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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Posted inCarrboro
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 […]
Posted inCarrboro Town Council, Chapel Hill Town Council, Orange County Board of County Commissioners
In advance of tomorrow’s primary, local elected officials weigh in on state and national races.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 17, marks the most competitive local Democratic primary election in generations. Who have our local elected officials endorsed?
Posted inLink roundup
Lunch Links: May 16, 2022
News travels fast. Here’s a quick round up of weekend links and a peek at the week ahead. Brian Deese, White House Director of the National Economic Council, shared a timely op/ed from Martin Luther King, III on the need for more affordable housing and teased the big Monday news drop from the White House […]
Posted inUncategorized, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Development review, Orange County Board of County Commissioners
A look at the week ahead: May 16, 2022
Here is a look at some of the local government meetings scheduled for this week, May 16-20, 2022: Chapel Hill Town Council The Chapel Hill Town Council will be holding a virtual meeting on Wednesday (May 18) at 7 pm — view the agenda here, access the Zoom here if you want to comment, and it’s also […]
Posted in828 MLK, CHALT, Chapel Hill
Who is the Coalition for Safe and Just Housing?
A new group calling itself the Coalition for Safe and Just Housing has formed around the development project at 828 MLK. Like with other groups, this group centers around a single issue that neighborhood defenders want to block, and uses language that is designed to heighten fear and anger among residents. I can’t know anyone’s […]