thursday, Raleigh ten-year-old Ezequiel Chicas became a bright light in immigration-rights circles in North Carolina. Giving a speech near the General Assembly and seeking a safe haven from deportation for his father, he found what seemed to be a way out of his family’s dilemma. The Reverend William […]
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Raleigh Mayor Backs Down from Plan for Top-Down Citizen Engagement
Droves of supporters of Raleigh’s citizen advisory committees descended upon Tuesday’s city council session to speak out in opposition to a new community engagement board created by the council May 2 on the recommendation of a task force that contained few CAC voices. Some thirty people, many of them CAC chairs or members, signed up […]
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Wake Officials Wait for State Budget, Try to Sort Out Their Own
It’s a balancing act that doesn’t get any easier from year to year: county school board members have to wait for local and state budgets to wrap up before they know how to complete their own. Wake County Board of Education members meeting Tuesday heard schools financial chief Mark Winters go through a litany of […]
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A Bill to Regulate the Practice of Hunting Deer with Dogs Stalls, But the Contentious Debate Continues
Controversy over the generations-old practice of hunting deer with dogs will roil on in North Carolina, even though a bill designed to regulate it has been stalled in a House committee since April. More than eighteen thousand deer were taken across the state in the 2016–17 season by hunters using hounds. That’s less than 10 […]
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The SBI’s Investigation into the Wake Register of Deeds Office Goes Back Farther Than We Thought
State Bureau of Investigation detectives are going back ten years, examining thousands of documents, in their probe of potential financial crimes in the Wake County Register of Deeds office, SBI officials and the county district attorney told the INDY Monday. This timeframe dramatically widens the scope of the investigation, which came to light when District […]
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SBI Probe of Wake Register of Deeds Office Going Back a Decade, Officials Say
State Bureau of Investigation detectives are going back ten years, examining many thousands of documents, in their probe of potential financial crimes in the Wake County Register of Deeds office, SBI officials and the county district attorney said Monday. This timeframe dramatically widens the scope of the investigation, which came to public attention when District […]
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Nancy McFarlane Signs On to National Climate Mayors Agreement
Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane said Monday that she has signed on to a national Climate Mayors agreement opposing the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate accords. McFarlance had already joined U.S. mayors in opposition through her membership in the U.S. Conference of Mayors, her office said. “Mayor McFarlane is signed on to the Mayors […]
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Erstwhile Raleigh Landmark Finch’s to Reopen in Durham in July
The best place to eat breakfast in Raleigh (if you ask me, anyway) will reopen in this summer—in Durham. Owner Peggy Jin, who ran the landmark former drive-in that was razed to make way for the new Peace Street overpass on Capital Boulevard, told me Wednesday that the new Finch’s will open at 3211 Chapel […]
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Public Hearings on Wake County’s Budget Begin This Week
Wake County citizens will have the opportunity to offer their opinions on the county’s proposed $1.24 billion budget at two public meetings on June 5. In past years, some public hearings have been robustly attended, while others have drawn only a handful of people. This year, the schools budget is a particular matter of contention, […]
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Three Years After the Project Was Funded, the Renovation of Moore Square Is Finally About to Begin
“I am glad to see,” said the chairman of the street committee to a reporter yesterday, “that some people appreciate the improvements made on Moore square. It is the intention of the committee to have the walks graded and put in first-class order. The question of a pavilion in the centre of the square has […]
