The progressive group Progress NC Action has put out this March Madness-style bracket seeking votes to determine who is the worst politician in North Carolina. As might be expected, just about all of the original entrants—all but two (Senator Joel Ford and Representative Duane Hall), to be exact—were Republicans. Yesterday saw voting in the “Foul […]
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Thom Tillis and the NCGOP Need to Get Their Stories Straight on Cambridge Analytica
On Friday, NBC News—and then last night, The Washington Post—reported that, in 2014, the controversial firm Cambridge Analytica had dispatched foreign nationals to assist with Republican campaigns in Colorado, Oregon, and North Carolina, possibly running afoul of a federal law that prohibits foreign agents from “directly or indirectly participat[ing] in the decision-making process” of a […]
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Come Drink Glitter Beer and Watch Stormy Daniels Talk About Donald Trump’s, Er, Manhood at Durty Bull Sunday Night
Glitter beer is a gimmick, and Matt Pennisi doesn’t normally do gimmicks. His Durty Bull Brewing Company, whose brewery opened a year and a half in downtown Durham, is known for its IPAs and funky, inventive sours. Make a beer sparkle with edible glitter is the sort of thing brewers do to get attention; he […]
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Donald Trump Is Going to Get Us All Killed
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. I found this tweet from Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, particularly incisive. He […]
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Congress’s Omnibus Spending Bill Could Potentially Mean Good News for Downtown Durham
The $1.3 trillion spending bill being rushed through Congress ahead of tomorrow’s deadline is a complex, multifaceted thing, some twenty-two hundred pages long, with countless goodies tucked into its nooks and crannies. As we reported this morning, it lifts a prohibition—or, depending on whom you ask, a quasi-prohibition—on federal funding for gun-violence research, something local […]
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Mark Zuckerberg Admits Facebook Screwed Up, Promises to Do Better
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 a statement and interviews with CNN and The New York Times yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg […]
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David Price Got Federal Gun Violence Research and Other Things You Need to Know About Congress’s Omnibus Budget
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, congressional leaders unveiled a $1.3 trillion spending, which comes with a fast-approaching deadline to avoid the […]
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Are N.C. Dems Taking Black Women for Granted?
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 2016, something like 96 percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, proving that, as a […]
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This Cambridge Analytica Thing That Thom Tillis Is Sorta Caught Up In Is Super Shady
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. Like everyone else, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this Cambridge Analytica mess, and whether […]
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Wake Schools Say They’ll Suspend Fewer Kids if They Get More Money
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 year, Wake schools suspended nearly twenty-four hundred kids, a slight increase over 2015–16, and a significant […]
