The Sacramento Beereports that The McClatchy Company—the Sacramento-based parent company of The News & Observer and several other dailies across the country—has been warned by the New York Stock Exchange that its stock price has fallen below the $1-a-share minimum threshold, jeopardizing the company’s continued listing on the exchange. From the story: McClatchy’s stock price […]
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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Wake Forest schoolteacher targeted by anti-abortion terrorists
Last summer, Shana Broders explained to a group of men protesting at a Raleigh women’s health clinic what a misogynist is. “It was the first in a series of errors,” says the fifth-grade teacher and clinic escort from Wake Forest. “They were ridiculing me for teaching them a new word. I told them, ‘teaching is […]
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Raleigh planners, residents explore options for Dunn Road properties
After two years, a failed rezoning attempt and two raucous citywide remapping public hearings, North Raleigh residents are still unsure of whether two Dunn Road properties will be rezoned to neighborhood mixed use to allow massive retail development. But after a meeting with Raleigh planning director Ken Bowers Tuesday, residents have one more option on […]
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The Athens Drive Library survives
Two months ago, the Athens Drive Community Library was on the brink of closing permanently, the second time it found itself on the block in just six years. But just as they did in 2009, its patrons freaked out when they found out. They fought back. They won. And it turned out to be a […]
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Why is Raleigh’s City Council rezoning downtown before its downtown plan is finished?
Raleigh’s Downtown Experience Plan is a beautiful, expansive document, a 10-year vision of swathes of green space and five interconnected districts accessible by foot, bike and bus, sprinkled throughout with shops and galleries, hotels and museums, parklets and public art, restaurants and bars. It contains strategies for promoting retail, preserving historic buildings, transforming under-utilized city-owned […]
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Mercy For Animals Comes ITB
Lunchtime shoppers picking up groceries for the weekend at the Cameron Village Harris Teeter were in for not exactly a treat Friday afternoon, and they certainly would have thought twice before purchasing any Tyson Foods chicken products. Mercy For Animals activists, accompanied by 7-foot-tall “Abby the Abused Chicken” born of a Hollywood special effects studio, […]
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Fact-checking Gov. McCrory’s hissy fit over proposed EPA carbon rules
Last week Gov. Pat McCrory issued a statement slamming the EPA’s clean power plan on the grounds that it is legally flawed and will raise the state’s electricity rates, and alleging that the EPA “has improperly interpreted the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions from coal-fired power plants.” In true McCrory style—the governor has spent […]
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Democracy North Carolina calls for criminal probe of sweepstakes donations
In the years leading up to 2012, pseudo-legal video sweepstakes parlors were popping up across North Carolina, Pat McCrory’s campaign was getting into gear and Thom Tillis and Phil Berger were seeking to preserve their roles as House Speaker and Senate President Pro Tempore. Gambling industry players, mired in court cases and needing the protection […]
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Raleigh City Council approves sale of Stone’s Warehouse
The sprawling, rundown 85-year-old Stone’s warehouse at 500 East Davie Street won’t be used for affordable housing, but the developers purchasing the building say they will transform the space into the next best thing: a grocery store, market and community gathering place for southeast Raleigh residents. Following a public hearing Tuesday evening, Raleigh’s City Council […]
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Aldona Wos is out as NC DHHS Secretary
Gov. Pat McCrory, who is slightly more popular than that guy who shot Cecil the lion, is slowly being deserted by high-ranking members of his cabinet. The latest to go is the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Aldona Wos. She will be resigning according to an announcement the Governor made […]
