On Wednesday, January 17, 2024, the new Chapel Hill Town Council held its first meeting of 2024, and one thing is clear—the update to the Land Use Management Ordinance is going to be a hot topic this year. The LUMO is the set of ordinances that establish how land can be used in the town. […]
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Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s 2023 Person of the Year is…..
Time’s Person of the Year is the person, a group, idea, or object that “for better or for worse… has done the most to influence the events of the year” So, who or what would that be in our community? We posed the question in our newsletter and on social media and got back hundreds of […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council
Liveblogging Chapel Hill’s December 18th town council meeting
Mel: Hello, hello! We’re excited to liveblog tonight’s town council meeting, which will appreciate outgoing council members and Mayor Pam, and deliver oaths of office to incoming town council members and Mayor Jess Anderson. Three blogbloggers will be in attendance at Town Hall, along with some small children and (we’ve heard) possible cake. The events […]
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 […]