A lot has happened this week. People pitched tents on Franklin Street for the grand opening of Raising Cane’s. There was an election. And Jes Boon, a local Carrboro resident, entered their second week without their favorite hat because an owl, pictured below, stole it. (You can see the hat in the owl’s talons.) Jes […]
Posted inCarrboro Town Council, Chapel Hill Town Council, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Election 2023, Live blog
Live blog blog: 2023 Elections
10:47 : We’ll have more to say in the morning, but this is a historic night for progressives in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Congratulations to everyone who worked for and voted for Jess Anderson, Barbara Foushee, Amy Ryan, Catherine Fray, Melissa McCullough, Eliazar Posada, Theodore Nollert, and Jason Merrill. Our towns will be in good […]
Posted inCarrboro Town Council, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023
This election is about housing
The election tomorrow is about housing. Even when it’s about parks, it’s actually about housing. And all candidates claim to be pro-housing, which makes it hard to know whom to support. Our hot take? Vote for those who are “yes and” not “yes but” on housing. “Yes and” candidates lead with housing while recognizing that […]
Posted inClimate, Stormwater
Let’s start an adopt a median program like the one in Madison, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin has a really cool program that I think Chapel Hill and Carrboro should adopt. It’s called Adopt-a-Median, and…it’s exactly what it sounds like. People adopt medians, and then plant native plants from an approved list in the median. There are several benefits: It looks great It gets people more invested in helping their […]
Posted inCarrboro, Election 2023
Extremely misleading and incorrect election flyer circulating in Carrboro
We have gotten several emails and reports that neighborhoods along Pathway and Homestead received flyers over the past two days that contain extremely misleading and incorrect information about candidates and issues in the election. In this post, we fact check these flyers and the group circulating them. Who is sending the flyer? One flyer says […]
Posted inElection 2023
We need your help: Print our endorsement handouts for poll greeters
The blog bloggers have been greeting voters at the polls since the start of early voting on Thursday, and we’ve had a great time meeting with voters and providing information so they can make smart choices. One item that voters have found super helpful are the endorsement handouts that we prepared as part of our […]