Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Transportation

Our school district has added afterschool/evening bus transportation. That’s awesome.

Last month, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools announced that it was adding afterschool/evening bus transportation from every middle and high school into Chapel Hill and Carrboro neighborhoods. The idea was to make it easier for kids who participate in afterschool sports, clubs, arts, and activities to get home. We think this idea is awesome and […]

Posted inCarrboro, Chapel Hill, Guide

Organizations and electeds of Chapel Hill and Carrboro: It’s time to get off Twitter. Here’s how.

There’s no denying that for a period spanning more than a decade, Twitter pushed forward our notion of a Digital Public Square. Whether silly or consequential, over the years an expectation developed that people and organizations wanting to communicate with the public needed to establish a presence on Twitter. Many of our electeds and local […]

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 […]