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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Annual Point-in-Time Counts Offer a Snapshot of Triangle-Area Homelessness
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Tuesday, February 4. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. At the end of January, my colleague Chloe and I had the opportunity to join hundreds of volunteers, including local officials and other community leaders, in Point-In-Time counts in Durham and […]
Two Rival Student Newspaper Sports Editors Talk About the Big Game
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Monday, February 3. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. No doubt many of you tuned in Saturday for Duke’s victory over UNC. But you may not know that off the court, the schools’ student publications, Duke’s Chronicle and UNC’s Daily […]
Logan’s Garden Shop in Raleigh Starts a New Chapter at the NC State Farmers Market This Spring01/31/2025
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Friday, January 31. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. During the COVID pandemic, I became a plant person. I had a few plants pre-2020, but like multitudes of people around the world, I began to amass houseplants during lockdown, yearning […]
‘A Long Time Coming:’ Raleigh Pilots CARES Crisis Response Programs
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Thursday, January 30. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. “It’s been a long time coming.” That’s how Raleigh City Council member Jonathan Lambert-Melton characterized the city’s new CARES crisis response programs. CARES stands for “Crisis Alternative Response for Empathy and […]
INDY’s Weekly Insider
View This Email In Your Browser The latest from INDY: INDY Selects: What to Do in the Triangle This Week An Iris DeMent show, a free screening of “Anatomy of a Fall,” a hometown premiere from a former Alvin Ailey dancer, and more events we recommend from around the Triangle this week. NC DOJ Finds […]
Weigh In On RDU Airport Authority’s Plans to Develop Lake Crabtree County Park This Wednesday
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Wednesday, January 29. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Since the 1980s, Wake County has leased the land located between I-40 and Lake Crabtree from the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority for $1 per year. Local governments and nonprofit groups have poured […]
Is a New Convention Center Durham’s Next Big Attraction?
View This Email In Your Browser It’s Tuesday, January 28. Support free and local independent journalism. Join the INDY Press Club Good morning, readers. Traditional convention centers are not a lucrative business. But that reality hasn’t stopped Durham leaders from proposing a plan to replace the 40-year-old center currently downtown with a new convention center […]

