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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.
With the Dan River coal ash spill, the looming threat of fracking and the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources stripped of resources, the General Assembly short session is adding up to be a volatile one for environmental issues. The short session typically deals with budget. Last year, money was allocated for worthy environmental […]
Last week Tom Reeder, the director of DENR’s Division of Water Resources, emphatically told lawmakers that no coal ash deposits have been found to date in Kerr Lake. “There’s been a lot of anecdotal reporting about ash in Kerr Lake,” Reeder said at an Environmental Review Commission meeting. He added that the EPA sampled 20 […]
Duke Energy customers will likely pay most of the cost to clean up the utility’s 14 coal ash ponds in North Carolina. That means electric rates would increase to cover the $2 billion to $10 billion price tag. The utility says it will pay for the coal ash spill that occurred at the Dan River […]
Dr. Jacqueline Jordan is the principal of Underwood Elementary in Wake County Public Schools System. At a press conference in her school’s media center this afternoon, she put a face on the issues troubling teachers in North Carolina. Two of her school’s teachers had their homes go into foreclosure. One teacher who moved here from […]
Downtown Raleigh is experiencing a a new wave of growth and revitalization, according to a panel of Raleigh-based entrepreneurs and city officials, including planning director Mitchell Silver in his last public presentation before he heads home to New York City. At a gathering hosted by the Downtown Raleigh Alliance at Memorial Auditorium this morning, Silver, […]
Randy Graham and Kenneth Johnson have the building. And considering people die every day, they probably would have the business. But for six months, all these funeral home owners-to-be have had to show for it is an empty space on the wall in the office awaiting a certificate of inspection from the N.C. Board of […]
For seven years, the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources has known Raleigh Metal Recycling’s property is contaminated with PCBs and other pollutants. And after seven years, DENR and the company have yet to clean up the contamination, which is now discharging into a local stream that empties into the Neuse River Basin. DENR’s […]
Supporters of Selina Garcia— the 17-year-old Southeast Raleigh high school student who has been in jail for three weeks following a school bus fight— packed a Wake County courtroom Thursday. Garcia pleaded guilty to charges of simple assault and communicating threats regarding two minor altercations in school, in which no injuries occurred. She received credit […]
Editor’s Note: When the INDY called Wake County Human Services, a representative said the names of minors in foster care are confidential and that Garcia could not waive that right. However, Garcia and her attorney granted the INDY permission for the interview and agreed that Garcia would be named. We believe it is in the […]
A student in Wake County Public School System arrested March 7 for allegedly fighting on a school bus has been held in the jail on Hammond Road in Raleigh for nearly two weeks. 17-year old Selina Garcia, a senior at Southeast Raleigh High School, was arrested and taken to jail by a school resource officer […]
