What’s Happening to Citizen Engagement?

For all the talk about how this Mayor and new City Council are going to develop a fantastic, new community engagement initiative, you’d never know they give a hoot about this subject given how they have restricted our ability as citizens to participate on the matters...

Delay April & May Council meetings

  Dear Mayor Baldwin and City Council Members, We are not living in “business as usual” times. On the City website, a notice has been posted to hold a “virtual” City Council meeting on April 7th where there will be “public comment” allowed so we can continue to...

Letter to Raleigh’s City Manager

Dear City Manager Hall: I am writing on behalf of many Raleigh residents.  First of all we want to thank you for your leadership during this time of unprecedented crisis.  We appreciate the very big challenges you and other City staff are facing as you endeavor to run...

Sports Stadia and Affordable Housing

Sports Stadia and Affordable Housing… … both share the feature of a taxpayer subsidy. Subsidies from public revenues are needed when a project is not feasible in a ‘free market,’ i.e. it will not generate income exceeding its costs —...