On Tuesday, March 26, 80 protesters gathered in front of the federal courthouse building in Raleigh. The rally, Defend Medication Abortion, was in protest of the US Supreme Court hearing oral arguments about possibly restricting access to mifepristone and questioning the FDA’s regulatory authority. Mife is the most widely used, safest, and most effective medicine […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Greenway, Parks and Rec
Connecting Morgan Creek Greenway to Manning Drive will cost $2.2 million. It’s worth it.
Merritt’s Pasture is one of Chapel Hill’s hidden treasures. Set at the intersection of NC 54 and US 15-501, a mile down the hill from UNC Hospitals, Merritt’s Pasture is a respite from a busy section of town. There are no sports fields, no picnic tables, no playgrounds. Just a mile-long walking path, a large […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Journalism
Chapel Hill Insider newsletter appears to be part of a larger network of AI-generated newsletters
In 2019, Columbia Journalism Review published Pri Bengani’s eye-opening look at a network of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets that distributed algorithmic stories across a wide network of news sites. Since then, several other algorithmic or AI-generated news sites have been identified: A report, released last month, detailed the rise of what researchers termed ‘synthetic […]
Posted inCarrboro, Chapel Hill, Connectivity, Greenway, Outdoors, Transportation, UNC
Is a rails-to-trail greenway on the co-gen line possible? What we learned last night
Local governments have to think about multiple time spans simultaneously: there’s short-term planning, medium-term planning, and long-term generational planning. Short-term or immediate planning means exactly what it says: decisions that affect a community over the next 3-5 years. Chapel Hill’s Town Council considers strategic focus areas and goals for two-year periods. These can include […]
Posted inEvents, Triangle Blog Blog
March Radness Live Blog: Championship!
April 5 (scroll down to vote) 7:10 1:27 Some fun tidbits about the tournament. Over 25,000 votes have been casts, with an average of over 400 votes per matchup. The biggest matchup was Pie Pan (of course) versus Zog’s bartender Zan Bell, with 684 votes casts. Best anecdote: a supportive mom imploring people online “please […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill
The continuing predictability of CHALT’s hypocrisy
One of the things that you can count on with CHALT is its predictability. (CHALT, aka Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town.” is an “anti-development community group” that has “opposed nearly every major development proposal” in Chapel Hill since its inception in 2014/2015. They formed a PAC in 2017, recruit and endorse local candidates […]