Speaker of the NC House of Representatives Joe Hackney appointed Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton to the legislature’s Joint Study Committee on Housing this past week . . .

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce sure deosn’t like the Rural Buffer very much. I got broadsided by one of the Chamber’s fallacies last month while speaking at the Chamber. The claim was staked that the Rural Buffer is the cause of the remarkably high cost of housing in Carrboro and Chapel Hill, but the facts show otherwise . . .

One candidate this fall says you can’t get socks in Carrboro because we don’t have a Wal-Mart. I got to thiking, can Wal-Mart really do better than Carrboro’s existing businesses?

There’s been a lot of talk lately about making Carrboro (and Chapel Hill) a more bicycle friendly place, but I want to let you know what the Board of Aldermen and I have been working on . . .

Tune in at 5:30 PM today on WCOM 103.5 FM and check out a selection of tracks to be spun by Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton! You can also listen in over the internet at www.CommunityRadio.coop

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 . . .

Please come join me for an election night celebration at The Open Eye Cafe (www.openeyecafe.com) in downtown Carrboro!
Polls close at 7:30 PM and I will be there by 7:45!
I hope you can come!

If you have a little time to hand out some information on election day, please send me an email and let me know when you would like to volunteer. My email is Mark@MarkChilton.org or you can use the contact form - Thanks!

The Chapel Hill News was kind enough to endorse my campaign for Mayor. I am grateful to the CHN and the Independent for their endorsements. Here’s how the News saw it:

We’ve just posted a while bunch of new content to the site here. You can see it all in the issues category. A lot of it is from my campaign brochure, but I will be adding some further issue information this afternoon. I have a bunch of responses to candidate questionaires that I have written up and my website administrator will post those. Please keep the questions and comments coming. I enjoy the opportunity to talk to ya’ll!