On Tuesday, the same day Raleigh’s much-awaited, $20 million affordable housing plan was unveiled, a panel of activists gathered at the Walnut Creek Wetland Center to discuss another set of intricately linked issues that the city faces: homelessness and food insecurity. Hosted by City Council member Bonner Gaylord, panelists discussed the root causes of homelessness […]
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 County Commissioners flout state, invest in schools
In other legislative news, the state Senate took a break from hating on the queers and telling chicks what to do with their uteruses to pat themselves on the back in advance for cutting income taxes (again!) and redistributing sales tax revenues to prop up the small, flailing rural counties they come from. This, of […]
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A Warehouse District workaround
If the residents of Raleigh’s Warehouse District will have to look out their windows at a 20-story tower where the Dillon Supply Co. building now sits, they want to make damn sure that the development is at least done well. They want shops, offices and apartments at ground level, not parking decks; they want buildings […]
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N.C. House votes to override McCrory veto of magistrates’ recusal bill
Shocker. The Legislature voted to override Gov. McCrory’s veto of Senate Bill 2 on Thursday, the one where state-employed magistrates can recuse themselves from their main job duty—marrying couples—if they cite a deeply held religious objection to gay people, just like Jesus definitely would do. Senate Bill 2 is the brainchild of Senate pro tempore […]
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Off of Aviation Parkway, remembering Tommy Sadler
If you were driving to the airport from Raleigh today, chances are you spotted Rav Marchand. The former Army Captain (unverified) was posted up off of the Aviation Parkway exit on I-40 West, dancing on his prosthetic legs, waving his bouquet of flags, talking the ears off of all who stopped to listen to him. […]
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A developer wants to turn the Dillon Supply Co. warehouse into a mixed-use high rise
The Warehouse District, with its land-hugging, namesake warehouses, blaring train horns and cobblestone walkways, is one of downtown Raleigh’s most beloved areas, attracting architects and designers, beer and coffee brewers, chocolate confectioners and young entrepreneurs, artists and thousands of residents. The long-awaited, $80 million Union Station, when it opens in 2017, will cement the district […]
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Prepaid legal services company sues N.C. Bar
The North Carolina State Bar is being sued. The plaintiff is LegalZoom.com, Inc., a Delaware corporation with offices out of California and Texas, which sells wills and other legal documents online. Clients of the service can order legal documents and consult with company-contracted attorneys by phone for a discounted price. In the federal lawsuit, LegalZoom […]
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N.C. House delays vote on gun bill, again
Worried they wouldn’t get the votes needed to repeal the state’s pistol permitting system and further loosen other gun control measures Monday evening, wingnuts in the House again delayed a vote on House Bill 562. “This bill’s got a lot of moving parts,” Rep. Jacqueline Schaffer, (R-Mecklenburg), a sponsor, told House Speaker Tim Moore before […]
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The rents in Raleigh are too damn high
Flash back to 2009, when Raleigh’s City Council debatedand ultimately shelveda task force’s proposal for what’s known in planning parlance as inclusionary zoning, which in essence requires residential developers to include affordable units as a condition of building. The city’s position then, as now, is that state law doesn’t allow it. They wanted to tackle […]
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N.C. “Ag-gag” bill heads to Gov. McCrory’s desk
The Property Protection Act—the bill with sweeping implications for ordinary workers, as well as farm animals—passed the full Senate Monday. Under the bill, employers could sue their employees if they report animal abuse or labor or safety violations in their workplaces. Senators rejected an amendment from Wake County Sen. Josh Stein that would have allowed […]
