Republicans currently control both our State Supreme Court and our Court of Appeals. We have an opportunity to take back both courts by 2028.
Posted inElection 2024, Orange County
Looking at the network of conservative groups involved in the Orange County School Board race
Bonnie Hauser’s friends deny she’s running with the right. We found otherwise.
Posted inCarrboro, Transportation
Jonesing for a ferry on Jones Ferry Road
Chapelboro reports that “a section of Jones Ferry Road between Old Greensboro Road and Old Fayetteville Road will be closed for scheduled repairs between Monday, February 26 and Friday, March 1.” According to the Town of Carrboro, a detour route is yet to be established. This is what that stretch looks like: That’s gonna be […]
Posted inCHALT
Update: The CHALT-PAC amended their campaign finance form – here’s what we noticed.
On the morning of February 11th, we reached out to Tom Henkel, CHALT’s treasurer, with an email containing a series of errors that appeared in the CHALT-PAC’s year-end report. (You can see the email here.) Henkel must have had a very busy day, because he went to work amending the report, which he submitted in […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Downtown, Satire, Small business, UNC
Where should the new Dean Dome go?
Last week, the Inside Carolina crew reported that a UNC group is studying a potential new arena to replace the iconic Dean Dome where the men’s basketball team plays. Building a new arena would get around a really strange problem. When the Dean Dome was built in the early 80s, the seats were paid for […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill, Election 2023, Journalism
CHALT’s campaign finance report is missing $3,840 – and that’s not the only problem.
An update to this piece appears here. We have spent the past week or so reviewing the final campaign finance documents submitted by each campaign, PAC, and independent expenditure in the 2023 Chapel Hill municipal election cycle. Campaign finance law is tricky and arcane, so much so that North Carolina requires campaign treasurers to complete mandatory […]