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  • Durham Considers Stiffer Rules for Unsafe Rentals
  • Thousands Join Durham No Kings Rally
  • New Details on Planned Wake County Data Center
  • ICYMI: Raleigh Tries to Score an MLB Team
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Good morning, readers.

Tonight, the Durham City Council will consider revising the city’s housing code to block landlords from collecting rent on properties with “imminently dangerous” conditions.

Charlotte and Pittsboro have provisions prohibiting landlords from collecting rent for unsafe units, but city council members and the city attorney have raised concerns about whether the proposed provision would be preempted by state law and open the city up to legal risk, INDY intern Eva Flowe reports.

Council member Chelsea Cook brought the proposal to the council at the urging of Riverside High School students and other advocates. 

“The people who that policy is going to affect are mostly young people,” Milo Graber, founder of the Riverside High School Affordable Housing Club told the INDY. “And so having young people advocate, I think, is a lot more powerful as a message, because it’s saying, even if we are not currently the ones in power advocating, we still care about this.” 

Read more about the proposal below.

—Sarah W.

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Peaceful Protest

An estimated 6,000 to 7,000 people rallied in Durham under the banner of “No Kings, No Billionaires” to protest President Trump, Eva Flowe reports for INDY.

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Power On

INDY’s Jane Porter breaks down the environmental effects of a planned data story facility near Apex and how the developer says they’ll address them.

Raleigh's Devereux Meadow ballpark in 1947. (Courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina)

Home Run

MLB last expanded 27 years ago but is nearly certain to select two new teams by 2029. For seven years, a growing coalition of advocates has built a case for Raleigh, Eric Frederick writes.

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EDUCATION: Duke University President Vincent Price spoke at an academic council meeting about the university’s strategy as it faces five federal investigations, The Chronicle reports.

LOCAL: A Durham man was detained by ICE earlier this month at a green card appointment with his wife, WRAL reports.

STATE: Federal workers without pay due to the shut down are turning to food banks, WUNC reports.

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  • Mail carriers from back when The Raleigh Times was a newspaper will be at the bar sharing stories from their delivery days on Wednesday night.
  • People apparently got stuck at the top of the Vertigo ride at the State Fair for 45 minutes … which sounds like a nightmare to me but maybe bonus ride time to you.
  • The town of Apex launched a civil crash investigator program so that police don’t have to respond to crashes with no injuries.
  • People on Reddit are talking about the best places to dine solo in Durham.
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