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 […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council
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 […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Chapel Hill, Greenway
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 […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Chapel Hill, Housing
Factchecking Adam Searing’s newsletter: Let’s talk about housing
Chapel Hill Town councilmember Adam Searing wrote a new edition of his newsletter this weekend, and as with other newsletters he’s written, this one gets some facts wrong. Today, we’re going to address two errors. The first has to do with the recent award of low-income housing tax credits to the Trinity Court affordable housing […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Chapel Hill
Factchecking Adam Searing’s newsletter ‘Controversial town topics’
It’s Town Council season again, which means our fact-checking fingers are limbering up for a workout. In a preview of things to come, Chapel Hill Town Council member Adam Searing sent out a Saturday night newsletter entitled “Controversial town topics on tap.” We’ve previously written about Searing’s claims that Chapel Hill was last in our […]