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[VIDEO] Southpoint Access Office Hours – Aug. 7, 2025
Support features like this with our Southpoint Summer fundraiser on GoFundMe! Wes Platt – South Durham’s neighborhood news guy – streams office hours with the editor. Paying members of the SoDu Crew subscribers are invited to participate in the livestream chat to interact, offer comments, share concerns, and talk about what’s happening in their neighborhoods…
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[VIDEO] Southpoint Access Office Hours – Aug. 4, 2025
Wes Platt – South Durham’s neighborhood news guy – streams office hours with the editor. Paying members of the SoDu Crew subscribers are invited to participate in the livestream chat to interact, offer comments, share concerns, and talk about what’s happening in their neighborhoods around Southpoint. Visiting for this episode: Elijah King, candidate for Ward…
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[VIDEO] Southpoint Access Office Hours – July 29, 2025
Wes Platt – South Durham’s neighborhood news guy – streams office hours with the editor. Paying members of the SoDu Crew subscribers are invited to participate in the livestream chat to interact, offer comments, share concerns, and talk about what’s happening in their neighborhoods around Southpoint. In this episode, an interview with Samaria McKenzie, candidate…
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[VIDEO] Southpoint Access Office Hours – July 28, 2025
Wes Platt – South Durham’s neighborhood news guy – streams regular office hours with the editor. Paying members of the SoDu Crew subscribers are invited to participate in the livestream chat to interact, offer comments, share concerns, and talk about what’s happening in their neighborhoods around Southpoint. In this episode, an interview with Terry McCann,…
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[VIDEO] Southpoint Access Office Hours – July 25, 2025
Wes Platt – South Durham’s neighborhood news guy – streams regular office hours with the editor. Paying members of the SoDu Crew subscribers are invited to participate in the livestream chat to interact, offer comments, share concerns, and talk about what’s happening in their neighborhoods around Southpoint. Spread the word by sharing this Southpoint Access newsletter…
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Southpoint Access Office Hours – July 23, 2025
Wes Platt – South Durham’s neighborhood news guy – streams regular office hours with the editor. Paying members of the SoDu Crew subscribers are invited to participate in the livestream chat to interact, offer comments, share concerns, and talk about what’s happening in their neighborhoods around Southpoint. In this episode, an interview with Durant Long,…
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[Election 2025] Leonardo Williams Files for Re-Election
Mayor Leonardo Williams on Tuesday filed his candidacy papers for re-election to lead the City of Durham. His campaign website lists achievements as mayor, including: He filed to run again a day after Anjanee Bell, daughter of former Durham Mayor William Bell, turned in her papers to challenge Williams for the job on Oct. 7. DeDreana Freeman Faces…
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[Commentary] Billy Corriher: N.C. Can’t Let Sore Losers Undermine Democracy
By Billy CorriherBeacon Media A few months after I left my hometown of Cherryville, North Carolina for college, I voted in my first presidential election. Like so many people in America, I was shocked to watch the disputed 2000 election play out in Florida and then the U.S. Supreme Court. One side accused the other…
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State GOP Proposals Could Affect Schools, Gun Safety, Government Authority
These bills, introduced by Republican senators, address issues such as concealed carry laws, student participation in public school activities, and restrictions on legal challenges to presidential executive orders. Get the rundown in our Southpoint Access newsletter! Spread the word by sharing this Southpoint Access newsletter with friends and neighbors. Got a tip for your neighborhood news guy?…
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[Election 2024] SoDu Snapshot: Early Voting Exceeds 2020 Numbers
Nearly 58% of Durham’s 251,785 eligible voters cast ballots during the early voting period, which ended on Nov. 2, exceeding early participation in the 2020 general election. Here’s a quick snapshot of statistics related to early voting, according to the Durham County Board of Elections: Statewide, as of Sunday morning, more than 4.4 million voters…
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[Election 2024] Fight to Finish Will Determine Congressional Control
By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent The final doors are being knocked, ads are blaring and candidates are making a last pitch to voters. Even with the high-energy final push, the races for control of Congress are at a stalemate, essentially a toss-up for the House, and fight to the finish for the Senate. The…
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[Election 2024] Human Nature More Hackable Than Election System
By DAVID KLEPPER and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, Associated Press Hacking a local election system in the United States wouldn’t be easy, and secretly altering votes on a scale massive enough to change the outcome of the presidential race would be impossible, election officials have said, thanks to decentralized systems, paper records for nearly all ballots,…
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