Ok, here’s the deal. A few weeks ago, the NC Botanical Garden – who you might remember was the runner up in our March Radness tournament – announced that one of their American columbos was going to flower for the first and only time in 19 years… And then die. Since then, we’ve been on […]
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Estes Drive Connectivity Project is slated to end this month
Our long local nightmare is over…we think.
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The long and eventful history of Tim Moore and Peter Hans’ animosity towards marginalized people
In the last two weeks, in the context of student protests against genocide in Gaza, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors passed a measure in committee to repeal the state’s DEI policy and replace it with a policy focused on “equality” and “campus neutrality.” The policy notes that “No unit may be organized, […]
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Chapel Hill Town Council comes to an agreement on $44 million bond
This morning, at an 8 am work session, the Chapel Hill Town Council came to an agreement on a $44 million bond for Fall 2024, allocating $15 million for affordable housing, $15 million for public facilities, and investments in parks, streets and sidewalks, and greenways. The meeting began with a presentation by town manager Chris […]
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Do All of Chapel Hill’s New Multi-Family Buildings Actually Look Alike?
An often-heard complaint about development in Chapel Hill (and there are a lot of complaints about development in Chapel Hill) is that all of the new mid-rise, multi-family buildings look alike. As it happens, there’s a great deal of truth to this. Why? It’s largely because of a type of construction known as stick-frame over […]
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The GoFundMe for the UNC frat has ties to conservative political operatives
Overnight, the GoFundMe that’s raised over $300,000 for UNC frat boys changed: It added that the funds were now being raised by John Noonan on behalf of Susan Ralston. A comment on the GoFundMe calls Ralston a “world class event planner named Susan [who is] already hard at work. She worked in the White House […]