As Wake County is growing, so is its board of commissioners: this year, the board will add two at-large seats for a total of nine members, and the candidates vying to fill those seats have grand plans for the future of education, housing, taxes, and technology in Wake.
In interviews with the INDY over the last month, seven Democratic candidates running in the March 3 primary diagnosed some of Wake County’s biggest challenges—supporting the state’s largest public school system, which is underfunded at the state level; planning for the county’s projected growth from 1.2 million people today to about 2 million in 2060; and making housing and health care accessible for Wake’s most vulnerable residents—and offered potential solutions.
(There are also two Republican candidates who will run in the November general election for the at-large seats; we focused on the Democratic primary because the Republican primary is not competitive.)…