Raleigh loves landing on lists, and here’s the latest: it is the sixth most future-ready metropolitan area in the nation, according to a study commissioned by Dell and Intel that appeared in a New York Times paid post Friday. A future-ready economy, says Dell, is one that is “driven by innovation and technology,” consisting of […]
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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Kittens invade INDY Week’s Raleigh office!
We had the best 15 minutes at the office *ever* today! It’s National Cat Day, so to celebrate, ride-share service Uber teamed up with local animal shelters across the country to deliver kittens to hard-working professionals to play with, on-demand. Here’s Raleigh Uber employee Jason, and Darci from the Wake County SPCA, making a special […]
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In North Carolina, nearly 51 percent of renters are cost-burdened
Here’s yet more depressing news on the state of the state’s (and Raleigh’s) housing market: 50.8 percent of all North Carolina renters pay more than 30 percent of their monthly income towards housing, meaning they’re severely cost-burdened. Andrew Woo, a growth strategy manager at Apartmentlist.com, analyzed census data from 2007-2014, across all 50 states, 454 […]
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Does it matter that Raleigh’s City Council will (probably) soon have no Republicans?
John Bryant, the chairman of the Wake County Republican Party, has a discreet office on Salisbury Street filled with books and case files. A black rescue dog named Pepper romps around while Bryant, in his requisite leather lawyer’s chair, contemplates the possibilityactually, the probabilityof a Raleigh City Council without a single Republican for the first […]
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US Sen. Richard Burr endorses Eddie Woodhouse in Raleigh City Council election
Well, thank goodness. Voters in Raleigh’s District A can rest easy now that US Sen. Richard Burr (you know, the one from North Carolina that’s not Thom Tillis) has endorsed in the upcoming runoff election for City Council. Burr is not from Raleigh, nor does he live in Raleigh, but he thinks Eddie Woodhouse is […]
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Students respond to Margaret Spellings named as new UNC system President
Students have largely been overlooked during the UNC Board of Governors’ search for a new system President, and, turns out, they’re just as unhappy with the Board’s choice of Margaret Spellings as the rest of us are. President George W. Bush’s former Secretary of Education has a disappointing resume, as a group of “concerned students […]
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Will parking fees crush downtown Raleigh?
Start saving your pennies, Raleigh: Starting Jan. 1, you’ll have to pay to use eight of the downtown public parking decks on weekends. This isn’t a new thing, of course. The City Council included a parking fee in its budget this summer, arguing that the city needed the extra money to offset increasing maintenance and […]
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Who paid for Raleigh’s new City Council?
If only one person could be declared winner of last Tuesday’s Raleigh election, it would have to be Nancy McFarlane. Not only did the mayor easily best Bob Weltzin to secure a third term, but she also cobbled together a working majority on City Council to enact her agenda. If there was a loser, it […]
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Renee Ellmers’ horrible, no good, very bad week
Renee Ellmers, the three-term congresswoman who rose to power in 2010 denouncing the imaginary “Ground Zero mosque,” seems to have hit a rough patch of late. First, conservative activist Kay Daly jumped into the GOP primary race for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district with a quite-literal bang: In a TV ad that went viral, Daly […]
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Raleigh one of nation’s most affordable cities, say people who’ve never tried to buy a house here
We’re not sure how far OTB consumer advocacy website NerdWallet had to go to find a 3,163-square-foot house in Raleigh for $351,588—Fuquay? Garner? Johnston County?— but apparently the City of Oaks is the nation’s ninth most affordable large metro in the country, according to this list. “Unlike other analyses that simply measure income against home […]