When we last visited The Local Reporter – our “relentlessly local” non-profit newspaper with very close ties to an organization with a PAC – they were saying farewell to their fourth editor in three years. He served just under three months in the role. It’s been a little over a month since that shakeup, and …
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Our friends at The Daily Tar Heel published a curious little piece about Chapel Hill’s housing debate. The article says Town “is working to secure additional housing” (Yay!) but “some community organizations have cautioned that this new path brings its own social costs.” Hmm… The “some community organizations” is apparently one: CHALT. If you are …
On that Daily Tar Heel piece about affordable housing in Chapel Hill… Read More »
We have been following the ups and downs of The Local Reporter for quite some time now. The paper has churned through several editors during its almost-three-year existence, and has struggled with disclosing connections between its board, sources, funders, and CHALT, a local organization with a PAC that is heavily involved in local elections. Last …
Usual suspects suspect unusual suspects will yield unexpected results
You just got some scary news. A new project is coming before Chapel Hill Town Council that may result in new housing being built in town. Let’s stop it!
This piece was written by Melody Kramer, Caroline Dwyer, Martin Johnson and John Rees. We hadn’t intended to spend so much time pointing out misinformation circulating in Chapel Hill, but we feel it’s important that our community have high-quality and accurate information on what’s happening with local civic affairs. And so we head back to …
This piece was written by Melody Kramer with input from Geoff Green, Caroline Dwyer, John Rees, Stephen Whitlow, and Martin Johnson. Update – June 16, 2022 On June 5, CHALT published an anonymous blog post (“A New Park…) containing serious accusations of misconduct against several Town of Chapel Hill council members without any supporting evidence. Our …
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The Local Reporter is about to appoint a fourth editor. There have been many examples of non-disclosure over the paper’s existence.
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 …
Over the past several years, many websites have popped up in Carrboro and Chapel Hill related to local development and transportation projects. Using the network analysis methods described in this CJR piece, I discovered that some of them share IP addresses and various analytics identifiers. As noted in the CJR piece: “It is highly unusual …
