In the 2021 property tax revaluation in Orange County, hundreds of black-owned properties in the Northside neighborhood were initially overvalued by more than $10 million collectively, while larger investor-owned homes were undervalued by nearly the same amount. *example of this inequity with two homes on the same block in Northside *example of this inequity on […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Climate, UNC
UNC just filed a permit to burn an alternative to coal: here’s what we know.
UNC-Chapel Hill is asking state and federal environmental agencies to allow it to test a new fuel to replace coal at its co-generation station on Cameron Avenue. Plans for what’s called the Engineered Pelletized Fuel Source Project are part of an application filed late last month with the state’s Division of Air Quality to test […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
CHCCS budget cuts: Here’s what doesn’t make sense to me right now
On Wednesday, the school board held a special meeting to discuss their plan to eliminate administrative and staff positions in order to balance the budget, which is in pretty dire shape. The vote was 4-3, with Fedders, Fornville, and Dasi opposing the plan. Chapelboro’s Brighton McConnell has a great straight news write up of the […]
Posted inCHALT, Journalism
Is this the end for The Local Reporter?
Updated: 11/20 The timeline at the bottom of this post has been updated. Last Thursday, The Local Reporter – the local non-profit newspaper with close ties to a political PAC – posted that they would “transition to an energetic new group of Board of Directors” and “provide a new, fresh format for the future” on […]
Posted inAnimals, Gardening, Helping neighbors
Fall Migration is Here: Lights Out NC!
Now that summer temps are starting to cool down, migratory songbirds and shorebirds are beginning their journeys south to their wintering grounds in Central and South America. Most birds fly at night, using the stars to navigate. But, unfortunately, our Town lights can quickly disorient them causing them to veer off course and sometimes fall […]
Posted inElection 2024
Interview: Justice Allison Riggs, Candidate for NC Supreme Court
Justice Allison Riggs is one of two Democrats on the North Carolina Supreme Court and is running for reelection this November. Prior to serving on the Supreme Court, Justice Riggs served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and worked as a civil rights attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. (There’s a much […]