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- Fields Narrow in Chapel Hill, CHCCS Elections
- Talking with Durham Trivia Host Arturo Sanchez
- Hemp vs. Marijuana: NC Supreme Court Weighs In
- Parts of Eno River State Park Re-Open
Good morning, readers.
Some big shakeups in Orange County municipal elections, where a pair of candidate withdrawals is set to turn an already-sleepy election into a snoozefest.
Jon Mitchell and Lynnee Argabright have dropped from the Chapel Hill Town Council and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board elections, respectively. That leaves five candidates for four town council seats and just three candidates for the three school board seats.
Why?
Mitchell put it nicely in an email to me yesterday: “I’m deeply grateful for the encouragement I received, but after weighing both the competitive dynamic of the race (five other highly electable candidates) and what I could realistically accomplish if elected (less than I’d like), I decided the opportunity cost of missing essentially two months of family life was too high.”
Maybe I’m jaded by my three long years of covering government, but I can’t blame Mitchell or Argabright. There is little glamour in the life of a local elected leader—some townspeople will always be mad at you for something and you have to do all the government work on top of whatever your actual job is.
For more on the latest Orange election news, check out my story below.
And have a good Tuesday.
—Chase
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ICYMI
Character Studies: Trivia Host Arturo Sanchez
“My two favorite days of the week are the days I do trivia,” the downtown Durham fixture tells INDY’s Chase Pellegrini de Paur.
STATE
Odor in the Court
Hemp and marijuana smell the same. The question of whether police can use a smell test to justify searching someone’s vehicle, person, or property reaches the state Supreme Court today, The Assembly reports.
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NEWS: Luis Juárez, the beloved Duke campus figure, has lost his protected immigration status and ability to keep working as a bus driver. The Duke Chronicle profiles Luis and his attempts to stay in his Durham Community of over 30 years.
STATE: More than 170,000 acres of forest in North Carolina could be opened up for development under a policy change the Trump administration wants to make, WUNC reports.
UNC: With Bill Belichick on board, UNC is expected to bring in $19 million in football ticket sales this year, up from $12 million last year, WRAL reports.
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