December 7, 2006
Elected Leaders
We’ve blogged about union involvement in local politics. Gary Pearce, over at Talking About Politics, has a pretty darn good grasp of organized labor’s role in elections that’s worth a look.
In the last Raleigh council elections, the unions used impact fees as an issue to help defeat John Odom. Will they be involved in [...]
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December 1, 2006
Schools & Growth
We’ve just learned that a group of landowners in Union County, NC will file a lawsuit against the County’s new adequate public facilities ordinance (APFO) for schools. (An APFO says that developers can only build developments once there is adequate capacity in nearby schools. If there is no capacity, the developer must wait [...]
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