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Adam Searing is Chapel Hill’s FOX News
Adam Searing is probably running to be the next mayor of Chapel Hill. He’s also a demagogue who routinely spreads misinformation and appears to prefer creating rather than solving problems. We all know how FOX News operates. It whips viewers into a frenzy with information that is false but taps into their deep-seated fears, all […]
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Chapel Hill’s Coal Ash Albatross: Where We Are Now on 828 MLK
Last night’s Town Council meeting (March 8, 2023) once again touched on the coal ash buried on the police station site at 828 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. And much of this discussion turned into political theater. Here’s what you missed if you didn’t power through the four-hour meeting. Background We’ve covered this issue extensively when […]
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Update on coal ash: There’s a lot of misinformation circulating
We are dismayed that misinformation continues to spread about coal ash and the 828 MLK site in Chapel Hill. You can read our previous deep dive on this project if you’d like to know more about what’s happened so far, what the town has decided, and why the counterarguments circulating about the redevelopment don’t stand […]
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Who is the Coalition for Safe and Just Housing?
A new group calling itself the Coalition for Safe and Just Housing has formed around the development project at 828 MLK. Like with other groups, this group centers around a single issue that neighborhood defenders want to block, and uses language that is designed to heighten fear and anger among residents. I can’t know anyone’s […]
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The real story about coal ash
tl; dr – There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the future of 828 MLK Jr. Blvd. This post details what’s happened so far, what the town has decided, and details why the counterarguments circulating right now about the redevelopment don’t stand up to scrutiny. The history of coal ash at 828 In the […]