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I think our water is fine to brew with if you do a couple of simple things. Water is a complex topic, so before you go too far down the rabbit hole, understand that. When I was a homebrewer, the things that had the most positive impact on my beer from a water perspective were:

1. Camden tablets to drop out the chloromines
   
2. I bought a white, drinking quality, hose for my brewing water, rather than using that old nasty green one. This is like $20 at Home Depot. I think these first 2 changes are all you really need to do at a minimum.
   
3. I tried using the brewing water calculators that are out there, but they never seemed to make much of a difference and I lost interest.
   
   Here's an old thread I started on beerinator. GCBrewingCo who adds the final word is one of the most experienced beer judges in the area.
   
   If you want to really focus on water, you sure can. John Palmer's How to Brew covers the topic at a high level and Palmer & Colin Kaminski wrote a whole book on water for brewers.
   
   One more point: annually in March, Raleigh stops adding ammonia to the water and just relies on straight chlorine for the month. This makes the water smell & taste different. Unlike chloromines, chlorine can be taken out with just a charcoal filter. Water customers affected by this change include those who pay water bills to the City of Raleigh and to the towns of Rolesville, Garner, Knightdale, Holly Springs, Wendell, Wake Forest, Zebulon and Fuquay-Varina.

In addition to being a brewer, you also write about beer (on the blog you mentioned as well as in "North Carolina Craft Beer and Breweries").

What sort of writing would you like to see more of in the beer community, both locally and globally? What are beer writers -- or simply anyone that happens to write about beer -- missing?

I'll second Brewing Classic Styles. I use it as a starting reference for just about any style I brew. I then will make changes to his recipe based on what I want and info i've found primarily searching through homebrewtalk and r/homebrewing.