As I looked at the North Carolina Council of State races this year, State Superintendent of Public Instruction and Commissioner of Labor felt particularly important to me; these departments influence the day-to-day functioning of our communities (public schools! boilers!) and make investments in our future, through educating our children and preparing and protecting our workforce. […]

By B.J. Talley, Adam Wolk, and Jared Gallaher With North Carolina now a critical state in deciding the presidential election and so many additional state-wide offices up for grabs, voter turnout will be vital in helping progressive candidates win – especially in light of recent efforts to make voting more difficult in our state. To […]

Want to avoid long lines during early voting? There’s a website for that. Orange County, Durham County, and Wake County have early voting wait time trackers which are updated often and highly accurate. Orange County: https://www.orangecountync.gov/3013/Early-Voting-Wait-Time-Tracker Durham County: https://durhamnc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3ba5733d5de645debd6e6089e92c7f32 Wake County: https://airtable.com/appAL6KsUEvshj4br/shrQkIIFla4bjdGzh/tbl0siEKfqhV1y6F8

Yesterday we published our endorsements and they are LOOOOONG because we went into great detail about each candidate after doing a lot of research. Today, we’re giving you the tl;dr version. It’s a printable one-page document with all of our endorsements. It’s funny! It’s short! Please print it — and please consider printing and handing […]

Below are our 2024 endorsements and our rationale for each one. Also Indyweek’s endorsements came out today and are worth a read. You can find all of our election coverage here. You can find interviews with the candidates here. You can find our roundup of all interviews with candidates, for all publications we could find, […]