
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.
In the latest development in an ongoing lawsuit against a local developer and the City of Raleigh, a Wake County Superior Court judge ruled in favor of six homeowners in the Hayes Barton neighborhood. Last August, the city’s Board of Adjustment (BOA) voted to allow a local developer, 908 Williamson LLC, to build 17 townhomes on a 2.4-acre lot at 908 Williamson Drive in Hayes Barton. But earlier this month, Wake County Superior Court Judge Bryan Collins issued a memo that suggests that Collins is primed to reverse the BOA’s...