Wake’s stimulus projects – DOT edition

The Raleigh Public Record is teaming up with ProPublica’s Adopt-a-Stimulus-Project program to track Wake County’s share of the stimulus. This is the first of what will be regular updates on how the city, county and state are using federal stimulus funds in the area.

Raleigh’s new budget, manager keeps his raise

Council passes its new budget Tuesday with $1.8 million in changes. The new budget keeps the transit funding for Raleigh’s elderly and disabled residents, increases taxes for downtown businesses and will fund requests for a handful of nonprofits. It also includes 4 percent merit pay raises for city employees. And City Manager Russell Allen gets to keep his raise.