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In addition to being the newest member of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, OP's own Dan Coleman is also the winner of today's Village Pride Award from WCHL! Click here to hear the MP3. (There is no archive so the link works today only.)

I encourage you all to nominate your own friends and colleagues for this award. It's a great way to recognize all kinds of leadership.

While I'm here, congrats to WCHL on the recent re-design of their web site, including two new ways to get local news: text archives* and audio podcasts. Thanks, WCHL! (* If the archives had a syndicated feed they'd be even better and I could add them to our local blogroll.)

An OP reader (and a great blogger himself) writes:

Orange Politics has been nominated for the Koufax Award in the category of Best Blog Covering State or Local Issues. Multiple nominations are needed to move on to semi-finals. It is perfectly fine to self-nominate - that is actually encouraged. Also, rally the readers to go and nominate a few more times, then vote for OP once it gets into semi-finals and hopefully finals.

To vote, go to this post this post and type the following - as well any other blogs you want to nominate - in the comments:

Best Blog Covering State or Local Issues: OrangePolitics.org

I am pleased to announce the 2005 Pundits of the Year! These four people got all of the winners correct in every race: Joan Petit, Carrboro Mark Marcoplos, Orange County Fred Black, Chapel Hill Anon (initials R. S. - not me!) Fred also came closest on the order of finishers. Honorable mention for Charlotte Williams, she was the only pundit who got the exact right order for the Town Council winners. Twenty-four people got the winners in the right order in the Carrboro Board of Aldermen race. Congrats, y'all!