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  • Can You Vote With An Expired ID?
  • Things to Do in the Triangle This Week
  • UNC Plans $70 Million in Cuts
  • ICYMI: What Is Switchyards?
  • UNC Alum Heads to Space Today
Credit: Illustration by Nicole Pajor Moore

Good morning, readers.

You may have heard that Governor Stein recently announced a moratorium on driver’s license suspensions and graciously gave us all an extra two years to renew them. It’s welcome news for those of us getting up at 3 a.m. to go to the DMV or scouring Reddit for hacks to get an appointment.

One astute reader—writing in to our regular Ask INDY feature—wondered what the moratorium meant for voter ID requirements. “Has the state clarified whether ‘grace period’ IDs will be permitted for voting?” the reader wrote. In other words, can you vote with your expired ID?

INDY’s Chloe Courtney Bohl dug into the question for the latest installment of Ask INDY. The simple answer is no, the moratorium doesn’t apply to voting. But as Chloe writes, “voter ID rules can be tricky at the best of times, and the current moratorium on driver’s license expirations adds another layer of confusion.”

Read more below about when you can actually vote with an expired ID, what options you have if your ID is out-of-date, and whether you can avoid the long waits and renew online.

And while you’re at it, check out our recent stories on who is running for office in Durham, Orange and Wake counties.

—Sarah W.

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INDY Selects

Soulful Southern tunes, a free concert by Brazilian singer Bia Ferreira, the inaugural Triangle Native American Film Festival, and more events we recommend across the Triangle this week.

Credit: Photo by Erin Gretzinger for The Assembly

Fund Imbalance

UNC-Chapel Hill leaders plan to cut approximately $70 million in costs—or 2 percent of its operating budget—over the next two fiscal years ahead of anticipated federal and state funding reductions, The Assembly reports.

The Durham location of Switchyards is located at 733 Foster Street. Photo courtesy of Switchyards.

Switch It Up

INDY’s Lena Geller takes us inside the new Durham Switchyards, which offers coffee, 24-hour access, and a “third space for work.”

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STATE: Axios has the tea on the Triangle’s highest paid CEOs.

STATE: A new law will cancel a requirement that Duke Energy reduce its carbon emissions by 2030. Inside Climate News looks into what that means for electric bills.

STATE: A wide-ranging bill would ban ranked-choice voting and allow election workers to be fired for political reasons, among other provisions, WRAL reports.

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  • Durham County has a confirmed case of West Nile virus.
  • Triangle Mutual Aid is hosting a disaster preparedness event (and dance party) on Friday in Chapel Hill.
  • Someone on Reddit resurfaced a Chicks Rock compilation from “when Durham was fun” and it still rocks.
  • Astronaut and UNC-Chapel Hill alum Zena Cardman is heading to space today as part of the NASA Crew-11 team bound for the International Space Station.
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