The Union of Southern Service Workers will function as a part of the Service Employees International Union, a labor union that represents nearly 2 million workers in the U.S. and Canada.
Lena Geller
Lena Geller is a reporter for INDY, covering food, housing, and politics. She joined the staff in 2018 and previously ran a custom cake business.
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DPS Receives $18 Million Unsolicited Grant from Billionaire Philanthropist Mackenzie Scott
“We will focus on using this to enhance our work with schools that will ignite the limitless potential of our students.”
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Sunday Reading: Silent Stakeholders
I cannot think of a more perfect illustration of what it is like to pretend things are normal in America right now—a more 2022 image than a work-from-home finance guy taking a Zoom call from his car, outside what may or may not be a school shooting.
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Triangle First: Finding Comfort and Safety “In Your Eyes”
The Pinkerton Raid’s Jesse James DeConto wrote the song about his late grandfather, who developed dementia toward the end of his life.
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Why You Should Care About the Appellate Court Races
The Court of Appeals races are low profile, but the court—often the final stop for significant cases—plays an important role in the state’s judiciary.
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First Coffee, Then Beer: A New Main Street Bar Aims to Be Durham’s “Daily Spot”
Branded as an “all-day cafe,” The Daily Beer Bar will operate threefold as a bar, coffeeshop, and casual eatery, offering a morning menu of local pastries and coffee drinks and an afternoon and evening spread of sandwiches, salads, snacks, sodas, jui
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15 Minutes: Jack Sochet, Actor in the Horror Film “Smile”
Sochet plays Carl Rankin, a frequent visitor to a psychiatric facility.
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Eno River Group Profited by Renting Decrepit Homes to Vulnerable Tenants. Soon, They’ll Have No Home At All.
More than two dozen tenants have lived for years in dilapidated dwellings leased by the Eno River Association. Now their absentee landlord wants to sell the land, and their homes, to the state.
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Now Open as a Brick and Mortar, Succotash Celebrates a Wide Geographic Slice of the American South
There’s Lowcountry fare, like fried green tomatoes and catfish; Louisiana Cajun and Creole specialties, including jambalaya, gumbo, and red beans and rice. And then, there’s Succotash.
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As the New Owner of Nana’s, Matt Kelly Wants to Bring the Legendary Restaurant Back to Life—and Back to Its Golden Era
When considered alongside the loss of Saint James, the restaurateur’s acquisition of Nana’s comes with a number of poetic throughlines.