One in the morning, and Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt appeared stunned by a one-vote majority of his Town Council colleagues that sounded the death knell to Aydan Court. All nine members of council showed up last night for what turned out to be six hours’ worth of information covering two development matters, the proposed moratorium on […]

Reesenews, a multimedia news project by UNC journalism students, has put together a package of stories on gentrification of the Northside community. Check it out at http://reesenews.org/2011/04/14/the-struggle-for-a-neighborhood/13888/.

Chapel Hill taxpayers authorized town manager Roger Stancil to spend money on designing a logo that has a specific color and font for the town to use on street signs and elsewhere. Yet when local stores want to put their logos, in color, on a street sign, some council members waffled or flat out refused. […]

Terri Buckner suggests: At last week’s hearing on food trucks, Aaron Nelson said that there are about 280 restaurants within the OWASA service district. The next day the Independent issued its annual “best of” survey. Since then I’ve had several conversations about personal favorites. So how about if we conduct our own mini ‘best of’ […]

I’ve heard tell that the only benefit of UNC sports teams is to get money and that the teams aren’t resourceful otherwise. But what about the intangible benefits to students and student-athletes that don’t show up on the balance sheet? Over the course of a year, UNC athletics earns more than $70 million. This is […]