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City Councilors Tuesday approved the use of a downtown building for the new Raleigh train station. In other business, the new Technology and Communication Committee has an assignment and the Raleigh Police Department will acquire a new horse.
There aren’t any clear statistics or comprehensive studies to prove domestic violence goes up during the holidays, but advocates and survivors in Raleigh say there’s no doubt that the extra strain of Christmas leads to outbursts of violence.
Workers assemble a Ferris wheel in downtown Raleigh for the First Night celebrations.
Members of a Southeast Raleigh community continues to debate a proposed Historic Overlay District. This is part-two of a series examining historic overlay districts and the issue surrounding this one.
Great music in Raleigh for the last week of the year. Plus, Joe’s picks for New Year’s Eve.
City councilors request that more information be provided to residents before deciding on a historic overlay district in Southeast Raleigh.
The past year saw the unseating of a controversial Republican-led school board, a new student assignment plan and a flat budget for the third year running, but, despite the board changing hands, there won’t be a quick fix to student assignment or the system’s budgetary woes.
A City Commission hopes to continue making Raleigh a place where walking and cycling have become the rule, not the exception.
According to a report issued by the Center for Responsible Lending, Raleigh’s African-American and Latino communities have been hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, as well as communities with the highest percentage of minorities and those with low to moderate incomes.
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.
