Read The CAROLINIAN real story by Cash Michaels about the Tedesco/Margiotta scheme to get over 6,000 SouthEast Raleigh students re-assigned back to their neighborhoods. The school system’s own documents prove it: THE TEDESCO SCHEME By Cash Michaels, Editor … The agenda for the Nov. 30th Student Assignment Committee (SAC) meeting, …
There is a new way to stay tuned to up-to-date growth issues in Wake County. New Raleigh, a blossoming local news and culture online publication, recently launched a WakeUP Wake County Growth Issues column! The column represents an important step expanding WakeUP’s audience and providing information on specific growth challenges …
Blueprint North Carolina, a partnership of more than 50 nonprofits dedicated to achieving a better, fairer, healthier North Carolina, issued GSIW the ‘Lookout 2011’ award for the coalition’s comprehensive coverage of recent Wake school board majority policy changes. Read more below: We also want to recognize the work of a …
The new Wake County Commission majority wasted no time during its first meeting on December 6, 2010, taking strong actions to support the Wake School Board majority’s decision to end the diversity policy. The move to rescind the former resolution in favor of diversity in schools brought objections from supporters …
Falls Lake rules represent a significant missed opportunity. The Triangle and surrounding municipalities had the chance to re-write stormwater regulations, setting a national standard for drinking water supply conservation and protection. As a leader in population growth and the most educated region in the nation, our community should have higher …
Falls Lake Rules – approved by Environmental Management Commission Nov. 18, 2010 Go into temporary effect Jan. 15, 2011 (until approved permanently) Stage I: (worse) 10 years to implement (instead of 7) Stage II: (good) Stage II still in and is not halted because of re-modeling; analysis of performance of …
Press coverage: Raleigh water will be safer, but others feel Falls’ pinch, News & Observer – 11/29/10 Falls Lake pollution rules kick in 2011, The Herald-Sun – 11/21/10 Rules approved for Falls Lake cleanup, News & Observer – 11/19/10 For Immediate Release: November 18, 2010 Contact: Karen Rindge, WakeUP Wake …
November 2010 elections confirmed the relevancy of and public desire for public transportation improvements. Voters across the country approved 73 percent of state and local public transportation-related ballot initiatives, authorizing nearly $500 million over the next five years to fund bus, light rail, commuter rail, and other related public transit …
