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 […]
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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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, […]
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LGBT rights groups sue state of North Carolina over magistrates’ bill
Last fall, after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned North Carolina’s discriminatory Amendment One, the state’s leaders threw a series of hissy fits that resulted in several different bills that further discriminate against the LGBT community being filed. Senate Bill 2— which allows state-employed magistrates to recuse themselves from administering marriage licenses or […]
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Is Raleigh finally getting serious about public art?
Kevin Lyons is up a ladder, hands black with charcoal, the result of hours spent painstakingly sketching an army of fuzzy-edged monsters on the eastern wall of the Trophy Brewing building on Morgan Street. A crowd watches him at work. A drone whizzes around them all. Lyons climbs down, stands back and determines where a […]
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So many white people: An evening with Donald Trump
Happy Friday everyone! If you are reading this blog, you would probably rather be doing literally anything else in the world than listening to Donald Trump speak at Dorton Arena. FOMO? Don’t worry- I cut to the front of a mile-long line for access, got bounced from the press area by an unfriendly, walking haircut […]
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Downtown Raleigh hungry for food trucks, City Council says wait
In September, Raleigh’s City Council voted to allow food trucks to operate in downtown neighborhoods. It was a big step forward for a city that’s been reluctant to allow food trucks at all, despite residents advocating for them for years. But instead of moving forward again, last night the council stalled, by voting to delay […]
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The Legislature flunked Environment 101, says League of Conservation Voters
Rolling back environmental regulations and wrecking the state’s clean-energy economy: These were the two big themes of the 2015 General Assembly session, according to the N.C. League of Conservation Voters, which released its legislative scorecard this week. The results were … disheartening, to say the least. Then again, what did we expect? To recap, state […]
