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Orange County Launches Family Success Alliance
Recently, the Orange County Health Department launched plans for the Family Success Alliance, modeled after the success of the Harlem Children’s Zone. With its inception as the Rheedlen Centers for...
View ArticleCommunity Organizing to Improve Housing Conditions in Orange County
Extensive mold and other serious maintenance issues, unannounced inspections, living with no water, play equipment removed, violence, disrepect by management, inability to use shared resources,...
View ArticleFamily Success Alliance chooses 2 communities to focus poverty fight
Orange County elected officials and health department staff have recongized the immediate need to address poverty in our county. As a result, the Orange County Family Success Alliance has been...
View ArticleLocal Law Enforcement Begins Hard Work Toward Racial Equity
It is clear from recent police forums and from experiences shared by people of color in our communities that we have a serious problem with racial equity in policing in Orange County. The most recent...
View ArticleA Noteworthy Agenda Item
On tonight’s consent agenda at the Orange County Board of Education is a resolution in support of immigrant children in our community. The resolution is similar to those already adopted by the Carrboro...
View ArticleIncreased Density is the Right Choice
This column originally appeared in the Chapel Hill News on Sunday, January 25.By Travis Crayton & Molly De MarcoIn 2014, “density” might well have been the word of the year in local government in...
View Article10 Questions to Ask Ourselves About Diversity
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the makeup of interest groups and other constituencies in Chapel Hill lately, and how it reflects upon the diversity of our community. I focus on Chapel Hill,...
View ArticleAffordable Housing: Policy Tools & Best Practices
In its ongoing series on affordable housing, the Town of Chapel Hill hosted Michelle Winters, senior visiting fellow at the Urban Land Institute’s Terwilliger Center for Housing last Tuesday to talk...
View ArticleThe Northside Initiative: How It Developed, How It Will Work
The Jackson Center’s Executive Director, Della Pollock said it better than I could in a recent letter to Northside neighbors and friends:“Monday, March 9, was a historic day in Chapel Hill and the...
View ArticleAfter 4 Years, Worker Center Set to Open
About four years ago Orange County Justice United came together with El Centro Hispano, the Human Rights Center, the Town of Carrboro, and a number of other partners to create a task force that would...
View ArticleWhat We're Reading: June 5
We read a lot of articles about local government, public sector innovation, open government, urban planning, and social justice. Since we often relate these articles to things happening locally here in...
View Article2016 Orange County Bond Referendum - For Schools Only?
This week's Indy Week features this article, documenting how affordable housing was left out of the proposed 2016 Orange County bond referendum: When Orange County commissioners approved plans this...
View ArticleWhat We're Reading: July 10
Happy Friday! Here are a few articles from the OP Editors that we found interesting this week:N.C. growth brings challenges for land preservation: A board member of the Land Trust of Central North...
View ArticleSelma to DC March
Yesterday I was in Raleigh and joined the Selma to DC Journey for Justice March sponsored by the NAACP. Lots of supporters were there from religious groups, unions and environmental groups. (Sierra...
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Come to the Hearing on March 22, 2016, to Support FoodFirst Community Kitchen...
To RSVP for March 22 hearing, go here: http://www.ifcweb.org/rsvpFrom the IFC Website: “The IFC has met with the Board of Aldermen to start the process for FoodFirst, but we need your continued...
View ArticleMarch 22 IFC Food First Public Hearing
Racial & Economic JusticeIFCfood firstfoodfirstwchapantryhomelessnessCarrboromarch 22Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 7:30pm to 10:30pmLocation: Room 110 Carrboro Town HallTo RSVP for March 22...
View ArticleIn Orange County Living Wage News
Orange County, via both public and private employers, has been making significant strides in extending living wages to people who work in our communities. Here's the latest:Orange County Board of...
View ArticleUrgent: Please help us move Carrboro's Google hub from cemetery to OWASA
Our group savecarrborogreenspaces.org has collected 332 signatures near the Farmer's Market on 2 Saturdays and 3 Wednesdays. Our last chance with the Carrboro Aldermen is June 21. We need your help now...
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Feed the hungry, but why are they hungry?
{Cross posted from Chapel Hill News}Food for the SummerThis summer, thanks to Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger, the InterFaith Council for Social Service, No Kid Hungry NC, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City...
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Another Aspect of Equity: Our Town and County Advisory Boards
This article was posted on-line in the Herald-Sun on Saturday July 29, 2017.More than 630 residents serve on our towns’ and county’s 71 advisory boards. Advisory board volunteers give their time and...
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