Meet Dallas, a two-year-old blue brindle pit bull. He’s a Cause for Paws foster pup who’s looking for a home. Last week, Dallas, accompanied by his foster mom Brittany Carpenter and Cause for Paws outreach director Molly Doll, thought he was going to be featured on WRAL-TV’s “Pet of the Day” news segment. Carpenter says […]
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 Morning Roundup: Gov. McCrory Backs Trump, Democrats Say; Republicans Don’t Want Maya Angelou to Have a Post Office
Updated: Sen. Burr has in fact weighed in on Congresswoman Alma Adams’ proposal to name a Winston-Salem post office after Maya Angelou. Both he and Sen. Thom Tillis support the bill. See below. Good morning, everyone. Early voting starts in North Carolina today, so make sure you head to the polls, stat! Remember, your participation […]
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Candidate Charles Meeker Would Take Labor Commissioner’s Picture Out of North Carolina’s Elevators
North Carolina Department of Labor Commissioner-slash-Elevator Queen Cherie Berry is so well known, she’s inspired songs dedicated to her. Who doesn’t love the smiling commissioner with the delightfully fruity-sounding name whose picture is in every elevator in the state? Well, probably most people who have actually had to deal with Cherie Berry’s Department of Labor […]
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Lawsuit Update: The State Wants to Limit Our Access to Documents
“More foot dragging.” That’s how Mike Tadych the attorney for the INDY and a coalition of media outlets and nonprofits suing the McCrory administration over its handling of public records requestsdescribed the defendants’ recent machinations in the case. “[The defendants] have taken the position of, A, we have produced everything listed in your complaint, and, […]
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Raleigh Cops Want a Raise
In a video that’s circulating online, Bobby Hudson, an officer with the Raleigh Police Department, talks about working twelve-hour shifts each day to support his family. “I cannot live in the city of Raleigh with the pay being so low; just my mortgage alone takes up one of my entire paychecks,” Hudson says. Hudson says […]
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Cary Town Council Votes to Amend Its Comprehensive Plan
The Cary Town Council voted 6-1 this evening to amend a portion of its official land-use map from residential to commercial, likely to allow for a Publix grocery store to be built directly adjacent to the Arlington Park subdivision in the northwestern part of the town. Neighbors have opposed the comprehensive plan amendment, but Council […]
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The Morning Roundup: Governor Pat McCrory Cannot Stop Getting Sued
Good morning everyone! We’re not in Kansas anymore but it’s still windy out there. Here are your headlines: 1. Yes, it’s true: another complaint against McCrory has been filed. This time Progress NC, a “liberal advocacy group,” is accusing the Guv of blurring the lines between his reelection campaign committee and a committee he organized […]
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Citizen Award: Lori Hensley Is Changing the Landscape of Canine Care
It’s a mild February morning, and a dozen people are hammering wire to wood, building a fence in a grassy backyard off Ashe Street in east Durham. The fence builders are from the Coalition to Unchain Dogs, an animal welfare and community outreach organization founded in 2008. Lori Hensley, a woman with a warm demeanor […]
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Raleigh Cops Are Mad at Beyoncé
Update: Last night the Raleigh police union members voted unanimously not to boycott the Beyoncé show. Raleigh’s police union, Teamsters Local 391, apparently has a lot of free time of its hands. According to the local’s vice president, Rick Armstrong, the Raleigh union will meet Tuesday evening (after we go to press) to discuss one […]
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Citizen Award: How Nation Hahn Turned Tragedy into a Mission
Two-thirds of North Carolina’s public school students are enrolled in free and reduced lunch programs, according to the state’s Department of Public Instruction. At the last statewide point-in-time count, three thousand students were identified as being truly homeless; twenty-seven thousand lacked stable housing. Some folks view the issues that face impoverished students in North Carolina […]
