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A recent bid by the Wake County Commission to take over school site ownership and construction isn’t new. In fact, the Commission has been trying to change the way schools are built since at least 2002.
A bill before the state legislature to nullify the lease between Raleigh and the state for the Dix property gets the history wrong. The bill implies a land trust requires the property be used for mental health, but such a trust was never established.
If approved by the City Council, a new gym in the Falls Lake watershed could open the door for more development.
Two bills filed in the North Carolina General Assembly Thursday would undo an agreement between the state and the city to turn the Dorothea Dix Property into a destination park.
According to both Triangle Transit and Capital Area Transit, ridership numbers increased in 2012 from 2011.
Ten-year-old plans to restore the 104-year-old St. Agnes Hospital building will finally take shape this year.
The city this week will launch Open Raleigh, a repository for public data, just in time for Sunshine Week.
The city’s Civil Service Commission hears employee grievances, but rarely has a full board.
Joseph Holt Jr. was the first black student to attempt to attend an all-white public high school in Raleigh. After three years of fighting, his family lost that battle, but the full story of why they lost took several more decades to uncover.
A little-known cemetery with some of Oberlin Village’s earliest settlers is still shrouded in mystery.
