Meanwhile, UNC-Chapel Hill has already identified a cluster of COVID-19 cases related to an event in the pharmacy school.
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Jane Porter
Jane Porter is Wake County editor of the INDY, covering Raleigh and other communities across Wake County. She first joined the staff in 2013 and is a former INDY intern, staff writer, and editor-in-chief.
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Orange, Chatham Counties Follow Durham’s Lead With a Mask Mandate
The state’s percent positive test rate was 14 percent Tuesday, well over the state’s 5 percent goal. And experts say the state’s COVID surge now is steeper than that of the past winter.
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Madison Cawthorn Joins Revolt Against Buncombe County School Board Members
The congressman from western North Carolina called Buncombe County’s requirement that unvaccinated students and teachers wear masks while at school “psychological child abuse.”
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Durham Brings Back Indoor Mask Mandate as Triangle Hospital ICUs Reach Capacity
The mask mandate goes into effect at 5 p.m. Wake has no immediate plans to require residents to mask up again.
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Neighborhood Activists Want to Recall Raleigh’s Mayor. They Face an Uphill Fight.
Livable Raleigh needs to collect 14,000 notarized signatures on a recall petition to trigger a special election under the city’s charter.
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Five Things to Do in the Triangle This Weekend
Play with puppies on Saturday and gallery hop on Sunday. It’s all in a Triangle weekend.
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Poynter: How N.C. Policy Watch Reporter Joe Killian Followed the UNC-Nikole Hannah-Jones Story From Beginning To End
Killian first broke the news that UNC-Chapel was hiring the acclaimed journalist without tenure. He also got her first exclusive print interview after she she decided she wouldn’t be going to UNC.
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INDY Week Won a Bunch of Green Eyeshade Awards
Congratulations to our talented staff.
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Sunday Reading: What We Really Lose When Highways Destroy Historic Neighborhoods
Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood, severed from the city’s downtown by Interstate 345, has some parallels with Durham’s Hayti district.
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Juneteenth Events Around the Triangle 2021
How local communities are celebrating America’s oldest holiday that commemorates the end of slavery.
