Along with continued inequities in discipline, research shows Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has a systemic problem with achievement gaps between student groups.
Both N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland, Rutherford) and Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger (R-Guilford, Rockingham) sponsored a bill in 2009 to establish an independent redistricting commission.
In 2022 alone, North Carolina imported $303 million worth of Israeli goods, with the largest import being electric machinery. The state exported $146 million worth of goods to Israel — mainly pharmaceuticals, organic chemicals and nuclear reactors. North Carolina ranks 19th in the country in exports to Israel.
Rani Dasi, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education frontrunner, won 20.13 percent of the vote, 11,628 votes total. Barbara Fedders was close behind, winning 19.20 percent of the vote, with 11,089 votes total. Merideth Ballew and Vickie Feaster Fornville won 11.39 and 9.33 percent of the vote, respectively.
Jane Pinsky, the director of the NC Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform, said that sometimes misinformation can result in people not voting if they feel it won’t matter or they don't trust candidates.
The North Carolina General Assembly passed the long-awaited 2023-25 state budget at the end of September. Legislators wrote one provision that exempts them, for life, from the public records law that governs all other branches of state government and gives them the power to destroy or sell those records.
Over the past century, annexation into the Town, desegregation, gentrification and housing projects have transformed Chapel Hill's Northside neighborhood. Since the implementation of the Northside Neighborhood Initiative in 2015, the neighborhood's Black population has risen for the first time since the 1980s.
The Chapel Hill Town Council discussed new developments, affordable housing and the location of the Chapel Hill Police Department in its Sept. 13 meeting — the first meeting since the council returned from its summer break.
“In the work that we do, we see the connection between domestic violence homicides, gun violence and mass shootings," Cassandra Rowe, the co-director of survivor well-being for the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said. "So, it felt like a really important opportunity to speak to that connection."
The Orange County Rape Crisis Center is reducing the scope of its services and cutting staff in the face of debilitating budget cuts. The OCRCC and other centers federally funded through the Crime Victims Fund have had their monetary support steadily decrease in the past years.
