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As the new controlled-choice plan has been rolled out, capacity issues across the county have begun to rear there head. A major study to identify places for new schools begins this summer.
Even as news spread Tuesday of the amendment’s passage, opponents gathered to plan for the future.
In Tuesday’s primary, four of Wake County’s five GOP politicians seeking higher office managed to stay alive or win their seats outright. We take a look at the school board members and county commissioners who looked to move up the political ladder.
A few of the images from Tuesday’s election. Click on an image to view full size.
A roundup of the Congressional and state legislature races. Incumbents came out on top. And, in a hotly contested congressional race, George Holding defeated Paul Coble.
by Kari Smith
5 acorns
“I like the engine roaring to life, a savage
red dogwood shedding its flowers
over the sidewalk, over the fence. I like your hat with its purple feather,
cheap as melody, cheap as a wish.”
If you don’t know the name Joseph Millar, Google it, learn it, remember it. He’s a North Carolina poet (and recently named Guggenheim fellow) reading in your local bookstores, writers’ houses and literary festivals. He’s a voice asking to be heard among the chinks and clanks of America’s working-class landscapes; paying homage to the people, poets, objects and culture that populate his past, that have shaped his experience. He has been called a working-class poet, a poet of the people, a voice of our times.
Raleigh Public Record editors and reporters live blogged all day and into the night for the 2012 Primary Election.
In this section of the fracking report, DENR outlines some of the costs and payments associated with fracking, including what states such as North Carolina tax for the practice.
After a 10-year hiatus, city officials are petitioning the state for a permit to spread treated sewage sludge on city fields near the Neuse River Wastewater Plant.
