A few days before a town council meeting or a school board meeting, slides and an agenda are published online. This is typically the first time we’re seeing how staff plan to present an issue at the meeting. Ahead of the May 16, 2024 CHCCS school board meeting, the school district published a slidedeck, a […]
Posted inCarrboro, Orange County, Orange County Board of County Commissioners
Let’s name Carrboro’s new library branch after Bob Drakeford
We’ve written a lot about how excited we are about The 203 Project – the future home of Carrboro’s library branch, the Parks and Rec Department, WCOM Radio, the teen center, the performance space, and the Orange County Skills Development Center. Now it’s time to give the building a better name. The Orange County – […]
Posted inJournalism
Ichthyological skullduggery in Hendersonville
The Assembly, an online news magazine, is best known for its investigative reporting on politics, business and the environment in North Carolina. This week, reporter Emily Cataneo shares an update on the increasingly-unhinged story of Charlotte, the purportedly pregnant stingray at a small aquarium in Hendersonville. We highly recommend reading the story, which is both […]
Posted inUNC
Opinion: UNC’s political statement on DEI
On May 13th, in an emergency session, the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees recommended a $2.3 million divestment from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); that money will go to the UNC Police Department. This comes less than a month after a UNC Board of Governors committee voted to wipe the entire UNC System’s DEI policy. […]
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The Local Reporter is fundraising against a ‘connection’ with UNC’s journalism school. There’s no connection.
Twice in the past two months, The Local Reporter has fundraised against an “arrangement” or “connection” with the UNC Hussman School of Journalism. The only problem? There’s no arrangement or relationship. In the first incident – which took place on March 19 – The Local Reporter wrote in their newsletter that donations “from our last […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
The school bond will be transformative for Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools
This post focuses on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, but it’s important to note that the planned bond will help meet the needs of both the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and the Orange County Schools. (The $300 million bond money and $100Million pay-go money will be split between CHCCS and OCS.) Last night, the Chapel […]