View This Email In Your Browser It’s Wednesday, April 9. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Arthur and Anya Gordon, the founders and former owners of the iconic Irregardless Café, just moved one step closer to realizing their dream of creating an affordable, multigenerational housing development connected […]
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The Durham Rescue Mission Wants to Rezone Land Near Its East Durham Campus. Residents Are Wary.
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Tuesday, April 8. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. The Durham Rescue Mission wants to expand its footprint in East Durham. But exactly what the homeless services organization plans to do with 15 parcels of land it’s asking the city […]
Big Spoon v. Smaller Big Spoon
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Monday, April 7. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Hillsborough’s Big Spoon Roasters, the local nut butter company that rose from farmers market favorite to national brand, is suing a California chili crisp maker using a near identical name. It’s […]
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View This Email In Your Browser Richard B. Harrison Library in Wake County. Photo by Angelica Edwards. The latest from INDY: The Durham Rescue Mission Wants to Rezone Land Near Its East Durham Campus. Residents Are Wary. At a community meeting on Wednesday, a representative gave few answers about how the Durham Rescue Mission plans […]
Seven Questions about the Durham Public Schools Budget
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Friday, April 4. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Wake up, readers! It’s budget season in Durham Public Schools! $20 thousand for tubas. $377 thousand for bus driver pay supplements. $43 million for charter schools: The superintendent’s $230 million draft budget is officially […]
Why Did Raleigh’s Planning Commission Accept $1.5 Million in Lieu of Promised Affordable Housing Units at Union Station?
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Thursday, April 3. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Should GoTriangle and the developer Hoffman & Associates be allowed to pay $1.5 million into Raleigh’s affordable housing fund instead of including affordable units in the high-rise apartment complex they’re building […]
Backtalk: “This is why there is no trust in our transit.”
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How One Durham Resident Is Finding Community through Solo Roadside Political Protests
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Wednesday, April 2. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Durhamite Rebecca Murphey was feeling a bit…helpless with everything going on in America (see: the brutal dismantling of the federal government). So she made some signs (ex. MY GRANDPA FOUGHT FASCISTS […]
Town of Cary Partners With Invicta Water to Remove and Destroy PFAS In Drinking Water
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Tuesday, April 1. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Forever chemicals, or PFAS—per- and polyfluoroalky substances—are in the air, water, and soil all around us. They’re also in us. EPA data show that 143 million people throughout the country use […]
In A Contentious Meeting, Durham Association of Educators Pushes for Meet and Confer Policy
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Monday, March 31. Thank you to this week’s sponsor, Carolina Forward: Join us for a live discussion and Q&A between The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson, Raleigh Mayor Janet Cowell, and Durham Mayor Leo Williams, moderated by Blair Reeves from Carolina Forward. Together, we’ll be discussing how we move beyond a […]

