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- A New Report on Durham’s Housing Issues
- Is Duke Energy Liable for Climate Change Damage?
- Heather Leah, Raleigh’s Hidden Historian
- ICYMI: Behind the Scenes at WRAL
- The Latest Eno River Trail Openings
Good morning, readers.
Housing policy is one of the animating issues in Durham, and everybody and their NIMBY grandma has an opinion on how to fix it. A new website called the Durham Housing Dashboard offers residents a high-level statistical analysis of housing in the Bull City, along with a report detailing recommendations to address everything from homelessness, to affordable housing, to homeownership.
“Whether you’re for or against more housing, you tend to use data that supports your argument,” says Matt Gladdek, vice president of economic development at the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce. “The goal of this was to get an independent organization that were experts in this to create a dashboard for us that houses our data as well as comparable peer city data, so that organizations and people that are concerned about housing affordability and housing supply have the same set of data to work off of.”
It’s a novel idea; using the same set of facts to argue for or against a position. But the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Read more about how local officials and housing policy advocates are rethinking Durham’s housing strategy below.
—Justin
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LOCAL
Climate Clash
Is Duke Energy liable for climate-related property damage? Attorneys for the town of Carrboro and Duke Energy sparred over this question for hours before a judge, Inside Climate News reports.
CHARACTER STUDIES
History Buff
Heather Leah, a fifth-generation Raleighite documents and shares the City of Oaks’ hidden history and forgotten landmarks, INDY’s Chloe Courtney Bohl reports.
ICYMI
Breaking News
Much has been written about the death of print news in the digital age, but the model for local TV news is breaking, too. WRAL-TV is fighting to succeed, INDY’s Chloe Courtney Bohl writes.
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EDUCATION: Hillside High School opened a new social emotional learning center, the first of its kind in the country specifically designed for Black students, ABC11 reports.
STATE: North Carolina’s initial cuts to Medicaid offer a “preview of the seismic changes facing American health care” as deep federal funding cuts take effect, the New York Times reports.
EDUCATION: The Daily Tar Heel reports UNC has placed professor and longtime Redneck Revolt member Dwayne Dixon on leave, apparently after Fox News got wind of his employment.
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- More parts of the Eno River State Park in Durham have re-opened, as has the last closed section of Hillsborough’s Riverwalk.
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