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 […]
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.
Posted inNews
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 […]
Posted inNews
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, […]
Posted inNews
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 […]
Posted inNews
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 […]
Posted inNews
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 […]
Posted inNews
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. […]
Posted inUncategorized
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 […]
Posted inNews
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 […]
Posted inNews
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 […]
