A new year is here and so is a renewed commitment to the work ahead. Local institutions matter, steady leadership matters, and showing up with seriousness and care still counts. Looking forward with determination to building, listening, and serving my community in the year ahead. Happy New Year! 🎆

Instead of celebrating $1 billion saved because of 8000 vacancies, we should be asking why no one wants to work in state government, especially in critical state agencies like Adult Corrections and Health and Human Services. #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

This is great news, but sadly high wealth counties like Orange County ships its waste to Sampson County and therefore contributes to this problem. www.deq.nc.gov/news/press-r...

⚠️🔥 Orange County will have a fire weather warning today from 12pm to 7pm per @nws.noaa.gov

Today I paid my respects to Governor Jim Hunt. A giant of North Carolina, a servant leader, and a man who believed deeply in education, opportunity, and public service. May his memory be an eternal blessing for our great state.

I might have found one of my new holiday traditions - #Mitzvah Day volunteering on Christmas Day at the Levin JCC ! Here's the finished product of the pride crosswalk refresh!

For many #Christmas is a season of gathering, generosity, and reflection. Wishing peace, warmth, and kindness to all who are celebrating today. I have a lot of gratitude for the shared humanity that connects us across traditions.

I'm sorry that longtime NCDP stalwart Susan Oller passed away. She mentored many, many young people to get involved in the party and had personally helped me charter my high school chapter in 2006 when she was the adult advisor to the NC Teen Democrats. May her memory be a blessing ✨

Government elves deserve time off too! Here are the days @hillsboroughnc.gov offices will be closed for Christmas and the New Year. 🎄🎆

#Latergram This year’s Eighth Night of #Hanukkah hit a little differently for me as I move through the #Jewish conversion process. All that light felt like a reminder of why this journey matters so much to me.

There were no reindeer games at the @ncdemocrats.bsky.social holiday party, but still lots of fun had by folks fighting for a New South with North Carolina leading the way! #ncpol #ncdems #voteblue #bluewave

Always nice to swing by Beers and Hymns for the annual holiday music and support Rev Greenway even if it's a quick visit. It's become one of my favorite traditions caroling with fellow Hillsboroughites!

I'm deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Governor Hunt. He was the ultimate example of a servant leader and I benefitted greatly from his mentorship and legacy as have generations of North Carolinians. You've earned your rest, sir. May your memory be a blessing.

Thanks to Attorney General @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social and the NCDOJ the Trump Administration has been ordered to reinstate the BRIC program, including $7 mil to @hillsboroughnc.gov

Wishing a warm and meaningful #Hanukkah to all who are celebrating! A season of light, resilience, and hope, a reminder that even a small flame can brighten the darkest moments. May this Hanukkah bring peace to your home, joy to your heart, and renewed faith in what’s possible.

Deeply horrifying terrorist attack on Jews in Sydney, Australia on the first night of Hanukkah. Thinking of the victims of this senseless violence. 🕯️

@kamalaharris.com dropped some undeniable truths during her DNC speech here in LA that the Democratic Party can't go back to nostalgia to go forward when it has also contributed to dysfunction when people struggle to make ends meet. I 👏 am 👏 here 👏 it 👏

Last night was our organizational meeting for the next biennium. Proud to have been selected by my colleagues for these appointments to represent @hillsboroughnc.gov for 2025-2027!

Holly jolly mayor and commissioners before the Christmas parade yesterday

Big news for Hillsborough. CITEL is investing $12.5 million to move its North American HQ here. The company delivers cutting-edge surge protection solutions for data centers, industrial automation, renewable energy, telecom, and transportation worldwide.

Thanks to @foushee.house.gov Hillsborough will receive $1mil to replace the chlorine gas disinfection system at our water treatment plant with a less hazardous system.

Cameras installed under Flock's contract w/ the Town have been decommissioned & removed. Only 6 cameras were installed. As I said when I voted to term the contract, no private company accountable to only their shareholders should be able to override our discretion.

These are strange times, full of upheaval and uncertainty, and it isn’t always easy to feel thankful. But I’m grateful for the communities that ground me, the friends who keep me steady, the ideas that push me, and the chance to see new places. There’s still so much worth holding onto.

📣 News from last night's Board of Commissioners meeting as a response to last week's CBP activity in the Triangle

Swastikas and nooses are only "potentially divisive" and are not hate symbols. The hell they aren't! They have lost their minds! share.newsbreak.com/g0869oig

Reports of an earlier sighting of CBP/ICE in West Hillsborough today were incorrect, but was the United States Marshall’s Fugitive Apprehension Team trying to pick up an individual wanted out of Alamance County on drug charges.

I've received questions about possible CBP/ICE near Steve's Garden Mart. Hillsborough owns the facility next door, which Durham County Sheriff's Office was using for training today.

My statement on CBP operating in the Triangle and resources if you know someone who is detained.

I'm no fan of fall, but there's something peaceful and serene about a chilly fall morning in Downtown Hillsborough

You know what's amazing to me? People I know who for a fact had public benefits when they were growing up but are against them as adults. I'm proud that my state and country invested in me with pre-k, Medicaid, SNAP, and housing vouchers so I can be the person I am today.

Shana Tova, y'all!

I recently joined WCHL and Chapelboro.com to talk about Attorney General Jeff Jackson's visit to Hillsborough amid Chantal and BRIC funding cut. chapelboro.com/news-on-the-...

I really appreciate my friend AG Jeff Jackson for coming to Hillsborough to tour the effects of TS Chantal and his suit to return FEMA BRIC funding to towns like ours.

This July 4th, we celebrate freedom, but we also fight for it. Justice, equity, and democracy aren't guaranteed. We must keep working to make them real for everyone. #IndependenceDay #StillWeRise #ReclaimThePromise

Honoring the legacy of freedom and resilience this #Juneteenth. I'm proud to have played a part in making this powerful day an official holiday in Hillsborough as just one step forward for recognition, remembrance, and ultimately justice.

Hillsborough (pop 10k) had a monster turnout of at least 1200 to loudly proclaim #nokings ! ✊🇺🇸

Tomorrow I'll be at the #nokings protest at the Historic Courthouse in downtown Hillsborough at 11am. I hope you'll join me and millions of others around the country protesting in support of liberty and freedom.

What's going on right now in LA and all over the country is what dictators do. It isn't what is done in the name of a freedom loving, democracy supporting people.

Wonderful to be at the groundbreaking for Auman Village, a new Orange Habitat affordable housing project in Hillsborough! Approved in 2020, the Town Board recently dedicated $100k a year for 4 years starting next fiscal year. 🏡💰🪏

Thrilled to attend the investiture of Justice Allison Riggs as she formally took her seat as an ELECTED justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. After 100+ days the will of the voter PREVAILED.

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

I wonderful double rainbow over Hillsborough this evening! Makes the storms earlier today worth it 😁

If you see these folks around Town today, stop by and say hello! They want to get your thoughts on parking in town as part of a parking study.

Touching moment last night as Mayor Mark Bell read the proclamation in honor of former Mayor Horace Johnson, Sr with his son Horace Johnson, Jr present. Mayor Johnson was a trailblazer and a visionary who will be missed.

Today, from the Carolina coast to the Blue Ridge peaks, we honor those who gave their lives in service to our country. From Ft Bragg to Camp Lejeune, and every quiet memorial in between, NC remembers. Let us carry their legacy with resolve, gratitude, and purpose. #MemorialDay

Great turnout at yesterday's Tea with Lee Smith (and Hal Crowther) at the Burwell School. It's always a pleasure to show off the school grounds with my fellow Historic Hillsborough Commissioners, especially to a sold out crowd! 📚

Great to stop by the LCV Green Tie Awards this evening. Now more than ever we need to stand up for our environment when it is under threat by an Administration that believes in neither science nor keeping our land, water, and air clean. #environmentalprotection

Wanna know what we discussed at Monday night's Town Board meeting? Well here you go! I'm proud that we are going to be diving deeper on housing as part of an all of the above housing strategy that can possibly keep folks in their homes *and* create more units.

Before Jefferson put pen to parchment, North Carolina lit the fire. 250 years ago today, the Mecklenburg Declaration boldly claimed independence and over a year before July 4, 1776. Don’t let the day end without honoring this defiant spark. #America250

ICYMI: CNL Steering Committee Member and Hillsborough Commissioner Matt Hughes (@matthughesnc.bsky.social) has a new op-ed out in @newsobserver.com arguing for changes to restrictive covenants and zoning laws that limit the supply of housing in North Carolina.