Hapy Tuesday everyone and welcome to our live blog! We’ve got a pretty long agenda today, with the biggest item probably being the Appearance Commission’s design review committee’s recommendations to the city council regarding outdoor dining standards. Back in November, city staff reported on a three-month pilot period for an outdoor dining ordinance that included […]
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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Akiel Denkins’s Family, N.C. NAACP Request Federal Investigation into Officer Shooting
Family members of Akiel Denkins, the southeast Raleigh man who was fatally shot by a city police officer in February, will make a request to the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Denkins’s death. At a press conference at the Bible Way Temple in Raleigh, the Rev. Wiliam Bar ber and Irv Joyner, legal counsel […]
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A Winston-Salem Medical Center Volunteer’s Crazy, Possibly Racist Rant Goes Viral
A volunteer at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem went on a violent, unhinged, maybe racially motivated rant at a father and another woman who say they were just sitting in a waiting room with their kids, having a friendly conversation before their appointments Thursday afternoon. “We need some help, there’s something wrong with […]
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The Morning Roundup: The Latest HB 2 Delusion
Happy Friday everyone! It’s supposed to be warm and sunny this weekend so get out there and enjoy those parks, greenways and patios, and maybe even a special event or two. Here’s news. 1. As long as HB 2 is still a (terrible) thing in North Carolina, we will continue to report daily on jobs […]
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Does Downtown Raleigh Have Too Many Events?
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 […]
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Raleigh Declares Glenwood-Brooklyn a Historic District
As the clock ticked toward midnight in Raleigh’s city council chambers last Tuesday evening, residents of the Glenwood-Brooklyn neighborhoodone of downtown’s three original suburbswere in a celebratory mood. The city council had just voted 6–2 in favor of applying a Streetside Historic Overlay District to the seventy-seven-acre neighborhood. Residents had been working on getting protections […]
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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 […]
