On a rainy evening last week, dozens of people crammed into the cozy Boylan Bridge Brewpub, just up the hill from the site of Raleigh’s future Union Station. The crowd was in good spirits, and not just because the beer was flowing; the event marked the kickoff of advocacy group WakeUp Wake County’s fundraising efforts […]
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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Welcome to INDY Week’s Raleigh City Councli live blog, evening edition
7:02: I’ m here, the meeting has just been called to order. First is petitions of citizens. 7:03: Khaled Assel is here to discuss stormwater concerns at 4401 Delta Lake Drive. Stormwater is being dumped onto his property; there will be a staff report. 7:05: Nicholas Voss has concerns about the Luc Lounge on Paula […]
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Betty Lou Ward did not endorse Scott Lassiter for Apex Town Council, actually
Happy Halloween! The Apex Town Council race just got as interesting as the Apex Town Council race tends to get. Five candidates are running for two seats on the five-member+Mayor Council, including incumbents Scott Lassiter and Bill Jensen. Lassiter, a lifelong Apex resident and Wake County Schools administrator, claimed the endorsement of highly regarded, long-serving […]
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Raleigh sixth most “future-ready” city, says American privately owned multinational computer technology company
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 […]
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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 […]
