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 […]
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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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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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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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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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 […]
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Was Renee Ellmers sleeping with Kevin McCarthy?
North Carolina’s family values Republicans have really been crushing it in Congress recently. First, Mark Meadows ignored multiple complaints of his chief of staff sexually harassing women subordinates. And now married-to-someone-else Congresswoman Renee Ellmers is—allegedly—sexing Kevin McCarthy (also married to someone else.) We don’t want to get sued, or receive cease and desist letters from […]
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INDY Week Live blog: Evening edition
Welcome back! We’ve got a full agenda this evening and a full house in Council chambers. 7:02: Mayor Nancy has called the meeting to order and we’re starting off with a Historic Landmark Designation. It’s the Crabtree Jones House and it will now be called the Nathaniel Crabtree Jones house. It was moved form its […]
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Welcome to the INDY’s first Raleigh City Council liveblog of fall!
It’s been a while since we’ve all gathered in City Council chambers! Since then, we’ve been drinking pumpkin beers not on sidewalks, wondering what happened to the sun for three weeks and participating in Democracy. Yep, we just had an election, and now we’re back with a lame duck Council and three Council members who […]
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Election Day in Raleigh
So, Mayor Nancy has officially been elected to her third term as Mayor of Raleigh, beating out challenger Robert “Dr. Bob” Weltzin, with 75 percent of the vote. Mary-Ann Baldwin and Russ Stephenson will keep their at-large seats, with 31.1 and 30.3 percent of the votes respectively. They beat newcomer Matt Tomasulo (he got 24.4 […]
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North Carolina Congressman ignored complaints of sexual harassment against his chief of staff
The Republican Party doesn’t have the greatest track record of listening to women, or respecting their opinions or letting them make private healthcare decisions without running interference at every turn. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows continued to pay his chief of staff, Kenny West, for six months […]
