Raleigh Music Scene
Music listings Feb. 14-20
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Sound advice on this week in music across Raleigh.
Raleigh Music Scene
Music listings Feb 9-13
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Introducing the brand new Raleigh Public Record music calendar! Blue grass to electronica, everything you need to find something to do…
Environment
Counting trees and planning for the future
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Foresters in Raleigh are on a mission to count every tree in the city.
News
“Sexually dangerous” claim illegal detention in Butner prison
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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.
Oak City Portraits
Thousands make themselves sick for the Children’s Hospital
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More than 7,000 people registered to run in Saturday morning’s annual Krispy Kreme Challenge.
City Council
Planning commission stuck on quarry expansion
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North Raleigh residents will have to wait a little longer to find out whether city leaders will approve a plan to expand a 60-year-old granite quarry near Umstead Park.
City Council
New panhandling rules
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Raleigh city councilors approved a new set of rules for panhandling this week. The new rules will guide where people can ask for money, and allows panhandling only between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
News
“Sexually dangerous” in Butner test law in federal court
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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.
Oak City Portraits
New superintendent sworn in
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Anthony Tata, left, Wake County’s new superintendent, was sworn in Tuesday afternoon.
News
Buyouts at the courthouse, layoffs could be ahead
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Wake County court staff got news Tuesday that the state is offering people within five years of retirement buyout packages. Superior Court Clerk Lorrin Freeman told the Record that she worries that the court could have to start laying off people in the next six months.
