It’s the opening day of the 2015 legislative session and some North Carolina lawmakers are making discrimination their top priority. House Speaker Pro Tempore Paul Stam has promised a broad religious freedom bill, which would allow service providers, government officials and business owners to decide who they choose to serve. Senate Pro Tempore Phil Berger […]
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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Why some Raleigh residents are uptight about Airbnb’s
There’s no hotel in Raleigh’s Five Points neighborhood, but visitors can rent a spacious room with a bathroom, a double bed and a private entrance in Greg Stebben’s house across the street from Lilly’s Pizza for $80 a night on Airbnb. Across town, Doris Jurkiewicz, owner of Raleigh’s Oakwood Inn, where the nightly rate is […]
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Google Fiber coming to the Triangle
It’s official: Google Fiber is coming to Raleigh and Durham. And to Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Cary, Morrisville and Garner. Oh, and to Charlotte. Google Fiber’s business director Michael Slinger joined Gov. McCrory and seven Triangle mayors Tuesday afternoon at the N.C. Museum of History to make the announcement. “Today we are committing to invest in […]
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Developer drops plans for North Raleigh Publix
Raleigh mayor Nancy McFarlane announced this weekend that Publix is no longer considering the intersection of Falls of Neuse and Dunn Roads for a new store location. For more than a year, North Raleigh residents have strongly and visibly opposed rezoning the property which would have made the construction of a 49,000 square foot store […]
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Raleigh’s Merrimon-Wynne owner allowed to play amplified music outdoors
The owner of a restored home turned wedding venue on Raleigh’s Blount Street will be allowed to play amplified music outdoors until March, 2016. The Raleigh City Council’s unanimous decision Tuesday to grant owner Jodi Heyens an Outdoor Amplified Entertainment Permit, good for a year, comes after neighbors complained at a September hearing that Heyens […]
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Peek inside Raleigh’s historical landmarks
Holding on to history is something Raleigh does well, and on Saturday, the city’s curious were invited to tour four landmark buildings that are being restored and repurposed. The Raleigh Historic Development Commission opened the old Nehi Bottling Plant on Hillsborough Street, the Lewis-Smith house on Blount Street, the Gethsemane Seventh Day Adventist Church on […]
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New N.C. DENR Secretary announces personnel changes
Updated: In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, DENR Secretary Donald van der Vaart announced that Tom Reeder, former director of the Division of Water Resources, will succeed Mitch Gillespie as Assistant Secretary for the Environment. Gillespie will serve as department liaison in the Asheville Regional Office and will become DENR’s “first director of western outreach, […]
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Council to address rezoning of 80 acres between Raleigh, Wake Forest in two weeks
Raleigh’s city council will take up the rezoning of the 80-acre property off of Forestville and Ligon Mill Roads at its next meeting. Attorneys working on behalf of the potential developer and county residents who live in the adjacent Chesterfield Village neighborhood will attempt to negotiate compromises that will address many residents’ concerns over traffic, […]
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Rezoning for North Raleigh Publix delayed another 60 days
In its first controversial decision of the year, Raleigh’s city council gave the would-be developer of a Publix grocery store at the intersection of Dunn and Falls of Neuse Roads another 60 days to make changes to the plan before voting to rezone the property. The proposal has been before the Raleigh Planning Commission for […]
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Sandwiched between Raleigh and Wake Forest, a neighborhood gets the worst of both worlds
Chesterfield Village is a sleepy neighborhood north of Highway 401, with a rural feel that is not quite Raleigh, not quite Wake Forest. Many of the hundred or so properties sit on a whole acre of land. The streets are narrow and deteriorating, with no sidewalks; neighbors slow down or yield to one another as […]
