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27103
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Church leaders are seeking new ways to mobilize Christian conservative voters, as the nation becomes more diverse and secular. Last week, the American Pastors Network gathered near Charlotte to discuss issues such as abortion, gay marriage, and immigration.
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North Carolina lawmakers introduced legislation that would prohibit state and local health departments from issuing public advisories regarding drinking water contamination to well users and people on public water systems, as long as the levels of contamination are below state or federal clean water standards. If the law is passed, there could be serious health concerns.
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Ruffin Hall, city manager of Raleigh, has faced some challenging issues since he started in November 2013. Overall, comments about Hall are positive. Hall’s strategy is finding a balance between development and maintaining the city’s character.
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In 2009, the North Carolina legislature launched SolarBees, a two-million dollar pilot program to test a cheaper water-cleaning alternative in Jordan Lake. Last week, the Department of Environmental Quality abandoned the SolarBees project because data indicated it was completely ineffective. Now the state must get serious about water quality in the lake that provides drinking water to Wake and Chatham counties.
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North Carolina and Georgia have the highest numbers of undocumented young immigrants who are denied in-state tuition or access to state universities. The national scholarship funding organization, TheDream.US, will offer a new scholarship to allow high-achieving immigrant students to apply to either Eastern Connecticut State University or Delaware State University.
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Wake County participates in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program known as 287(g), which delegates immigration authority to local law enforcement to deport illegal immigrants. However, opposition to the program advocate for programs that would help immigrants obtain legal status.
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Raleigh city manager Ruffin Hall unveiled his proposed budget last week, and it gives city employees a three-percent merit pay increase. But for the more than twenty-five hundred employees, that raise could effectively be erased by proposed changes to their health insurance coverage. In some cases, employees will actually take home less money.
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At last week's public hearing, dozens of mostly white residents effusively praised Wake County's transit plan. African-Americans in Southeast Raleigh, however, don’t believe they will benefit from the plan. Most of those who rely on city buses say the transit system has been expensive, inequitable, and unreliable for years.
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Wake County commissioner Matt Calabria is working to raise awareness of a housing voucher program that places homeless and disabled vets into privately owned housing. Under the program, tenants pay up to thirty-percent of their incomes toward rent; the vouchers cover the rest.
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Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation and former mayor of Charlotte, spoke at the Raleigh Convention Center for a forum hosted by WakeUp Wake County. Foxx emphasized that Wake’s transit plan will be crucial to managing growth in the region. He also praised the county for its motto promoting an all-inclusive community.
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27208
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Raleigh has proposed the Penny for Housing tax, a progressive tax that helps people in low-income communities to access affordable housing that they're being priced out of. The city's goal is to prevent further concentrations of minority and low-income people and subsidized housing by collecting additional property taxes.
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A new shopping center has been proposed for property adjacent to a residential area in northwest Cary. This would require amending Cary’s new comprehensive plan and rezoning the land to allow for commercial retail. Residents are worried about how their quality of life will be affected by the development.
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Nation Hahn, a consultant for the education advocacy group EdNC, strives to make sure students in North Carolina have enough healthy food. Hahn believes that when students' basic needs are met, they're able to learn better, and with learning comes leadership. Hahn received INDY’s Citizen Award for his efforts toward youth development and making communities healthier.
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27624
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The draft rules on fracking in North Carolina are rife with loopholes that favor the drillers and could endanger the public health and the environment. Public hearings in Raleigh have focused on the shortcomings of the Mining and Energy Commission’s draft rules. Rules prevent the public from knowing chemicals released into water supplies unless there is an emergency, require little testing of the water supply, make finding and enforcing violations difficult, and are weak on the handling of hazardous wastes. Specific shortcomings and their effect on citizens, the water supply, and the environment are discussed in detail.
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The Raleigh-Durham Airport has hired the Urban Land Institute to generate a report on the ways the Airport Authority could use land it owns to seek revenue sources beyond ticket sales and federal funding. The rising costs of maintaining the airport have caused this to happen, but any development may mean the end of the wooded trails around Lake Crabtree County Park. Citizens oppose any move to remove the trails and have signed petitions that seek community involvement in the decision.
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