
Indy Week
Indy Week, formerly known as the Independent Weekly and originally the North Carolina Independent, is a tabloid-format alternative weekly newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and distributed throughout the Research Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary) and counties (Wake County, Durham County, Orange County, and Chatham County). Its first issue was published in April 1983. Indy Week is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and has a progressive, liberal political perspective. The Columbia Journalism Review has cited the newspaper for its "spine of steel."[citation needed] The print edition is published on Wednesdays.
Over the past few years, Gino Nuzzolillo has been packing up his car and hitting the road to help put on town halls across the state. Nuzzolillo, 26, works with the nonprofit Common Cause North Carolina; the town halls—which touched down in 25 different counties—first began their push when Moore v. Harper, a case about redistricting in the state, reached the U.S. Supreme Court. In town halls sprawling from Greenville to Sylva, Nuzzolillo and his Common Cause colleagues regularly laid out the stakes of the gerrymandered congressional maps that the...