As the daylight hours lengthen and temperatures rise, it’s only natural to start getting itchy to get back into the garden. But, while it’s still too early to plant or disturb over-wintering insects by cleaning up the yard, it’s not too early to help our local birds get ready for the breeding season and make […]
Posted inTriangle Region
A graduate student’s guide to the Triangle
What are the Brooklyn-like places in the Triangle?
Posted inElection 2024
Who is early voting so far in the March 5, 2024 election in Orange County, NC?
Using data from the North Carolina State Board of Elections, we took a quick look at who has voted so far, in Orange County, in the March 5, 2024 election. The voting data is from February 23, 2024 and the voter registration data is from February 24, 2024. First, there are 109,026 people registered to […]
Posted inCHALT, Election 2023
The last word word on CHALT’s campaign finances (we hope)
What are you doing this weekend, blogbloggers? Oh, just factchecking a CHALT factcheck of our factcheck. :backs-away-slowly: If you’re just joining us, it’s time for our third (and hopefully final!) installment of fact-checking CHALT’s campaign finance documents. We did a deep dive into their first year-end semi-annual report, and then—after they amended it—we reported that […]
Posted inElection 2024
Meet the Democrats running for NC’s Supreme Court and NC’s Court of Appeals
Republicans currently control both our State Supreme Court and our Court of Appeals. We have an opportunity to take back both courts by 2028.
Posted inElection 2024, Orange County
Looking at the network of conservative groups involved in the Orange County School Board race
Bonnie Hauser’s friends deny she’s running with the right. We found otherwise.