Bike buses have increased in popularity around the United States after a bike bus in Portland went viral in 2022. The general idea is this: a bunch of kids and a bunch of grownups bike to school together, and pick up other kids and grownups along the route. There’s no registration, and you join the […]
Posted inLegislature, North Carolina
Sen. Graig Meyer talks to us about pot legalization and his recent viral video
Last week Sen. Graig Meyer (District 23) released a digital ad showing two people stopped by the police for using pot. The Black user is arrested and hauled off to jail; the white user is let go and heads to the golf course. Meyer is the lead sponsor of Senate Bill 346, which would legalize […]
Posted inClimate, Gardening, Things to do with kids
Another Carrboro Vermicomposting workshop this weekend!
Tom Smith is at it again with his 3rd Vermiculture Workshop coming up this Saturday. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s comprehensive. Make the world’s best soil amendment and help save the world from the ravages of climate change. Read details from a previous article here. If you ever tried to make compost in less than […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Greenway, Housing, Parks and Rec
Results from the poll on when and how Chapel Hill should spend bond funds
A week ago, we asked readers how they would spend $50 million in bond fund across six categories. They responded with gusto – over 330 people filled out the survey. Some caveats This was obviously not a representative poll. We don’t know who responded, their demographic characteristics, nor even if they live in Chapel Hill. […]
Posted inOrange County
Thoughts on Jennifer Moore, Bonnie Hauser, and the upcoming Orange County School Board runoff
In March, incumbent Jennifer Moore decisively won an Orange County school board seat. She received more than 400 votes than the next vote-getter (Bonnie Hauser), a margin of more than 8 percent. If we lived in one of the 40 states where runoff elections are not allowed, that would have been that. A decisive victory, […]
Posted inCarrboro, Connectivity, DCHC MPO, Greenway, Transportation, Triangle Region
The Carrboro Bike Plan, South Greensboro Street sidewalk, and Phase 2 of the Bolin Creek Greenway are being funded!
Earlier today, the board of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (“the MPO”)—which is responsible for regional transportation planning in the western Triangle—awarded funding for several projects in our area. Among the funded projects are three big ones in Carrboro: Implementation of the Carrboro Bicycle Transportation Plan Phase 2 of the Bolin Creek Greenway South […]