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- Local Impacts of the Government Shutdown
- UNC Community Protests Professor’s Suspension
- Best of the Triangle Winners: Orange & Chatham
- Explaining Durham 2025 Tax Bills
Good morning, readers.
And welcome to the third morning of the federal government shutdown.
National politicians are expertly playing the blame game—in a press conference this week, Wake County representative Deborah Ross called the shutdown “truly shameful,” and said that “Donald Trump and Republicans are the direct cause of this.” Trump is, of course, blaming “the radical left.”
We wanted to know what this shutdown will mean for the Triangle, so we called around to some local governments and agencies.
Most obviously and painfully, the roughly 13,000 federal workers in the Triangle will be either furloughed (not working and not getting paid) or, like mail carriers and TSA agents, working without pay. Neither option is great, because bills and mortgages don’t stop arriving just because your paycheck is put on hold.
Most municipal levels of government, though, say that the true squeeze will depend on how long the government stays shut.
Check out our rundown below to learn more about the possible impact on local schools, nutrition assistance for children and pregnant women, and, yes, RDU’s forecast for travel disruptions.
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Eva Flowe reports for INDY on calls for UNC professor Dwayne Dixon, who was placed on leave following reports of past involvement with antifascist groups, to be reinstated.
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EDUCATION: The New York Times examines why Duke has been targeted by the Trump administration and the role of alum/top Trump official Stephen Miller.
STATE: Citing increased energy demands from data centers and manufacturing, Duke Energy is planning to keep its remaining coal-fired plants open longer, Inside Climate News reports.
EDUCATION: Researchers at NCCU are working on smart canes, which allow blind or visually impaired people to detect more obstacles around them and use a navigation app, WUNC reports.
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- Weird Productions and Downtown Durham Inc. are looking for artists to decorate window fronts downtown for the holidays.
- There’s so many events in the Triangle this weekend. In addition to the ones we’ve mentioned here already (Move-a-Bull City, Raleigh Wide Open, Missy Lane’s Block Party), there’s a fall festival in Dix Park Saturday.
- Who has the best boba in the Triangle? There’s an incredibly thorough discussion happening on Reddit.
- Durham County’s tax administrator answered common questions about much-discussed 2025 tax bills in a series of videos.
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