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Editor’s Note: The Pride: Durham, NC parade is this Saturday. INDY and the LGBTQ Center of Durham will once again be livestreaming from the parade. Tune in at noon at indyweek.com

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For the latest installment of our affordable eats series, Lunch Money, we’ve got an oldie but a goodie: Big Ed’s in Garner. 

INDY’s Lena Geller visited the Wake County institution recently in her perennial quest to dine out for under $15, and left with a lesson in traditional Southern cooking.

“Is chicken and pastry supposed to be this stripped-down? Is peach cobbler supposed to be so solid?” she writes. “I look both up on my phone. Turns out these are perfectly authentic old-school Southern renditions. I’m used to restaurants riffing on the classics. But this is just the thing itself.”

Read more below about Lena’s trip to Big Ed’s, what she ordered and whether she did it all under $15.

What’s your favorite place to get an affordable lunch in the Triangle? Send us your recommendations by replying to this email and we may feature it in an upcoming Lunch Money!

—Sarah W.

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Booking It

Wake County commissioners are considering two new sites for a replacement of a beloved Raleigh library, one of which is in Cary, INDY’s Jane Porter reports.

Where to See Art This Fall

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LOCAL: Charges against students who were arrested protesting housing conditions at North Carolina Central University have been dropped, WRAL reports.

STATE: With no budget deal, the state is inching closer to cutting Medicaid payments for providers, which will likely force providers to cut health care services, NC Newsline reports.

STATE: A new crime bill makes it harder for people exhibiting signs of mental illness to be released before going to trial and requires more defendants to get mental health evaluations. But North Carolina Health News reports the legislation lacks investment in mental health services.

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