It costs money to pull permits and carry out inspections for new building, whether it’s a $150,000 house or a $20 million apartment complex. Proposed changes to what Raleigh charges for these tasks would hike fees for developers by $6 million annually to meet what the city considers its cost of doing the work. With […]
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Despite Protests, Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane Says the City Never Planned to Put a Police Station on the Shaw University Campus
Mayor Nancy McFarlane told a “boisterous” crowd at Tuesday’s city council meeting that Raleigh doesn’t plan to set up a police substation on the Shaw University campus, and their protests resulted from a misunderstanding between the university and the city. The announcement that the move would not take place came after a group of Shaw […]
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Hours Before Trump’s Refugee Ban Was Halted, Thousands Protested in Raleigh’s Halifax Mall
For a few hours on Saturday afternoon, Halifax Mall felt like Robeson County. That is, the thousands who joined the “No Ban, No Wall, No Fear” rally in Raleighexact crowd numbers weren’t available, but more than thirty-five hundred people signed up on a Facebook page dedicated to the eventreflected the prismatic diversity that marks Robeson, […]
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Raleigh City Council Increases Pay for Cops, Firefighters, and Other Underpaid Employees
Faced with police departures and the threat of more, Raleigh city council members agreed Tuesday to raise salaries for sworn officers, uniformed firefighters and other underpaid city employees, to the tune of $8.5 million in pay increases (some as much as 13.25 percent) through July 2018. The vote came after the presentation of a study […]