Every week
Every week this site has written about, newest first. 78 in all. Each square is one week, shaded by how many meetings it held. Point at one to read its first line.
2026
December
November
October
September
- 27–3 Oct 34 34 meetings. Pittsboro's commissioners on Monday steered the new town hall on J.A.
- 20–26 39 39 meetings. Chatham County's commissioners were set to vote Monday evening on a resolution opposing the Enbridge gas pipeline, at the end of a 74-item day.
- 13–19 71 71 meetings. Durham County's commissioners settled the Emergency Operations Center on Monday.
- 6–12 37 37 meetings. Wake County's commissioners were asked Tuesday to say no.
August
- 30–5 Sep 43 43 meetings. The House convened at noon Monday with veto overrides as unfinished business and two bills on the printed calendar.
- 23–29 26 26 meetings. Cary adopted an 18-month moratorium on data center applications on Thursday the 27th, unanimously, on amended language handed out at the dais.
- 16–22 29 29 meetings. Chatham County commissioners had the largest land-use item in the region on Monday the 17th: a legislative rezoning of 292.288 acres off Christian Chapel Church Road from Resident…
- 9–15 27 27 meetings. Speakers from a Chatham County climate group told Pittsboro's commissioners on Monday the 10th that the town has joined its own developer in asking a judge to force the group to h…
- 2–8 20 20 meetings. Durham County's commissioners spent most of their 3 August work session telling staff what they wanted in a draft moratorium on new and expanded data centers, data processing faci…
July
- 26–1 Aug 10 10 meetings. Chatham County's commissioners directed the county attorney on 27 July to send notice terminating the economic development agreement with VinFast Manufacturing USA, ending the inc…
- 19–25 12 12 meetings. Cary's council declined to decide the biggest thing on its 23 July agenda.
- 12–18 18 18 meetings. The State Auditor released his investigation of the Town of Cary on 16 July, and the council called an emergency meeting that evening to answer it.
- 5–11 15 15 meetings. Wake County put two bond questions on the November ballot.
June
- 28–4 Jul 9 9 meetings. A quiet week either side of the Fourth, and the substantial business was done by boards most people have never heard of.
- 21–27 27 27 meetings. Hillsborough held a public hearing on making its data center moratorium a full year.
- 14–20 26 26 meetings. This was budget week.
- 7–13 24 24 meetings. Cary's council spent an hour on half a penny.
May
- 31–6 Jun 31 31 meetings. Budget season peaked in the first week of June.
- 24–30 23 23 meetings. Two towns moved on data centers the same week.
- 17–23 44 44 meetings. Garner adopted a temporary moratorium on data centers, cryptocurrency mining and similar undefined data-processing uses, giving staff time to study the impacts and draft permanent…
- 10–16 29 29 meetings. Pittsboro's commissioners voted 4-1 to terminate the town's contract with Flock Safety over its license-plate reader cameras, ordering the equipment removed by July 1.
- 3–9 26 26 meetings. Both Durham governments took up data centers the same week.
April
- 26–2 May 24 24 meetings. Chapel Hill's council closed its hearing on shrinking the town council and stretching the mayor's term to four years, and took no action.
- 19–25 27 27 meetings. Orange County's Board of Commissioners adopted a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centers on April 21, voting unanimously after a public hearing where everyone who spoke wa…
- 12–18 42 42 meetings. Pittsboro commissioners got their first full briefing on the town's Flock Safety license-plate-reader system on April 13, and seven residents used the public comment period before…
- 5–11 28 28 meetings. Durham's city council authorized condemnation of four parcels on East Trinity Avenue on April 6, clearing land for the Durham Rail Trail, and voted to sell up to $218 million in u…
March
- 29–4 Apr 6 6 meetings. Garner's council took up, for a third time, a resolution consenting to Wake County Housing Authority bonds for the 171-unit Bennett North Apartments on March 31.
- 22–28 22 22 meetings. Chatham County commissioners' resolution on state energy policy, addressed to Governor Stein, and a related committee appointment slate both failed on their first vote on March 24…
- 15–21 36 36 meetings. Orange County commissioners set the county's data center moratorium in motion on March 17.
- 8–14 20 20 meetings. Apex's council takes up a one-year moratorium on data center construction, proposed by Mayor Pro Tem Terry Mahaffey, alongside a separate proposal from Mayor Gilbert to form a com…
- 1–7 28 28 meetings. Orange County closed a chapter in its revaluation saga.
February
- 22–28 13 13 meetings. Chapel Hill's council closed out two conditional zoning cases on Weaver Dairy Road at the same meeting.
- 15–21 31 31 meetings. Two towns spent this week on multi-day retreats, both squarely in budget season.
- 8–14 27 27 meetings. Chatham County commissioners adopted a 12-month moratorium on new data center, data-processing and cryptocurrency-mining permits in unincorporated Chatham on February 11, after a…
- 1–7 33 33 meetings. Fuquay-Varina's board spent February 4 and 5 in a strategic retreat that produced real direction, not just goal-setting: it committed to finishing $57 million in already-funded tr…
January
- 25–31 14 14 meetings. Winter weather scattered this week's calendar before any of it could happen.
- 18–24 30 30 meetings. Chapel Hill's town council enacted its long-running Land Use Management Ordinance rewrite on January 21, adopting an omnibus text amendment to the LUMO and town code after a floor…
- 11–17 32 32 meetings. Orange County's commissioners got the year's worst fiscal news at their January 16 retreat: a $21.5 million gap to close in the FY2026-27 budget, growing to $37.6 million the year…
- 4–10 22 22 meetings. Cary's town government spent January 8 confronting the fallout from its former town manager's December resignation.
2025
December
- 14–20 26 26 meetings. Cary called an emergency meeting on 15 December to swear in Deputy Town Manager Russ Overton as interim town manager, days after Sean Stegall resigned.
- 7–13 35 35 meetings. Cary's council met in public on 9 December for the first televised and livestreamed work session in the town's history, and the mayor said plainly why: recent revelations that key…
November
- 30–6 Dec 39 39 meetings. Eight governments swore in new members in eight days.
- 23–29 5 5 meetings. Thanksgiving week, and five meetings across the region.
- 16–22 43 43 meetings. The most consequential vote of this week was taken in private and disclosed four weeks later.
- 9–15 32 32 meetings. Pittsboro approved the Chatham Park South Village Small Area Plan 3-2 on 10 November, after 21 residents spoke and almost all of them opposed it.
- 2–8 32 32 meetings. The federal shutdown reached a county agenda on 6 November.
October
- 26–1 Nov 16 16 meetings. Durham County pulled back money it had already committed.
- 19–25 29 29 meetings. Pittsboro's Planning Board voted unanimously on 20 October to recommend that the town board deny the Chatham Park South Village Small Area Plan, against staff's own recommendation…
- 12–18 30 30 meetings. Pittsboro's commissioners tabled the Reeves Farm development agreement and its phase-one preliminary plat on 13 October, after board members said they had received a revised agree…
- 5–11 34 34 meetings. Chatham County Schools disclosed a settlement on 6 October: $80,000 in BB v.
September
- 28–4 Oct 14 14 meetings. Chatham County's commissioners and Pittsboro's board met together on 29 September, and the joint agenda is the interesting part: the 2024 county community health assessment, Pitts…
- 21–27 17 17 meetings. Orange County's Board of Health took up two draft resolutions on 24 September, one of them on immigration enforcement.
- 14–20 30 30 meetings. Orange County's broadband contract is the week's most consequential fight.
- 7–13 33 33 meetings. Holly Springs' Development Review Committee took the region's largest private project on 9 September: a development plan for a 608,850-square-foot Genentech office, manufacturing…
August
- 31–6 Sep 25 25 meetings. Wake Forest's Planning Board did something unusual on 2 September: it voted 4-1 to recommend against a rezoning.
- 24–30 19 19 meetings. Tropical Storm Chantal was still the business of the week in Orange County.
- 17–23 29 29 meetings. Holly Springs said no on 19 August.
- 10–16 23 23 meetings. Chatham County Schools made the week's most consequential personnel decision on 11 August.
- 3–9 22 22 meetings. Wake Forest weighed the week's biggest number on 5 August.
July
- 27–2 Aug 8 8 meetings. This was the quietest week of the summer: eight meetings, 24 items between them, and no contested vote anywhere in the region.
- 20–26 15 15 meetings. Pittsboro's Planning Board got its first look on 21 July at the Chatham Park South Village Small Area Plan, and the size of it was the point.
- 13–19 18 18 meetings. Holly Springs made the week's biggest decisions on 15 July.
- 6–12 15 15 meetings. Wake County's commissioners committed the largest sum of the week on 7 July, approving an authorizing resolution for a Series 2025 installment financing agreement of up to $703.6…
June
- 29–5 Jul 2 2 meetings. Pittsboro's commissioners accepted a state amateur youth sports grant for the McClenahan Park baseball field at a special morning meeting on 30 June and approved the matching budg…
- 1–7 1 1 meeting. Chatham County Schools' Board of Education adopted its gifted-education plan for 2025-2028 on 2 June and approved a Teach Chatham scholarship paying $2,500 a year for four years t…
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Shading runs from one meeting to 71, the busiest week on record. A month with a dash had no week written about it.