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Although voter turnout and candidate fundraising numbers for local elections pale in comparison to those for national and state elections, the role that money plays is still a significant one.
Purchased by the City of Raleigh almost 20 years ago, the city expects to begin bidding out phase I of the construction redevelopment process this November, with work slated to begin early next year.
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union staged a “flash mob” protest at the Wal-Mart at Brier Creek Sept. 5. No employees from the store were involved, but the union members performed a step-dance routine and asked Wal-Mart to rehire workers and pay higher wages.
In the race for Raleigh City Council’s District D seat, an endorsement by the Wake County Democratic party for the two running Democrats has led some in the party to question the party’s longstanding policies.
The Raleigh City Council’s Law and Public Safety Committee held a special meeting Wednesday afternoon that stretched on for more than two and a half hours in an effort to quell citizen concerns about recent crackdowns on groups distributing food in Moore Square Park on the weekends.
A series of complaints filed against the Moore Square redesign team have delayed the project by more than a year, and the project will be unable to move forward until the North Carolina Board of Landscape Architecture makes a ruling later this year.
A review of 10 years’ worth of Planning Commission minutes shows that members recuse themselves from about 10 percent of the cases brought before the group, although this number may drop when the Unified Development Ordinance takes effect in September.
Raleigh Police Officer Robert Wagner is developing a movie, “Bragg ‘N East,” named after an intersection in southeast Raleigh that has seen more than 70 arrests in 2013. When he set out to make an inspirational, faith-based film as a way of revitalizing a southeast Raleigh community, he had no idea the kind of stir it would cause – or the impact it would have on his own life.
Election season has officially begun, as candidates in Wake County began filing to run Friday at the Wake County Office Building.
After an audit demonstrated a number of financial inconsistencies and an overall lack of transparency, the city Wednesday announced it will sever ties with the Raleigh Business and Technology Center.
