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City crime stats Aug 9-15

By Staff • Aug 19th, 2010 • Category: News

Starting this week, the Record will begin bringing you the crime statistics released by the Raleigh Police Department each week.



Romancing the Train: A Ride from Raleigh to Charlotte

By Jennifer Wig • Aug 10th, 2010 • Category: News, The Latest, Transit

Record writer Jennifer Wig takes the train to Charlotte.



‘Sharrows’ to make city more bike-friendly

By Tyler Dukes • Aug 5th, 2010 • Category: News, The Latest, Transit

Drivers hitting a street in North Raleigh this week should start seeing a 9-foot-long reminder to share the road. Maintenance crews are scheduled to begin applying “sharrows,” this week on Northclift Drive. They’re just one part of a decades-long plan to make the city more bicycle friendly.



Council acts on two sets of bike lanes, $50 million in bonds

By C. Duncan Pardo • Aug 4th, 2010 • Category: City Council, News, The Latest

Councilors gave final approval for the Hillsborough St. bike lanes and started thinking about another set. They also passed $10 million in bonds for solid waste facilities and got a $1.3 million stimulus grant for a geothermal system.



Raleigh counts its greenhouse gas emissions

By C. Duncan Pardo • Jul 21st, 2010 • Category: City Council, Environment, News

City councilors learned Tuesday just how much greenhouse gas emissions they’re putting into the atmosphere. Three years ago the city council set a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent, and a new emissions inventory sets 2007 as the baseline for making those reductions.



Photos from a day of school board actions

By Karen Tam • Jul 20th, 2010 • Category: News, The Latest

A photo essay from Tuesday’s downtown protest over the Wake County School Board’s plans to end the socio-economic diversity policy and the board meeting later in the day where 16 people were arrested.



Law banning alcohol in sweets hurts one downtown business.

By Jennifer Wig • Jul 13th, 2010 • Category: News, The Latest

A 1939 law bars making chocolates and other sweets with alcohol, ending a big business for a downtown chocolate shop.



Raleigh bus fares lining up with Durham, TTA

By Tyler Dukes • Jul 8th, 2010 • Category: City Council, News, The Latest, Transit

The new fare structure will save the city $100,000, eliminate transfers and allow senior citizens and children to ride free.



Council update: new bonds, club closing and a new historic landmark

By C. Duncan Pardo • Jul 7th, 2010 • Category: City Council, News, The Latest

Councilors voted to approve a settlement closing down a New Bern Avenue nightclub. They also approved $30 million in bonds for Solid Waste Services facilities and gave historic landmark status to the Latta House site.



Hunger strike ends after threats, illness

By C. Duncan Pardo • Jun 29th, 2010 • Category: News

Three women, all of whom freely admit that they came to this country illegally as children, ended a two-week hunger strike yesterday. The trio had hoped to pressure Sen. Kay Hagan into signing onto the DREAM Act, an immigration reform bill. Photo: Hunger strikers Rosario Lopez, Viridiana Martinez and Loida Silva’s father at the ceremony ending the two-week hunger strike. Silva fell ill and had to go to the hospital Sunday, but her father sang a song he had written for his daughter to mark the end of the strike.