Good morning, folks, we corralled your headlines so you’re ready to crush Thursday. 1. Low performing schools could be given one of three horrible options. Yesterday, Rep. Rob Bryan, R-Mecklenburg, presented a bill to to a special committee of lawmakers that would create a statewide district, called the Achievement School District, under which the State […]
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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A divisive street-improvement plan raises questions about Raleigh’s citizen-petition process
Ryan Barnum lives at 1300 Lorimer Road, a shady, narrow street in west Raleigh. When he bought his 1950s house last April for $284,000, he’d never heard of an in-the-works proposal to install a 6-foot sidewalk on a stretch of that street, along with curbs, gutters and storm drains. Soon after he closed, a woman […]
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HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell tells North Carolina residents to get covered
Were you planning on signing up for health care coverage this year through North Carolina’s health insurance marketplace? If so, you’d better do it soon—enrollment ends on Sunday. According to recent estimates from the Department of Health and Human Services, North Carolina ranks third in total number of enrollments for health insurance, with more than […]
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The Ongoing Chronicles of Kay Daly: A would-be congressman, who is a woman
In today’s installment of questionable things said by Kay Daly, per her campaign Facebook page: “If elected, I will be one of only two females in Congress who refers to herself as CongressMAN.” Kay Daly links to a story about the U.S. Navy changing its lexicon to be more gender-inclusive, since, according to the article, […]
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Trophy Brewing muralist Kevin Lyon’s monsters adorn Vans sneakers
Renowned graphic artist Kevin Lyons’ army of monsters has held the east wall of the Trophy Brewing building captive for a little more than a month now. The mural was a joint venture between Lyons, truth (to keep teens from smoking) and Vans, the venerable skateboarding shoe and clothing brand. Since street art is by […]
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Raleigh developer knocks down historic bungalow to build a massive house
The wooden front porch is all that’s left of the Victorian-style cottage at the corner of Holden and Elm streets. And, if all goes to plan, that front porch is the only thing that will remain when a massive, three-story home is erected around it, an awkward relic of a time when bigger wasn’t necessarily […]
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Trig Modern flees downtown Raleigh
While luxury apartments have proliferated in downtown Raleigh in the past decade, retailers and small businesses have struggled to keep up with rising real-estate values. In response, business ownerslike the owners of Trig Modern, a furniture store featured in an INDY story last summer (“The rent is too damn high,” July 29)are getting creative with […]
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N.C. Rep. Paul Stam is here to help you with your gambling problem
In anticipation of tonight’s $1.5 billion Powerball drawing, Rep. Paul Stam, R-Apex, sent out a press release to impart some words of wisdom unto us dolts who’ve been brainwashed into playing the North Carolina Education Lottery. The largest-value “jackpot” in the history of the NC Lottery is up for grabs Wednesday night at $1.5 billion. […]
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Our lawsuit against the governor went to mediation last week
Finally, from the updates desk: The McCrory administration PR crisis that is the media-coalition lawsuit brought against it last year for failing to provide public records promptly went to mediation on Friday. We were there, of course, but as a party to the case we’re bound by a confidentiality agreement, which means we can’t say […]
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Raleigh’s DrunkTown debate is back on the agenda
You’ll no doubt recallpossibly because we talked about it ad infinitumthat in August Raleigh’s City Council launched a three-month pilot program to try to rein in outdoor drinking downtown, following complaints from some residents that revelers were clogging sidewalks and generally being too raucous too late into the night. But then in November, the council […]
