Good morning, folks. Here’s your news for Thursday. 1. Hillary Clinton spoke at the N.C. State Fairgrounds on Wednesday for nearly an hour, outlining her plans for the economy, including paid family leave and raising the minimum wage. Other salient points: she wants free tuition at public universities, infrastructure and clean energy spending, collective bargaining […]
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.
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N.C. GOP’s New Spokeswoman is #NeverTrump
The North Carolina Republican party announced Tuesday that it hired a new communications director, the winsome, yet approachable, Kami Mueller. Mueller worked formerly for the North Carolina Values Coalition’s #KeepNCSafe campaign trying to drum up support for HB 2. Mueller is not a fan of likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump as a series of […]
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Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx Says Wake’s Transit Plan Is a Must
As U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx was landing at RDU on Monday afternoon, he could see the congestion from the sky. “It was an insane amount of traffic,” Foxx told a crowd of around two hundred people gathered in a conference room at the Raleigh Convention Center for a forum hosted by WakeUp Wake […]
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Can Raleigh’s New Affordable Housing Tax Overcome Market Pressures?
If city manager Ruffin Hall’s budget is any indication, Raleigh is finally getting serious about affordable housingand just in time for the countywide transit referendum that will be on the ballot in November. The city’s plan envisions new affordable housing developments located within a half mile of existing or proposed rail or bus rapid transit […]
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Welcome to the INDY’s Raleigh City Council Live Blog
It’s that third Tuesday again. While not quite at capacity, council chambers has got a lot of visitors, including firefighters and their supporters who are still fighting for that raise, even though the council approved the budget—sans raises for first responders—yesterday afternoon. 1:14: Mayor Nancy has called the meeting to order. Alfred Leech, chair of […]
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Raleigh Council Considering Re-Appointing Board Member With Low Attendance Record
Serving on one of Raleigh’s myriad boards or commissions can surely be thankless but board members play a crucial advisory role to the city council, and if you’re appointed to serve, you are pretty much expected to show up to meetings just like at your real job. When considering whether to re-appoint members to the […]
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Republican Crybabies Are Mad at WRAL’s Laura Leslie
WRAL’s lead political reporter and Capitol Bureau Chief Laura Leslie made some astute observations on her personal Facebook page following the mass shooting in Orlando this weekend: Naturally the North Carolina Republican party is *pissed,* per this press release: WRAL’s lead political reporter and Capitol Bureau Chief Laura Leslie took to social media asserting that […]
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N.C. Court of Appeals Grants Stays in McCrory Public Records Lawsuit
The attorneys representing Governor McCrory and his administration have done everything in their power to keep communications officials from providing testimony in an ongoing public records lawsuit and last week, the North Carolina Court of Appeals threw them a bone. By granting McCrory’s counsel both a temporary stay and a stay pending appeal, the Court […]
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The Morning Roundup: More Bad Press for McCrory, Hillary Clinton’s Got Ads
Good morning, all, welcome to Thursday. 1. Fourteen teachers from public schools grassroots group Organize 2020 were arrested yesterday as they protested Governor McCrory’s education policies and other issues McCrory is popular with exactly no one these days, so unpopular in fact that some teachers from Durham were willing to march twenty-three miles to Raleigh […]
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Horrible Person Writes Horrible Letter in Wake of Orlando Mass Shooting
In a letter the News and Observer ran on its website Monday, Rexford Alexander from Apex had the following to say about the forty-nine people killed in a mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando Saturday night: While the N&O posted letters to its website as they came in yesterday, it didn’t publish Alexander’s letter […]
