"Chapel Hill needs more housing. To build more housing, we need to open up the zoning codes and allow for more density. The Town Council should pass its original proposal. It's not a solution to all of the housing issues in Chapel Hill, but it is a start."
Read More »"Ultimately, elections have consequences. N.C. voters chose to give these justices a seat on the court and we’ll have the opportunity to take that seat away from them in a few years. That doesn’t absolve the justices of the harm they can do to the state when making decisions based on partisanship rather than law, but at least it means their influence is not permanent."
Read More »"If UNC's administration cared, it would advocate on behalf of the workers it represents. It would be working with OSHR to increase the allowable salaries for service workers on campus. It would be working with its staff, not trying to placate them with distracting raises and a bonus program designed to shut down dissent."
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"The physical campus is the core of what UNC is, and right now that core is shouting at disabled students and faculty that they are not welcome, that they are not full and equal members of the Carolina family."
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"The House GOP’s new tax plan is regressive nonsense designed explicitly to shift the tax burden on the lower and middle income people and give the rich a massive tax break."
Read More »"Wide-scale blackouts because a company ran out of electricity during a weather event they had the potential to know about far ahead of time is not inevitable, nor is it something that we should accept. Duke Power does not deserve to continue existing. Private electric utility companies shouldn’t exist. Period."
Read More »"There's an opportunity to make Chapel Hill the gold standard for walkability in the South. We just need to take it."
Read More »"So when manufacturers like VinFast come to NC asking for billions in government handouts, there's no reason not to restrict the size of the cars they want to flood our streets with. Regulatory power exists for a reason."
Read More »"Regardless of how the midterms go on Tuesday, Democrats in state legislatures across the country can still put down the white flag and pick up a map. You know, for democracy."
Read More »"Who the pollster is, how they decide likely voter screens, the partisan breakdown of the modeled electorate, sample sizes, how they conduct the polls and the questions they ask all impact the outcome of the poll."
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