Every Election Day, Derek Bowens wakes up and plays the most motivational song he can think of: CNN’s Election Night theme. The song provides an…
9th Street Journal
A week after I mailed my registration form to the State Board of Elections, I still hadn’t received my voter card. I looked myself up…
Yard signs are as ubiquitous in Durham as front porches and neighborly waves. Here they live year round atop green grass, proclaiming progressive mantras in…
Thousands of Durham residents flooded voting sites starting last week in a tense election countdown that has state and local officials quietly preparing for disruptions.…
In Bakersville on Oct. 3, about 50 of Madison Cawthorn’s supporters crowded into a wooden pavilion, nearly all without masks, many sporting Trump attire, a…
The Biden campaign passed through Durham on wheels. Spinning down Rose of Sharon Road Sunday afternoon, the Democratic presidential candidate’s motorcade glided by expectant Durhamites,…
Almost four years ago, North Carolina’s 15 presidential electors convened in Raleigh. Gathered with dozens of state officials, local honorees, and other attendees, the electors…
They’re sleuths, professional scandal-hunters. They target senators, presidents, politicians of all stripes, unearthing past gaffes and present improprieties. If there’s dirt, they’ll find it. They…
When North Carolina prison officials announced the death of an inmate from COVID-19 last month, they did not name him. They referred only to a…
With less than three weeks until Election Day, it’s game on for candidates in North Carolina’s most competitive congressional district. For the second time this…