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 […]
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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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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Roy Cooper: NC DOJ Will Not Defend HB 2
North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper said in a Tuesday morning press conference that he will not defend North Carolina’s “shameful new law,” the discriminatory House Bill 2, in a lawsuit brought against the state by Lambda Legal, the ACLU of North Carolina and Equality North Carolina. Though as state attorney general he is named […]
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Public Records Lawsuit Against McCrory Administration Will Move Forward
It’s been a bad week for Governor McCrory’s brand. There’s the continuing fallout over House Bill 2. And then that pesky lawsuit brought against the administration by a coalition of media outlets (including the INDY) and two nonprofits just will not go away. On Wednesday, a superior court judge authorized attorneys for the coalition to […]
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The Morning Roundup: North Carolina Now Officially a National Embarrassment
Happy Thursday, all. Here’s your news. 1. Following a sham emergency legislative session, Governor McCrory wasted no time last night in signing the most sweeping anti-LGBT (and most sweeping anti-local government?) bill in the nation into law. It could cost the state $4.5 billion in Title IX funding, not to mention all the lawsuits and […]
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Discrimination on Parade: Live Blogging the NCGA Special Session
We’re live here at the North Carolina General Assembly’s special session aimed at making sure people use the correct restroom as indicated by the male or female designation on their birth certificate, and also at broadly cutting down the authority of local governments to make laws to protect their own employees. One fell swoop, y’all. […]
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The McCrory Administration Says You Needn’t Worry About That Coal Ash in Your Water
Shot: last week, Governor McCrory quietly disbanded the independent commission charged with overseeing the cleanup and closure of unlined coal ash pits across the state. It will now fall under the purview of the Department of Environmental Quality, an agency renowned for its subservience to McCrory’s former employer, Duke Energy. Chaser: a Winston-Salem Journal report […]
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