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The federal Superfund helps state environmental officials cope with environmental contamination. The program has dealt with everything from sulfuric acid spills to a university laboratory-waste dump.
Raleigh’s efforts at regulatory reform produce three procedural changes to development review for 2012. Among them: If a project fails the review process three times, the city will inform the owners why.
Don’t dump that turkey grease down the drain this year. Sewage overflow isn’t something we think of as a first-world problem, but in Raleigh it’s a million-gallon reality. In the last two years, Raleigh has had 4.6 million gallons of sewer water overflow into the city because of rainwater, debris and grease.
Libya’s government announced Monday it has selected a Tripoli resident and former North Carolina State University doctoral student as the head of the new post-Gaddafi government.
In the 10 years Charles Meeker has served as mayor of Raleigh, its population has grown by 46 percent. “The city is a very different place than it was 10 years ago,” said Meeker, who steps down this year. “We’ve had lots of development in suburban areas; we’ve had two major bond issues to increase greenways and develop downtown. The amount of growth was not anticipated 10 years ago.”
As a result of that surprise growth, Meeker said, Raleigh residents have gained more housing, employment and entertainment options. On the downside, growth has placed added demands on the city’s infrastructure, particularly on roads carrying swelling volumes of traffic.
The recent leak from NC State’s nuclear reactor isn’t the first time the reactor has made headlines. The reactor has done that several times since 1953, when NC State became the first campus since World War II to have its own nuclear reactor.
This story is the second in a two-part series on 93 men held at the federal prison in Butner after being deemed “sexually dangerous” by states across the country.
The federal Bureau of Prisons claims that 93 men it holds in Butner Federal Corrections Complex 30 miles north of Raleigh are too “sexually dangerous” to release even though their sentences are up. The men are testing their “civil commitments” in the federal courts, claiming abuse of power and indefinite detention. The lawsuits started in the federal court in downtown Raleigh, but now the decisions have been sent up to the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court and the Supreme Court. Part 1 of 2.
Councilors approved a new set of rules for downtown push-cart vendors. They also approved a set of commuter rail recommendations and 75 bike racks downtown, issues a new $100 million bond, and named the Wilmont apartments as Raleigh’s newest historic landmark.
As of Nov. 2, North Carolina State University’s Jenna Wadsworth is not only a political science student, she’s the youngest elected official currently serving in North Carolina and the youngest female office holder in state history.
