I’ve served on Raleigh City Council, in the North Carolina Senate, and as North Carolina State Treasurer. During my eight years as Treasurer, I and my staff grew the state pension fund from $60 billion to $90 billion with an annual return of 7.5% per year allowing over a million state and local government workers and their families to enjoy a secure retirement.

Twenty-seven candidates are running in races for all eight seats on the council. Here’s who they are, the issues at play, and how the races are shaping up.

Janet Cowell, president of the Dix Park Conservancy, will step down from her position on Oct. 4 to run for Raleigh mayor.

Wednesday afternoon, former Raleigh councilwoman and former NC Treasurer Janet Cowell officially filed papers to put her name in the running to become the city's next mayor.

Growing up in Tennessee, thanks to her parents, Janet Cowell just knew she had a big life ahead of her. After getting an undergraduate degree and multiple graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, including an MBA from Wharton, she followed the finance path. But examples in her family continued to pull her and her heartstrings in the direction of public service. Janet served as a Raleigh city councilor, a state senator, and as North Carolina’s State Treasurer. Now, she’s campaigning to be Raleigh’s next mayor.

The November election has a number of races that will shape the landscape nationally and across our state but a little closer to home, we have a number of municipal elections and one of the races that will be decided by voters this fall is the race for Raleigh Mayor after incumbent mayor, Mary Ann Baldwin announced she would not seek another term as the leader of the Capitol City.

One vehicle lies stranded by the bridge leading into the back side of Crabtree Valley Mall off Crabtree Ave. in Raleigh, NC, on Tuesday morning, April 25, 2017. Heavy rains all day Monday and through the night caused a lot of flooding in the area as creeks and rivers overflowed. The mall was closed Tuesday due to the floods.

Janet Cowell’s campaign for Raleigh Mayor raises over $177,000 in the first ten days since she announced her candidacy for Mayor of Raleigh. Cowell released the following statement:

Lena Tillett meets one-on-one with the three candidates vying to replace Mary-Ann Baldwin as mayor of Raleigh.

After announcing her bid for Raleigh’s top seat on Monday, the INDY spoke to Cowell about how she would work to address housing, preservation, displacement, community engagement, and other issues.

On Monday, Janet Cowell — the CEO of the Dix Park Conservancy as well as a former state treasurer and Raleigh City Council member — launched her campaign for mayor of the City of Oaks. Cowell enters the race with the endorsements of former mayors Charles Meeker and Nancy McFarlane and is already busy raising campaign funds.

Former N.C. State Treasurer Janet Cowell plans to run for mayor of Raleigh, where the two-term incumbent Mary-Ann Baldwin has not indicated she will step aside.

Janet Cowell, former North Carolina state treasurer and current president and CEO of Dix Park Conservancy, has announced she will run for Raleigh mayor.

Former North Carolina State Treasurer Janet Cowell has officially thrown her hat in the ring for mayor of Raleigh. Cowell, now the CEO of Dix Park Conservency, announced her candidacy on X (formerly known as Twitter) and said she will pull on her

Janet Cowell, a former Raleigh City Council member and former state treasurer, is running to be Raleigh’s next mayor. “As mayor, I’ll work every day to build a city that works together for everyone,” she said in a news release Monday morning.