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Brian Rosenzweig
Orange County Voters Face a Tough Choice: This Good Guy or That Good Guy?
Between NC House 56 candidates Allen Buansi and Jonah Garson, Orange County voters may find it difficult to decide who to send to Raleigh.
Durham’s Harriet Tubman YWCA Will Be Renovated For Affordable Housing
A $1 million grant from HUD will go towards developing the historic location affordable studio apartments.
The Department of Justice Has Finally Opened an Investigation into the 1970 Murder of James Lewis Cates Jr.
In 1970, the Black 22-year-old Chapel Hill resident was murdered by a Durham-based white supremacist group on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus.
15 Minutes: Isaac Lund, Junior at Green Hope High, Founder and President of Service Beakers
Service Beakers is a high school volunteer organization that brings free, hands-on science lessons to Triangle area students.
Duke Energy Wants to Repair Discolored Streetlights. But What If Residents Want to Keep Them?
Those purple streetlights are the result of a “bad batch” of LEDs. But people like their otherworldly energy.
Orange County Residents and Environmental Advocates Aren’t Happy About Plans to Close the University Place Recycling Center
With a central location by the mall and Harris Teeter, the site not only became a popular drop-off location but was critical to local recycling and disposal efforts.
15 Minutes: Dr. Amir Barzin, 37, director of UNC’s Carolina Together Testing Program
Since fall of 2020, Barzin has helped lead UNC’s COVID response, managing testing and acting as an adviser on pandemic-related decisions.
Hundreds of New Affordable Housing Units Coming to Downtown Durham as Part of Durham Housing Authority’s Three-Site Redevelopment Project
Of more than 1,700 planned residential units, nearly 900 will be priced for residents earning between 30-80 percent of the area median income.

