An environmental group is asking the North Carolina Dept. of Environmental Quality to address ongoing wastewater pollution flowing into the Haw River in Alamance County #pollution
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From the archives: "At the end of the school year, a lot gets thrown away at my downtown Durham apartment building. This year, I decided to dive in."
fyi - this page is a third-party Armenian website that scrapes original reporting and steals it without credit. the original story is on the new york times website!
Reese Witherspoon? The NFT evangelist?
In the suit, an anonymous plaintiff says Mission leadership discouraged him from reporting the abuse.
the INDY has always done rigorous reporting, and I’m as proud of that as I am of our arts coverage. Part of being community paper I’ve found, though, is that people heavily project their relationship to place and politics onto their reading experience, and that’s just part of the tension.
A man explained to me the other day that the INDY had “gone downhill” by trying to be “a real news organization rather than an arts magazine,” a position he held for like 2 min before admitting that an arts mag was his vision for it as a freelancer in the 2010s
These murals are a political project rooted in eugenics, using a dead women's body to advance gutter racism under the guise of "memory."
The newsletter intro this morning by @sarahwillets.bsky.social on the 43th anniversary of the first issue of the @indyweek.bsky.social 😍
My stories rarely spark immediate tangible reforms. So it was gratifying when our investigation of the dollar-store industry, published by @theguardian.com, led the Utah legislature to pass a new law cracking down on chronic overchargers. With @jocelynzuck.bsky.social, @michaelwhudson.bsky.social.
i went to a deli in Raleigh and ordered a chopped cheese the ocky way and the cashier laughed at me indyweek.com/news/culture...
Heyden didn’t seem to feel fidelity to two-dimensionality—rather, she wrote, surfaces were meant to be “transcended.”
Tapestries offered textural possibilities that, say, a painting or photograph couldn’t. As a result, there is much to notice within a Heyden tapestry.
Really wish the Atlantic had thought to ask the southern publisher (that's also bringing nancy's books back into print) if they had thoughts about Americans exoticizing the south.
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They were going to all of their appointments. And now their teachers, their peers at Burton Elementary, and Durham neighborhood are left missing them tremendously. Genesis, Denis and their parents were abducted without warning at a routine Charlotte immigration check-in on Monday.
Tia Lessin was part of Goodman’s team covering the Republican National Convention in 2000, where the journalist was “chasing after politicians and billionaires and asking the hard questions.”
“She was covering it like an athletic event,” Lessin said with a laugh.
Several noted critics of Duke’s land use practices speculated whether dimensions beyond the condition of the duplex could have influenced the university’s approach to 407 Swift.
This is fantastic and Goodman deserves recognition for her amazing work! Also, publicly funded media needs to include efforts like Democracy Now! Which is only listener supported.
Durham officials and advocates are reeling after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported a Durham-based family of four earlier this week.
The two children, Genesis Elizabeth Espinoza Pacheco and Denis Daniel Espinoza Pacheco, were students at Durham’s Burton Elementary School.
#OtD 9 Apr 1914 Basque anarchist, feminist and Civil War fighter Casilda Hernaez was born. Jailed for striking and again for radical activity, she then fought Franco and later helped the French and Spanish anti-fascist resistance movements stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1087...
I spoke with filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin about their new doc, @stealthisstory.bsky.social, which compels us to ask more out of mainstream media & has lots of great archival reels of Amy Goodman chasing powerful people with a microphone.
(cc: @fullframefest.bsky.social)
In the Triangle, PineCone and the Durham Symphony are both putting on concerts that contend with the American experiment and how we have, or haven’t, lived up to its ideals.
poem out today, with thanks to @andotherpoems.bsky.social
"Creedon was, per city directories, the latest in an unbroken line of largely working-class renters at 407 Swift stretching back more than a century: machinists, textile workers, postal clerks, waitresses, painters, students. Her departure means one of Durham’s increasingly scarce parcels of naturally occurring affordable housing has seen its last tenant."
essential reading, essential reporting by Lena @writingthings.bsky.social
Duke has razed hundreds of homes over the decades to build out its Central Campus. A recent purchase on Swift Avenue is resurfacing questions about what that growth costs Durham.
poem out today, with thanks to @andotherpoems.bsky.social
Issue Nine is OUT NOW.
andotherpoems.com/issue-nine/
Photo credit: Andrew Gwizdowski (andrew_gwiz) on Unsplash.
We are so lucky to have this caliber of talent in Durham. I wrote a piece about experiencing the debut performance of The Sistering, a Jazz collective featuring Nnenna Freelon, Lois Deloatch, Lenora Zenzalai Helm, and Kate McGarry. Many thanks to @indyweek.bsky.social!
