The newest location of Weaver Street Market was announced today: it will be located in the parking lot of Barnes Towing’s pickup lot, where cars from Carr Mill Mall are towed if patrons leave the parking lot. “We noticed that all of our customers were heading over here,” said Weaver Street’s Manager when reached. “And […]
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Harm Reduction organizations around the Triangle are working to prevent unintentional overdoses
After Bella Grumet, a UNC-CH senior majoring in neuroscience, lost a close friend to an overdose last year, she was motivated to become an advocate for harm reduction strategies in hopes of preventing more drug-related deaths among college students. Her friend was Elizabeth Grace Burton, a UNC-CH student who passed away last March in a […]
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Naloxone Advocacy By Students, For Students
Jasmine Baker’s piece, “Naloxone Advocacy By Students, For Students,” is a three-minute audio piece containing UNC students sharing the importance of Naloxone access and education around campus. The story features friends of those who have passed, as they hope their effects to spread awareness of Naloxone can save a life in the future. This piece […]
Posted inReproductive Rights
Dispatch: Defend Medication Abortion rally in Raleigh
On Tuesday, March 26, 80 protesters gathered in front of the federal courthouse building in Raleigh. The rally, Defend Medication Abortion, was in protest of the US Supreme Court hearing oral arguments about possibly restricting access to mifepristone and questioning the FDA’s regulatory authority. Mife is the most widely used, safest, and most effective medicine […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Greenway, Parks and Rec
Connecting Morgan Creek Greenway to Manning Drive will cost $2.2 million. It’s worth it.
Merritt’s Pasture is one of Chapel Hill’s hidden treasures. Set at the intersection of NC 54 and US 15-501, a mile down the hill from UNC Hospitals, Merritt’s Pasture is a respite from a busy section of town. There are no sports fields, no picnic tables, no playgrounds. Just a mile-long walking path, a large […]
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Chapel Hill Insider newsletter appears to be part of a larger network of AI-generated newsletters
In 2019, Columbia Journalism Review published Pri Bengani’s eye-opening look at a network of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets that distributed algorithmic stories across a wide network of news sites. Since then, several other algorithmic or AI-generated news sites have been identified: A report, released last month, detailed the rise of what researchers termed ‘synthetic […]