This is a pivotal election for Chapel Hill. Beyond the clear policy differences there is a significant experience gap between the candidates. The slate of candidates strongly supported by CHALT (Adam Searing for mayor; Breckany Eckhardt, Elizabeth Sharp, Renuka Soll and David Adams for council) have a paucity of experience with town governance. This is […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023, Transportation
Will Chapel Hill support transit oriented development if the NSBRT is funded?
This series considers policy questions that will be addressed by the Chapel Hill and Carrboro Town Councils in the next two years. As we always do at Triangle Blog Blog, we will offer our opinions, but we’ll also point you to primary source documents so you can make your own judgment. What is the North-South […]
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A critic of Triangle Blog Blog called my employer. That’s not okay.
In 2021, an East Chapel Hill High School junior named Caroline Chen wrote a piece about CHALT for her high school newspaper. Instead of ignoring the piece, CHALT’s leadership complained to Chen’s high school newspaper advisor, The Daily Tar Heel, and IndyWeek. This reaction was wildly inappropriate, and people across our community rightfully saw CHALT […]
Posted inCarrboro Town Council, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023
Will Chapel HIll and Carrboro carry out their greenway plans?
We are beginning a new series to consider policy questions that will be addressed by the Chapel Hill and Carrboro Town Councils in the next two years. As we always do at Triangle Blog Blog, we will offer our opinions, but we’ll also point you to primary source documents so you can make your own […]
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Our endorsement guide is accurate and here’s how you can check our work
For the third election cycle, we’ve put together a handy endorsement guide for candidates running for office in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and school board races. A new blog post circulating suggests that the endorsement guide is inaccurate and has been “banned from the Democratic Party table at all local early voting sites.” This is wildly […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023
The folly of the Searing slate’s war on consultants
If you’ve been following the campaigns of Adam Searing and the other CHALT-backed candidates, you may have noticed something odd: a main campaign talking point of theirs is that the town should stop hiring consultants, especially those from out of town, and most especially those from Canada. [full disclosure: I work for a research firm […]