I just got back from voting. Walked to the Wiley school, saving gas; walked back. When I got there, it was three poll workers, one other voter and me. What a ridiculous waste of money this was, a statewide runoff for the Democratic nomination for labor commissioner — the one and only runoff in Wake […]

Ah, we’re simmering now, but the much-touted shimmer wall — on the backside of the new convention center (the McDowell Street side) — is expected to be finished along with the center itself in time for the scheduled September 5 opening, according to architect Steve Shuster of Clearscapes. It’s funded by Cree, the LED lighting […]

OK, the part about “today” is a slight exaggeration. The city’s press release announcing a pair of two-hour workshops on the “downtown element” of the new comprehensive plan arrived this morning, including the note that RSVP’s are required and due tomorrow. The workshops are next Wednesday and the following Wednesday. As follows:
CITY OF RALEIGH TO […]

Interesting to me that some of the biggest fights in Raleigh since I’ve been paying attention (10 years?) have been about parks. Remember what the city almost did to Moore Square? To say nothing of the pitched battles over Horseshoe Farm Park — finally settled once & for all the other day with the City […]

The Raleigh Planning Department, knee-deep into writing a new comprehensive plan, is open to our biggest, baddest, baldest ideas for fashioning a great 21st century city. So they say. Dust ‘em off, shine ‘em up, and bring them to Tir Na Nog on Monday, April 21. More below, from Kris Larsen —

July of 2008 […]

A plan not to ride them, maybe
But … this just in:
Our city fathers and mothers are making a new plan. For a seamless transportation network. No, really. And there’s a meeting about it next Wednesday, April 2.
Details below.
For more information: Fleming A. El-Amin II, Transportation Planner, Public Works Department, 516-2158
PUBLIC INVITED TO BICYCLE […]

We reported in the Indy this week about the Raleigh business leadership’s pushback against the STAC’s apparent consensus in favor of an ambitious “2020 plan” for regional transit service in the Triangle. (STAC, of course, stands for Special Transit Advisory Commission.) Fearing the Raleigh-Wake oppo would sink their efforts, the STAC’s chairs and co-chairs had […]

As they say about the weather, everybody talks about this drought, but they don’t do anything about it … or to be fair, they do a little, but they/we/I need to do a helluva lot more — because it’s a crisis, and if we run out of water, it’ll be a disaster. So in that […]

It’s our old friend, Lunsford Lane, who says how-dee to the mayor as he returns to action on Below the Beltline.

Speaking of who’s ready to lead on day one, the new & improved City Council took the following actions today at its first ‘08 meeting:
1) Impact fees: Punted to the Budget & Economic Development Committee.
2) Infill/teardowns: Punted to the Comprehensive Plan Committee.
3) Water usage surcharges: Punted to the city manager for more “data” and such.
More […]