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Happy Election Day!
Elections are being held nationwide today, with key races in Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, and Virginia. Results from these states are expected to signal where voters stand going into 2024, shaping…
Local election
Elections & Public Integrity
Election Fraud Does Not Need to Be Massive to Affect Election Outcomes
The North Carolina Policy Watch highlighted a report from longtime progressive activist Bob Hall today on how many local elections are decided by one or two votes: Key finding: How…
Elections & Public Integrity
Elections Director Wants To Delay All Municipal Elections. Why?
State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell is urging the General Assembly to give municipalities the ability to delay their local elections. But, as Locke’s Andy Jackson explains,…
Elections & Public Integrity
Bonds, Booze, and the Beach: An Overview of the November Ballot
On November 7, people in cities and towns across North Carolina will go to the polls to vote in local government elections. These are municipal, not county, elections, but not…
Liberty
Mayor pro tem upsets mayor in Charlotte primary
Mayor Pro Tem Viv Lyles defeated Mayor Jennifer Roberts and three other Democrats in Charlotte’s municipal election primary. Lyles will now face Republican Kenny Smith in the November election: Roberts,…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online on taxes, bonds, and other interesting issues that will be decided in local elections across North Carolina. Julie Tisdale’s Daily Journal explains why…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
The latest Carolina Journal Online parody features former N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue’s plan to cancel 2016 elections. (Remember, it’s a parody.) Julie Tisdale’s Daily Journal examines the impact of low…
Liberty
Gboro BID tax controversy
As required by a General Assembly law passed last year, the Greensboro City Council put out to bid management of the city’s downtown Business Improvement District and the tax money…
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DBS and ‘Bishop Dean’ running for Guilford school board
I thought this would be bigger news—-maybe I missed it—but former controversial former Greensboro City Council member Dianne Bellamy-Small’s candidacy for the Guilford County Board of Education was mentioned matter-of-factly…
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Incumbents sweep Gboro City Council election
All nine incumbents on the Greensboro City Council were reelected in yesterday’s municipal election. Mayor Nancy Vaughan will be Gboro’s first two-time mayor since Keith Holliday after taking 88 percent…
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Gboro: “Most politically incestuous city in the USA”
Looks as though the Downtown Greensboro Inc. board is ready to move on, announcing that CEO Zack Matheny —who was arrested for DWI last Friday morning—will remain in that position…
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Avoid Filing Fees, Run Today
The towns of Forest Hills and Webster both have one candidate fewer than seats opening. If no write-in gets more votes than another, the seats will be filled by the…