It’s Chapel Hill tradition for nearly a dozen local organizations to distribute questionnaires to candidates before local elections. And, typically, it’s the answers that need fact-checking. But The Local Reporter’s candidate questionnaire turns that on its head. Here, it’s the questions that need fact-checking. We have written before about The Local Reporter’s close relationship with […]
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With Legion Vote, Chapel Hill Town Council Shows Willingness to Address Hard Truths
What a difference a year makes. This time last year we were welcoming in a new Chapel Hill Town Council, one that we hoped would support affordable and abundant housing, invest in buses and greenways, and fix our broken planning systems. With an optimist’s heart, we were hopeful that the town council would tackle some […]
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Ugh. Factchecking CHALT (yes, again) on the Legion property
CHALT sent out a newsletter entitled “URGENT! Town Council to Vote on Legion Park TONIGHT!” earlier today. That is one super scary headline. It’s also confusing because there’s no such thing as Legion Park (yet). Moving past the headline, we noticed many errors in this newsletter. We found three in just the first paragraph. Three! […]
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We attended the American Legion meeting last night at the Chapel Hill Public Library.
There was a moment in the American Legion public meeting last night at the library where someone invited everyone in the room to the American Legion land this morning – it’s Wednesday – to clear wisteria. Dotty Foley of HOPE NC interrupted him. “We have to go to work to pay the rent,” she said. […]
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Please Let This Be the Last Time I Saw Richard
The November 16th Town Council meeting was five hours long, but for my money the most compelling part of the evening was a 15-minute span in which several speakers spoke about the American Legion property. The town bought the property in 2016 with the intention of building a park and housing on it. Up first […]
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Affordable Housing and a Park: the Legion Property Committee Issues Recommendations
Last May, five members of the Chapel Hill Town Council signed a petition to ask the Town Manager to begin the process of developing an “implementable plan” for the development of the American Legion property, a 36-acre piece of land that the town purchased for $7.9 million in 2016. More specifically, the petition asked the […]