Play with puppies on Saturday and gallery hop on Sunday. It’s all in a Triangle weekend.
Jane Porter
Jane Porter is Wake County editor of the INDY, covering Raleigh and other communities across Wake County. She first joined the staff in 2013 and is a former INDY intern, staff writer, and editor-in-chief, first joining the staff in 2013.
Poynter: How N.C. Policy Watch Reporter Joe Killian Followed the UNC-Nikole Hannah-Jones Story From Beginning To End
Killian first broke the news that UNC-Chapel was hiring the acclaimed journalist without tenure. He also got her first exclusive print interview after she she decided she wouldn’t be going to UNC.
INDY Week Won a Bunch of Green Eyeshade Awards
Congratulations to our talented staff.
Sunday Reading: What We Really Lose When Highways Destroy Historic Neighborhoods
Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood, severed from the city’s downtown by Interstate 345, has some parallels with Durham’s Hayti district.
Juneteenth Events Around the Triangle 2021
How local communities are celebrating America’s oldest holiday that commemorates the end of slavery.
Update: Raleigh Council Members Respond to State Lawmakers’ Criticism of Council’s Secretive Elections Vote
The council voted in a closed meeting to move the municipal election to November of next year. Wake lawmakers and others say that decision-making should have been public while council members say the believed they were following the proper process.
Raleigh Planning Commissioner Responds to Comments From Council Member That She Describes as “Offensive and Hurtful”
At a council work session yesterday, Raleigh City Council member Patrick Buffkin said projects that “house only poor people” are “devoid of hope” and that there are “very few role models for the children that live there.”
ACTA, a Nonprofit “Dedicated to Academic Freedom,” Supports UNC Trustees’ Decision on Hannah-Jones Tenure
In a letter to the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees chair, the president of the American Council for Trustees and Alumni praised the board’s decision to deny tenure to the acclaimed journalist.
UNC J School Dean, Mega-Donor, Appear at Odds Over Hannah-Jones Emails
Walter Hussman, Jr. says he sent emails to which he didn’t expect responses. Dean Susan King says the emails contained “repeated questions challenging our hiring of Nikole Hannah-Jones.” UNC faces legal action tomorrow.
Quickbait: We Have The Cicada Data
The sound of the Brood X’s mating call in unison is as loud as standing three feet from a running chainsaw.

