The Bull City Vegan Challenge will return to Durham for the fifth time in April, with chefs at ten downtown meat-centric restaurants creating specialty plant-based dishes that their menus will carry throughout the month, culminating in a competition decided by diners’ votes. This year’s participants, all full-service restaurants, are: Dos Perros, Parizade, Pompieri, M Kokko, […]
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Would Your Favorite President Survive These Duke Professors’ March Madness Brackets?
Next week, two Duke professors—B.J. Rudell, the associate director of POLIS: The Center for Political Leadership, Innovation, and Service; and Fritz Mayer, the associate dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy—will host a five-day seminar, in which students will evaluate presidents in terms of measures of their “greatness.” It’s geared toward a very special—one […]
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Trump and Kim Jong-Un: Is There Any Reason to Believe He Won’t Screw This Up?
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. Things move so quickly and unexpectedly in the Trump White House that it’s often hard to wrap […]
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Why Body-Cam Footage Should Be Public Record, Revisited
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 week ago, when news broke that a newspaper in Asheville had been leaked body-cam footage showing […]
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What’s Driving the Bipartisan Push to Deregulate the Financial Industry?
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. Senate Republicans—joined by more than a dozen Senate Democrats—have passed a bill to loosen banking rules enacted […]
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Duke Energy Wants to Jack Up Your Power Bill
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 confess I haven’t been paying as much attention to this as I probably should, as it’s […]
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How Badly Will Trump’s Tariffs Affect 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. While more than one hundred Republicans have implored President Trump to rethink his plans to impose tariffs […]
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Another Day, Another Big Player Exits the West Wing
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 time it’s Gary Cohn, President Trump’s top economic adviser, who decided that the president’s absurd tariffs […]
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Gun Deaths Are on the Rise in North Carolina—and Reached a Record High in 2016
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. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more people died from guns […]
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What to Do With a Problem Like Duane Hall
When Minnesota Senator Al Franken’s first accuser came forward in November, with a decade-old photograph of Franken appearing to fondle her while she slept, progressives found themselves in a dilemma. They were supportive of the #MeToo movement and had said publicly that women should be believed, yet here was a progressive stalwart—an outspoken feminist ally, […]
