It has BEEN A WEEK! With the winter holidays well in the rear view window, there’s a buzz of activity around local government, and we have been doing our best at the Blog Blog to try to keep up. We’ve published quite a few articles over the last week, and thought it would be helpful […]
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Lunch links: Friends book sale, Ann Arbor’s vision, thoughts on Durham
Hello! It’s Monday! And there’s a lot going on in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Durham this week. Here’s your daily roundup: 📖 Get your books on 📖 The Friends of the Chapel Hill Public Library are hosting their August book sale next weekend – and we’ve heard that there will be thousands of children’s books, […]
Lunch Links: July 6, 2022
Today we’re rounding up what you may have missed on social media and in the council inbox over the past week. Enjoy! Former Town Council member and former Local Reporter editor Nancy Oates sparked a heated controversy on Twitter when she compared the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade to housing decisions. As we said […]
Lunch Links: Monday June 20, 2022
Hello! Today the Chapel Hill Transit operations facility was renamed in honor of former state Senator and Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee and his wife Lillian. Lee pushed for Chapel Hill Transit to be formed in 1974. Watch Mayor Lee and Chapel Hill Transit Director Brian Litchfield discuss the origins of Chapel Hill Transit Listen […]
June 13, 2022: Lunch Links
Happy Monday, readers! We hope you all had a fantastic weekend. Here are your media items du jour. Bon appetit! A comedian wandered into the housing debate and broke Twitter. YIMBY/NIMBY idc, you’re all the same to me, a bunch of people who think housing should be a profitable industry instead of something every human […]
June 9, 2022: Lunch Links
At last night’s Chapel Hill town council meeting, there was a spirited debate about pickleball courts. What happened?