This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. In February, the INDY reported that Durham activists were pushing the city council to pass a resolution […]
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“Hysterical, Cowardly, Inhumane, Deranged”: Let’s Send Some Troops to the Border!
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. His border wall temper tantrums not having produced the desired effect, President Trump is now moving to […]
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Lots of N.C. Teachers Are Playing Hooky These Days
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. Nearly 23 percent of North Carolina teachers are “chronically absent,” meaning they’ve used ten or more non-consecutive […]
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POTUS Is Under Criminal Investigation, and He Thinks That’s Good News
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. Last night, The Washington Post broke its latest scoop in the Trump-Russia saga, this one appearing on […]
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Here’s Some Good News for Proponents of the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit Project
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. Yesterday, the North Carolina Department of Transportation released an evaluation of seventy-seven Statewide Mobility projects that are […]
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Capturing the Flag Takes a Hard Outsider’s Look at the Ugly Reality of Voting in North Carolina
Capturing the Flag, an often infuriating documentary about voting suppression in North Carolina, climaxes in a hotel room in Cumberland County, where three exhausted election volunteers are sprawled on beds watching the 2016 returns come in on the television. Being liberals who traveled to the state from New York City, they are dismayed by what […]
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The Environmental Protection Agency Has Zero Interest in Protecting the Environment
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. In any normal administration, the myriad scandals surrounding EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt—especially the cozy deal he struck […]
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Let’s Try (and Fail) to Make Sense of Durham’s Latest Crime Stats
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. Back in November, we put together an infographic looking at what the Durham Police Department’s third-quarter crime […]
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Trump’s Trade War With China Is Heating Up. What Will It Mean for North Carolina?
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. This was as predictable as sunrise , but it’s worth discussing anyway. Yesterday, the Chinese government announced […]
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North Carolina Regulates Acupuncturists More Than Birthing Centers. That Might Be a Problem.
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. A couple of weeks back, I mentioned that Baby+Co., the natural birthing company that had moved into […]
