Earlier today the News & Observer published a piece on the plans by twelve wealthy couples to inject $120,000 into the Chapel Hill elections in a bid to overturn the Chapel Hill Town Council’s June vote to legalize duplexes townwide. Here are seven things we learned: The News & Observer confirms that Adam Searing met […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Events around town, UNC
Learn to ride your bike around UNC and Chapel Hill this Friday!
Join us this Friday, as Next and the Bicycle Alliance of Chapel Hill sponsor a bike ride around Chapel Hill. The second annual Bike Around Chapel Hill is organized by UNC grad student René Iwo. The ride is a social bike ride around UNC campus and Chapel Hill/Carrboro. The intent is to demonstrate how chill […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill, Journalism
The Local Reporter’s strange pond coverage
Last month, we reported that The Local Reporter was looking for an editor after their 6th editor abruptly left the paper days after our deep dive into the paper’s problematic political coverage. They’ve since hired Julia Runk Jones, previously the paper’s dog columnist, to temporarily lead the organization. But issues with the paper’s coverage persist. […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Connectivity, UNC
UNC is hosting their annual bike auction on September 26
You made it to campus, but you didn’t bring a bike from home, and now you are regretting that decision. Or, maybe you don’t have a bike yet. I was at the Pit a few weeks back with the Bicycle Alliance of Chapel Hill for Cyclicious and encountered some students who needed a cheap and […]
Posted inCarrboro, Greenway
Thank you for quickly fixing the greenway we use to get to school!
We live in north Carrboro, about a mile from our kids’ schools. And while I’m sure both of them wish we dropped them off in the car lanes more often than we do (anything for some extra screen time), we really have no excuse. That’s because our neighborhood (and several of the neighborhoods around us) […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023, Housing
$120,000 PAC: We asked Chapel Hill candidates what they thought
Last week we broke the news that a group of wealthy local homeowners were organizing to dump $120,000 into a single-issue Political Action Committee (PAC) to support Adam Searing’s mayoral campaign by piggybacking onto his and his like-minded council candidates’ vehement opposition to Chapel Hill’s mild housing reforms adopted in June. We wondered what the […]