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North Carolina Allows Cocktails To-Go
Governor Cooper Signed an Executive Order allowing restaurants and bars to sell cocktails to-go and for delivery through January 31st. Here’s how it works and who’s doing it.
After Action Recommendations for the Raleigh Police Department
WEB EXCLUSIVE Following the police brutality—including the use of tear gas—that ensued after peaceful protests in downtown Raleigh in May …
COVID-19 Today: December 17
WEB EXCLUSIVE In an effort to slow North Carolina’s recent alarming increase in positive coronavirus cases, Governor Roy Cooper announced …
COVID-19 Today: December 8
WEB EXCLUSIVE Coronavirus cases in North Carolina continue to grow to staggering numbers, especially after all the travel we saw …
By The Numbers: COVID-19’s Impact on Raleigh Tourism
WEB EXCLUSIVE It’s no secret that Raleigh’s economy has taken a beating from the coronavirus pandemic. Government-mandated shutdowns have caused …
Reflecting Through Art
WEB EXCLUSIVE Back in May, after a night of peaceful protesting followed by riots and looting forced downtown business owners …
Service Under Fire
According to research from FEMA, 72 percent of firefighters in North Carolina are volunteer firefighters. Unfortunately, the number of volunteers is declining by 11 to 12 percent year over year. The NCAFC has targeted Wake country for a two-year-long volunteer firefighter recruitment campaign.
DROPPED ACORNS
It’s been a hell of a year, Raleigh. Fires, floods and pestilence across the globe had it looking like the end of times, not to mention peaceful racial justice protests and subsequent rioting, and a #MeToo reckoning, that took place right here at home.
Bring Down the Boards!
City leaders, our elected officials, need to be meeting with business owners and landlords and encouraging them—convincing them— to take down the plywood boards.