Sunshine Blog
Cyclists v. Hillsborough roundabouts
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What are cyclists supposed to do in the new Hillsborough Street roundabouts?
City Council
Council to hire consultant to study public safety needs
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Members of the task force studying the new public safety center proposal met for the first time today. They decided to hire a private firm to study Raleigh’s public safety facilities needs, which could cost up to $150,000, according to one task force member.
News
Russell Lee aka Sho Nuff, 1942-2010
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Russell Lee, more commonly known as Sho Nuff, passed away on March 28. He was a familiar, friendly face for many around Raleigh. Photo courtesy Goodnight, Raleigh.
City Council
Council still cool on Lightner Center
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The Raleigh City Council decided to set up a task force to look at the public safety center proposal. Councilors also gave city staff the go-ahead to apply for stimulus funding for Solid Waste Services’ remote operations facilities. They also sent new pine straw regulations to committee.
News
State, city officials weigh in on why to return that census form
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RPR’s Chrystal Barlett talks with state and local leaders about what the census means for Raleigh.
Sunshine Blog
Sunshine Weekly: counting the military
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Eleven members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation sent a letter to President Barack Obama requesting a change in how the Census counts temporarily deployed service personnel based in North Carolina. Read the full letter to the president.
News
New update to RPR’s stimulus tracking project
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Check out the latest update to RPR’s Stimulus Tracking project on Department of Transportation stimulus spending in the Raleigh/Wake County area.
News
School board ends diversity policy – and has its first real public debate on the issue
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Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting met the promise of chaos set in previous weeks. Diversity supporters made their final stand against the new board majority’s community based assignment policy which eventually passed in a 5-4 vote. Photo: Board member John Tedesco voted to end the diversity policy.
Featured
The faces of homelessness
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Homeless people talk about their experiences with county services. This is the second part in a two-part series on gauging Wake County’s efforts to help people facing homelessness.
City Council
Council gets the bad budget news
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The city budget’s shortfall for the next fiscal year will be somewhere between $6 and 8 million, according to Russ Allen, Raleigh city manager. Allen gave city council the bad news at the first FY11 budget workshop Monday afternoon.
