Blockbuster story from the Daily Tar Heel today: The Friends of Bolin Creek, a registered nonprofit under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, likely held a partisan campaign event and broke federal law. One of the benefits given to 501(c)(3) nonprofits is that their donors can typically deduct the amount of their donation off […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Election 2023
Elizabeth Sharp is Running for Council Because She Doesn’t Want Any More Students in Her Neighborhood
With few exceptions, most people running for Chapel Hill Town Council—a part-time job that pays a tad over twenty thousand a year and requires you to work nights and weekends—are doing so for a reason. Erik Valera is running because he wants to represent communities that are seldom heard in council meetings. Melissa McCullough is […]
Posted inHousing
Yonah Freemark: An interview about land use and zoning
Yonah Freemark is the research director of the Land Use Lab at the Urban Institute. His research focuses on the intersection of land use, affordable housing, transportation, and governance. He has published peer-reviewed scholarship in numerous journals, including Urban Affairs Review, Politics & Society, Housing Policy Debate, and the Journal of the American Planning Association. Thank you for doing […]
Posted inCarrboro, Chapel Hill, Election 2023, voting-info
Council Candidate Interview and Questionnaire Compendium
Updated October 22, 2023 with additional questionnaires and interviews. Just about every civic organization in Chapel Hill and Carrboro sends out questionnaires to candidates asking about their key issues. The responses to these questionnaires are often used to help decide endorsements and are often reprinted in full. Here is a link to all of the […]
Posted inCarrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Chapel Hill, Greenway, Uncategorized
Can I interview you about the greenway?
The Town of Carrboro has completed its survey of the future Bolin Creek Greenway alignments. The Town Council should be receiving the results of the survey soon, but one thing the survey couldn’t measure was how future users of the creekside alignment would rate the experience. My daughter Arlie (age 7) and I were wondering […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Parks and Rec
Hooray! Chapel Hill is getting a new parks master plan!
Buried deep within the agenda for the Parks, Greenway and Recreation Commission meeting on September 19, 2023 is a nugget that should make everyone in Chapel Hill who loves parks and greenways super happy: A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) has been drafted to find an architecture, engineering and landscape architect firm to update the 2013 […]