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  • No Affordable Housing for Raleigh’s Union Station
  • A July Fourth Dispatch from the INDY Archives
  • Test Your Sixth Sense at the Durham Library

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This week, workers at the Franklin Street Starbucks in Chapel Hill voted to unionize, motivated by inconsistent hours and safety concerns. The store follows six others—including a Fayetteville store that unionized last month, an Apex store in December, and a Durham location, which INDY’s Lena Geller reported on in 2023.

Lena has followed labor issues in our community for years—from Starbucks and Amazon employees’ efforts to unionize, to the restaurant industry, to mass firings of federal workers in the Triangle.

The latter is the subject of our latest installment of Ask INDY, in which we take on reader submitted questions. Click below for Lena’s write-up of how local labor has been impacted by government funding cuts and tariffs.

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North Carolina’s hemp industry is at risk. Senate-backed HB 328 threatens over tens of thousands of jobs, billions in revenue, and the well-being of local farmers, veterans, and small businesses. This damaging bill could ban widely used hemp products, paving the way for out-of-state marijuana corporations to dominate. Learn how this legislation could devastate our communities and why we must act now. Click to read how you can help protect North Carolina’s economy and hemp industry.

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The developer behind the high-rise planned above Go Raleigh’s RUS Bus station, will pay $1.56 million instead of building planned affordable units, INDY’s Jane Porter reports.

Liberty and Justice for All?

Reverend William Barber II asks what the Fourth of July means to immigrants and people of color. (Originally published in 2019.)

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Morrisville bar Flight Deck NC has become home to a vibrant community of competitive pinball players, Eva Flowe writes for the INDY.

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WAKE COUNTY: A piece of a plane wing apparently fell from the sky and landed in the driveway of a Raleigh home, WRAL reports.

STATE: Governor Stein vetoed bills yesterday that would roll back emission reduction requirements for Duke Energy, give the state auditor even more power, and change rules for charter school oversight. NC Newsline reports on the bills’ viability.

ORANGE COUNTY: UNC will get a new athletic director as Bubba Cunningham becomes a senior advisor. The Daily Tar Heel reports on his new role and his successor.

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  • This weekend is the Festival for the Eno, where you can shop from local vendors, hear live music, support the Eno River’s vitality, and visit your trusty INDY staff at our booth.
  • Durham County Library and Duke’s Rhine Research Center are hosting an event Saturday on remote viewing, or the ability to perceive information about something that can’t be accessed with normal senses.
  • And Redditors report the Raleigh weather forcefield has officially been breached.
  • Join us for: ANTICONFESSIONAL : MISTRIAL a 90-minute participatory performance and political workshop by queer artists Telmo Branco and Ren Mauney on July 6th at the Fruit, questioning state allegiance and practicing queer abolition through immersive artistic intervention.
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