Kirk Ross has started writing Carolina Mercury, where this first appeared, again for the next few months. You can subscribe here and we highly recommend that you do. Justice Allison Riggs in her dissent in Kennedy v. North Carolina State Board of Elections, et al Update: The State Board Of Elections sent out a release […]
Posted inJournalism, North Carolina
Melanie Sill: The huge challenge for North Carolina’s newsrooms
News is nationalized today, and North Carolina is viewed that way: As a “purple” state in terms of presidential choices. But North Carolina is a red state in terms of its governance, as just one day’s news shows: Republicans, who embrace Donald Trump and his policies, are setting the state’s agenda on elections, education and […]
Posted inCarrboro, Carrboro Town Council, CHALT, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Downtown
Monday roundup: Carrboro paid parking, SECU elections, Rod Stevens and Complete Community
It’s your Monday roundup. Locally: Fall council season kicks off this week, with meetings in Chapel Hill on Wednesday at 6 (agenda) and in Carrboro on Thursday at 6 (agenda). There’s also an OWASA meeting on Thursday at 6 (agenda), and various advisory board meetings (Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Orange County.) State-wide: Highly recommend subscribing to […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Connectivity, Development review, Housing
Looking at 860 Weaver Dairy Road
It’s September, which means Carrboro and Chapel Hill Town Council season is starting up again, which means a bunch of letters are rolling into the town council public inbox trying to stop proposals to build new housing. The project in question is at 860 Weaver Dairy Road and was previously called Lullwater. Next week, the […]
Posted inGardening, North Carolina
Exclusive: We interview the guy with the #1 Venus Flytrap License Plate
If you read the blogblog (hi!), you know that we have been obsessively following the plight of our state’s Venus Flytrap license plate, which got caught up in a weird statehouse snafoo and was rescued by our own Rep. Allen Buansi (District 56). Yesterday the license plate started making its way into the hands of […]
Posted inChapel Hill, UNC
Winners, losers, and remaining questions concerning Flagstock
Yesterday morning, the New York Times published a pretty long story about Flagstock, the “rager” that was promised to frat boys at UNC-Chapel Hill for raising the American flag during a protest on the UNC campus last April 30. The piece, when first published, stated that organizers predicted between 2,500 and 3,000 attendees. By Monday […]