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So long, with my thanks

Dear Readers: I'm afraid this is goodbye.

Schools: on the upside

There seems little doubt that, if Wake switches to neighborhood schools, some individual schools will get worse.

Bring back the park

Overlooked in the debate about Raleigh's Public Safety Center is another important part of City Manager Russell Allen's plan to upgrade city services.

Yanking their chain

Editor: 

One of a city council member's hardest jobs is listening to everyone involved and then trying to do what's smart and fair.

Ugly is as ugly is built

Can you think of any uglier entrance to downtown Raleigh than the heavily traveled thoroughfare that should be our inviting foyer, Capital Boulevard?

Don't assume racism

Amid the pot shots among leaders bickering over the education of our children, I'd like to stand in calm defense of the many decent parents who favor neighborhood schools and are not motivated by r...

Unhappy trio vs. manager

Behind Raleigh City Council member Bonner Gaylord's critique of the proposed Lightner Public Safety Center lies a deeper rebuke: the city's manager and council have neglected their duties to justif...

It's time to end the ties

Four times, Raleigh's City Council has debated approving the proposed $205 million Lightner Public Safety Center project.

Raleigh inside and out

With all the attention Raleigh draws to its spending on downtown projects, it's easy to suppose that North Raleigh suffers municipal neglect.

Russell Allen's response

City Manager Russell Allen called Monday to bring me to a greater understanding of Raleigh's need for the proposed Lightner Public Safety Center.

Raleigh dials 911 on tower

Winning public support for a new police, fire, emergency and 911 call headquarters should be an easy pitch.

Raleigh dials 911 on 911

We Raleighites have a lot of emergencies. At least we think so.

Fixing Five Points

As Raleigh considers sprucing up Five Points, which business owners and nearby residents have urged, I'd like to speak up for the busy hub's overlooked stakeholders: commuters.

Give voters power

The way Wake County elects its school board contributes to the board's turmoil and troubled reputation, it seems to me.

NCDOT misses the point

Let me see if I have this right: Narrow, undetectable gaps in bridges people fall to their deaths from after car wrecks are not the problem. Good Samaritans are.

Raleigh zig-zags on trail

Raleigh is asking a lot, maybe too much, of residents of North Raleigh's Summerfield North neighborhood, where the city plans to add a major greenway link that's unusually intrusive.

Adios, wacky schedule

The Wake County public school system's infamous "Wacky Wednesday" early-release schedule is, mercifully, on the way out.

Disasters waiting to occur

After the second fatal fall from a Beltline bridge over Crabtree Creek, state transportation officials ordered a review of all the state's 17,000 bridges.

A costly bridge shortcut

Now that a second good Samaritan at a wreck scene has leapt blindly to his demise at the Beltline bridge over Crabtree Creek in Crabtree Valley, it's hard to fathom why the state installed a fence ...