CityLife

Durham’s City Council gained a new member recently. He’s Durham born and bred, and he knows this city well. In this new CityLife episode, host Beverly Thompson talks with City Councilman Pierce Freelon about what he hopes to bring to the council and to Durham in this new capacity.


About CityLife
CityLife, a talk show that features information on current City issues and upcoming events, airs daily on Durham Television Network (Spectrum ch. 8 and AT&T U-verse ch. 99) and on YouTube. For more information about the City of Durham, call (919) 560-4123, like on Facebook, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Nextdoor. City Life is now an audio podcast! Find it on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast.

To say we’re living in a very complex environment with a number of public safety issues right now would be an understatement. In this new CityLife episode, host Beverly Thompson talks with Police Chief CJ Davis about what some of these important issues are and how the Durham Police Department is addressing them.


About CityLife
CityLife, a talk show that features information on current City issues and upcoming events, airs daily on Durham Television Network (Spectrum ch. 8 and AT&T U-verse ch. 99) and on YouTube. For more information about the City of Durham, call (919) 560-4123, like on Facebook, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Nextdoor.

While Tom Bonfield’s retirement as Durham’s City Manager will mean a change for the organization’s leadership, he and City leaders are working hard to make the transition as smooth as possible. In this new CityLife episode, host Beverly Thompson talks with Tom Bonfield as well as Interim City Manager Wanda Page to find out how they’re turning the Page on the Bonfield years.


About CityLife
CityLife, a talk show that features information on current City issues and upcoming events, airs daily on Durham Television Network (Spectrum ch. 8 and AT&T U-verse ch. 99) and on YouTube. For more information about the City of Durham, call (919) 560-4123, like on Facebook, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Nextdoor. City Life is now an audio podcast! Find it on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast.

The Durham Racial Equity Task Force has completed its initial work and is now presenting its findings to the community at large. In this new CityLife episode, host Beverly Thompson talks with task force chair Elaine O’Neal and task force vice-chair Kaaren Haldeman to find out how what they found affects every single one of us.

About CityLife
CityLife, a talk show that features information on current City issues and upcoming events, airs daily on Durham Television Network (Spectrum ch. 8 and AT&T U-verse ch. 99) and on YouTube. For more information about the City of Durham, call (919) 560-4123, like on Facebook, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Nextdoor. City Life is now an audio podcast! Find it on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast.

As some offices are beginning to open back up or are beginning to make plans for re-opening to employees, there is a lot of concern about how safe it really is to go back into such settings. In this new CityLife episode, host Beverly Thompson talks with Tim Scales, American Underground’s Director of Growth and Roz Dodd, the Senior Property Manager with the Research Triangle Foundation about office operations and what they might look like in the coming months with COVID-19 as our backdrop.


About CityLife
CityLife, a talk show that features information on current City issues and upcoming events, airs daily on Durham Television Network (Spectrum ch. 8 and AT&T U-verse ch. 99) and on YouTube. For more information about the City of Durham, call (919) 560-4123, like on Facebook, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Nextdoor. City Life is now an audio podcast! Find it on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast.

Now that we know what the plans are for the beginning of the school year for Durham Public Schools and as more workplaces are opening back up for in-office employees, many parents are facing questions about child care. In this new CityLife episode, host Beverly Thompson talks with Dr. Ibukun Akinboyo, an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Duke School of Medicine and June Shillito, Director of Yates Baptist Church Child Development Center about what child care might look like in the coming months as well as the concerns and questions that many of us have.


About CityLife
CityLife, a talk show that features information on current City issues and upcoming events, airs daily on Durham Television Network (Spectrum ch. 8 and AT&T U-verse ch. 99) and on YouTube. For more information about the City of Durham, call (919) 560-4123, like on Facebook, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Nextdoor. City Life is now an audio podcast! Find it on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast.

The Durham Recovery and Renewal Task Force
As the City continues to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, the Durham Recovery and Renewal Task Force is advising elected leaders on how to safely re-open our community. In this new CityLife episode, host Beverly Thompson sits down with Mayor Steve Schewel and task force co-chair Katie Galbraith to get a big picture view of what the task force is doing and why it’s needed.

About CityLife
CityLife, a talk show that features information on current City issues and upcoming events, airs daily on Durham Television Network (Spectrum ch. 8 and AT&T U-verse ch. 99) and on YouTube. For more information about the City of Durham, call (919) 560-4123, like on Facebook, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Nextdoor. City Life is now an audio podcast! Find it on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast.