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- Apex Mayor and Council Navigate Tension
- ICYMI: Durham Primary Election Analysis
- Things to Do in the Triangle This Week
- Do Social Districts Benefit Towns?
- Durham Designates a “Heritage Community”
Good morning, readers.
Apex mayor Jacques Gilbert is in his second term, has a large social media following, and by most accounts is popular among his town’s constituents.
But recently, dustups with town staff and with his colleagues on the town council have spilled into public view, playing out at town council meetings and on the mayor’s social media channels. They include a conflict over a town board appointment which delayed a meeting last month, ongoing problems with the town’s utilities billing, a dispute over parking near a local high school, and accusations of questionable spending.
As a town election looms, setting the stage for new, potentially contentious appointment, zoning, and development debates, four out of five Apex Town Council members went on the record with reporter Bryan Anderson about their frustrations with Gilbert, who is not on the ballot this cycle. Bryan also spoke with several current and former town staff members and found demoralized employees trying to chart the course for a town that’s growing rapidly, a fed-up town council, and a mayor who they say is using his political capital to get what he wants at the expense of others and the town’s greater good.
Read Bryan’s story below.
—Jane
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ICYMI
Durham Primary Election Results
Here’s how the votes broke down for mayor and city council, and what candidates had to say about the races.
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ARTS & CULTURE
Raising a Glass
Towns like Durham, Mebane and Wendell have created social districts to boost downtown business. The Assembly reports on how the initiatives are going.
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NATIONAL: Roy Cooper raised a record-setting $14.5 million in his first quarter of fundraising for his U.S. Senate bid, POLITICO reports.
STATE: North Carolina’s version of DOGE is looking into privatization of liquor sales, WRAL reports.
EDUCATION: UNC professor Dwayne Dixon is back in the classroom after being suspended over past ties to an anti-fascist group, NC Newsline reports.
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- The Beats n Bars hip-hop music festival returns to Durham Friday, with art, food and free performances on Parrish Street.
- The City of Durham has designated the Merrick-Moore neighborhood as a Heritage Community. The designation comes with official signage and a story map documenting Merrick-Moore’s history as a historically Black neighborhood dating back to the 1940s.
- Raleigh City Council approved a social district around Seaboard Station yesterday; check out the details here.
- If you are also curious about that Porsche event that brought 200 cars and thousands of people to downtown Durham last weekend, here are some photos.
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