Earlier this month our Secretary Mary Margaret and I attended the Young Democrats of North Carolina conference in Durham. We attended a session taught by OrganizerMemes, a popular social media presence who is known for his hilarious political memes. Organizer memes is a fascinating guy – he wears a panda head so he remains anonymous. […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Parks and Rec
It’s time to get your bocce on. A spring league is coming to Chapel Hill’s Community Center Park.
Richie DiFranco loves bocce. DiFranco grew up playing the game, and has coached the Orange County Special Olympics bocce team in several local and state tournaments. Now DiFranco is spearheading a new public bocce league in Chapel Hill, which kicks off this spring at Community Center Park. (Intrigued? You can sign up here.) Bocce has […]
Posted inAnimals, Gardening, Guide
Top 5 spring tasks for birds
As the daylight hours lengthen and temperatures rise, it’s only natural to start getting itchy to get back into the garden. But, while it’s still too early to plant or disturb over-wintering insects by cleaning up the yard, it’s not too early to help our local birds get ready for the breeding season and make […]
Posted inTriangle Region
A graduate student’s guide to the Triangle
What are the Brooklyn-like places in the Triangle?
Posted inElection 2024
Who is early voting so far in the March 5, 2024 election in Orange County, NC?
Using data from the North Carolina State Board of Elections, we took a quick look at who has voted so far, in Orange County, in the March 5, 2024 election. The voting data is from February 23, 2024 and the voter registration data is from February 24, 2024. First, there are 109,026 people registered to […]
Posted inCHALT, Election 2023
The last word word on CHALT’s campaign finances (we hope)
What are you doing this weekend, blogbloggers? Oh, just factchecking a CHALT factcheck of our factcheck. :backs-away-slowly: If you’re just joining us, it’s time for our third (and hopefully final!) installment of fact-checking CHALT’s campaign finance documents. We did a deep dive into their first year-end semi-annual report, and then—after they amended it—we reported that […]