View This Email In Your Browser It’s Monday, April 21. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Early last month, a group of skateboarders showed up to the Raleigh City Council’s Tuesday evening public comment session with a request: that the city help them identify property they could […]
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View This Email In Your Browser Credit: Illustration by Nicole Pajor Moore The latest from INDY: A Stroll Through Durham With the City Council Candidates To introduce voters to the candidates, our partners at The 9th Street Journal took a walk downtown. The Skaters of Graveside DIY After losing their skate park to new development, Raleigh […]
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Protesters Rally in Durham against Cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Friday, April 18. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Durhamites took to the streets this week to defend a federal agency that’s been quietly fighting financial predators on your behalf for over a decade. The demonstration, which drew dozens to […]
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Raleigh Aims to Create 1,345 Affordable Housing Units, Reduce Unsheltered Homelessness to “Functional Zero” by 2030
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Thursday, April 17. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. When it comes to tackling Raleigh’s housing crisis, the target is constantly moving. Land is scarce and coveted, the cost of building keeps rising, and the city’s population keeps growing. Every […]
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DAE Asks Durham School Board to Delay Budget Vote, Announces “Practice Pickets”
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Wednesday, April 16. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Last week, I broke the news that the Durham school board had abruptly adopted a meet and confer policy that the Durham Association of Educators hadn’t approved. On Monday, the DAE […]
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Backtalk: “The band Spoon should sue all of the people involved.”
And other things our readers told us.
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Report Shines Light on Raleigh LGBTQ Community’s Historic Spaces
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Tuesday, April 15. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. The onetime Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel (now apartments), the Rialto Theater, and Pullen Memorial Baptist Church are all spaces of historical significance to the City of Oaks and its residents. But […]
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As Losses Mount, Foreign Aid Workers Want A Stronger Response from Local Leaders
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Monday, April 14. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Foreign aid workers in the Triangle who’ve lost their jobs amid USAID cuts want their representatives to step up. North Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District—which includes Durham, Orange, and parts of Wake […]
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NEWS: Durham School Board Approves State’s First Meet and Confer Policy
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Friday, April 11. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Some breaking news to start your Friday: Last night, the Durham Public Schools Board of Education approved North Carolina’s first ever meet and confer policy in a surprise 4-3 vote. I […]
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Durham Legislators Answer to Some of Their Youngest Constituents
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Thursday, April 10. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. This week, I joined some of Durham’s electeds for a visit to Easley Elementary School on Bring Your Legislator to School Day. The fourth and fifth graders (who were all far […]
