With summer just around the corner, the battle for downtown Raleigh’s identity is making a comeback. The target this time isn’t sidewalk patios but rather special events on Fayetteville Street: Brewgaloos and holiday bashes, road races and food truck rodeos, SparkCon and Bike Fest and Hopscotch. At a meeting of the Central Citizens Advisory Council […]
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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Federal Office of Civil Rights Will Hear Concerns from Wake County Parents Tuesday
The Wake County Public School System has a disturbing history of suspending, expelling and arresting black and brown students at much higher rates than their white peers, beginning in elementary school. In K-5, where black students make up 23 percent of the population, they are suspended at a rate of 51 percent. By high school, […]
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North Carolina’s Unemployment Insurance System Is a Disaster
In the summer of 2014, Durham resident Anna Jensen was abruptly laid off from her job at a nonprofit. With a 4-year-degree and a Master’s, she applied for unemployment insurance to help her cover her basic living expenses while she looked for a new job. It took six weeks before she began to receive assistance, […]
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The Morning Roundup: Upward Mobility in N.C. Worse Than Nationwide
Happy rainy Thursday, everyone. It may be gloomy out there right now, but the sun is supposed to come out this afternoon. April showers and such. Here’s your news. 1. A new report shows that upward mobility in North Carolina is worse than it is nationwide, meaning low-income children in the state have few opportunities […]
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Those SolarBees Aren’t Doing a Damn Thing to Clean Jordan Lake
Here’s some disconcerting news for people who like, you know, clean waterespecially the more than three hundred thousand residents of Wake and Chatham counties who rely on Jordan Lake for their drinking water. In March, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality released a draft report that found that SolarBeesgiant mixers that are supposed to eliminate […]
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The City of Raleigh’s Best-Paid Employees Get Better Paid
1. Tom McCormick, city attorney: $259,000 2. Ruffin Hall, city manager: $231,426 3. James Green Jr., assistant city manager: $180,285 4. Marchell Adams David, assistant city manager: $167,500 5. Perry James III, chief financial officer: $164,625 Records the INDY received last week indicate that 86 of the city of Raleigh’s 3,809 employees make more than […]
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The Ongoing Chronicles of Kay Daly: Kay Daly No Longer Running Against Renee Ellmers, Still Bashing Renee Ellmers
It’s been a while since we posted an update on our favorite would-be North Carolina congressman, Kay Daly. What’s Kay Daly been up to??! You’ll recall that Kay Daly was one of five-to-seven Republican challengers for Congresswoman Renee Ellmers’ seat in North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District. Then a, uh, “redistricting musical chairs” happened, and Kay […]
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Here Are the Twenty Highest Paid Employees of the City of Raleigh
Yesterday, the INDY requested the salaries of the City of Raleigh’s highest paid employees. Here they are: 1. Tom McCormick, city attorney: $259,000 2. Ruffin Hall, city manager: $231,426 3. James Green, Jr., assistant city manager: $180,285 4. Marchell Adams David, assistant city manager: $167,500 5. Perry James III, chief financial officer: $164,625 6. Tansy […]
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The Morning Roundup: A Virginia Transgender Teen’s Case Could Decide the Fate of HB 2
Good morning, everyone! It’s Thursday again and here are your headlines. 1. The fate of North Carolina’s probably unconstitutional dumpster fire, House Bill 2, could be decided in Virginia according to this story from the Associated Press. After a school board in Gloucester, Va. ordered a transgender teen named Gavin Grimm to stay out of […]
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The News & Observer’s Parent Company Is Making Cuts to Its Corporate Technology Division
Unfortunate news over at The McClatchy Company, the Sacramento-based parent company of The News & Observer and several other daily publications across the country. McClatchy has signed an agreement with global technology provider Wipro to help improve its technology capabilities and speed up its digital transformation according to Chris Hendricks, McClatchy’s vice president of products, […]
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