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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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Finally—after a year and a half, much drama, changed up plans and Lord knows how many traffic impact studies—Raleigh’s City Council voted against a developer’s proposed rezoning of the parcel of land at the intersection of Dunn and Falls of Neuse Roads. More than 300 North Raleigh residents showed up to a public hearing at […]
The whispers and rumors floating around this morning about the rezoning request for the Dunn Road parcel at Falls of Neuse being withdrawn are true. Morgan Property Group, which has been pushing to rezone the land for a year and half—first for a Publix grocery store, then for a smaller, organic food store with possible […]
The newest iteration of North Carolina’s Ag-Gag bill could extend beyond factory farms and slaughterhouses in policing employees’ behavior at work. Senate Bill 433— introduced by three Republicans including Duplin County Sen. Brent Jackson, who has tried unsuccessfully twice before to target undercover investigators exposing abuse in the state’s factory farms—holds employees accountable to a […]
Some public school teachers— no doubt tired of buying their own school supplies and grading a bunch of incorrigible kids’ papers written in textspeak and generally being the most disrespected government employees in the state—have taken to demonstrating their commitment to public schools by wearing red for ed. For education that is, and they are […]
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Florida rule that bars judicial candidates from asking for campaign contributions. In North Carolina, judges are allowed to personally solicit cash for their campaigns, but the Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar ruling means that North Carolina could join the 30 other states that limit personal solicitation by judges, […]
