In March, President Biden recommended that the federal government provide $138.3 million to build the North-South Bus Rapid Transit route along Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Chapel Hill. This represents the single largest transit investment in Chapel Hill’s history, and will make our community—which already punches well above its weight in terms of transit […]
Posted inAffordable Housing, Chapel Hill, Housing
House Us Now: We Need More Homes for Fixed-Income, Low-Income, and No-Income Tenants
By: Advocacy Team at the Community Empowerment Fund Progress has been made to build more affordable housing. It’s not nearly enough. Decision-makers still sit on their hands and pretend routine building fixes are needed more than roofs over people’s heads. Power-holders still dramatically underfund services for our unhoused neighbors. People are still getting evicted, leaving […]
Posted inCarrboro Town Council, Chapel Hill Town Council, UNC
Chapel Hill, Carrboro Electeds ‘Strongly Condemn’ UNC Police Response
Below is a statement written on May 1 by a group of Chapel Hill and Carrboro town council members in response to the police response to pro-Palestine demonstrators on the UNC campus on April 30. The full statement is below: Town Council members in both Carrboro and Chapel Hill are aware of the arrests of […]
Posted inUNC
UNC Faculty member: “I don’t think I will ever get over what I saw my employer do to its own students and faculty today.”
My throat is still itchy, but I’m physically ok. I don’t think I will ever get over what I saw my employer do to its own students and faculty today, however.
Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Connectivity, Things to do with kids
Hop on the bike bus to Chapel Hill’s Estes Hills Elementary School
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 […]