• Talking with Rep. Foushee After a Close Primary Win
  • Apex Council Considers Data Center Moratorium
  • ICYMI: Officials Eye Replacement Site for Athens Drive Library
  • How the Eno River Inspired a Durham Artist’s Weavings
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Good morning, readers.

Rep. Valerie Foushee was tranquil and, despite a slim primary victory, resolute, when we spoke after her reelection last week.

Did her 1% victory margin, I asked, seem like a message about changes she should make?

“I don’t think so,” she told me over the phone, in her first media call since declaring victory.  

Over the past three months, we’ve spilled an awful lot of ink at the INDY, in an effort to characterize and contextualize Foushee and her primary opponent, Nida Allam, amid their race to represent the western portion of the Triangle.

Nationally, the race drew attention (and over $4.4 million in outside spending) as a potential bellwether for the mood of Democratic voters in a second Trump era. Would voters pick the more defiantly left-wing Allam or the measured, experienced Foushee?

But with such a close result, the bellwether seems a bit bewildered.

Today I’ve got something slightly different for you from our past reporting on the election: A Q&A with the congresswoman. It feels worthwhile, after such a messy election, to let readers and voters hear directly from Foushee about her priorities, her plans for 2028, and how she views the $1.6 million that Anthropic spent on her campaign.

Read more below and have a good Wednesday.

—Chase

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Data Dump

The Apex Town Council took a first step last night at imposing a temporary moratorium on data centers, The Line reports.

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Wake County officials are eyeing a pricey but close-by community garden site for a replacement of Raleigh’s Athens Drive library, INDY’s Chloe Courtney Bohl reports.

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Rich Tapestries

A new exhibition on pioneering Durham artist Silvia Heyden celebrates the enduring influence that nature and music had on her tapestries, INDY’s Sarah Edwards writes. 

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