News News INDY’s 2025 Year in Review Looking back at the news and culture stories that defined the year in the Triangle. by INDY staff Culture A Beloved Durham Lesbian Nightlife Institution Turns Ten by Elliott Harrell Culture Local Author Adam Morgan On How a 1921 Obscenity Trial Over “Ulysses” Speaks to Censorship Issues Today by Shelbi Polk Culture Three Raleigh Women Wanted More LGBTQ+ Community—so They Built Their Own by Rachel Simon Education Raleigh Ukrainian School Keeps Culture Alive by Brandon Kingdollar News Who’s Running: Orange County County Commission and School Board by Chase Pellegrini de Paur North Carolina Who’s Running for Triangle Elected Offices in 2026? by INDY staff Why UNC-CH Revived a Plan to Merge Library and Data Science Who’s Running: Wake County DA, Sheriff, and Judiciary Who’s Running: Durham County DA, Sheriff, and Judiciary 15 Minutes 15 Minutes: Serena Kaylor, Author and Physician’s Assistant 15 Minutes: Artist Nyssa Collins Brood XIX Cicadas Are Preparing to Make the Ascent of a Lifetime 15 Minutes: Elena Paces-Wiles, 2024 NC High School Journalist of the Year Op-Eds Op-Ed: Rep. Foushee is Experienced and Effective. Don’t Trade Her for a Newbie. Op-Ed: Rep. Foushee is Not the Fighter NC-04 Needs Op-Ed: UDO Rewrite Is Not the End of Land Use Regulations in Durham Letters to the Editor Backtalk: “Just send your kids to public schools.” Backtalk: “This is all so fundamentally unfair.” Backtalk: “A further erosion of our country’s foundational separation of church and state.” Quickbait Quickbait: A New Era of Book Censorship Quickbait: Black Entrepreneurship Quickbait: Ready for Rail?
News INDY’s 2025 Year in Review Looking back at the news and culture stories that defined the year in the Triangle. by INDY staff
Culture Local Author Adam Morgan On How a 1921 Obscenity Trial Over “Ulysses” Speaks to Censorship Issues Today by Shelbi Polk