CHALT’s leaders on NextDoor and Facebook have repeatedly shared material from a particular website called Housing is a Human Right. They’ve shared pictures, articles, and phrasing from the website — which touts itself as fighting for housing justice. A small amount of digging — literally one Google search — paints a slightly different picture. The […]
Melody Kramer
Melody Kramer (@mkramer) serves on the OWASA board and lives in Carrboro with her family. By day, she leads communications for a large academic research center and recently obtained her MLIS degree focusing on digital archiving practices. She generally writes about journalism, archival research, and things she finds interesting. A long time ago, she wrote jokes for a living, received a Peabody Award, and was called the Most Popular Person at Fresh Air.
Posted inChapel Hill
Only 50 people have filled out the splash pad and inclusive playground survey. Can you fill it out?
Splash Pad correspondent Mel Kramer with junior correspondents Asher (5) and Kai (4) here. We’ve been anxiously following the splash pad dealings in Chapel Hill and awaiting the day when we don’t have to drive to Burlington or Pittsboro to get our splash pad on. (Related: TBB’s Chapel Hill Splash Pad Location Activation Tracker.) And […]
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The Chapel Hill Public Library has personalized reading recommendations
We recently learned that the Chapel Hill Public Library offers a really cool service: They’ll send you personalized reading recommendations (and even put those books on hold for you) if you tell them recent books you’ve liked and disliked. We’ve tried the service out (for a 5-year-old) and received back great recommendations that were spot-on […]
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Oy! Fiscal impact analysis, Obey Creek, and :jazz-hands: Chapel Hill
In the Facebook thread that just won’t quit, we’ve moved on from discussing whether newly-built apartments in Chapel Hill generate enough tax revenue to pay for services they receive (Spoiler: Yes.) and onto a series of other discussion points, including: Whether we can and should apply the fiscal analysis for the not-built 2014 Obey Creek […]
Posted inFrom the archives
The day Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Chapel Hill
On Thursday, May 5, 1960, The Daily Tar Heel previewed a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. that was to take place the following Monday: An overflow crowd attended the speech, which was held in Hill Hall at 8pm. A few years ago, Mike Ogle wrote about the speech and what brought Dr. King to […]
Posted inGreenway
Debunking misinformation about the Bolin Creek Greenway
Related: Learn more about Carrboro’s Linear Park Project and sign up for updates to build out Carrboro’s greenway network. My family lives within walking distance of Carrboro’s Bolin Creek, but we frequently drive to Umstead Park in Chapel Hill to walk along Bolin Creek’s paved path. With the envisioned paved Bolin Creek Greenway in Carrboro […]