The Town of Carrboro, known for its grocery co-op, arts festivals, and farmer’s market, and led by a council that just last year passed a resolution describing the town as a “peace-loving community” opposed to “tyranny, unprovoked aggression, and war,” today feels like an extremely unlikely home for a defense contractor to set up shop. […]
Posted inEvents around town, Gardening, Guide, Things to do with kids
Free Vermicomposting workshop coming on December 16
We ran into Tom Smith at the Carrboro Music Festival, where he was demonstrating his project. We asked him to write an article about his first workshop. That was so popular, Tom is back, and here is a writeup on his second workshop. Check it out Learn to produce the world’s best soil amendment, help […]
Posted inCarrboro, Journalism
The Local Reporter substantially reworked a piece without any notice. That’s unethical.
We have written a number of times about ethical lapses of The Local Reporter, the non-profit newspaper whose board is composed solely of founders and leaders within CHALT and/or its affiliated PAC, Chapel Hill Leadership PAC. In the past, they have omitted bylines, a masthead, relationships between quoted sources and editors, reprinted material directly from […]
Posted inGuide, Orange County
What you need to know about North Carolina’s Medicaid eligibility expansion
The state of North Carolina expanded Medicaid eligibility starting on December 1st, 2023. Here’s what you need to know.
Posted inCarrboro, Carrboro Town Council
A historic day and a November 2024 special election for Carrboro
Last night, I attended the standing-room-only town council meeting in Carrboro, in which Barbara Foushee was sworn in as Carrboro’s first Black female mayor, and Eliazar Posada, Catherine Fray, and Jason Merrill were sworn into their seats on town council. If you’ve never been to a swearing in ceremony, I highly recommend it. The room […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Downtown, Things to do with kids
Ride with us in the Cycling Community in the Holiday Parade!
This Saturday, December 9 is the Chapel Hill – Carrboro holiday parade! What is notable this year is there will not be any vehicles. Every year, cycling groups I am involved with have ridden as a group in the parade. Some years, we have performed a ‘bicycle ballet’. For at least the last 6 years, […]