This series considers policy questions that will be addressed by the Chapel Hill and Carrboro Town Councils in the next two years. As we always do at Triangle Blog Blog, we will offer our opinions, but we’ll also point you to primary source documents so you can make your own judgment. See our series overview […]
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Posted inCarrboro, Connectivity, Greenway
Great news! The Orange-Chatham chapter of the North Carolina Sierra Club supports the creekside alignment of the Bolin Creek Greenway
In March, we reported that the Orange-County chapter of the North Carolina Sierra Club looked likely to support the Bolin Creek Greenway. Today, the chapter sent a letter to Carrboro’s town council detailing their support of the Bolin Creek Greenway and the creekside alignment. Here are the highlights What is the Sierra Club? The Sierra […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill, Election 2023
Scoop: The $120,000 PAC is back. And they’re giving their money to CHALT.
On September 12, the Daily Tar Heel reported that the $120,000 PAC led by Julia Grumbles would not be forming. In an email sent by Grumbles to neighbors on September 18th, the reason becomes clear: instead of forming a new PAC, they plan to donate tens of thousands of dollars to the existing CHALT PAC, […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill, Election 2023, Housing
The $120,000 Wealthy Homeowners PAC Is Dead Before It Started
The effort by a group of wealthy homeowners to form a new single-issue Political Action Committee (PAC) in support of Adam Searing’s mayoral candidacy and several like-minded council candidates is no more, according to its chief proponent. The Daily Tar Heel’s Ethan Horton reported that Julie Grumbles, the coordinator of this “Wealthy Homeowner PAC,” emailed […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023, Housing
$120,000 PAC: We asked Chapel Hill candidates what they thought
Last week we broke the news that a group of wealthy local homeowners were organizing to dump $120,000 into a single-issue Political Action Committee (PAC) to support Adam Searing’s mayoral campaign by piggybacking onto his and his like-minded council candidates’ vehement opposition to Chapel Hill’s mild housing reforms adopted in June. We wondered what the […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Election 2023
Interview: CHCCS School Board Candidate Barbara Fedders
Spanish/Espanol As we noted in our post about vetting school board candidates, we have sent questionnaires to each school board candidate and are publishing them in the order received. Questions were compiled by board members of both Triangle Blog Blog and Bridging the Gap, and attendees of a four-part community read and discussion series on […]