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If you hadn’t been paying attention for the past six weeks, you’d be forgiven for breathing a sigh of relief after reading this line in a statement issued Friday by Durham Public Schools: “This vote ends a period of uncertainty and anxiety for our classified employees, but it
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I’ve heard some folks say Durham Public Schools should’ve insisted that Dr. Pascal Mubenga stick around to help clean up the mess his administration caused with the classified worker pay crisis. I get it. I do. If one of my kids spills food on the floor, I want
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Honestly, I can’t believe I fell for it. But the fact that I did makes me think it’s all the more important to talk about it. If I do, maybe a neighbor won’t fall victim to a similar scam. Or, if they do, at least they can
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Junction 54, an occasional podcast/column by Southpoint Access Editor and Publisher Wes Platt, is available to Dear Reader-level subscribers:Text of the Audio File:Every couple of days, I post on Threads, urging people to check out the ultra-local news on Southpoint Access.Once, this yielded a snarky (but
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Junction 54, an occasional podcast/column by Southpoint Access Editor and Publisher Wes Platt, is available to Dear Reader-level subscribers:Text of the Audio File:More than 30 years ago, I sat at my desk on the third floor of Cooper Hall at the University of South Florida, pretty openly