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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Backtalk: “This is why there is no trust in our transit.”
And other things our readers told us.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Three Takeaways from Raleigh Mayor Janet Cowell’s State of the City Address
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Friday, March 28. 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 […]
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“A Civic Down Payment”: Officials, Advocates Celebrate Opening of Carrboro Library
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Thursday, March 27. 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 […]
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What Will It Take for Durham to Eliminate Traffic Deaths?
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Wednesday, March 26. 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 […]
