Good evening everyone, and welcome to the INDY Week live blog that you may or may not see in real time—we’ll see how the technology goes. (I am squarely blaming the Wi-Fi connection in city council chambers that derailed my live blog this afternoon; no amount of turning everything off and then turning it back […]
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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Four questions with Thomas Mills, the Democratic candidate for North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District
Thomas Mills, a political campaign manager from Carrboro who runs the blog Politics North Carolina was never planning to run for office himself, but on the last day of filing for the 2016 election cycle he threw his name in the ring. Mills will challenge incumbent Republican Rep. Richard Hudson, a two-term congressman, for his […]
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David Cox questions new guidelines for video presentations to Raleigh City Council
The Raleigh City Council chamber’s video presentation system has been upgraded and along with the new hardware— including six new projector screens set up throughout the chamber and a touch-screen annotation system— there are some new rules. Not everyone’s happy about them. On the District B Facebook page yesterday morning, newly-seated Councilman David Cox posted […]
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Is the Carolina Comeback real? It depends on who you ask.
Ah, the Carolina Comeback, Gov. Pat McCrory’s alliterative, ambitious nomenclature for his aspirations for the post-Recession North Carolina economy. For some, the Carolina Comeback is a fairytale that’s never actually existed. For others, we’re smack dab in the middle of the comeback experience, and its fruition can be fully realized only when we vote to […]
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Nearly half of all state legislative races will not be competitive this election cycle
Here’s some bad news for fans of and believers in participatory democracy in North Carolina: only one candidate will run for state House or Senate seats in nearly half— or 43 percent— of all of the state’s legislative district races this election cycle. The reason: gerrymandering. The candidate filing period closed Monday at noon, and […]
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Wake Democrats target Republican control of the House
Not often in his first term has Gov. Pat McCrory stood up to his own party. But on three occasions since the Republicans took power in the General Assembly in 2013far-right bills to drug-test people applying for welfare benefits, grant magistrates the “religious freedom” not to perform single-sex weddings and essentially criminalize workplace whistleblowers at […]
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Raleigh’s bike-share program is back on the agenda (maybe)
There are good things on the horizon for those who want to walk, bike and run Raleigh in 2016, including a (half) day for carless streets and the long-awaited bike-share program. At a meeting of Raleigh’s Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Commission on Monday, downtown resident Molly Stuart pitched her idea to take a half day […]
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Real conservative blogger calls out those RINOs at the John Locke Foundation
It’s tough being conservative in North Carolina these days, what with your ideological purity being questioned at every turn and all. Republican In Name Only extraordinaire congresswoman Renee Ellmers found this out the hard way recently after carousing with the GOP establishment in Washington, and for her far-left stance on preserving abortion access for victims […]
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Mary K Mart gets her money
Well, here’s a happy ending, sorta. Raleigh drag performer Mary K Mart, aka Randy Light, received a check for the $1,465 Light was owed in unpaid vacation time by his former employer, the Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina, according to Mary K Mart’s Facebook page. Light was issued a cease and desist letter by the Raleigh […]
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In Raleigh, faith leaders pledge solidarity with U.S. Muslim community
On Monday of this week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the U.S. should ban all Muslims from entering the country for an indefinite period of time. On Thursday, Canada’s newly-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greeted the first planeload of several thousand Syrian refugees who will be arriving in his country in the coming months, […]