• Tracking Outside Spending in NC-04
  • Morrisville Launches Rent Support Program
  • NC’s Modernist Home History
  • ICYMI: Visiting the Wake Landfill
  • Rare Lunar Eclipse Tomorrow

Good morning, readers.

If you feel like you’ve seen a lot of Nida Allam and Valerie Foushee lately, you’re not crazy. Endless ads about the 4th Congressional District primary contenders have smothered every platform from WRAL to Instagram, and anyone with a mailbox is all too familiar with the candidates’ faces on flyers.

And the vast majority of all that is being funded by outside PACs trying to influence your vote.

I’ve been digging through Federal Elections Commission filings every day, and, as of just before midnight last night, outside PACs have spent at least $4.4 million on this election.

That likely makes this the most expensive congressional primary in state history, beating the record set four years ago when these two candidates faced off for the first time. 

Both candidates are accusing each other of dishonesty and of accepting money from unsavory groups, even as both  campaign on promises to fix the campaign finance laws that encourage an opaque and frankly screwy as hell system.

So who’s spending to influence your vote? And how much are they each putting forward? We dug through the FEC filings … And the answers are a bit wild.

Check out my NC-04 spending tracker below, and feel free to bookmark it as we’ll keep updating through tomorrow’s Election Day.

And have a good Monday.  

—Chase

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For Rent

Morrisville is launching a program to help local government and school employees afford rental housing, Jasmine Gallup reports for the INDY.

Home Base

Did you know North Carolina has one of the largest concentrations of modernist homes in the U.S.? INDY’s Sarah Edwards writes about their history and the people working to preserve them.

Credit: Photo by Chloe Courtney Bohl

Talkin’ Trash

With Wake County’s growing population producing more than their share of garbage, its landfill is expected to be full by 2045. INDY’s Chloe Courtney Bohl took a tour.

STATE: A third of North Carolina households are now considered housing cost-burdened, NC Newsline reports, meaning they spend more than a third of their income on rent or mortgage payments.

EDUCATION: Durham Public Schools plans to increase certified and classified workers’ pay, The 9th Street Journal reports from a budget town hall.

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