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Sunshine blog: City department heads’ expense reports

By C. Duncan Pardo • Jun 28th, 2010 • Category: Sunshine Blog, The Latest

In our continuing efforts to bring more sunshine to Raleigh city government, this is our second annual edition of what we’ll now call the Expense Report. Below you will find the full documents of the expense reports, credit card statements and requests for reimbursements from city department heads, the mayor and city council members.



Sunshine blog: Wake County school board members’ emails

By Will Huntsberry • Jun 2nd, 2010 • Category: Sunshine Blog, The Latest

The Raleigh Public Record is experiencing difficulty obtaining all of the documents encompassed in a public records request that we made to the Wake County Public School System in March. Our request returned 1,700 initial pages of emails.



Sunshine blog: Raleigh’s Union Station proposal

By C. Duncan Pardo • Apr 27th, 2010 • Category: Sunshine Blog, The Latest

Read the proposal for the downtown transit station.



Cyclists v. Hillsborough roundabouts

By C. Duncan Pardo • Apr 15th, 2010 • Category: Sunshine Blog, The Latest

What are cyclists supposed to do in the new Hillsborough Street roundabouts?



Sunshine Weekly: counting the military

By Chrystal Bartlett • Apr 2nd, 2010 • Category: Sunshine Blog, The Latest

Eleven members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation sent a letter to President Barack Obama requesting a change in how the Census counts temporarily deployed service personnel based in North Carolina. Read the full letter to the president.



Chemical Safety Board wants new rules after ConAgra explosion

By C. Duncan Pardo • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Sunshine Blog, The Latest

Members of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board passed a new set of recommendations to prevent incidents like the explosion at the ConAgra Slim Jim plan last September. Read the full-text recommendations in the latest edition of Sunshine Weekly.



Text changes could change the way planning commission does business

By C. Duncan Pardo • Jan 17th, 2010 • Category: Sunshine Blog

Full-text descriptions and code amendments from the planning department on the two proposed changes to the rezoning petition process.



Wake Sheriff’s Department’s new immigration enforcement agreement

By C. Duncan Pardo • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Sunshine Blog, The Latest

Full text of the Wake County Sheriff’s Department’s new agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, plus thoughts from the ACLU and Wake Sheriff Donnie Harrison.



Raleigh police moving district lines, prep for new Lightner Public Safety Center

By C. Duncan Pardo • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: Sunshine Blog, The Latest

A report from Raleigh Police Chief Harry Dolan about changing the police districts in the city and getting ready for construction of the new Lightner Public Safety Center.



RPD shooting report

By C. Duncan Pardo • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Sunshine Blog, The Latest

The Raleigh Police Department released its initial report today on the standoff near the corner of Hillsborough Street and Blue Ridge Road. Read the full-text report here.