NBC-17’s “At Issue”, featuring Donna Martinez and Cash Michaels,
updated viewers on key race results and provided commentary on issues
affected by the races. Issues covered included bonds and
school board races. Then, in a live webcast (Windows Media Player, required), the duo opined on the ousting of incumbent Mayor Marshall Pitts, Jr., whose defeat was almost certainly due to the forced annexation of 40,000 people that occurred under his watch. Chad Adams, in an op-ed published in the Fayetteville Observer
weeks before the election warned that forced annexation would become a
hot-button issue. And, although there were some historic results
stemming from this week’s elections, some districts’ voting numbers
reached a low, which, as John Hood pointed out in the Kinston Free Press, are all apart of the voting cycle.
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