“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 […]
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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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 […]
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Community Activists Ask Raleigh’s Human Relations Commission for Police Oversight Board
Dozens of residents turned out for the City of Raleigh’s Human Relations Commission meeting Thursday, to ask commission members to look into a community oversight board that would investigate citizen complaints against police officers. Many of the residents, clad in black T-shirts and holding signs calling for justice, are members of a coalition of community […]
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The Morning Roundup: N.C. GOP Cannot Abide Trump, Cannot Get Along
Here’s everything you need to know to get you through this Thursday. 1. Donald Trump came to North Carolina again, and protesters disrupted his rally, again. Trump rallies are dangerous places to be these days, and while I like to think Raleigh protesters were the first to disrupt a Trump-tour speech, folks in Fayetteville, where […]
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State Officials to Lee County Residents: It’s Now Safe to Drink Your Coal Ash Water
Lee County residents, whose well water was recently found to be polluted by coal ash contaminants, got an alarming surprise this week. They heard from officials from the state Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Health and Human Services that their water is actually safe to drink, even though 14 private wells that […]
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Clean Energy Equals Good Business, Say Entrepreneurs
In case our state’s self-proclaimed “pro-business” lawmakers doubt that clean energy is important to the state’s business leaders, the N.C. League of Conservation Voters decided to help them out. Last week, the NCLCV convened a panel of North Carolina entrepreneurs at N.C. State’s JC Raulston Arboretum to discuss the benefits of the federal Clean Power […]
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Raleigh Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown Releases Report of Akiel Denkins Shooting
Raleigh police chief Cassandra Deck-Brown released a preliminary report Thursday afternoon that contains information regarding Monday’s officer-involved shooting that killed 24-year-old southeast Raleigh resident Akiel Denkins. According to the report, RPD Senior Officer D.C. Twiddy spotted Denkins on Bragg Street around noon on Monday. Denkins ran and Twiddy pursued him. Twiddy slipped on some gravel […]
