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  • Takeaways from a Zebulon Candidate Forum
  • Duke Health and Aetna Deadlock
  • ICYMI: INDY’s Durham Primary Endorsements
  • Talking With Durham Poet Jameela F. Dallis
  • Events to Tide You Over ‘Til Pride: Durham
Credit: Photo by Chloe Courtney Bohl

Good morning, readers.

The tiny eastern Wake County town of Zebulon has weathered a series of challenges and controversies over the past year, and now voters there are getting ready to choose their next mayor. 

It’s a crowded five-way race, but the candidates essentially fall into two camps. There’s incumbent mayor Glenn York and sitting commissioners Shannon Baxter and Jessica Harrison, who say the town is basically on the right track. Then there’s former commissioner Larry Loucks and former town manager Gilbert Todd, who say the current board of commissioners is ineffective, untransparent, and needs reform.

INDY attended a forum for the candidates on Tuesday and saw both viewpoints on full display.

Read on for more small-town political drama, and have a good Thursday.

—Chloe

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Unhealthy Debate

With one month remaining before the current contract between state employees’ insurer, Aetna, and Duke Health expires, the biggest state players in health care aren’t even close to a deal, The Assembly reports.

Primary Endorsements

Here are our recommendations for Durham mayor and the ward 1, 2, and 3 city council seats.

Poet and curator Jameela F. Dallis. Photo by Sasss World.

Pearls of Wisdom

For INDY, Shelbi Polk talks with Durham poet Jameela F. Dallis about her debut poetry collection, “Encounters for the Living and the Dead,” grief, and oysters.

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LOCAL: A developer will conserve 60 acres in Southwest Durham as part of a settlement following a lawsuit claiming it caused sediment pollution in Lick Creek, WUNC reports.

LOCAL: GoDurham is increasing the frequency of several routes using the half-cent sales tax for transit, WRAL reports.

EDUCATION: Duke abruptly closed two School of Medicine programs, The Chronicle reports. One helped grad students get career skills and the other recruited students and promoted inclusive research.

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