“Who’s not going to their job this morning?” It’s a question Jane Dornemann has asked one too many times. Dornemann, mother of a Durham School…
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Enrique Loyola strode out of the polling place at the Karsh Alumni Center oozing enthusiasm — eyes wide and smiling. Loyola, 28, is a first-generation…
On a recent Friday, Lu Tahaj, 52, trudged up Macon Street, an unpaved road around the corner from her house on West Markham. Seventeen houses…
Sophia Chitlik is campaigning for state senate — but you wouldn’t know it. At events, she speaks about voter registration and down-ballot races. On social…
As the clock approaches 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, the streets outside the Fruit, a Durham nightclub, lay mostly quiet. Inside, though, a haze…
When Harley Walker put up the first Trump sign on his front lawn in 2020, the neighborhood rejected it like a bad organ transplant. Within…
On a warm July morning, federal Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Gov. Roy Cooper, Durham Mayor Leonardo Williams and U.S. Representative Valerie Foushee walked a loose…
Before most of Durham is up, tree-lined Oval Drive Park is serene, save for a slight morning breeze. That is, until about 30 kids and…
Three college-aged voters stood in a clump, awaiting the start of a Durham rally for vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on Thursday. Hundreds of supporters…
On Sept. 17, Brittany Thomas received a text message from a distressed teacher at Merrick-Moore Elementary School. The air conditioning had broken down at Merrick-Moore,…