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 […]
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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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 […]
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Deah Barakat’s Sister Admonishes Trump for Anti-Muslim Remarks
Donald Trump went to South Carolina this weekend and said something gross again. And then he won the Republican primary!The New York Times has a report on Trump’s comments during a rally to the effect of him praising an American general who, per unsubstantiated Internet rumor, executed a group of Muslim terrorists by shooting them […]
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The Morning Roundup: Duke Won Again and Democrats Will Probably Lose, Again
Good morning, everyone. It’s important to note here that Thursday is little Friday. News is as follows: 1. Yesterday, Republican lawmakers unveiled a court-ordered, redrawn map of North Carolina’s 13 congressional districts, and it is something: Here’s the old map, for comparison: So while it looks a little less like the Republicans threw spaghetti at […]
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Here Are the Triangle’s Biggest Rental Developments in 2015
We’ve written about how nearly 51 percent of renters in North Carolina are cost-burdened, and about the economic theory that building more luxury high-rises could be a solution to the Triangle’s affordable housing shortage. Let there be no question, however, that thousands of new rental units—whether affordable to the average renter or not—are popping up […]
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Welcome to the Raleigh City Council Live Blog
Buenos dias, friends. I hope you’ve all thawed out from yesterday! Welcome to our bi-monthly City Council live blog. Today’s agenda is not very long, though the consent agenda, at 14 pages, is rather lengthy. Probably the most exciting things we’ve got coming up today are: an update on a possible bike share program, and […]
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N.C. Appellate Court Upholds Wake Judge’s Ruling on Modernist Oakwood House
After nearly three years, the saga of Louis Cherry’s and Marsha Gordon’s modernist home on Euclid Street, in Raleigh’s historic Oakwood neighborhood, finally came to an end today. Three N.C. Court of Appeals judges concurred with Wake County Superior Court Judge Elaine Bushfan’s 2014 decision that allowed Cherry and Gordon to complete construction of their […]