View This Email In Your Browser The upcoming opening of the Renegade apartments on the 300 block of Main Street in downtown Durham is a milestone in an eight-year effort to take advantage of county-owned land to build centrally located and sorely needed affordable housing. The latest from INDY: Applications Open for Affordable Housing on […]
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RPD Joins News Outlets in Effort to Obtain Tyrone Mason Recordings
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Friday, May 9. Rollin’ with PRIDE – A Roller Skating Disco Event to Support the LGBTQ+ Center of Durham. Hosted at Wheels Durham, 100% of ticket revenue supports the Center. Presented by, Carolina Forward and sponsored by Queeny’s (exclusive after skate party host!) and GrrrlBands. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press […]
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Wake County School Board Passes Budget Nobody Likes
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Thursday, May 8. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. It’s budget season, and for the Wake County school board, that means some difficult math. At Tuesday night’s school board meeting, we learned that inflation plus population growth plus deferred maintenance […]
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The Bull Ride Will Cart You Around Downtown Durham for Free
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Wednesday, May 7. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Have you seen a bright purple golf cart-esque vehicle with horns in downtown Durham? It’s the Bull Ride and, as INDY’s Justin Laidlaw reports, it will drive you around downtown Durham […]
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Talking with the Designers of Raleigh’s Gipson Play Plaza
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Tuesday, May 6. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Gipson Play Plaza in Dix Park was designed and built over a period of several years, with the help of hundreds of collaborators and members of the public who gave their […]
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Central Park and Other Downtown Durham Sites Coming Up for a Redesign
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Monday, May 5. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Durham leaders have grand plans for revamping downtown and attracting residents and visitors in the coming years. In February, the mayor delivered his second State of the City address, which featured, […]
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View This Email In Your Browser Alexandra Forter Sirota, executive director of NC Budget & Tax Center, speaks next to a cardboard cutout of Senator Thom Tillis. Credit: Photo by Angelica Edwards The latest from INDY:
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Federal Workers Decry Human Toll of Funding Cuts at AFL-CIO Event
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Friday, May 2. Thank you to this week’s sponsor, North Carolina Museum of Art: Now on view at the NCMA—special exhibition, “The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure.” Featuring the work of 23 contemporary African diasporic artists from the US and UK, this groundbreaking exhibition […]
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A Raleigh Childcare Center Braces for Federal Funding Cuts
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Thursday, May 1. Thank you to this week’s sponsor, North Carolina Museum of Art: Now on view at the NCMA—special exhibition, “The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure.” Featuring the work of 23 contemporary African diasporic artists from the US and UK, this groundbreaking exhibition […]
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Backtalk: “It’s clear who runs the city, and it’s not the council.”
And other things our readers told us.
