by T N | Feb 27, 2022 | Blog
The Raleigh City Council decided at its last meeting on February 15th to return to in-person meetings, beginning in March. At this same meeting, a couple of Raleigh residents spoke before the Council urging them to continue offering residents the option of...
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...
