Matthew Eisley

Dear Readers: I'm afraid this is goodbye.

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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 ...