They better use that money for the pedestrian bridge over 440.
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They’re fully funding the design of the bridge with a portion of these funds.
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The bridge over 440 in midtown between 6-forks and WF rd?
Clark Rinehart is running for one of the at-large seats. I’ve known Clark from a few past initiatives and I’m interested to see what he thinks he can bring to council. I think we would be interested to hear him out.
In case you’re not following, the council filing period ends sometime in December so I anticipate we’ll be seeing people announcing that they’re running for council over the next few weeks.
Remember that we may have a primary in March which will give us our final candidates to elect in November 2026.
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Filing begins Dec 1 and ends Dec 19, he is running for Mr Melton’s seat, who is leaving the city council to run for a county commissioner seat.
Rinehart’s announcement got posted on reddit yesterday and some people were weirdly and strongly against him, and seemed to be mostly inaccurate. It was kind of odd
I don’t know the guy at all but I’ll listen to what he’s got to say.
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All those Reddit comments hating on him were either “he’s just pro-developer, pro-real estate!!!” (read: pro-growth) and one was mad that he’s only lived here for a couple of years (read: adopted Raleigh as his home and wants to improve it). I can’t really hate either aspect, nor can I even verify them, tbf
All I CAN say is… I’m going to miss Melton on the Council, full-stop. County commissioner is cool, but I just hope someday after Janet’s tenure is over, he runs for Mayor.
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Leo’s endorsement is good enough for me. I trust him implicitly with stuff like this. But go figure, some loud people on the Internet are mad about something.
I do hope Melton runs for mayor, but I’m also happy with Janet Cowell. I find her pretty impressive in a low-key way.
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I don’t know that I’d say he has Leo’s endorsement just yet. I read that we should hear him out and see where he stands.
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I’m waiting for Leo’s endorsement. Him or IndyWeek. 
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Another perspective from me, I was at a fundraising event for Mitchell Silver earlier this month and there was very good energy there. I’ll be very interested to see if a decent challenger emerges for District A. I’d like to see him stay for another term.
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Well, the folks that likely want him gone aren’t living in his district, so there’s that.
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Spotted another announcement. Sana Siddiqui has announced that she is running for a at-large seat. Admittedly, I follow her on Instagram but don’t know her. More here: https://www.sana4raleigh.com/
Keep the candidate updates flowing if you hear of any announcements out there
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Cameron from The Bike Library sent this out today: https://www.cameronforcouncil.org/
He’s running for one of the at-large seats.
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Two days of filing left: Are we gonna have another year where everyone tries to run for the At-Large seats making it a crowded field—while the district seats go mostly unopposed? So far Patton and Harrison are unopposed and Jone’s only challenger is (I think) a Republican. Maybe some last minute filing…..TBD?
It’s kinda weird to me why everyone clamors for the at-large races when a District seat means you only need to campaign in 1/5th of the city yet you still have as much “voting power” once you’re on the council. 
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If Harrison runs unopposed, then I suppose her presumed strategy of continuing appeasement of Glenwood/Brooklyn worked.
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It looks like an uneventful election EXCEPT for the at-large seats.
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I think everyone is gonna keep there seats except for that one at-large seat. I kinda like this current council.
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He has a shot at winning… he should make his BRT work the center of his campaign.
I still think elections for city council should go back to odd number years, and elections should be partisan again.
I disagree, the odd-year elections had crap for turnout. Even years is higher turnout, less chance for a wingnut person to get elected. Much better results for Raleigh.
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