April 5 (scroll down to vote) 7:10 1:27 Some fun tidbits about the tournament. Over 25,000 votes have been casts, with an average of over 400 votes per matchup. The biggest matchup was Pie Pan (of course) versus Zog’s bartender Zan Bell, with 684 votes casts. Best anecdote: a supportive mom imploring people online “please […]
The continuing predictability of CHALT’s hypocrisy
One of the things that you can count on with CHALT is its predictability. (CHALT, aka Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town.” is an “anti-development community group” that has “opposed nearly every major development proposal” in Chapel Hill since its inception in 2014/2015. They formed a PAC in 2017, recruit and endorse local candidates […]
Manchester City is coming to Chapel Hill for the FC Series tour July 23
Remember last year when the Premier League came to Chapel Hill? Well, this summer we’re getting Manchester City on July 23 at Kenan Stadium playing a friendly against top Scottish club Celtic. The tour also includes Yankee Stadium, Ohio Stadium in Columbus, and Orlando’s Camping World Stadium. How do I get tickets to Man City […]
March Radness: Let’s decide the coolest person place or thing in Carrboro and Chapel Hill!
We love our community. We think with your help we can totally come up with 64 cool people, places, or things in Carrboro and Chapel Hill. We are also ruthless competitors and believe if you want to be the coolest, you need to destroy your less cool competition in a humiliating fashion, then rub it […]
NC Law restricts funding projects that benefit people walking and biking
If you walk, bike, or use transit to get around, chances are, you have experienced fear or a feeling of abandonment while waiting to cross a busy, high-speed road lacking a safe crossing, had to slog along a desire path next to traffic to reach a transit stop, or ride your bike next to trucks, […]
The Local Reporter: A very unusual local non-profit newsroom
The Local Reporter has once again removed a piece from its website without explanation. Here’s what happened: Yesterday afternoon, they published a piece by Adam Powell, the public information officer for the North Carolina Cyber Academy, about President Biden’s recommendation to include $138.3 million in the federal budget for Chapel Hill’s planned North-South Bus Rapid […]