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 […]
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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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 […]
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N.C. Congresswoman Renee Ellmers makes RINO-hunter Kay Daly feel some type of way
Ah, the pie chart. It’s literally the most intelligible kind of chart there is floating around out there, whether 2nd District U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers agrees or not (she does not). Here is something Renee Ellmers said: “Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when […]
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Environmental groups ask NCDOT to reconsider proposed 540 toll road
Traffic is nightmarish in and all around Raleigh. So the North Carolina Department of Transportation plans to deal with greater Raleigh traffic in exactly the way one would expect of an antiquated, change-averse beacon of bureaucracy: by building the most expensive highway in North Carolina history, and saddling drivers— who could be spared merely 10 […]
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Wake County has one of the highest bankruptcy rates in North Carolina
Wake County is the best county, of course, but it’s generally regarded as one of the more expensive counties in the state to live in—just look at the cost of housing in Raleigh, for example. Wake County also has the ninth highest bankruptcy rate of North Carolina’s 100 counties, according to Lexington Law, a Utah-based […]
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Delay game: The McCrory administration drags its feet on our public records lawsuit
In July, the INDY joined a coalition of six media outlets and two nonprofits in filing a lawsuit against the McCrory administration for allegedly failing to promptly provide various public records. On Friday, the case heads to mediation. If the parties can’t reach an agreement there, depositions of four public affairs officials will begin next […]
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New Year, new law, same story: The Legislature kicks the poor in the teeth (again)
The beginning of each New Year inevitably heralds the implementation of a bunch of crappy new laws from the General Assembly, and 2016 is no exception. Sigh. As has become customary, it’s the state’s poor population that will be hit hardest. The latest attack ends a federal waiver designed to help poor people in economically […]