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Op-Ed: Durham’s Council Can Support Local Communities by Rejecting ShotSpotter
What could the City of Durham do with $658,500 over three years? The cost for ShotSpotter surveillance technology is $65-90,000 per square mile per year, with a $10,000-per-square-mile onetime service initiation fee. If you had that much money to spend per square mile in your neighborhood, how would you spend it?
Downtown Durham to Get a Bouldering Gym This Fall
Downtown Durham is getting a bouldering gym. The Boulder Garden, slated to open at 328 Roney Street this fall, will have 2,300 square feet of indoor climbing terrain as well as an outdoor gathering space that borders Durham Central Park. The gym’s opening announcement comes as indoor rock climbing sees...
Meet the Candidate: Renee Vaughan for Durham County Board of Commissioners
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Editors’ Note: Eleven candidates—all Democrats—are vying for five seats on the Durham County Board of Commissioners in the March 5 election. No Republicans or Libertarians have entered the contest, so the March 5 results will determine who sits on the commission. The 9th Street Journal is profiling candidates in the race.
Meet the Candidate: Jovonia Lewis for Durham County Board of Commissioners
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Editors’ Note: Eleven candidates—all Democrats—are vying for five seats on the Durham County Board of Commissioners in the March 5 election. No Republicans or Libertarians have entered the contest, so the March 5 results will determine who sits on the commission. The 9th Street Journal is profiling candidates in the race.
Meet the Candidate: Michelle Burton for Durham County Board of Commissioners
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Editors’ Note: Eleven candidates—all Democrats—are vying for five seats on the Durham County Board of Commissioners in the March 5 election. No Republicans or Libertarians have entered the contest, so the March 5 results will determine who sits on the commission. The 9th Street Journal is profiling each candidate in the race.
Heavy Hitters Sylvan Esso Bring New Two-Day Music Festival to Durham
Sylvan Esso is back with another two-day extravaganza in downtown Durham and this time it’s here to stay: Good Moon, the music festival debuting on May 31, will feature six musical acts across two days of programming. “We’ve been dreaming of our own two-day curated music event in Durham...
INDY’s 2024 Primary Election Coverage
Candidate questionnaires. Endorsements. All of the INDY‘s reporting on the 2024 primary elections in Durham, Wake, and Orange County updated in real time, plus a link to our Primary Election Live Blog. Find it all here. More Election Coverage. Comment on this story at backtalk@indyweek.com. Support independent local journalism.
Meet the Candidate: Nimasheena Burns for Durham County Board of Commissioners
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Editors’ Note: Eleven candidates—all Democrats—are vying for five seats on the Durham County Board of Commissioners in the March 5 election. No Republicans or Libertarians have entered the contest, so the March 5 results will determine who sits on the commission. The 9th Street Journal is speaking with each candidate in the race.
Bull City Summit’s Discontents
Groovewagon cans are bright and eye-catching with the important figures spelled out: the amount of delta-8 each THC beverage contains, its caloric content, and the phone number of company co-owners Reilly Dunn and Sasha Klimczak. The couple, who don’t have social media for the product, prefer to do business this...
Striving for Zero: The Struggle to End Pedestrian Deaths in the Triangle
This story originally published online at UNC Media Hub. One November evening in Chapel Hill, Sinclair Larson’s life changed forever when she was struck by a car on a Franklin Street crosswalk while walking her dog Jasper. Larson and her dog were lucky enough to survive, although she doesn’t...
The Indoor Climbing Industry Is Booming, but the Transition Has Changed the Sport
Of all people, it was a jiu-jitsu partner who asked Bryce Mahooney if he wanted to go on an outdoor climbing excursion to Pilot Mountain. Mahooney said, “Sure, why not?”. The agreement required him to trust his friend’s expertise that everything was safe. But at the time, he didn’t know how much peace and restoration the activity would bring to him. He didn’t know how much it would “click”—being so high up off the ground.
Op-Ed: UNC Should Cut Ties With Starbucks
Like most of my fellow classmates at UNC, I run on coffee. But no matter how much I need the caffeine to finish an essay or get through finals, I refuse to let my coffee purchase prop up Starbucks, a multi-billion dollar company that exploits its workers without remorse. Right...
Durham School Board Approves 11 Percent Raises in Divided Vote
Classified workers in Durham Public Schools will receive a flat 11 percent raise over their 2022-23 compensation for the rest of the school year, the Board of Education decided on Thursday. The vote came at 11:30 p.m., five hours into the much anticipated and emotional meeting. It passed 5-2, with Emily Chavez and Alexandra Valladares voting no.
Durham Council Weighs Whether to Continue With ShotSpotter
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. After a year-long trial of the controversial ShotSpotter program ended in December, many Durham residents assumed the gunshot detection technology was a thing of the past. But on Thursday, it was back with a bang on the Durham city council agenda.
Meet the Candidate: Nida Allam for Durham County Board of Commissioners
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Editors’ Note: Eleven candidates—all Democrats—are vying for five seats on the Durham County Board of Commissioners in the March 5 election. No Republicans or Libertarians have entered the contest, so the March 5 results will determine who sits on the commission. The 9th Street Journal is speaking with each candidate in the race. In coming days, we’ll bring you profiles of all 11 candidates.
Comptroller for Durham Public Schools Says Payroll Chaos Rooted in Flawed Pay Study
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. The payroll chaos that has embroiled Durham Public Schools has been blamed on various things, including calculation errors by the former CFO and communication failures throughout the fiscal year. Now an outside comptroller says mistakes began even earlier, more than a year ago.
Meet the Candidate: Mike Lee for Durham County Board of Commissioners
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Editors’ Note: Eleven candidates—all Democrats—are vying for five seats on the Durham County Board of Commissioners in the March 5 election. No Republicans or Libertarians have entered the contest, so the March 5 results will determine who sits on the commission. The 9th Street Journal is speaking with each candidate in the race. In coming days, we’ll bring you profiles of all 11 candidates.
Backtalk: The Indy has missed on its judicial endorsements in Wake County
In our paper two weeks ago, along with our voter guide and more elections coverage, we published our 2024 primary endorsements for all the local races that will appear on voters ballots. (Please note: we’re no longer endorsing in statewide, congressional, or national elections). Our readers had plenty of thoughts:
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