The Raleigh city manager and city attorney reviewed a list of requests from a coalition of activists calling for more police accountability and issued a response this week. On Wednesday evening, members of the Police Accountability and Community Task Force (PACT) met with city manager Ruffin Hall and other city leaders, where PACT members say […]
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.
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N.C. Dems Want McCrory Press Staffer’s Communications Regarding Coal Ash
Court testimony suggests that Duke Energy officials and Josh Ellis, Gov. McCrory’s communications director, lobbied state environment and health officials to lift “do not drink” advisories for people living near coal ash ponds despite these officials’ reservations that the water wasn’t safe. The North Carolina Democratic party wants to know just how far Ellis’s involvement […]
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The Morning Roundup: Art Pope Group To Save the Day?
Good morning, fam. It’s Thursday and HB 2 remains a scourge upon this once great land. But don’t worry!1. A veritable dream team of non-government, liberal and conservative leaders has come together to “quell the furor.” The group, led by former Lt. Gov. Dennis Wicker, a Democrat, and Art Pope, who needs no introduction, hopes […]
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Bill Back-Tracking Duke Energy Coal Ash Cleanup is Moving Through the Legislature
Last week, after getting news it didn’t like from North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality about having to clean up its 33 coal ash ponds across the state, Duke Energy vowed to “clarify” the state’s 2014 Coal Ash Management Law” within the next sixty days. The energy giant is making good on that promise in […]
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White Raleigh Loves Wake’s Transit Plan, But Black Raleigh Isn’t Sold
It’s a rare occasion when business representatives and environmentalists, seniors and millennials, city and country dwellers all get on the same page. But that’s what happened at the Raleigh Convention Center last week, at a public hearing on Wake County’s transit plan. Going by the dozens of mostly white, mostly affluent people who effusively praised […]
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Raises – Health Insurance Hikes = Less Money for Some Raleigh Cops
Raleigh city manager Ruffin Hall unveiled his proposed budget last week, and it gives city employees a 3 to 3.5 percent “merit pay” increase. But for the more than twenty- five hundred employees, including the majority of cops, who make less than $55,000 a year, that raise could effectively be erased by proposed changes to […]
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Raleigh Council Committee Approves Outdoor Dining Recommendations
At a meeting Tuesday morning, members of a city economic development committee chaired by Mayor Nancy McFarlane approved a series of recommendations from another all-resident committee that made tweaks to Raleigh’s outdoor dining ordinance this winter. The mayor plus three council members on the Economic Development and Innovation committee approved recommendations to prohibit outdoor dining […]
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“A Beautiful Culinary Tour:” Raleigh’s Food and Wine Festival Begins Today
The polished wood floors, arched windows, and miniature chandeliers dangling from the ceiling of the newly remodeled yarn mill-turned-event space above Raleigh’s Babylon will host more than five hundred guests on Sunday afternoon, the culmination of the city’s second-annual Food and Wine Festival. But the fun starts today, as participating shops and restaurants all across […]
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DEQ Classifies All North Carolina Coal Ash Pits As High or Intermediate Priority for Cleanup
North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality released its final risk classifications for all 33 of the state’s coal ash pits Wednesday, and the news is good-ish. Eight sites are classified as high-risk sites, and 25 are classified as intermediate-risk, based on dam deficiencies that are currently being repaired and potential impacts to nearby groundwater, DEQ […]
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A New Scholarship Will Open Educational Doors for Undocumented Immigrants
Estefanny Perez graduated from high school last year and applied to several different colleges in the Triangle. Among others, she was accepted to Meredith College on a $16,000 scholarship, but she would still have had to take out a $20,000 loan to cover tuition and living expenses. “I thought about private schools because they give […]