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- OWASA’s Controversial Parking Plan
- “Stories of Everyday Life in Prison”
- Our Latest Affordable Eats Column
- U.S. Senate Race Heats Up
- Is the City of Raleigh Museum Haunted?
Good morning, readers.
Alphabet soup for breakfast, anyone? Orange County’s water and sewer authority (OWASA, rhymes with “mi casa”) has hit pause on its plans to expand the parking lot at its Jones Ferry Road headquarters into a historically Black Carrboro neighborhood.
It doesn’t take a PR expert to realize that the optics on that expansion are not great—especially in an ultra-progressive town with a hyper-sensitivity to its very North Carolina history of screwing over its Black residents.
Glosson Circle residents have been raising a ruckus since early this year, when the municipal organization first notified them of plans to pave between two and four lots in the area (OWASA says it needs the space because it’s replacing half of its current parking with expanded drinking water treatment facilities).
Lately, residents and bureaucrats seem to have come to a détente as they’ve engaged in some very respectful and good-faith discussions about a possible path forward. We hope the cooperative spirit lasts—but barring a major shift in priorities, that parking is still going to have to go somewhere.
Read more below, and stay tuned as we keep track of this story.
And have a good August.
—Chase
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ARTS & CULTURE
Now Ear This
INDY’s Sarah Edwards talked to Ear Hustle co-hosts Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor about the podcast they started inside a California prison and their live tour, coming to Durham next week.
ICYMI
Need Lunch Plans?
At Cary’s Bee Banh Mi, “the banh mi is a beauty. Sweet twists of tender pork, marinated in local honey, are nestled under whole cilantro leaves, shredded carrots, and jalapeño sliced long on the diagonal,” INDY’s Lena Geller writes.
STATE
Cooper Gets A Challenger
RNC Chair Michael Whatley is running against Roy Cooper for U.S. Senate. It’s likely to become the most fiercely contested and expensive race of the 2026 cycle, The Assembly reports.
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WAKE COUNTY: Several of Raleigh’s public pools are reducing hours due to lifeguard shortages, ABC11 reports.
DURHAM COUNTY: Police and the Department of Labor are investigating after multiple employees of the nonprofit Courtney Jordan Foundation said they were not paid, WRAL reports.
STATE: A forensic anthropologist and a volunteer sleuth are working to identify nearly 300 bodies in cold cases across the state, The Assembly reports.
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- Is the City of Raleigh Museum Haunted? The nonprofit Ghost Guild is asking for first-hand accounts from people who’ve had spooky experiences at the 151-year-old Briggs Hardware Building that now houses the museum.
- Protesters are forming a human chain in Raleigh Saturday, part of a rally against attacks on voting rights, immigrant communities, LGBTQ people and reproductive rights.
- People on Reddit are talking about restaurants with a view in the Triangle, which sounds lovely for the relatively cool weekend we’re expecting, and also reminded me of that time Vanity Fair thought you could see the mountains from Top of the Hill.
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