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Insight Into Raleigh Manager Russell Allen’s Firing
Raleigh City Manager Russell Allen has asked the city council to adhere to his contract and put his firing in writing. He even provided draft copy. So far, crickets from…
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Real-World Example Of How Bureaucracy Impedes Business
The Raleigh City Council recently got an earful about the city’s development services when land-use attorney Tom Worth told them about the impediments imposed by the development bureaucracy. I point…
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In this issue: Raleigh City Manager Russell Allen and the City Council Members Should Learn Basic Economics
View in your browser. As we predicted when the doors opened in 2008, the city subsidized Mint restaurant has closed its doors after a net loss of $400,000. Here is…
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N&O: Leaders of local government associations are high earners
Two lobbying powerhouses in the N.C. General Assembly — the League of Municipalities and the Association of County Commissioners — claim that they aren’t governmental entities and thus aren’t subject…
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Raleigh to raise taxes; is Cary next?
As a consequence of the same “buy now, pay later” policy that has driven Cary’s debt service rapidly upwards in recent years, Raleigh’s City Council is poised to increase its…
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Who Was Negotiating With Whom?
The Raleigh City Council and City Manager Russell Allen have taken some grief over a 4.75 percent raise given to Allen – an action taken as the manager himself has…
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Grow Up, Everybody
A $10,000 raise given to Raleigh City Manager Russell Allen is now the subject of debate and criticism, according to the News & Observer. Apparently it’s not OK for someone…
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Busted in Raleigh
I tip my hat to Raleigh City Manager Russell Allen for risking being called mean and cruel. He wants to narrow the rules of the city’s program that allows santitation…
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Meanwhile, in Wake County, a Bridge Loan
Fiscal pullbacks continue. The N&O lays it all out very clearly: Wake County will borrow $300 million from Bank of America to keep building projects on track despite the troubled…
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Raleigh Council Votes for City Plaza Land Condemnation
The Raleigh City Council voted 6-1 yesterday (Mayor Meeker abstaining, Councilor Isley dissenting) to grant City Manager Russell Allen condemnation rights for the remaining piece of private land needed to…
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Raleigh is intrigued by this higher-tax idea of Orange Co.’s
These come shortly on the heels of the cavalcade of municipal madness dubbed here “Bad Idea Thursday“: City Manager Russell Allen proposed Raleigh’s largest tax increase in more than a…
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More Regulations Better For Business?
So, Raleigh wants and gets a new Convention Center, then they’ll wear down the opposition to round-a-bouts on Hillsborough St. and now the dream of more business in downtown is…