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Raleigh's Next Mayor: Meet candidate Paul Fitts, who has an ambitious vision for the city
Paul Fitts, the sole Republican candidate in Raleigh's non-partisan mayoral race, is driving his campaign with ambitious plans for the city's future, including a potentially controversial proposal for a downtown casino and a major expansion of the police force.For ABC11's election year series Raleigh's Next Mayor, Fitts, a 55-year-old mortgage lender, shared his vision while touring downtown Raleigh. Expressing skepticism about the Downtown Raleigh Alliance's new revitalization plans, he dismissed them as "a band-aid on a broken limb.""First we have to go back and we have to build owner-occupied housing to bring back downtown people who want to be downtown,"...
Foodie News: Tacos and tequila restaurant opening in Raleigh
Diced, a locally-owned, woman-owned restaurant specializing in fresh, made-to-order salads, wraps and grain bowls, has opened its newest location in the heart of downtown Raleigh at 121 Fayetteville Street (directly across the street from the recently opened Birdie’s Barroom & Kitchen). The concept was started in Cary in 2015 with their first store on Kildaire Farm Road, and this marks their fourth location. The other two locations are on Oberlin Road in Raleigh and in West Cary. Visit Diced here. Congratulations to Michelle Woodward and her team on their continued success.
UNC Health looks to add new hospital in Wake Forest
UNC Health is working to expand to Wake Forest.A public hearing was held Thursday morning to discuss plans to build a new UNC hospital. It happened at the McKimmon Conference & Training Center in Raleigh at 9:30 a.m.UNC Health Rex recently filed two Certificate of Need applications.One is to build a 50-bed community hospital in Wake Forest. The other would add 20 acute care beds and two operating rooms at UNC Health Rex's main hospital in Raleigh.The Wake Forest hospital would be built on approximately 50 acres, now owned by the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. This is at the corner of Capital Boulevard and Stadium Drive, behind a current shopping center anchored by Lowes Foods.The new hospital would eventually employ more than 500 people.EDITOR'S NOTE: A previous version of this report stated the public hearing was Friday, Oct. 18. It happened Thursday, Oct. 17
Post-Helene, mental health providers help kids cope
Weeks after the remnants of Hurricane Helene ravaged western North Carolina, tens of thousands of kids across the region still don’t know when they’ll be able to return to a sense of normalcy. At a Chapel Hill park on a recent sunny afternoon, displaced families, many from the...
NC GOP candidate denies she called for violence when citing 'war' & 'American Revolution 2.0.'
The Republican nominee for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction denies calling for violence if she loses the election."It is ridiculous to imply that I am calling for an armed revolution," Michele Morrow said Friday to supporters outside the Cary Senior Center early voting location.Morrow has riled up critics with an email from Sept. 30 where she urged people to join her and a local pastor at a Wake County school board meeting. The pastor was eventually escorted out of that meeting in handcuffs when he refused to leave the podium."Our children are being attacked. This is the American Revolution...
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