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.
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Chapel Hill’s police headquarters at 828 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard is built on top of a pit of toxic coal ash, the waste product of decades of energy production at the University of North Carolina’s still-active coal power plant. This month, Chapel Hill and the NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) released a draft agreement to officially designate the area as a brownfields site, taking a step towards possible future redevelopment of the abandoned property. The draft agreement is new, but the issue is not. The roughly 46,000 tons...