Five years ago, the County Commissioners created a Climate Action Fund to help our community meet the climate change mitigation goals set by the county. The county has set several targets, including a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 and by 100% by 2050 from 2005 baseline levels. (Other targets are related […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
12 highlights from the June 6, 2024 CHCCS School Board meeting
Last Thursday’s school board meeting clocked in at 4 hours and 57 minutes, which is enough time to get through almost all the original Star Wars movies in the original trilogy. And in a way, this meeting also felt like both a sequel and a prequel: we picked up some issues from the May meeting, […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Economic development, Outdoors
How can we improve the Chapel Hill Farmer’s Market?
This weekend, I decided to visit and compare the Chapel Hill Farmers Market and the Carrboro Farmers Market. I have ridden my bike to the Carrboro Farmers Market for years. As usual, the bike parking was full. I ended up locking my bike against a nearby tree. The vibe, the layout, and the vendors are […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Letter: Walkability is one value of many to consider for our schools
After we published yesterday’s piece about thinking about walk zones as we plan the future of our district, we received an email from a reader with a very good point: We really appreciate the thoughtful response. To be clear, we think walkability is one value, but not the only one. There are many values that […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
The school board must maximize walking and biking zones in the school bond
We are strong advocates for a school bond because many of the schools across our district are not only beyond their useful life spans, but are educationally inadequate. In the 1950s and 1960s–when many of our schools were built–they were not designed to house exceptional children classrooms, small group classrooms, speech or occupational therapist offices, […]
Posted inAdvisory Boards, Carrboro, Carrboro Town Council
Live blog: Carrboro Town Council meeting 6/4/24 – bees, OWASA, PFAS, Budget, Survey results
Looking forward to live-blogging the Carrboro Town Council meeting tonight. (Full agenda packet here.) We’re getting our first look at the full proposed budget – which will go live on digital at midnight, like a Taylor Swift album – and an update from OWASA. (Full disclosure: I’m the vice chair of the OWASA board and […]