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I am officially out on maternity leave and won't be checking this space.
Our baby girl arrived early and is spending some time in the NICU, but she's getting stronger and better every day.
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I'm thankful for all the people who agreed to speak to me for this story.
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“First of all, I’m a Christian,” he said, his voice rising and falling with a preacher’s practiced cadence. “Second of all, I’m a Republican. And in that order”
Later the same day, the pastor drove a pickup truck through Elon, shouting “White power!”
“The statistics say I shouldn’t be here,” Conen Morgan said in a 1999 N&O article. “But it’s not who you are, it is what you do that matters. I have decided that I will succeed.”
Read more at:
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Raleigh Mayor
@maryannbaldwin
has officially signed an updated state of emergency requiring people to wear masks in the city.
The order begins at 4 p.m. Friday.
#ralpol
#wakepol
#ncpol
Former state treasurer, state senator and Raleigh City Council member Janet Cowell has been named the new president/CEO of the Dix Park Conservancy. She replaces Sean Malone.
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A look at the crowd rallying outside the Raleigh City Council meeting. People are concerned about the recent changes to zoning rules making it easier to add duplexes, townhomes, etc across the city.
#ralpol
Hi friends! If you're considering sharing literal fake news that mimics a real news organization, please reconsider. It's bad. And not funny.
Are we still doing the shot/chaser tweets?
It's official! Raleigh's indoor mask mandate starts at 5 pm today. It applies to people who live in city limits.
Wake County is also planning a similar order but 1) it's not happening until next week and 2) IT WOULD ONLY APPLY TO THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS
#ralpol
#wakepol
It’s official when you change your byline, right? Some of you have already guessed when I changed my socials but I got married earlier this year. It's the second most exciting thing to happen in 2024. Baby Roman is due Sept. 10.
Wake County just approved a resolution declaring systemic racism a public health crisis. Now
#WakeBOC
is talking about adding
#Juneteenth
as a paid county holiday.
#wakepol
I'm blown away by the readers, subscribers and former N&O employees that have dropped by the office or reached out to us in the newsroom. We see you and it means so much.
I hadn't planned on tweeting during this city council meeting, (I'm busy, friendos), but Nancy McFarlane just declared October as Ashley Christensen Badass month.
Is that the first proclamation with the word badass in it?
#ralpol
At today's Raleigh City Council meeting where 96 people have signed up to speak during public comments. Most are here to talk about a ceasefire in Gaza.
This is the City Council's public comment meeting meaning nothing else is on the agenda.
#ralpol
I couldn't have reported and investigated this story without the help and support from so many of my N&O colleagues. I wanted to particularly thank
@TriangleEditor
and
@robyntomlin
for their work on this story.
“We complain because there is trash? Why aren’t we complaining because, my God, there are people who have to live there?” she said. “There is nowhere else to go. And we as a community decide it’s the trash that is bothering us.”
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#wakepol
That awkward moment when you wear a Pikachu hat in a zoom call to be funny but you wind up in an N&O video ad wearing it and NO ONE TOLD YOU THAT WAS HAPPENING.
The story about buckets and the bus stop never would have gotten started without the help from
@_jesspeacock
, who was the first person to ask the city for a bench for Ms. Lenora.
#ralpol
Hello from the Raleigh City Council work session where people in the crowd just shouted "WE LOVE DIX."
On the agenda? Dix Park.
So we're off to a totally normal start.
#ralpol
I know you can't make perfect the enemy of good.
But Ms. Lenora isn't the only bus rider who deserves a seat and a shelter. She's just the one who made it on the front page.
I'm just asking you to remember everyone else still waiting in the dirt.
In downtown Raleigh on Fayetteville Street to cover a protest in the aftermath of the murder of Tyre Nichols in Memphis.
#ralpol
The portion of Salisbury Street in front of the courthouse is shut down.
Protesters call for police reform and end of police brutality.
How many people turned out on the first day of early voting?
Less than 1,000.
And that includes races for Raleigh and Cary.
This is an election that directly impacts you, your home and community. Pay attention!
#ralpol
#carypol
We've got a Triangle crossover episode.
Patrick Young, Durham's Planning Director, has just been hired as Raleigh's next Planning and Development Director.
#ralpol
“Being Black and being female and being a person within the LGBTQ community — all those things make up the person I am,” says Raleigh's newest council member Stormie Forte.
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The Raleigh City Council is taking a 10 minute break after nearly 50 people spoke. People have started chanting ceasefire now during the break.
#ralpol
Our son, Bakicius Zitith Romanus, Esquire, the third, first of his name, graduated from his canine good citizen class today. We already knew he was a good boy but now he's got a ribbon to prove it.
(Maybe we took this too far 🙃)
Former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker has some thoughts about long-term planning, scooters and ADUs:
"Council has got to accept change (and) make it work for the city. Instead of just saying 'no, no.' We're not doing that."
#ralpol
Also shoutout to all the city employees who DMed me the email about Ruffin Hall retiring. Y'all the real MVPs. Keep that energy up for all news tips. 😂
Mayor brings up this "very well done" story by
@joshshaffer08
/
@ashad_hajela
She asks for $25k to create a "compassion" fund to help people who can pay daily rates but not first month rent/security deposit. It is approved.
#ralpol
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Breaking: Wake County will enact a mask mandate sometime next week. It'll only apply to the unincorporated parts of Wake County.
Raleigh says the city will enact a mask mandate sooner, possibly going into effect today.
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The Raleigh City Council just voted to change the name of the Lane Street Mini Park to "LeVelle Moton Park."
@LeVelleMoton
, head
#NCCU
basketball coach, grew up in neighborhood.
In a statement, he said this honor is deeply personal.
#ralpol
I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed.
Why did I get a press release about Apex's town manager leaving (He's headed to Duck, NC) but not one about thier freaking armadillo?
"This morning, 1 in 4 North Carolinians, an estimated 2.75 million people overall, awoke in their houses, condos and townhouses beholden to the rules of one of the state’s 14,100 HOAs."
Over the weekend voicemail:
"There are millennials plastering campaign signs everywhere."
"It needs to be investigated. Why are they so involved?"
Yeah, millennials, why are you so involved???
#wakepol
#ncpol
Downtown Raleigh's skyline is changing. Nearly 3,000 housing units are under construction or planned.
“We have more cranes over downtown than we’ve ever had. Most of them are building housing.”
More from the today's
#StateofDTR2023
:
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Good morning, team! I'll be the N&O reporter covering
#DreamvilleFest
with a crew of photographers and videographers. I'll be live tweeting throughout the day.
Whether in the festival, stuck in traffic or nearby, let me know what you're seeing/hearing.
#dreamville
Hello from the UK!
@dawnbvaughan
and I are headed to Oxford to learn about how news organizations across the world engage with their communities. I'll be tweeting updates in this thread.
It's that time again.
I'm working on a list of questions to ask Raleigh Mayor and City Council candidates.
What are the issues you’d like Raleigh leaders to focus on? What do you want to know about the people looking to lead the city?
#ralpol
Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin began interviewing for her new job with a construction company nine days after the company received a $6.3 million city contract.
#ralpol
TFW you go to your apartment's holiday party and you just want to drink the free beer, but people bring up an article you wrote. And you resist chiming in until someone says something wrong and you correct them and then they argue. So you drop that you wrote the story.
Raleigh Parks is closing playgrounds and park restrooms starting Monday. Trails will stay open.
I've heard from others the playgrounds have been swamped, which is, you know, not the point.
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#covid19nc
#covid919
I have underestimated the number of little old ladies who would call and ask me to find the closest early voting site for them.
Yes, I've returned all their calls.
Shout-out to
@WakeElections
for this handy map people can use:
#wakepol
#ncpol