12:55: Welcome to the INDY’s Raleigh City Council live blog! There’s a lot going on today and the Council chambers are filling up fast. 12:58: This is not on the agenda (too last minute), but at yesterday’s UDO work session, Councilman Maiorano made a motion to place consideration of two parcels of land off of […]
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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Raleigh City Council will vote on changes to fuel sales in residential areas today
Gas stations—who needs ’em, right? Not in our backyards, thank you. This sentiment is the essence of a text change approved by the City Council’s Comprehensive Planning Committee last week to limit fuel sales in certain residential areas—the full City Council will vote this afternoon whether to accept the committee’s recommendation. (This particular zoning, NX, […]
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Raleigh’s Crabtree Jones House is finally under contract
The Crabtree Jones House was built in 1809, for the prominent Wake County and state politician, Nathaniel “Crabtree” Jones, and the Jones family continued to live in the house until 1973, when it was sold off for development. Formerly located on Wake Forest Road, the home was threatened with demolition in 2012. Preservation North Carolina […]
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While downtown Raleigh’s condos boom, its retail busts
Trig Modern, with its quirky, curvilinear furniture designs, metal and glass light fixtures, and funky, geometrical chandeliers, is exactly the kind of cool, local, independent store Raleigh wants downtown. Too bad the owner can’t afford it. Bob Drake, a tall man with graying hair and a warm demeanor, has been in the 3,900-square-foot space at […]
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Live blogging Raleigh’s Law and Public Safety Committee Meeting
Welcome to the INDY’s live blog of Raleigh’s late July Law and Public Safety Committee. We’ll be following the committee’s discussion of the proposed outdoor drinking rules that a task force, composed of city staff, resident reps and bar and restaurant owners, have worked on for the past six weeks. There are more than 100 […]
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N.C. DOT Secretary Tony Tata resigns
Prolific science fiction author and state Department of Transportation Secretary and fired Wake County schools superintendent Tony Tata is resigning from his position at the DOT, which he has held since January, 2013, according to Gov. Pat McCrory’s office. Per a news release: Raleigh, N.C. — Governor Pat McCrory announced today that Tony Tata has […]
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N.C. Sen. Trudy Wade wants to limit state input in complying with federal clean power plan
Eventually, North Carolina will have to comply with some version of the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions rule, whether it likes or not (it does not). The rule, which is expected to be released during the first week of August, will be the first ever limit to carbon pollution by requiring states to comply […]
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#BlackLivesMatter, Raleigh
In Raleigh, many of us like to think we live a million miles away from the racial inequality that’s led to violence in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Charleston, and even Durham and Chapel Hill. We’re not racist here; our rebel-flag waving lesser-halves are confined to Johnston County, crawling out inevitably for a Kid Rock concert, […]
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David Cox’s gas station vendetta
This will not go over well with the Wake County Taxpayers’ Association. North Raleigh resident and City Council District B candidate David Cox says provisions related to gas stations in a proposed text change to the city’s development code will harm neighborhoods. And the city should re-evaluate whether a new gas station is really needed […]
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A whole bunch of people filed for Raleigh City Council today
Corrected: Edwin “Eddie” Woodhouse, Jr., a Republican, is running for the District A seat; his father, Edwin Woodhouse was the executive director of the North Carolina Poultry Federation. The senior Edwin Woodhouse is a registered Democrat. It’s the last day to file as a candidate for City Council and in Raleigh, there’s a race of […]
