Judge James Hill looks at home sitting on the bench wedged in the dim corner of Courtroom 5A in the Durham County Courthouse. A gleaming…
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Few journalists covered the Durham elections more closely than the student reporters of The 9th Street Journal. They spent hours with the candidates, attended campaign…
By Jake Sheridan, Julianna Rennie, Caroline Petrow-Cohen, and Olivia Olsher Durham’s new mayor-elect Elaine O’Neal cruised to an easy victory in Tuesday’s municipal election. The…
The flyer that arrived in Durham voters’ mailboxes had an urgent message: “Don’t defund the police!” it said in capital red letters. “Law enforcement is…
Don’t let the headlines fool you. Although Durham’s election might look like a snooze – yes, the race for mayor is essentially uncontested – there…
Clusters of campaign signs across Durham vie for people’s attention. Some display slogans or a picture of the candidate, but all were designed to capitalize…
When Durham held its municipal primary election last Tuesday, most registered voters didn’t show up. Just one in 10 registered voters cast ballots in the…
Mayoral Candidate Javiera Caballero is suspending her campaign, clearing Elaine O’Neal’s path to become Durham’s first Black woman mayor. Caballero, a City Council member, announced…
By Julianna Rennie and Jake Sheridan There’s one week left for Durham voters to cast their ballots before the primary election on Oct. 5. The…
As mayoral candidate Charlitta Burruss showed us around her neighborhood, Edgemont Elms, she stopped at the road in front of her house and pointed to…