North Carolina is one of the top 10 deadliest states for bicyclists, and the counties in the Triangle are among the most dangerous in the state. At No. 8, the state was averaging 25 deaths per year from 2010–2012. The data was released in a recent issue of Governing magazine. Florida is the most dangerous […]
Lisa Sorg
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Mean, nasty and close, but now it’s over: U.S. Senate race goes to Thom Tillis
Democrats and Republicans are saying the same thing tonight but in starkly different tones: Republicans: “Thom Tillis is our next senator!” Democrats: “Thom … Tillis .. is … our … next … senator.” With 99 percent of precincts reporting, soon-to-be former state lawmaker Tillis is leading Kay Hagan by 48,197 votes. Barring a miracle—like a […]
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Voter turnout sets record in N.C.
Those long lines at the polls weren’t your imagination. Voter participation in North Carolina set a midterm election record tonight with 2,717,920 people casting ballots. That beats the 2010 turnout of 2,700,393, according to the State Board of Elections. There are 6,627,947 registered voters in the state; this election’s turnout equals 41 percent.
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Chatham County voters oust Republican incumbents from commission
While Republicans are leading most of the state and federal races, Democrats are quietly winning key local contests. In the Chatham County Commissioner race, Brian Bock and Pam Stewart, both incumbent Republicans, lost to Democrats Diana Hales and Jim Crawford. Bock serves as vice-chair of the commission and has been a chairman of the Chatham […]
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Thom Tillis still leading Kay Hagan by 53,000 votes
The State Board of Elections website is working again, and shows that just 53,000 votes separates Republican Thom Tillis and Democrat Kay Hagan. Libertarian Sean Haugh has 104,000 votes, but it’s unclear if whom he peeled off votes from According to the county map, 11 counties have yet to report their full results; 96 percent […]
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Chad Barefoot leading Sarah Crawford; John Alexander over Tom Bradshaw by just 777 votes
With all of the precincts reporting for the NC Senate 15 race, Republican John Alexander is ahead of Democrat Tom Bradshaw by just 777 votes: 40,748 to 40,031, raising questions if Bradshaw will request a recount. District 15 is in Wake County. Meanwhile, in one of the nastiest and most expensive state legislative races, in […]
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Clay Aiken’s campaign bus broke down today and that was only the beginning
We had a bad feeling after learning the campaign bus of Clay Aiken broke down this morning. Unfortunately, that was likely the high point of the Democratic challenger’s day. By a margin of 59–41, incumbent Republican Renee Ellmers defeated Aiken who ran a spirited and aggressive campaign, for the U.S. House District 2. We can’t […]
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Paging the Geek Squad: Website for NC Board of Elections results down … up … down
For those of you getting an error message on the State Board of Elections website, it’s not you. It’s them. The results portion of the site has only intermittently functioned all evening (it’s currently down.) The SBOE issued a press release apologizing for the problems. “We regret the inconvenience these intermittent outages have caused,” said […]
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Killing it softly with his song
There goes Black Jesus. There go the screaming man and Renee, who lives in Baldwin Lofts with her black pugs. There go the construction workers with their caulking guns and the techies with their Bluetooths. The scenes and characters at the corner of Main and Corcoran streets are better than an afternoon at the movies. […]
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Fewer North Carolinians homeless in 2014, says U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
The number of homeless people, including veterans, in North Carolina has decreased 5.6 percent over last year, according to a federal report released last week. An estimated 11,491 homeless people were living in North Carolina this year, compared with 12,168 in 2013. The figures are based on point-in-time counts conducted each January by state and […]