• Candidate Questionnaires for the 2026 Primary
  • Talking to Durham School Board Candidates
  • Triangle Restaurants Hit by Winter Weather
  • Durham Tech, Duke Creating Transfer Pipeline
  • New Exhibit on Urban Renewal in Raleigh
Credit: Illustration by Nicole Pajor Moore

Good morning, readers.

Early voting begins Thursday for a host of races in the Triangle, from local school boards on up to Congress. 

Among the competitive races: Wake district attorney, Durham’s school board, the 4th Congressional District that includes Durham, Orange and parts of Wake and Chatham counties, and several state legislative seats, including Durham’s Senate District 22 and southern Wake County’s House District 37. 

Have you decided who you’re voting for? INDY, as always, is here to help. We sent questionnaires to candidates who will be on your ballots in March—addressing topics ranging from ICE, to school funding, to health care access. 

You can find candidates’ responses to our questionnaires here. 

On Friday, we announced that the INDY is not issuing candidate endorsements. You can find more about that decision here.

INDY will continue to provide in-depth election reporting and analysis. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this decision, and what you’d like to see from INDY’s election coverage going forward.

—Sarah W.

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Credit: Illustration by Nicole Pajor Moore

Civic Lesson

Chase Pellegrini de Paur interviewed all 12 candidates vying for four seats on the Durham Public Schools Board of Education in March. Learn more about them.

Snow in Brightleaf Square on January 22, 2021. Photo courtesy of Discover Durham.

Iced Out

Triangle restaurant owners say they are out tens of thousands of dollars from back-to-back winter storm closures, Elliott Harrell writes for the INDY.

Credit: Assembly staff photo

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Durham Tech and Duke are working on a university transfer agreement, and other insights from our event last week on Durham’s workforce needs.

STATE: Hurricane Helene swept away many beloved possessions for Western North Carolina residents. The Assembly has the story of the teams working to reunite people with their missing mementos.

LOCAL: UNC was fined $50,000 by the ACC after fans stormed the court following the Tar Heels’ buzzer-beater victory over Duke this weekend, WRAL reports.

EDUCATION: Duke University is closing three recent centers, including the Center for Advanced Hindsight, as part of a “strategic realignment initiative,” The Chronicle reports.

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  • The City of Raleigh reminds you that you can’t recycle those greasy pizza boxes from game night.
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