Yesterday was World Car Free Day. Events observe this world wide. Many of us, myself included, pledge to live a car free life every day. It is NOT always easy. The built environment in Chapel Hill, and in most places around the world, are stacked against us bike or transit-riding devotees: the transit system is […]
Posted inParks and Rec, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council
We’re getting a park on the American Legion land. Why are people fighting it?
Imagine your town council proposes a 20+ acre new park and also much needed missing middle housing for municipal workers in your community. Oh yeah, and also some shops like the ones they have next to that amazing downtown park in Blowing Rock, NC. And, get this, the new park will be within easy walking […]
Posted in828 MLK, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council
Update on coal ash: There’s a lot of misinformation circulating
We are dismayed that misinformation continues to spread about coal ash and the 828 MLK site in Chapel Hill. You can read our previous deep dive on this project if you’d like to know more about what’s happened so far, what the town has decided, and why the counterarguments circulating about the redevelopment don’t stand […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Bike and Walk, Carrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Chapel Hill, Connectivity
Five things we want to see Town Councils tackle this term
It’s the start of the Town Council cycle for Chapel Hill and Carrboro, which means we’re once again planning to keep you informed about issues involving civic life in both of our towns. We also have opinions about what the Town Councils should tackle this term. Here are five ideas we plan to track: Connecting […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Bike and Walk, Chapel Hill Town Council
Three Reasons to Extend the Libba Cotten Bikeway to UNC (And Three Ways You Can Help)
Yesterday, NEXT Chapel Hill-Carrboro launched a campaign to ask the Town of Chapel Hill to extend the Libba Cotten Bikeway, which runs along a rail line between Chapel Hill and Carrboro, to UNC’s campus along Cameron Avenue. (Full disclosure: I am a member of NEXT, and pitched the idea of focusing on this issue). More […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill, Journalism
Our local non-profit newspaper is having a rough month
When we last visited The Local Reporter – our “relentlessly local” non-profit newspaper with very close ties to an organization with a PAC – they were saying farewell to their fourth editor in three years. He served just under three months in the role. It’s been a little over a month since that shakeup, and […]