Raleigh Public Record

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

Record writer Jennifer Wig takes the train to Charlotte.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.