Even if you’ve registered to vote and voted in every single election, it’s important to check your voter registration to ensure everything looks good. Here’s how to do that: Check your registration status by entering your information into the North Carolina Board of Elections Voter Search, also known as the “voter lookup.” You will need to submit your […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Housing, Orange County
Hudson Vaughan: Property tax revals and inequity in assessment
In the 2021 property tax revaluation in Orange County, hundreds of black-owned properties in the Northside neighborhood were initially overvalued by more than $10 million collectively, while larger investor-owned homes were undervalued by nearly the same amount. *example of this inequity with two homes on the same block in Northside *example of this inequity on […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Climate, UNC
UNC just filed a permit to burn an alternative to coal: here’s what we know.
UNC-Chapel Hill is asking state and federal environmental agencies to allow it to test a new fuel to replace coal at its co-generation station on Cameron Avenue. Plans for what’s called the Engineered Pelletized Fuel Source Project are part of an application filed late last month with the state’s Division of Air Quality to test […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
CHCCS budget cuts: Here’s what doesn’t make sense to me right now
On Wednesday, the school board held a special meeting to discuss their plan to eliminate administrative and staff positions in order to balance the budget, which is in pretty dire shape. The vote was 4-3, with Fedders, Fornville, and Dasi opposing the plan. Chapelboro’s Brighton McConnell has a great straight news write up of the […]
Posted inCHALT, Journalism
Is this the end for The Local Reporter?
Updated: 11/20 The timeline at the bottom of this post has been updated. Last Thursday, The Local Reporter – the local non-profit newspaper with close ties to a political PAC – posted that they would “transition to an energetic new group of Board of Directors” and “provide a new, fresh format for the future” on […]
Posted inAnimals, Gardening, Helping neighbors
Fall Migration is Here: Lights Out NC!
Now that summer temps are starting to cool down, migratory songbirds and shorebirds are beginning their journeys south to their wintering grounds in Central and South America. Most birds fly at night, using the stars to navigate. But, unfortunately, our Town lights can quickly disorient them causing them to veer off course and sometimes fall […]