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The 2020 general election is a little over a month away, and voters across North Carolina will be voting for a new state superintendent of public instruction.
In the November general election, North Carolina voters will elect either Josh Dobson or Jessica Holmes as the N.C. commissioner of labor for the next four years, replacing Cherie Berry, who has been in the position since 2001.
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, Trinity ’00, is running to be the next Virginia governor.
More than 248,000 mail-in ballots have already been cast in North Carolina, with Durham County at more than 14,000.
Even amid the virtual school year’s increase in workload and challenges related to equity, technology and supervision, Durham Public Schools teachers are teaching and students are learning, teachers and administrators say.
Cries of “Say her name, Breonna Taylor!” rang outside the Durham police department headquarters, where more than 100 protesters, dressed in black, congregated in front of the building.
For formerly incarcerated people in North Carolina, the beginning of September brought news of re-enfranchisement just eight weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
Sophomores Alec James and Will Reynolds founded You Change Earth, a website that provides users with a personalized guide to climate action.
As the election approaches, students have multiple options for early voting—including here on campus.
Jill Biden swung by a swing state in a Thursday virtual roundtable event for North Carolina working parents.
Some students had long had the fall of 2020 earmarked for a leave of absence from Duke for election-related work. For others, the decision came in response to COVID-19, after a spring and summer filled with Zoom meetings and a lack of clarity from Duke about what the fall semester would look like on campus.
Martha Bárcena Coqui, Mexican ambassador to the United States since December 2018 and the first woman to hold the position, spoke to Duke students Wednesday in a virtual event.
Budget processes are expanding to include community members, and Durham is leading the way nationally, the city’s mayor pro tempore said at a Tuesday event.
Those voting in North Carolina for the November election shouldn't vote twice, according to a Thursday press release from the N.C. Board of Elections.
North Carolina is in Phase 2.5 of COVID-19 recovery, which restricts restaurants to opening within capacity limits and not serving alcohol between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Given these limitations, businesses are finding creative ways to keep profit margins up, from scaling up take-out to working with delivery services.
Mac McCorkle was recently named the director of POLIS: Center for Politics, which sponsors Duke Votes. The Chronicle spoke to him about his perspective on the 2020 election in North Carolina.
By May, colleges and universities had developed a spectrum of plans for holding a fall semester amid a pandemic. Now, as other schools in the Triangle move online, Duke is still hosting classes on-campus while other schools across the country try to do the same.
Congressional candidate Mondaire Jones spoke on progressive policies, youth activism and more at a Thursday event.
On Aug. 17, as Duke students everywhere were just rolling out of bed, Durham public school students were logging in to their first online class of the school year.
The coronavirus has generated numerous challenges for the upcoming November election, among them the recruitment of poll workers.
