Raleigh’s 2030 Comprehensive Plan establishes a vision for the City of Raleigh and is supposed to provide long-range policy guidance for growth and development. But recently, residents have complained that proposals from developers have strayed from the guidelines set forth in the comprehensive plan, and that city planning staff and the City Council have been […]
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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More bike lanes planned for Raleigh, which had 98 car-bike crashes in a year
Earlier this month, Garret Thompson was hit by a black car while riding his bike at the intersection of Gorman and Jackson streets in Raleigh, near the N.C. State University campus. The driver didn’t stop, leaving Thompson, 23, with a broken leg, a sprained ankle and other bruises and scrapes. Until he heals, he can’t […]
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Love Wins loses IRS status, Greystone Inn tries again
Love Wins Ministries, a nationally known advocacy group for the homeless, failed to disclose to its supporters that it lost its nonprofit certification 18 months ago. And last week, the state Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division notified Love Wins that it had received a complaint about the ministry’s lack of transparency. The complaint was filed […]
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Expert challenges investigation of scene of Lennon Lacy’s death
An expert pathologist hired to review local and state authorities’ handling of Lennon Lacy’s purported suicide in August released a report Thursday, criticizing many of the actions taken by local law enforcement. Dr. Christena Roberts, who was retained by the North Carolina NAACP at the request of Lacy’s family, met with the state’s Chief Medical […]
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New report shows North Carolina can achieve 20 percent solar by 2030
A report released this week by Environment North Carolina’s Research and Policy Center shows that solar power is growing quickly in the state. So quickly, in fact, that solar power could generate 20 percent of North Carolina’s electricity within 15 years, a goal that was once considered improbable. Currently, the solar industry employs 3100 people […]
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Family of Lennon Lacy requests federal investigation into suspicious death
Together with the North Carolina NAACP, the family of the Bladenboro teenager who was found dead this summer has requested that the U.S. Justice Department join the ongoing SBI investigation into Lennon Lacy’s death. The seventeen year-old star high school football player, who was black, was found hanging from a child’s swing set in a […]
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North Raleigh residents worried about water, traffic, loss of revenue
At a town hall meeting Wednesday evening, District A City Council representative Wayne Maiorano asked his constituents to share what was on their minds. The residents who filled the lodge at Durant Nature Park had a lot to say. At the top of their list of concerns was water. Resident Georgia McLain said she is […]
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Grading Glenwood South’s Hospitality District
It’s Saturday night on Glenwood South, on the streets of the future Hospitality District. You may rightly be asking what the hell is a hospitality district? Are there many hotels? (No, only one, a Hampton Inn). Are people friendlier than in other districts? (Possibly, but they’re also drunker). Is this yet another ploy by Raleigh […]
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Raleigh on trend with other U.S. cities in outlawing distributing food to homeless people
Raleigh made national news last year when police threatened to arrest faith leaders who were handing out biscuits to homeless people in Moore Square Park. But, as we learned last week after a 90-year old Florida man was arrested for doing the same thing, Raleigh isn’t the only city where it’s illegal to give food […]
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Glenwood South to pilot Hospitality District ordinance
Soon, Glenwood South will become a more neighborly place to party and to sleep. Or, that is the hope, with the Glenwood South Hospitality District ordinance. On Wednesday, Raleigh’s City Council approved a one-year pilot program for the ordinance that will make it easier for businesses to obtain entertainment permits and easier for residents to […]