The university envisions its proposed Carolina North research campus as a beacon of learning and research, , but the university’s thinking on the subject sometimes fails to appreciate how important quality-of-life issues will be in drawing good people to Carolina North . . .

The housing problem at Carolina North is that new workers at Carolina North will either live at Carolina North or they will live elsewhere and commute to campus. New employees will either have to occupy housing that is to be built in the Chapel Hill Transit service area, or they will have to live outside that service area and commute. Let’s take a look at the scale of the problem . . .

Hillsborough leaders reaching out
BY EMILY COAKLEY : The Herald-Sun
Oct 14, 2006 : 8:23 pm ET
HILLSBOROUGH — Last month’s local 102-person delegation to Madison, Wis., included two representatives from the county seat.
Mayor Tom Stevens and Eric Hallman, a Town Board member, took another step in reaching out to the county’s other towns. While [...]

By Cara McDonough : The Herald-Sun
Oct 10, 2006 : 9:39 pm ET
CARRBORO — A plan to study future growth and its related traffic impact on Smith Level Road moved forward Tuesday night at a Carrboro Board of Aldermen work session.
The board voted to adopt a staff-recommended resolution approving the membership of a Smith [...]

From today’s Daily Tar Heel:
Weaver Street feet cut loose
By: Eric Shepherd Martin, Assistant City Editor
It’s official.
Bruce Thomas, also known as “The Dancing Man,” will dance at Weaver Street Market once again.
On Monday managers of Carr Mill Mall and Weaver Street Market, as well as Carrboro officials, announced a new policy for use of the Weaver [...]