There are two things to know about the Primlanis. They’ve been here a long time. And when it comes to politics, they don’t play. “I’ve…
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Derek Bowens doesn’t drink coffee. Still, as Durham County’s elections director, he regularly clocks 80-hour work weeks in anticipation of November’s general election, as does…
In North Carolina, it’s illegal to hand anything to voters within 50 feet of a polling place. David Fowles knows this better than anybody. He…
Rhoda Bernstein looked rattled after she voted. She walked with a cane, but still on her own, an impressive feat considering she is 93 and…
“Who’s not going to their job this morning?” It’s a question Jane Dornemann has asked one too many times. Dornemann, mother of a Durham School…
Enrique Loyola strode out of the polling place at the Karsh Alumni Center oozing enthusiasm — eyes wide and smiling. Loyola, 28, is a first-generation…
On a recent Friday, Lu Tahaj, 52, trudged up Macon Street, an unpaved road around the corner from her house on West Markham. Seventeen houses…
Sophia Chitlik is campaigning for state senate — but you wouldn’t know it. At events, she speaks about voter registration and down-ballot races. On social…
As the clock approaches 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, the streets outside the Fruit, a Durham nightclub, lay mostly quiet. Inside, though, a haze…
When Harley Walker put up the first Trump sign on his front lawn in 2020, the neighborhood rejected it like a bad organ transplant. Within…