So much for the Carolina Comeback: according to some recent labor market data on unemployment released by the left-leaning NC Justice Center, unemployment is up in North Carolina. 81 counties in the state continue to have more unemployed workers than before the beginning of the Great Recession—roughly December of 2007—and 91 of the state’s 100 […]
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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As elections near, the fate of downtown Cary hangs in the balance
Cary has long been thought of as a whistle-stop between Durham and Raleigh. Train tracks run through the center of its quaint downtown, which, with its array of low brick buildingsnow gift shops, upscale thrift shops and boutiques, diners and art studiosfeels a little like a 1950s time warp. But Raleigh’s beiger little sister’s downtown […]
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A Raleigh neighborhood doesn’t want the city’s street “improvements”
On Sept. 1, the Raleigh City Council voted unanimously to make street improvements to a section of Lorimer Road, a completely routine thing that usually engenders gratitude (or at least ambivalence) from affected residents. (Who doesn’t like “improvements”?) But that’s not the case here. Some residents say the improvements, which include adding a six-foot sidewalk […]
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North Carolina residents impacted by coal ash form alliance
Following the disastrous coal ash spill at the Dan River nearly two years ago, the North Carolina Legislature and Gov. McCrory charted a path to begin to address the state’s 14 coal-fired power plants. The Coal Ash Management Act emerged last August, requiring Duke Energy to clean up four high-priority coal ash lagoons, and in […]
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Join us live for the Raleigh City Council candidate forum
Tonight, WakeUP Wake County, the League of Women Voters of Wake County and the Delta Sigma Theta sorority are hosting a forum for all 18 candidates for Raleigh’s City Council and the Mayor’s office. We’re here at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, live blogging the forum from 7 to 9 p.m. Thanks for joining! 6:52: We’re […]
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Wake County extends protections to LGBT workers
On Monday, the Wake County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to add sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression to its anti-discrimination policy. The county has practiced equal employment opportunity for some time already, according to Commissioner John Burns, and the County’s updated Equal Employment Opportunity Ordinance enshrines protections for LGBT workers and job applicants […]
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NC bill could change what adolescents learn in sexual health education classes
Imagine your child, in public school, learning that contracting HIV is God’s way of punishing promiscuity, or that contraceptives are harmful or cause abortions. A bill heading to the state Senate, which makes changes to the state’s Healthy Youth Act, could broaden the scope of the resources teachers can use to educate middle-schoolers on sexual […]
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Raleigh City Council candidate lays into state budget
The Eastgate Shell station on Wake Forest Road is a fitting place for Raleigh City Council District A candidate JB Buxton to bring attention to one of the worst provisions in the new state budget: the sales tax on auto repair, maintenance and installation services that will go into a fund to benefit the state’s […]
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Can young voters swing Raleigh city elections?
You’d expect college kidsespecially college kids at N.C. State, which ain’t Berkeleyto greet municipal elections with a shrug and then return to their beer bongs. But what if that wasn’t the case? What if this year actually was different? How would that affect Raleigh’s City Council races? That’s what an organization called the Youth Government […]
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North Carolina finally has something resembling a state budget
Updated: The N.C. Senate voted to approve the budget 33-16 Tuesday afternoon. Sen. Josh Stein, D-Wake, who voted against the budget wrote on his Facebook page that it “it fails NC’s school kids, teachers & future.” Stein said according to the General Assembly’s Fiscal Research division, the cost of the corporate tax cuts and tax […]
