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 […]
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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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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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 […]
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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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Raleigh City Council evening live blog
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 […]
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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 […]
