From the News and Observer comes this story about the Wake County Taxpayers Association’s effort to give citizens more of a say in municipal financial decisions:

 

A conservative political group is suing Raleigh in an effort to change how the city borrows money.

Raleigh officials should be required to get permission from voters to take on additional debt, the Wake County Taxpayers Association contends.

The group says its effort comes after a decade in which Raleigh accumulated $1.2 billion in debt while giving voters a say in less than one-third of that total.

Last month, the group filed suit in Wake County, five months after the city rejected a petition that asked for a referendum on the proposal.