by T N | Feb 14, 2022 | Blog
Councilor Buffkin says Raleigh’s new district maps were created in public view and with public input. Nothing could be further from the truth. Councilor Buffkin sent out a newsletter making this claim: “the Council’s decision marked a momentous...
by T N | Feb 14, 2022 | Blog
A zoning case to add density in the protected Falls Lake Watershed, an area with little to no access to public transit, threatens the safety of Raleigh’s drinking water. Bob Mulder, a former chair of Raleigh’s Planning Commission, sent the...
by T N | Feb 13, 2022 | Blog
Mayor Baldwin claims moving 55,419 voters out of their current districts is less disruptive than moving 7,760. Mayor Baldwin’s spin to the media: “It was the most balanced that I felt we could do,” Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said of option two, the preferred...
by T N | Feb 10, 2022 | Blog
Jennifer Irving Kochman is a researcher and editor. Her family has lived in Raleigh for 15 years, and she is the parent of one son who attends a public high school in Raleigh, and another who went through the WCPSS as well, and now attends UNC-Chapel Hill. Early in...
by T N | Feb 2, 2022 | Blog
Mayor Baldwin and her City Council majority selected one of three options presented to them for new election district lines without any public discussion of the merits of those three options. They refused to provide the public with any reasoning for their decision....
