Last Tuesday’s Carrboro Town Council meeting focused on parking. As we noted last year, Carrboro has been hovering around the idea of charging for parking, and even just enforcing 2-hour time limits, for many years now.The town’s first parking study back in 2016 showed Carrboro has A LOT of parking. The second Carrboro parking study, […]
Posted inElection 2024
A runoff’s possible in the Orange County School Board race. Here’s what we know.
There was a curious bit of information deep in Tammy Grubb’s coverage of last night’s election results for the Orange County School Board race: [Bonnie] Hauser, who asked the NGOP to drop its endorsement after learning about it, came in fourth, with just 461 fewer votes than [Jennifer] Moore. That means Hauser could ask for […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Housing, Orange County
WASMPBA: What do we want Southern Chapel Hill to look like in 30-50 years?
It took us a long time to write about the potential extension of the water and sewage service boundary in the southern part of Chapel Hill because we wanted to make sure we had a handle on the terminology. That took a long time. We talked to a lot of people, including town staffers and […]
Posted inElection 2024
Election: NC Primary 2024 Live Blog Blog
10:25: Even though the early vote wasn’t counted until after the polls closed, election workers in North Carolina once again did an admirable job counting and reporting votes quickly. Thanks for following along, and for participating in this year’s primary. On to the general election! 10:18: 32 of 36 precincts in Durham are reporting, and Sophia Chitlik […]
Posted inElection 2024
Analysis: Who voted early in the 2024 NC Primary Election?
In the 2024 North Carolina Primary, 694,000 people voted early, for a voting rate of 9.5%. The question is, who voted early? Around 35% of them are Republicans, 35% Democrats, and 28% unaffiliated (and 0.1% libertarian, we see you down there). This roughly follows the 33-33-33 split of state demographics. What is interesting, however, is […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Downtown
Chapel Hill is spending $51 million to build a parking deck. This council needs to act to make it a success.
This spring will see the completion of the first major new building project in downtown Chapel Hill in almost a decade. No, it’s not one of the two wet labs the previous councils have approved in recent years. It’s also not the single downtown apartment building the previous council approved last year, after spending more […]