Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a voter rally in Raleigh at the Marriott Hotel on Friday, Jan. 15. The rally is part of his attempt to obtain 83,000 signatures so that the NC Board of Elections will accept his name on the 2024 ballot.
Though polarization is a pervasive and powerful force in our politics, housing policy is one area where cross-ideological coalitions have become increasingly common. For example, there are both progressive and conservative champions of zoning reforms and other deregulatory efforts to allow more construction of new houses and apartments, including denser forms of development. Opponents of...
For the second year in a row, Raleigh was ranked as the overall best place for veterans to live in the U.S., according to a WalletHub report.
A unanimous state Court of Appeals panel has ruled in favor of the city of Raleigh in its dispute with 37 police officers over disputed "stand-by pay." Officers in the city’s selective enforcement and homicide units claimed that they had been passed over for the extra pay. A trial judge disagreed last year and ruled
Raleigh has the 15th highest homicide rate problems of major cities in the country, a recent study by WalletHub found. This ranking places The City of Oaks’ homicide issues above other notably crime-ridden cities like Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Despite this seemingly bleak outlook for the capital city, some scholars believe WalletHub’s methodology possesses some critical flaws.
Charlotte and Raleigh certainly have their problems — as discussed regularly in, among other places, this very spot on the opinion page! But as someone who grew up near Charlotte and now lives near Raleigh, I will also say there’s still more going right than going wrong in our state’s two most-populous communities. Consider the...
In a recent column, I argued that cities would draw more investment and job creation to their downtowns if people felt safer in them. Because the only North Carolina cities included in the national study I cited were Charlotte and Raleigh, some readers concluded that I thought the problem was limited to those two jurisdictions....
The city of Raleigh is asking a federal judge to drop the city from a High Point woman’s lawsuit challenging her arrest connected to an April 2020 protest over state COVID-related shutdowns. Monica Ussery filed suit in April against the city, a now-retired police chief, and a now-retired Raleigh police captain, along with Gov. Roy...
A woman injured in a 2018 auto accident in Zebulon can proceed with her lawsuit against the city of Raleigh and one of its employees. The N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court ruling allowing the case to move forward.
A new survey from GasBuddy has some good news for drivers in North Carolina’s capital city — Raleigh is no longer on the top 10 list for Scroogiest drivers during the holiday season. GasBudy reviewed data from millions of drives during the Thanksgiving 2022 holiday weekend to reach its results. Raleigh dropped to 19th on the...
The first person that came to my door when I moved to North Carolina introduced himself as “Cornbread.” Now moving from Mississippi, that’s no culture shock like it might be for the Northeastern transplants, but it was a little something out of an Andy Griffith episode. “Cornbread” talked about everything he needed to fix and...
