Why you should care about municipal elections
National headlines may spark emotion, but it’s local policy that determines whether your child’s bus arrives on time, your street floods and recovers after a storm, or your town attracts new jobs.
Off-year local elections are about our kids’ future, our neighborhoods’ stability, and our ability to seize the opportunities knocking at North Carolina’s door. Don’t wait for a presidential year. Your city, your town, and your neighborhoods need you now.
Candidates for mayor and town commissioner met Wednesday evening at Wake Forest’s Renaissance Centre for the Arts to pitch themselves and their vision for the future of Wake Forest to voters.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) voted unanimously on several items at its meeting Monday morning, including changes to voting for military and overseas voters.
In some cases this week, small groups of voters made major decisions for their communities.
Conservative-leaning voters who once resided in larger cities are instead choosing to live in places such as Cornelius, Monroe, Apex, or Smithfield.
Local election results around North Carolina demonstrate a resurgence of Democratic political strength after two years of losses.
Overanalyzing local elections is far more interesting than speculating about elections one to three years hence.
Rather than continuing to make excuses for a failed policy, the political and educational establishment of Wake County needs to get some inkling of a clue.
It’s election season again in North Carolina, with hundreds of candidates filing for office, raising money, and mapping out a strategy for victory in the fall.
It’s become somewhat of a cliché within North Carolina political circles to cite politics in Cary as exemplifying local conflicts over growth and development.
Municipal elections across North Carolina resulted mostly in the reelection of incumbents, except in Asheville. There was also unrest about the school system in Wake but little of it in Iredell County.