Yesterday, the Chatham News + Record quietly announced that they had been sold to Pat McCrory’s statewide newspaper network, North State Media. This is terrible news for North Carolina and our news ecosystem. The Chatham News + Record covers Siler City, Pittsboro, and other towns in Chatham County. Chatham County is one of the fastest-growing […]
Posted inGreenway, Bike and Walk, Bike Beat, Connectivity
Greenways bring us together
Yesterday, NEXT Chapel Hill-Carrboro, a local advocacy organization that supports abundant housing and transportation alternatives, hosted a Playground to Playground bike ride on the Bolin Creek Trail (Full disclosure: I’m on the board of NEXT). While I don’t have much experience with group rides, Alyson West, one of the leaders of the Carrboro Linear Parks […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Housing
Anti-renter bias in Chapel Hill
Below, a letter reprinted from one of Triangle Blog Blog’s contributors to the Chapel Hill Town Council. Dear Town Council Members, I would like to thank you, and your predecessors, for allowing my home to be built in the Blue Hill district. On a graduate student stipend, I am able to live within a ten […]