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 […]
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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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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Does Kay Crowder Have a Point on Bike Share in Raleigh?
“Sometimes the city needs to remember that Raleigh is bigger than just downtown and the surrounding ring.” Drive around Raleigh on a rainy day and you’ll see people standing at uncovered bus stops, soaking wet. They wouldn’t be out there if they had another way of getting to work, school, or the grocery store. But […]
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Duke Adjunct Faculty Votes to Unionize
Bucking objections from the university’s administration, members of Duke’s faculty not on track for tenure voted overwhelmingly in favor of union representation this week. After securing the 30 percent threshold of faculty support and filing a petition Thursday with the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election, 203 members of Duke’s adjunct faculty cast […]
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The Morning Roundup: Republican Governors Put a Pot of Gold to Good Use Attacking Roy Cooper
Good morning, everyone, and Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The NCAA tournament kicks off today, with Duke taking on UNC-Wilmington, and UNC squaring off with Florida Gulf Coast University in Raleigh this evening. Will the Triangle teams have the luck o’ the Irish on their sides? Don’t forget to fill out your brackets. Don’t forget to […]
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Why Was a Wake County Woman’s Lawsuit Settled Against Her Will?
It started with an argument. No punches thrown, just words exchanged. Denise Fitzpatrick, a petite, primly dressed African-American woman, now sixty-one, went to use the restroom at the Cornerstone Day Center, a publicly funded, Wake County-owned facility in downtown Raleigh that provides services such as mental-health and substance-abuse treatment to the homeless. It was August […]
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We Burn for Bernie: A Pre-Primary Party with Senator Bernie Sanders
11:04: Happy Friday everyone! We’re here at Memorial Auditorium in downtown Raleigh with the rest of everyone in downtown Raleigh, waiting to feel the Bern! The line to get in was half a mile long, and there are only 2,500 seats in this old theater, so we are packed in like sardines. It’s cool! We’re […]