Candidates file for City Council & School Board Seats
The filing period for local and county political offices began this Monday.
City Council Approves Solar Plant
Today the city council voted to move forward with negotiating a lease agreement to build the Carolina’s largest solar array in Raleigh.
The Lafayette: Empire’s Dream Dissolves
Empire Properties and the Raleigh City Council canceled their partnership to build a downtown boutique hotel at the council meeting yesterday.
Raleigh’s $20,000,000 Budget Shortfall
On Monday City Manager Russell Allen cooly delivered a preview of Raleigh’s 2009-2010 budget. North Carolina’s law requires that Allen present a balanced budget in May and Monday’s meeting served as a preview for what will surely be significant contraction across the board for the city.
Arts Commission to Review Public Art Funding
Designated funding for public art on the brink of approval.
Economy Proves Too Unusual for Reynolds Tower
Last month NewRaleigh reported that the Reynolds Tower project on Hillsborough Street was moving forward despite the economic downturn. Today, however, City Council voted not to extend the Reynolds Company’s deadline for closing on the property.
Mayor Meeker Delivers State of the City Address
Mayor outlines top priorities for Raleigh’s future during State of the City address at RCC.
Raleigh 2030: Brown vs. Board of Education for Bikes?
The small army of city and county officials who are in charge of drafting the Raleigh 2030 Comprehensive Plan have been dealing with a mountain of issues and information. The Bike Facilities Map looks like the work of a strung-out spider with a box of rainbow sharpies. There are bike lanes planned for thoroughfares throughout town, but close to the center Raleigh will not be following the example of Berlin or Amsterdam, with their dedicated bike lane systems. Raleigh is going a more American route, believing separate-but-equal to be false (and difficult to fund).
Downtown Parking Spaces to Become Metered
City Council voted on Wednesday to convert to metered parking on many downtown streets.
Put up a Parking Lot
With an all-too familiar lack of imagination, aesthetics, history, safety and disregard for it’s own procedures City Council, in a seven to one vote (Thomas Crowder being the only renegade), sent a message about its fealty to the internal combustion engine and how easily cowed it apparently can be by a gaggle of self-indulgent youngsters staging a sit-in on the front lawn – sitting in Daddy’s cars. [Continued below the fold.]
The Underpaid Raleigh Police Force and The City of Oz
Back in the old pre-crash days, my relationship with the man was never what you’d call adversarial, more professional in a perverse sort of way, merely a component of the operational conditions which occasionally didn’t go my way. “My job is to have fun,” I told one arresting officer as he cuffed me. “Your job is to try and catch me. You caught me.” He made this sort of muffled, choking sound. “But you’re gonna have to catch me every time!” Then he laughed. I had a good run with the not being caught part. That was the sum of my relationship with law enforcement—nothing personal, just business. The policeman’s lot is not a happy one, in part courtesy of jerks like me. Petrblt on New Raleigh.
Sold: Raleigh City Council
The City Council’s reflexive, automatic, predictable approval of the Stanhope and Cameron Village towers should be illustrative enough of the meaninglessness of Raleigh’s Comprehensive Plan as to remove it from the serious list. Despite all the grand talk, it is a matter of history that a great majority of our elected officials seem possessed of the vision of a Chihuahua, the backbone of a frankfurter and the ethics of a five dollar road whore. I’m not much of a bettin’ man, but I saw this one coming so far off that there was no sense in keeping up with the news, automatic. I’m not to the level of insouciance of Joe. That’s next. Petrblt on New Raleigh
Clarence E. Lightner Public Safety Center Pre-Design
Click Image for Slideshow The Clarence E. Lightner Public Safety Center will combine the City Police and Fire Departments, Emergency Communications and Operations, Traffic Control, Information Technology and Data, Sheriff Dispatch, Building Maintenance and Credit Union Offices all into one building. Details…
City Council Election Focus: Mary Ann Baldwin
On October 9th, Raleigh residents will have an opportunity to weigh in on the two at-large City Council seats. There are currently six candidates in the race. Each believes they will best represent the needs of the fast-growing capital city. In the first of this series, I sat down with candidate Mary Ann Baldwin.
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