An inmate at Wake County jail died Friday after being found unresponsive in his cell two days earlier, sheriff’s officials said. Two employees at the Hammond Road jail have been fired in the wake of the incident, but Sheriff Donnie Harrison says he’s still looking for answers about how the young man died. Eighteen-year-old Jose […]
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Breaking: Federally Subsidized Residents of the Forest Hills Apartment Complex in Garner Get More Time Before Facing Eviction
Ina startling turnaround, residents of Forest Hills apartments in Garner—who faced skyrocketing rents and eviction—will have until June 15 to find new homes, says Wake County Board of Commissioners chairman Sig Hutchinson. LateFriday afternoon, Hutchinson told the INDY that Wake officials have worked with Chapel Hill developer Daniel Eller to allow residents of the complex […]
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Wake County Schools Grapple With the Aftermath of Racial Incidents
Racially charged incidents in Wake County Public Schools carry the potential explosiveness of a bomb, and the system must be better prepared to deal with them, Board of Education members said at their Tuesday work session. As the system moves forward with training and structural changes, staff and administrators should realize that recent developments illustrate […]
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Wake Commissioner: Help Is On the Way for Residents of Subsidized Apartment Complex in Garner Who Will Soon See Their Rents Hiked
Wake County officials have begun efforts to help residents of a Garner subsidized apartment complex who face drastically increased rents and possible eviction. Commissioners first got word of the situation Monday when activist Octavia Rainey led a group of more than two dozen residents of Forest Hills Apartments to voice complaints at a Board of […]
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With a Crackdown Looming, Undocumented Immigrants Fear that Any Interaction with Police Could Lead to Their Deportation
Here’s what fear of deportation can look like in North Carolina: undocumented parents are arranging to have Mexican citizenship papers drawn up for their U.S.-born children. Why? If the parents are suddenly deported, the children can go along, even if it’s “back” to a country where they’ve never lived. Deportations increased under President Obamaleading critics […]
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The Story of North Carolina Is the Story of Immigrants
To set forth the history of North Carolina immigrants is simply to tell the state’s story. For centuries, North Carolina has leaned on the labor and initiative of seas of immigrants, from Scots-Irish to Germans, Jews to Italians, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Greeks, Cambodians, Latinos, and many more. Without them, we would have had no town […]
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Garner Residents in Subsidized Housing Face Increased Rent, Eviction
Veteran east Raleigh activist Octavia Rainey quickly got the word when residents of a Garner apartment complex learned that their subsidized rents would quintuple to market rates by April 1—which meant, in short, that they were facing eviction. On Monday, she headed a delegation of more than two dozen residents of Forest Hills Apartments during […]
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Wake Commissioners to Legislature: Keep Juveniles Out of Adult Court
Referring at times to theirown pasts, members of the Wake County Board of Commissioners noted Monday that teenagers of all backgrounds can make mistakes. But North Carolina teens shouldn’t have to pay for those mistakes for the rest of their lives, commissioners said, as they endorsed the passage of a state law that would try […]
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Two Racially Charged Incidents at Wake Schools Have Administrators Asking What They Mean
Two incidents of racial violence in a week at Leesville Road Middle School and Wake Forest High Schoolboth videotaped and circulated on social mediahave Wake County Public Schools administrators seeking ways to stop them from occurring. “You are noticing, just like we are, that there are two incidents that have occurred,” says spokeswoman Lisa Luten. […]
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Wake Commissioners Ask Legislators Not to Meddle with County Elections
Members of the Wake County Board of Commissioners want their colleagues on the county’s legislative delegation to stick up for them in a redistricting dispute. The all-Democratic board sent the delegation a letter Tuesday, urging the legislators to return to four-year terms for commissioners and to leave district lines where they are until after the […]