Council Candidate Interview and Questionnaire Compendium

Updated October 22, 2023 with additional questionnaires and interviews.

Just about every civic organization in Chapel Hill and Carrboro sends out questionnaires to candidates asking about their key issues. The responses to these questionnaires are often used to help decide endorsements and are often reprinted in full. Here is a link to all of the completed questionnaires and interviews we could find—if there are others, please shoot us an email and let us know.

Questionnaires

• Chapelboro/WCHL—Chapel Hill candidates responses | Carrboro candidate responses.
• Orange County Affordable Housing Coalition—All responses. Note: David Adams (Chapel Hill council candidate), April Mills (Carrboro council candidate), and Stephanie Wade (Carrboro council candidate) did not respond to the coalition’s questionnaire.
• The Local Reporter—Chapel Hill candidate responses | Carrboro candidate responses.
• News & Observer—Chapel Hill candidate responses | Carrboro candidate responses | CHCCS candidate responses (Ballew, Feaster Fornville, Fedders, Gabin, Middough, Tally, Temne, Willis; other candidates did not respond)
• Indy Week—All candidate responses in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and CHCCS
• CHALT—Chapel Hill candidate video responses
• The Chamber for a Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro—Chapel Hill candidate responses | Carrboro candidate responses

Profiles

• Candidate profiles, News and Observer
• A look at the five candidates running for three open Carrboro Town Council seats, The Daily Tar Heel
• Five Questions with Jess Anderson (News & Observer)
• Five Questions with Adam Searing (News & Observer)

Interviews

Triangle Blog Blog has posted interviews with the following candidates:

Chapel Hill candidates (4 council seats available)

• Amy Ryan (council)
• Erik Valera (council)
• Jon Mitchell (council)
• Melissa McCullough (council)
• Theodore Nollert (council)

Carrboro candidates (3 council seats available)

• Barbara Foushee (mayor)
• Catherine Fray (council)
• Eliazar Posada (council)
• Jason Merrill (council)
• Eliazar Posada (council)

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

Interviews with 12 of the 14 candidates for school board are available on our website, in English and translated into Spanish.

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