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 […]
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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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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Does Wake’s Partnership with ICE Make Immigrant Communities Less Safe?
In 2008, Yolanda Zavala’s son was on the side of a Wake County road with a flat tire. A police officer ticketed him for driving without a license. Thanks to Wake County’s participation in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program known as 287(g), the police determined that he was here illegally, and ICE quickly deported […]
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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 […]
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The Ongoing Chronicles of Kay Daly: Conservative Hero Kay Daly Endorsed by Other Conservative Heroes
Kay Daly—CPAC Ronald Reagan Award winner Kay Daly, leading candidate for the Republican nomination in North Carolina’s newly-created 13th district Kay Daly—is “humbled” and “honored” to “enjoy support from so many heroes of the conservative movement,” a “who’s who of national conservative leaders” that “has rallied behind the candidacy of Kay Daly.” Including:-Sean Hannity –Dr. […]
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The Morning Roundup: N.C. Docs Under Investigation, HBCUs Under Attack
Good morning, everyone. Here’s some news from the weekend.1. The North Carolina medical board is investigating sixty doctors and physician assistants for over-prescribing narcotic painkillers after their patients died of drug overdoses, as well as twelve others who have prescribed high doses or large volumes of narcotic painkillers.From the Charlotte Observer: In some cases, the […]
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Report: White House Won’t Defund North Carolina During HB 2 Lawsuit
In these bewildering times of HB 2 fallout, we live for morsels of good news like this one: the White House says it won’t strip North Carolina of federal funding for education and other programs while the state battles it out with the U.S. justice department over what we’re now all calling “the bathroom law.” […]
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The Morning Roundup: Please Stop It, Governor McCrory
Is it Thursday already? Here’s your news.1. McCrory went on another national news show yesterday, CNN’s The Lead, to mumble about Democrats and the Obama administration. He called Loretta Lynch’s comparison of what Pat’s now calling “the bathroom bill” to the Jim Crow Laws “an insult toward our state and ten million people.” Luckily the […]
