Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023

CHALT is endorsing Searing and his slate. Why won’t they admit it?

Over the past week, leaders and candidates affiliated with the Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town (CHALT) have started telling people across Chapel Hill and Carrboro not to trust: – local media – The Daily Tar Heel – endorsements – Triangle Blog Blog – candidate forums (the only place where we get to see […]

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Emails reveal how CHALT works closely with candidates

A month ago, we broke the news about a PAC planning to inject $120,000 into the election cycle. We then continued to follow the story as members of the planned PAC decided to, instead, give their donations to the CHALT PAC. CHALT is an “anti-development community group” that has “opposed nearly every major development proposal” […]

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Factcheck: A new CHALT blog post is chock-full of factual errors

Labor Day marks the traditional beginning of the municipal election campaign season—one of our favorite times of the year. And earlier this week the Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town (CHALT) launched a new website. CHALT is an “anti-development community group” that has “opposed nearly every major development proposal” in Chapel Hill since its […]

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The ongoing hypocrisy of CHALT

We were perusing the public Chapel Hill Town Council email inbox – some of us like to live dangerously  – when we came across two strange little emails. The first, sent in May 2022, was from one of CHALT’s current leaders. A paragraph: I have several ideas for legal/policy changes the Council could make, that […]