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Superintendent’s Budget Proposal Cuts Jobs, Opens Two New Schools
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A new Wake County Schools budget draft calls for the elimination of about 220 non-teaching jobs and two new schools in Raleigh.
City Council
Councilors talk race road closures
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The days of long road closures down Raleigh’s main drags won’t end anytime soon, but city councilors are talking about how to reduce the impact on residents trying to get around them.
City Council
City Museum short $30k
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The Raleigh City Museum is requesting $15,000 from the City Council to supplement its budget for the next fiscal year. The money would go toward filling a $30,000 budget shortfall caused by a faulty air conditioner and a rental vacancy in the museum’s downtown Briggs Building location.
City Council
Transit, housing bonds could be on the ballot this fall
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The Raleigh City Council is mulling over bonds to fund transportation projects and affordable housing. They also approved changes for the Wake Co. parking deck appearance, got a greenway grant and talked about traffic around Crabtree Valley this week.
News
Moore Sq. redesign moves forward, lacks funding
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Highly acclaimed plans to renovate Moore Square downtown are moving forward, despite a lack of specified funding.
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.
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.
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.
