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Editor’s note: Rollin’ with Pride, our roller disco event at Wheels, is one week from today! I hope you’ll come out to support the LGBTQ Center of Durham and its vital services. As a bonus, you’ll get to meet INDY staff (and find out if we can skate). Get your tickets now.
☕ In Today’s Edition
1. Tough Budget Math for DPS
2. Speaker Time Limits at Durham City Council
3. Our Picks for Things to Do This Week
4. UNC Approves Delayed Tenure Cases
Good morning, readers.
Everyone in Durham has something to be excited about this week: Sports fans have the 2025 NCAA baseball superregionals and municipal government nerds have the county commission’s upcoming 2025-26 budget vote. I feel fortunate to celebrate both!
In baseball news, No. 2 Duke is set to take on No. 4 Murray State on both Saturday and Sunday. In budget news, the Durham Public Schools board is trying to decide what to do if the county doesn’t fund their entire $222 million budget request.
A big chunk of the proposed budget would go to pay bumps for bus drivers, teachers, and educators with master’s degrees, all of which would go a long way towards smoothing over some, uh, staff discontent stirred by last year’s classified pay debacle and this year’s bus crisis.
But if the county doesn’t fund the board’s full request, the board is weighing if they’ll have to reduce expectations for those raises.
Read more in my story about which of DPS’s priorities may get paid for and which may get trimmed down. And happy baseball season!
—Chase
Rollin’ With PRIDE
A Roller Skating Disco Event to Support the LGBTQ+ Center of Durham
- When: Thursday, June 12th, 2025
- Time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm Doors open 15 minutes prior to the start of the event.
- Price: $35 per person includes admission, skate rental, slice of pizza and small drink
What’s New?
The latest from INDY, plus other stories around the state you’ll want to read. Handpicked every day by INDY Editor-in-Chief Sarah Willets.
DURHAM
City Council Will Enforce Speaker Time Limits
The vote drew criticism from residents accustomed to seemingly unlimited public comment in recent years, INDY’s Justin Laidlaw reports.
ARTS & CULTURE
INDY Selects
June in Bloom, a Hillsborough “Moth Crawl,” a Theatre Raleigh production of “The Color Purple,” and more events across the Triangle this week, recommended by the INDY.
EDUCATION
UNC Approves Delayed Tenure Cases
The board approved 33 cases after a delay that caused widespread concern among faculty, The Assembly reports.
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ICYMI: The Wake County Board of Commissioners passed a $2 billion budget that includes a small property tax increase to support schools, INDY’s Chloe Courtney Bohl reports.
STATE: The New York Times reports how quartz found in Spruce Pine—some of the world’s purest—has become essential to smartphones and other technology.
EDUCATION: Durham Public Schools have potentially up to $1 billion in maintenance issues on their hands, The 9th Street Journal reports.
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