If you had told me 20 years ago that I would spend a typical Saturday night reading an agenda packet with draft planning documents, I would have said, “Yeah, that tracks.”
Cristóbal Palmer
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Views expressed here are mine and not official positions of the Town or Council. I run a lab where we teach students how to manage and maintain software for websites, streaming radio, and software mirrors. Come visit Carrboro. It’s lovely here.
really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4mo agoThat's right.
![During the ratification debates, Senator Cowan took aim
at the Roma people too, characterizing them as undeserving
of birthright citizenship because they “wander[ed] in
gangs,” “infest[ed] society,” and “impos[ed] upon the simple
and weak everywhere.”49 And again, Senator Conness dismissed Senator Cowan’s prejudices: “The only invasion of
Pennsylvania within my recollection was an invasion very
much worse and more disastrous to the State, and more to
be feared and more feared, than that of Gypsies. It was an
invasion of rebels [at Gettysburg].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreihrli2ghfantwmdgc4pk4rr4ddt4ajq4xgnggxhs4qv4hojeppmpi)
I want my trans neighbors to know: I see you, you matter, and our town is better because you’re here.
Really tough to hear this news... Jamezetta was a good person and a consummate professional to work with when talking with her for news coverage of BOCC meetings and votes. She'll be missed.
97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com@wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · 5mo agoJamezetta Bedford — a longtime elected official in Orange County, accountant and advocate for residents with disabilities — died on Sunday, according to her family. The Chapel Hill resident was 67 years old. Read more about her work in public office and personal time:
Such sad news. Jamezetta was deeply dedicated to our community and above all to her family. What a shocking loss.
97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com@wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · 5mo agoJamezetta Bedford — a longtime elected official in Orange County, accountant and advocate for residents with disabilities — died on Sunday, according to her family. The Chapel Hill resident was 67 years old. Read more about her work in public office and personal time:
We were just talking about the budget a few weeks ago and Jamazetta was full of ideas and energy for the future. She will be sorely missed.
97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com@wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · 5mo agoJamezetta Bedford — a longtime elected official in Orange County, accountant and advocate for residents with disabilities — died on Sunday, according to her family. The Chapel Hill resident was 67 years old. Read more about her work in public office and personal time:
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97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com@wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · 5mo agoJamezetta Bedford — a longtime elected official in Orange County, accountant and advocate for residents with disabilities — died on Sunday, according to her family. The Chapel Hill resident was 67 years old. Read more about her work in public office and personal time:
Jamezetta Bedford — a longtime elected official in Orange County, accountant and advocate for residents with disabilities — died on Sunday, according to her family. The Chapel Hill resident was 67 years old. Read more about her work in public office and personal time:
Sitting Orange County Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford Dies at 67 - Chapelboro.com
Jamezetta Bedford — a longtime elected official and advocate for residents with disabilities — died on Sunday, according to her family.
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4p-8p today (Friday 19th June) come celebrate Juneteenth with us at the Hargraves center www.carrboronc.gov/2714/Carrbor...
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4p-8p today (Friday 19th June) come celebrate Juneteenth with us at the Hargraves center www.carrboronc.gov/2714/Carrbor...
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Happy Opal Lee Day. She'll be 100 years old in October #GrandmotherOfJuneteeth
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · last yr.Mrs Opal Lee, the grandmother of Juneteenth, deserves as much praise for today as the holiday itself. Turning 99 later this year in October, she successfully launched the campaign to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. She was also given the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year
Anybody live-posting the @chccs.bsky.social meeting? I’m not able to be there or watch right now. #carrboro #chccs #ChapelHill
For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people in hospitals so that their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release. Now that rule has been dropped.
Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe change comes as ICE has faced pressure after the death of 18 detainees so far this year. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
New Brookings study links ICE arrest surges to widespread job losses and business closures in cities like Charlotte. More details:
More Arrests, Less Employment: Immigration Raids Destroyed Thousands of Jobs in North Carolina
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I have two links for you that feel related. Link the first: www.wunc.org/environment/...
New NC bill requires Duke Energy to make progress on new nuclear facilities before coal retirements
Duke would be required to obtain a certificate of public necessity and convenience for new nuclear facilities before retiring baseload powerplants like coal- or natural gas-fired facilities.
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Happy Pride Month to my magnificent LGBTQ friends and my magnificent LGBTQ enemies 💜
My colleague Fred Joiner has a book of poetry you can buy: www.birdsllc.com/catalog/the-...
The Mirror in Our Music
Birds, LLC is proud to make Fred L. Joiner's much-awaited debut poetry collection, The Mirror in Our Music, available for pre-order. The Mirror in Our Music is a nearly 200-page, full-color do-si-do d...
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"The Mirror in Our Music," a new collection by former Carrboro Poet Laureate Fred Joiner, is rich in references to art, music, and collaboration.
Hearing Jazz and Seeing Art the Fred Joiner Way, With a Poetry Debut 50 Years in the Making
"The Mirror in Our Music," a new poetry collection by Fred Joiner, is rich in references to art, music, and collaboration.
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Really nice profile of Fred Joiner, former poet laureate and now council member in Carrboro.
INDY Week@indyweek.bsky.social · 6mo ago"The Mirror in Our Music," a new collection by former Carrboro Poet Laureate Fred Joiner, is rich in references to art, music, and collaboration.
There’s a straight line from the July 2025 Big Bill passed by congress, which took money from Medicare and SNAP and give it to 🧊, and the challenges counties and municipalities in NC are having with their budgets.
I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...
Free Naloxone Training Join Orange County EMS and Carrboro Police for a free Naloxone (Narcan) training. Friday, April 17" at 2pm Drakeford Library Complex 203 S. Greensboro St., Carboro NC 27510
In the eight states that expanded Medicaid after 2018, the number of people receiving prescriptions for the opioid addiction treatment medication buprenorphine increased dramatically, according to a paper that researchers will present next month. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/14/r...
Medicaid expansion boosted access to opioid addiction treatment medication, study says • Ohio Capital Journal
In the eight states that expanded Medicaid after 2018, the number of people receiving prescriptions for the opioid addiction treatment medication buprenorphine increased dramatically, according to a…
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Thanks to everyone who stepped up to fill the vacancy in NC Senate district 23, and congrats to @jonahgarsonnc.bsky.social on the appointment.
