Chapel Hill’s now infamous Yates raid won’t be subject to an independent investigation, the Town Council decided Monday in a 7-1 vote with Councilwoman Laurin Easthom dissenting in frustration. Instead town officials will gather first-hand accounts via its website, seek specialized training for officers confronting political protesters and answer the questions posed by the council-appointed […]
Joe Schwartz
Bio: Joe Schwartz is a former INDY Week staff writer who works for soccer.com in Hillsborough. He's been a Gooner since he fell for Thierry Henry in 2005, and he still believes in Arsène Wenger.Email: [email protected]
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Order up: Chapel Hill OKs food truck rules
The Chapel Hill Town Council voted unanimously Monday night to allow food trucks to do business there, joining the party that Carrboro and Durham have long hosted and Raleigh and Hillsborough recently hopped aboard. Food trucks can grace Chapel Hill streets beginning March 1. After 16 months of consideration, the council gave its seal of […]
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Orange County talks trash, next steps when landfill closes in 2013
The Orange County Board of Commissioners are committed to closing the local landfill, a burden that the Rogers Road-Eubanks community has been saddled with for 40 years now, in June 2013. But, at last night’s Assembly of Governments meeting, leaders from the three Orange municipalities who dump garbage there as part of an interlocal agreement […]
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In Chapel Hill, opposition builds against charter school
View documents The Howard & Lillian Lee Scholars Charter School application The letters in opposition from CHCCS (letter 1, letter 2) and NAACP Watch the Raging Grannies sing against NHA A Q&A with NHA spokesman Joe DiBenedetto Research from Mary Wood, who has fought NHA in Michigan Research from Natasha Bowen on NHA in North […]
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Sustaining OurSelves
Alexander Stephens and Hudson Vaughan came to Chapel Hill’s historically African-American neighborhoods to document oral histories. They found a community eager to share its story. Under the guidance of UNC performance and cultural studies professor Della Pollock, they worked with local churches to contact families in Northside and Pine Knolls. These residents have a long […]
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Protest, march to Chapel Hill Town Hall on tap tonight in wake of Yates report
A group angered by Chapel Hill Town Manager Roger Stancil’s endorsement of the Nov. 13 police action at the Yates Motor Co. building on Franklin Street will gather at 6 p.m. tonight at Peace and Justice Plaza and march to Town Hall where Stancil’s report will be considered by the town council. On that crisp […]
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Stancil’s report supports police in Yates raid
In Town Manager Roger Stancil’s eyes, Chapel Hill Police made “the best decisions that could be made given the information available at the time,” when a Special Emergency Response Team armed with assault rifles arrested “anti-capitalist occupiers” who claimed the long-vacant Yates Motor Co. Building downtown in mid-November. Stancil released his much-anticipated, yet-unsurprising internal review […]
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Occupy Chapel Hill/Carrboro going tentless
Occupy Chapel Hill/Carrboro will enter its second phase next week when the group removes its tents from Peace and Justice Plaza on Franklin Street, according to press release issued this morning. Occupiers have been holding camp in front of the Post Office there since Oct. 15, but amid the coming cold, and safety and morale […]
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Chapel Hill policing advisory committee mum on raid
When Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue deployed a Special Emergency Response Team to round up Occupy Everything members who had taken over a long-vacant former Chrysler dealership, he was unsure what officers might encounter. He decided to act quickly, eliminate the perceived threat and ask questions later. Four weeks have passed, and we won’t […]
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Walkupy marchers to reach Durham on Wednesday
A cadre of Occupy Wall Street marching from Washington, D.C., to Martin Luther King’s gravesite in Atlanta will reach Durham on Wednesday. DCmarch2GA, also dubbed #Walkupy or Occupy the Highway, will spend two days in the Bull City resting and holding teach-ins after churning down Highway 70 from Raleigh. The march reached the City of […]
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