Urban heat islands exist due to the legacies of segregation and discrimination and will only get worse with climate change. But local governments are doing some work to address them.
Ellie Heffernan
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15 Minutes: Yvette Holmes, New CEO of Southeast Raleigh Promise
“Everybody wants to come to Raleigh and Wake County. It’s great to live in a city that is so attractive, but that creates upward pressures on the cost of living here.”
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Chapel Hill Takes Steps Toward Electric Bike-Share Program
The town is exploring ways to coordinate with UNC and its bike-share provider on the placement of off-campus hubs.
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Quickbait: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the Triangle Bikeway
Is the plan cost effective for the average commuter or an inconvenient, expensive pipe dream?
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Drag Queen Story Time Is a Hit With Chapel Hill’s Youngest Residents
Stormie Daie, a local drag legend from Durham’s House of Coxx, read five stories focused on gender, friendship, and culture to a group of children and their parents in celebration of Pride Month.
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15 Minutes: Naomi Dix and Stormie Daie, Members of the Durham Drag Community
Members of Durham’s first drag family, The House of Coxx, Naomie Dix and Stormie Daie host educational drag shows featuring local queer Black and Brown artists.
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Departures of Faculty Members of Color From UNC Cost the Community More Than Lost Scholarship
Black faculty members contribute in countless ways and their departures due to the systemic racism that the university has yet to grapple with will have consequences that reverberate all over the UNC community.
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Triangle Farmers of Color Respond to Delayed Federal Aid
“What’s going on is very telling of the racism in America,” Sankofa Farms owner Kamal Bell says.
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An Executive Order from Governor Cooper Sets New Targets for Offshore Wind Generation
The order establishes a goal of producing enough wind energy to power roughly 2.3 million homes by 2040.
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15 Minutes: Rev. Michael A. Cousin, Sr.
Cousin is the pastor at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church. Founded in 1864, it is the oldest historically Black church in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area.