Participatory Budgeting Cycle Returns to Durham
We're entering the fourth cycle of participatory budgeting, which lets residents decide how part of the city's annual budget is spent by proposing and voting on local projects.
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A weekly serial fiction project for paid subscribers, unfolding through a growing archive of documents from an alternate-universe Southpoint.
Durham commissioners could approve $55M emergency operations center Tuesday
Although Tuesday's meeting is a work session, the board's consent agenda lists the emergency center and 19 other proposals as action items. Violence and homelessness plans are scheduled mainly for discussion.
What Southpoint Access Is Becoming
The newsletters are staying. Now I’m also building practical guides that can help with everyday life in South Durham.
South Durham in Five: Sept. 5, 2026
Five questions, five answers, and one look ahead from Aug. 31-Sept. 4.