Indy endorsements November 2009
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- Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education
- Durham
- Hillsborough
- Pittsboro
- Wake County Board of Education, Cary District A runoffs
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Including party affiliations, answers to Indy questionnaires, Web sites, Facebook and Twitter pages, contact info, moreWhat's lonelier than one poorly attended election? Two poorly attended elections.
The turnout was puny for the Oct. 6 elections in Wake County, Raleigh, Cary and Durham: Just over 4 percent voter turnout in the Bull City and a whopping 11 percent among all Wake County voters, even with a hot school board race.
Durham and Wake voters, many of you get to try again: Durham has its general election for City Council and mayor, while the Wake County School Board and Cary Town Council District A races have one runoffs.
In Orange and Chatham counties, there are pivotal town board and mayoral elections in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough and Pittsboro, as well as an important contest for Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education.
Orange and Chatham voters, can you put your eastern neighbors to shame? Of course you can. We trust that you will.
A reminder about Indy endorsements: We don't endorse in unopposed races.
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@Lassiter: We distribute in Apex because people ask for the papers there. Also, some people work in other communities but live in Apex (or vice versa) and want to keep up with news and culture in the Triangle, not just their own towns.
SLassiter - Apex is in Wake County and the Indy covers county elections, so there is still value for us. It is a small paper. It does what it can. At least they don't just put in the same news feeds as everyone else. I frequently disagree with the Indy's stance, but I cannot find fault with the way in which they run their paper.
Dear Editor: if your newspaper doesn't have the resources to cover Apex politics, then I kindly ask you to remove your newspaper boxes from our town. Thank you.
I'll go out on a limb and try to make some Indy-esque endorsements. After carefully reviewing all available info on these candidates it seems that the more "progressive" among the bunch are Bills, Haynie, and Olive. Smith, the lone Democrat can't be bothered to stand up a website so I can't evaluate him. Bills is Unaffiliated. Everyone else is Republican. Bills is endorsed by the Realtors, but other than that seems to have good views. Olive got points for knocking on doors in my neighborhood. All of my picks are non-incumbents and there's a vibe going on to try to shake things up on the council a bit (note the "Re-elect No One" signs popping up.) Some folks have been on the council a little too long.
Apex Rich: Thanks for your understanding. We'll definitely consider your and others' comments about the geographic diversity of our endorsements for the next municipal election cycle. I'm all for running endorsements in those races; we just have to figure out how to allocate the resources with only three staff writers. I believe it's worth doing, though.
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