View This Email In Your Browser It’s Friday, February 14. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Like school districts across the country. Wake County Public Schools, North Carolina’s largest, is bracing for the impacts of what Trump administration policies could bring. Wake County Public Schools received $217 […]
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Saint Augustine’s University and 50 Plus 1 Sports to Restructure Land Lease Deal, Bypassing Attorney General’s Review
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Thursday, February 13. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Two weeks from today Saint Augustine’s University will face an accreditation hearing with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Following a turbulent few years marked by […]
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On Durham’s Future and Daring Greatly
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Wednesday, February 12. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Being an intrepid reporter for your favorite alt-weekly offers me a certain level of insight into the machinations of the Durham enterprise. Every day, I’m privileged to have conversations with people […]
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Union Election Underway at Amazon’s RDU1 Warehouse
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Tuesday, February 11. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. It’s day two of voting in the union election at Amazon’s RDU1 warehouse in Garner. Workers are casting their ballots in an area next to the warehouse’s shipping dock, where, in […]
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Plain Clothes ICE Agent at Wake County Justice Center Tells Attorneys to Take Their Immigration Conversation Elsewhere
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Monday, February 10. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. A man who identified himself as a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent confronted two attorneys in the Wake County courthouse last week. While they discussed a case with immigration […]
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INDY’s Weekly Insider
View This Email In Your Browser Illustration by Nicole Pajor Moore. Image sources: Music Director William Henry Curry courtesy of the Durham Symphony, sheet music from Seven Last Words of the Unarmed by Joel Thompson. The latest from INDY: Facing Budget Shortfall, Durham Public Schools Eye Philanthropist’s Donation as ‘Potential’ Fix Even with $4 million […]
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Facing Budget Shortfall, Durham Public Schools Eye Philanthropist’s Donation as ‘Potential’ Fix
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Friday, February 7. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. In 2022, billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave Durham Public Schools an unsolicited $18 million donation with no strings attached. Last night, DPS CFO Jeremy Teetor told the board that $4 million […]
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Afters Dessert Bar Makes for a Sweet Stop
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Thursday, February 6. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Durham’s got a new dessert spot. Afters Dessert Bar opened its doors in Brightleaf Square in December—and it might be the only place in town where you can find a framed […]
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Raleigh City Council Changes How It Receives Public Comments
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Wednesday, February 5. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. At the Raleigh City Council’s annual retreat this year, several city leaders brought up a topic that had been on their minds since they were on the campaign trail: how the […]
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