Well, well, well. David Cox, the mild-mannered computer scientist from North Raleigh, who has (thus far) successfully rallied thousands of his neighbors against a controversial rezoning at the corner of Dunn and Falls of Neuse Roads, is expected to file for the District B City Council seat this afternoon. That seat is of course occupied […]
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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Ten Triangle doctors received $8.3 million from pharmaceutical and medical devices companies last year
Doctors in the United States received $6.49 billion in payments from drug companies between August 2013 and December 2014, according to records released by the federal government last week. The non-profit ProPublica, which produces investigative journalism in the public interest, compiled the records released under the 2010 Physician Payment Sunshine Act in a database called […]
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North Carolina’s legislative disgrace
How did you guys celebrate the Fourth of July? Hotdogs? Beer? Fireworks? Downtown Raleigh’s The Works festival, even though it inexplicably allowed a cover band to play goddamn Maroon 5 songs against all notions of decency? All good options. Here’s another: If you were a member of North Carolina’s General Assembly, you spent the week […]
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Win, place or show: Place your bets on the Raleigh City Council
Monday marked the official start of municipal campaign season (yes, another one), and candidates for Raleigh City Council and the mayor’s office have until July 17 to file their papers. At first blush, this looks like a status-quo election: Mayor Nancy McFarlane appears to be coasting to reelection, as the Council’s more ambitious politicos (looking […]
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Raleigh City Council Live Blog: Evening Session
Welcome back friends! We’re getting the hang of live-blogging in real time. So for tonight’s humongous rezoning public hearing, we’ll be using “real times.” That is: 6:28 p.m.: The public hearing doesn’t start for another half hour but the Council Chamber is already full and overflowing. The Council must have known this would be a […]
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Follow INDY Week’s Live Blog of Raleigh City Council meetings today!
Afternoon session starts at 1 p.m. Evening sessions starts at 7 p.m. It’s a big day for the Raleigh City Council. This afternoon, they’ll take up home rental services, relocation of the Rex Senior Health Center and the sale of Stone’s warehouse, plus two controversial rezoning cases— the Dillon Supply building, and the restored Gethsemane […]
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In North Carolina, your right to protest unwanted development will soon be a relic of the past
On Thursday, the Senate voted 39-10 in favor of a bill that repeals citizen protest petitions, and Gov. Pat McCrory has said he will sign the bill into law, according to a News and Observer report. Citizens have just lost the only formal tool they had to try to keep unwanted development out of their […]
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N.C. Senate gives initial OK to bill repealing protest petitions
Shine up your pitchforks, North Carolina citizens; they’re likely the only tool you’ll have left in fighting unwanted developments in your neighborhoods. The state Senate voted 39-9 in favor of a bill to repeal zoning protest petitions Wednesday afternoon, after the bill cleared the Senate Commerce Committee on short notice Tuesday. “This bill in no […]
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N.C. Legislature stripping citizens of protest petition power
They thought they’d won. In January, under community pressure, Publix gave up on its plan to build a grocery store at the intersection of Falls of Neuse and Dunn roads in North Raleigh, a plan that engendered considerable acrimony from residents who worried about the prospect of nightmarish traffic, strip-mall-esque eyesores and adverse environmental impacts. […]
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45 North Raleigh homeowners file zoning protest petition on “Publix” site
If you, reasonable person, believed that the City Council’s unanimous vote on May 12 to deny the rezoning of the intersection of Dunn and Falls of Neuse Roads to a commercial district was going to put the kibosh on the matter, you were wrong. That happened, but Raleigh’s Planning Department has persisted in recommending commercial […]