Last week Sen. Graig Meyer (District 23) released a digital ad showing two people stopped by the police for using pot. The Black user is arrested and hauled off to jail; the white user is let go and heads to the golf course. Meyer is the lead sponsor of Senate Bill 346, which would legalize […]
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NC Law restricts funding projects that benefit people walking and biking
If you walk, bike, or use transit to get around, chances are, you have experienced fear or a feeling of abandonment while waiting to cross a busy, high-speed road lacking a safe crossing, had to slog along a desire path next to traffic to reach a transit stop, or ride your bike next to trucks, […]
BREAKING: Biden’s budget recommends $138.3 million in funding for NSBRT
This is the single largest transit investment in Chapel Hill’s history and it’s a really big deal.
Chapel Hill recently awarded grants to help 3 businesses stay downtown
In January, the Town of Chapel Hill announced that it made grants to three business as part of its Downtown Small Business Relocation Grant Program. The grant program is targeted at for-profit and rent-paying downtown businesses facing imminent displacement due to redevelopment. The town, which was criticized by Adam Searing and others during the 2023 […]
11 things I learned about Chapel Hill and Carrboro from the State of the Community Report
Each year, the Chamber for a Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro presents a State of the Community Report, an annual presentation to local leaders that shares the latest demographic, economic, educational and environmental data for Orange County and our municipalities. You can find the databooks for 2021, 2022, and 2023 on the Chamber website. They’re fascinating documents, […]
This Election Was a Referendum. And a Mandate.
On Tuesday, voters in Chapel Hill and Carrboro made a choice. In each town, there were candidates offering distinct visions for the future of our communities. One vision, whose adherents claimed was “new,” “modern,” or “unique,” was instead just a warmed-over version of the same rhetoric we’ve heard for generations: Let’s protect what we have […]