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 […]
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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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 […]
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Welcome to Raleigh, Donald Trump, you beautiful performance artist, you
Oh, goody: On Friday, Raleigh’s Dorton Arena will be awash in a sea of graying racist-chain-email enthusiasts and Duck Dynasty types with vague notions of the South rising again. No, it’s not the Dixie Gun and Knife show; it’s worse. Congenital liar, quasi-fascist and professional hairpiece Donald Trump is coming to town. And just in […]
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115 Wake County Animal Shelter dogs need homes
If you’re in Wake County and you’ve been thinking of adopting a dog, now is the time. The Wake County Animal Shelter took in 36 animals yesterday, according to the shelter’s Facebook page. 29 of these animals are dogs, meaning the shelter has 115 dogs who need homes right now. “We are hoping we can […]
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Religious extremists from North and South Carolina more dangerous than refugees, says Slate
Here in the Carolinas, we’ve been doing a lot of hand-wringing over terrorism and the remote possibility that Syrian refugees are coming to the U.S. to commit terrorist acts. And we should be concerned about terrorism, but not in relation to Syrian refugees; we have our own, home-grown crop of extremists, people who will, with […]
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Raleigh artist Dalek promotes Small Business Saturday
The crisscrossing red and blue lines jump off the black, painted-brick background under the green Bruegger’s Bagels sign in Raleigh’s Ridgewood shopping center. This is the work of nationally renowned street artist James Marshall, aka Dalek. (Yes, nerds, the Doctor Who reference is intentional.) His mural is a gift to the city he now calls […]
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North Carolina’s newest anti-immigrant law could harm more than 170,000 children
We knew the so-called Protect North Carolina Workers Act, signed by the governor last month, would be bad for immigrants. It could be bad for U.S. citizens too—specifically, children. Research from children and families advocacy groups NC Child and First Focus estimates that the new law could harm more than 170,000 U.S. citizen children from […]