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  • An $8,887 Bloody Mary in Holly Springs
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  • How NC Schools Are Tackling AI
  • Op-Ed: Tenant Power Requires Housing Abundance
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Ruth Cruz-Nichols measures a Bloody Mary as part of the process to document it for the Guinness World Record submission.
Credit: Photo by Lena Geller.

Good morning, readers.

Thirty-four Texans walked into a Holly Springs restaurant on Saturday and ordered an $8,887 Bloody Mary, aiming to set several world records. 

The price tag came from the garnishes: crab legs, whole red snappers, elk cheeseburgers, tomahawk bison steaks, beluga caviar, and nearly 100 oysters, among other delicacies. Private investigators circled the behemoth with camcorders, documenting everything for Guinness World Records.

This was actually a revenge mission. Last year, the same group had set an in-house record at The Blind Pelican—a restaurant known for its elaborate Bloody Marys—with a $2,600 order during a birthday vacation trip. When another group broke their record soon after, it was like being outbid by one dollar on The Price is Right. The Texans couldn’t let it stand and decided to come back. 

“You can put this in print: we wanted to put our foot in their ass,” one of them told me. “That way, next time somebody wants to step up, they just have to pull us out.”

Read the full story below. Have a good Friday.

—Lena

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Ask INDY: ICE on Campus

A reader wants to know how local universities are protecting students and staff from deportation and which are cooperating with ICE. INDY intern and UNC student Daneen Khan answers.

NC Schools Tackle AI

North Carolina universities are partnering with ChatGPT and Google, and some have created new policies about using AI platforms, The Assembly reports.

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Housing Abundance

This is the contradiction that many on the left miss: the housing policies they support don’t challenge corporate power—they enable it, David Berger and Owen Washburn write for the INDY.

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ORANGE COUNTY: Bill Belichick won’t headline UNC’s weekly coach’s football radio show, the Athletic reports.

STATE: Premiums could go up for many of the 750,000 members of the state employees’ health plan, WUNC reports.

WAKE COUNTY: A Wake County teacher known as the “carpool dancing queen” who briefly went viral in 2018 is retiring, WRAL reports.

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  • Could Raleigh get a cable car connecting downtown and Dix Park? Seems unlikely, but supposedly it’s “being discussed.”
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