Follow along as we live blog tonight’s Chapel Hill Town Council meeting! The agenda is available here. You can watch the full meeting here: Announcements Mayor Hemminger announces the kick off of Bike Month with a pretty sweet jazzy video highlighting the town’s cycling facilities, bus bike racks, and Fix-It stations! 7:08 PM Three proclamations […]
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Lunch Links: May 18, 2022
A curated and consumable compilation of quotidian content. Happy Wednesday – you’ve almost made it to the weekend! Tristan Cleveland – aka @LUrbaniste – brings us the content we didn’t know we needed. We feel you, confused Slovakian. Slovakian sees a video about American suburbs and posts questions to Reddit. The level of bafflement is […]
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North Carolina Primary Election Live Blog
Join us for what we hope will be a fine evening of liveblogging the primary election results in Orange County, NC. We have fine correspondents embedded at watch parties and at home, and will do our best to keep up with the proceedings. Polls close at 7:30 PM and results from early voting will appear […]
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Two cents for Affordable Housing
Local elections matter. Local referendums matter. Infrastructure details matter. Becoming a home owner with the help of Community Home Trust made me want to give back to my community.
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Lunch Links: May 17, 2022
Happy Election Day! Here’s what the Triangle Blog Blog crew is reading while waiting for primary results to roll in. Downtown Portland created a “Car Master Plan” – and gave us a master class in advocacy. Excerpt: “Why make a Car Master Plan? SO WE CAN SEE CARS. We don’t see what we don’t […]
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Remembering Robert Drakeford: Carrboro’s first bicycling mayor
Robert “Bob” Drakeford, the first and only Black mayor of Carrboro who planned the Chapel Hill-Carrboro bus system, increased the town’s commercial base, and created many of Carrboro’s bikeways, died on Monday. He was 77. Mayor Drakeford was elected in 1977 and served until 1983. Much of his focus was on public transit and advancing […]