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 […]
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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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 […]
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No McDowell County magistrates officiating marriages until March
Marriage equality is the law of the land, and North Carolina is, officially, the land of the absurd. On Thursday it was reported that all four magistrates in McDowell County, near Asheville, have recused themselves from performing gay and straight marriages for the next six months. That’s their right under Senate Bill 2, which became […]
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Koch brothers tell lawmakers to tell other lawmakers: REPS bad for N.C.
Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards are responsible for the creation of 23,769 fewer jobs in North Carolina since the Great Recession in 2008. REPS cost the average North Carolina family $3,870 in 2013. Renewable energy sources are significantly more expensive than traditional options that are available. Farmers are being pushed off of their land by solar […]
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Residents aren’t buying Raleigh’s plans for East College Park
In 2005, Willie Stokes, a tall soft-spoken man with deep brown eyes, returned to the home he grew up in. It’s on Maple Street in East College Park, about a mile east of downtown Raleigh, a gray one-story home with a wide backyard built during the Roaring ’20s, back in this neighborhood’s heyday. The house […]
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North Carolina’s Historic Preservation Tax Credits could be coming back
The tax credit homeowners once received from the state of North Carolina for restoring historic properties, and the credit for income producing projects could be back, in a simplified form, in this year’s budget, according to Myrick Howard, the longtime President of Preservation North Carolina. Speaking at a panel of historic preservation experts, hosted by […]
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Edie Jeffreys, City Council, and Raleigh’s existential question: How to grow?
Edie Jeffreys is admiring the curly leaves and tall, lean profile of a Japanese maple in her shady backyard in Five Points. The tree is a rescue, she explains, from the yard of a property in nearby Fallon Park that was bulldozed to the ground a year ago. Jeffreys’ tidy garden, which borders a long, […]
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WRAL now owns Raleigh & Company blog, daily newsletter The Point
It’s been rumored for a while now, but a source confirmed last week that the Capitol Broadcasting Company, which owns Triangle news giant WRAL-TV as well as a number of smaller local television and radio stations, has acquired the blog Raleigh & Company and The Point, a daily email newsletter. Shawn Krest, a sports journalist […]
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Dumb Math, or why North Carolina doesn’t have a budget yet
In my middle school, kids who weren’t good with numbers were put in a class where the teacher taught algebra at a slower pace. We called that class “Dumb Math.” I was in Dumb Math, as were apparently North Carolina’s state Senate and House of Representatives budget negotiators, who are, still, taking their sweet time […]
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The assault on abortion rights gets ugly in the Triangle
A trolley pub careens past a dwindling group of protestersfour stragglers, down from the 250-plus earlier in the dayoutside the Planned Parenthood in downtown Raleigh Saturday afternoon. “I support Planned Parenthood, so fuck youuuuu,” a woman shouts from the trolley, waving her middle finger in the air. The protesters boo. Meanwhile, a trolling 20-something man […]
