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.
Posted inCarrboro, Transportation
Jonesing for a ferry on Jones Ferry Road
Chapelboro reports that “a section of Jones Ferry Road between Old Greensboro Road and Old Fayetteville Road will be closed for scheduled repairs between Monday, February 26 and Friday, March 1.” According to the Town of Carrboro, a detour route is yet to be established. This is what that stretch looks like: That’s gonna be […]
Posted inCHALT
Update: The CHALT-PAC amended their campaign finance form – here’s what we noticed.
On the morning of February 11th, we reached out to Tom Henkel, CHALT’s treasurer, with an email containing a series of errors that appeared in the CHALT-PAC’s year-end report. (You can see the email here.) Henkel must have had a very busy day, because he went to work amending the report, which he submitted in […]