Debates about urban development projects are dominated by the interests of the rich and powerful across the country, and our communities have suffered. There’s a new luxury apartment complex down the block, but no one you know can afford its rent. Black and brown residents get priced out while the town watches helplessly. Ever-increasing traffic […]
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Posted inTransportation
Why connected roads make communities safer and better
The way we have been designing our streets and neighborhoods have actually made our streets more dangerous. Let’s go back a bit: Starting in the 1930s, suburban design in the United States has been heavily influenced by the Radburn Idea, which originates from a planned suburban community with the same name in North Jersey. Radburn […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023
Triangle Blog Blog endorsements: Chapel Hill 2023 – Anderson, McCullough, Mitchell, Nollert, Ryan
For the first time in eight years, Chapel Hill will have a new mayor. We’re a different community than we were in 2015. We are facing unprecedented growth pressures and feeling the effects of climate change. Rents have surged and homeownership has become harder for young people to achieve. The racial disparities in COVID deaths […]
Posted inElection 2023, UNC
UNC students, your vote matters in Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s municipal elections
Election day is November 7, about a month away. And we have a problem. Students in Chapel Hill and Carrboro don’t vote in large numbers. There are around 31,000 students at UNC Chapel Hill. That’s about 10,000 more people than live in all of Carrboro. And this election cycle, the overwhelming majority of those students […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023
You can’t keep a good blogblog down: we respond to Adam Searing’s attack
We don’t want to spend time fact checking. We’d much rather be covering pickleball, or splash pads, or Raising Cane’s. But so it goes. Earlier today, mayoral candidate Adam Searing wrote a newsletter entitled: The Triangle Blog Blog Isn’t Real News. It’s Dark-Money Attack Politics. Let’s all pause for a second and have a good […]
Posted inCarrboro Town Council, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023, Elections
Jon Mitchell and Catherine Fray Show Why Campaigns Matter
We’re in the midst of campaign season in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. And while some like the good, the bad, and the ugly of elections, there are others who wish we had another way to choose who represents us in local offices. But one thing that is really great about campaign season is that we […]
