Labor Day marks the traditional beginning of the municipal election campaign season—one of our favorite times of the year. And earlier this week the Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town (CHALT) launched a new website. CHALT is an “anti-development community group” that has “opposed nearly every major development proposal” in Chapel Hill since its […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Housing
What’s in Chapel Hill’s Affordable Housing Plan that the Town Council is Voting on Tonight?
For the past nine months, town staff have worked with HR&A Advisors – a housing and land use consultant that in my experience does excellent work – and local stakeholders to develop a comprehensive affordable housing plan. While the town has long focused on affordable housing, this represents the first comprehensive affordable housing plan in […]
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These emails from UNC were sent 12 minutes apart
There are reports of another armed and dangerous individual on or near the UNC campus. Many of us work, study, and teach at UNC. Twelve minutes before we received the Alert Carolina telling us to go inside and stay away from windows, we received a feedback form asking how the response to the shooting two […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Election 2023
Entrevista: Candidato a la Junta Escolar de CHCCS: Vickie Feaster Fornville
English/Ingles Como señalamos en nuestra publicación sobre la evaluación de los candidatos a la junta escolar, hemos enviado cuestionarios a cada candidato a la junta escolar y los estamos publicando en el orden en que los recibimos. Las preguntas fueron compiladas por miembros de la Junta de Triangle Blog Blog y Bridging the Gap, así […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Election 2023
Interview: CHCCS School Board Candidate Vickie Feaster Fornville
Spanish/Espanol As we noted in our post about vetting school board candidates, we have sent questionnaires to each school board candidate and are publishing them in the order received. Questions were compiled by board members of both Triangle Blog Blog and Bridging the Gap, and attendees of a four-part community read and discussion series on […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill, Election 2023, Housing
The $120,000 Wealthy Homeowners PAC Is Dead Before It Started
The effort by a group of wealthy homeowners to form a new single-issue Political Action Committee (PAC) in support of Adam Searing’s mayoral candidacy and several like-minded council candidates is no more, according to its chief proponent. The Daily Tar Heel’s Ethan Horton reported that Julie Grumbles, the coordinator of this “Wealthy Homeowner PAC,” emailed […]