It’s easy to blame people who are dealing with mental illness. But the road to recovery is more often like a series of paths through a forest, sometimes connecting, often not touching, and too frequently leading the person needing help in the wrong direction. Brian Klausner, an internist at WakeMed, pointed this out at a […]
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Dueling Endorsements Try to Sway Voters in Raleigh’s Mayoral Runoff
Endorsements in this year’s Raleigh mayoral elections have been crossing paths all over the electoral map, because of an unusual blend of partisan loyalties and unexpected twists. In the first round of balloting October 10, Democratic voters turned out both for unaffiliated incumbent Nancy McFarlane and Democratic challenger Charles Francis. In three previous successful runs […]
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Raleigh Mayoral Candidates McFarlane, Francis Work to Score Points in Debate Leading to November 7 Runoff
Like high-stakes gamblers in a pivotal game, Mayor Nancy McFarlane and challenger Charles Francis sat across from each other Friday and worked to make the most of the cards they were dealt. The mayoral candidates were playing the odds that they could reach voters in the Nov. 7 election with persuasive answers to questions posed […]
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Most Raleigh City Council Members Reluctant to Endorse Either Candidate in Mayoral Runoff
We asked the seven Raleigh City Council members who will take office in December whom they’re backing in the November 7 mayoral runoff. Only two would give a definitive answer. Members Corey Branch, Russ Stephenson, Kay Crowder, and David Cox, all incumbents who earned new terms, chose not to make public their pick in the […]
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Raleigh Mayoral Rivals Nancy McFarlane, Charles Francis to Tape Debate That Will Air Friday and Sunday
Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane and Democratic challenger Charles Francis will tape a debate on Friday afternoon to be aired by Spectrum News. The debate will have no live audience, but will air at seven thirty p.m. Friday and ten p.m. Sunday, the station said. “Spectrum News is committed to hosting a televised debate for the […]
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Wake County Approves a Twenty-Year Affordable Housing Plan, But Funding Questions Linger
As many as thirty-seven hundred new households a year in Wake County need affordable housing, yet the supply is slashed by nine hundred units annually, county commissioners heard Monday. The math means that today’s shortage of 56,000 households that can’t afford housing will eventually rise to a countywide shortfall of 120,000–150,000 households a year. A […]
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Breaking: Research Triangle Regional Partnership Sends Amazon a Bid to Bring HQ2 to North Carolina
The Triangle region sent off its bid Tuesday to become the site of the mega-corporation Amazon’s second headquarters, potentially bringing fifty thousand highly paid workers and $5 billion in investments to North Carolina, a Research Triangle Regional Partnership executive said. Aided by the regional body, consisting of ten counties and Research Triangle Park, the area […]
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McFarlane Bashes Francis for Speaking to Wake GOP Meeting, Links Him With Trump
Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane lashed out Tuesday against electoral challenger Charles Francis, associating him with “Donald Trump and his America First policies” after Francis spoke to a Wake County Republican Party meeting Monday night. Francis responded that he’s a proud Democrat who wants to reach out to voters all over Raleigh. McFarlane, who is politically […]
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Mayoral Candidates Nancy McFarlane, Charles Francis Trade Barbs as Race to November 7 Runoff Begins
Raleigh, get ready, for the train of speeches. Democratic candidate Charles Francis’s request for a November 7 runoff against Nancy McFarlane in Raleigh’s mayoral race kicks off another round of rhetoric, door-knocking, fundraising, and, very likely, a sharper new tone. Francis, a banker and lawyer, came out punching from the day in July when he […]
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How the Legislature Screwed Up Raleigh’s Runoff Elections
Under state law, Raleigh mayoral candidate Charles Francis has until noon Thursday, October 19, to decide whether to request a runoff against incumbent Nancy McFarlane. Under a different state law, however, early voting for the November 8 election is scheduled to start Thursday morning—before Francis has to actually make a decision—which would seem to make […]