We don’t want to spend time fact checking. We’d much rather be covering pickleball, or splash pads, or Raising Cane’s. But so it goes. Earlier today, mayoral candidate Adam Searing wrote a newsletter entitled: The Triangle Blog Blog Isn’t Real News. It’s Dark-Money Attack Politics. Let’s all pause for a second and have a good […]
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SCOOP: “I’m With Adam Searing”—The No-Team Forms
David Adams, Renuka Soll, Elizabeth Sharp and Breckany Eckhardt are planning to run for council alongside council member Adam Searing, who is running for mayor. Over the weekend, we learned that Adam Searing will be running for Mayor alongside four like-minded candidates for Chapel Hill Town Council. Three of the four are running for office […]
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Adam Searing is Chapel Hill’s FOX News
Adam Searing is probably running to be the next mayor of Chapel Hill. He’s also a demagogue who routinely spreads misinformation and appears to prefer creating rather than solving problems. We all know how FOX News operates. It whips viewers into a frenzy with information that is false but taps into their deep-seated fears, all […]
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Adam Searing wants to fire Jennifer Keesmaat
What a difference a day makes. (Actually, two days, but the point still stands). On January 18, Adam Searing cautioned us that Jennifer Keesmaat, one of the consultants hired to help implement the Complete Communities project, was pushing the town’s decision-making process to be more like that of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. […]
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Adam Searing and the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
It’s not often that you can actually hear people rolling their eyes. So I guess we’re lucky to have a council member like Adam Searing. As we have noted elsewhere, Searing has a certain gift for, shall we say, exaggeration. We’ve documented this several times over his tenure on the council, fact-checking his remarks on […]
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Let’s talk about Adam Searing’s Tall Tales
Adam Searing’s comments at the December 7 Town Council meeting were troubling. Listen closely. Searing is not just saying ‘I disagree with this. I have different priorities.’ He’s saying ‘I disagree with this and you shouldn’t trust the eight other elected members of this body.’ The following clip is his comment on the American Legion […]
