You’d think that Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt, a lawyer, would know better than to try to bluff in a situation where he could so easily be proved wrong. Yet Monday night’s Town Council meeting had shades of prosecutor Christopher Darden asking O.J. Simpson to try on a pair of shriveled leather gloves, which led to defense […]
All posts for the month October, 2010
Roll the tape
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 14, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/14/roll-the-tape/
Dustbin of history?
History can be such a nuisance. That’s what the staff at The Chapel Hill News decided. The paper used to keep huge bound volumes (a little bit larger than the size of a newspaper laid out flat) that contained all the newspapers from that publication’s rich history. The actual papers themselves – newsprint and all, […]
Posted by Don Evans on October 13, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/13/dustbin-of-history/
Revisionist history
Dan Ariely, in his book Predictably Irrational, tells of a study he conducted in which he asked people to choose between two prices for a service. The vast majority chose the lower price. Then he presented the same scenario, keeping the first two prices the same but adding a third, higher, price. The vast majority […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 12, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/12/revisionist-history/
Obey policy for Obey Creek
Don’t you hate it when your own words are thrown back at you in an argument? Council member Jim Ward must have been thinking that during the Town Council meeting of Sept. 27 when Citizens for Responsible Growth lined up a passel of experts to speak out against rezoning part of the Jordan Lake watershed […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 11, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/11/obey-policy-for-obey-creek/
A house for everyone
Take a tour of Church Street any time, and you’ll see a bigger concentration of students than in most classrooms on campus. That’s usually not a problem. There are times, though, when that concentrated studentness flares into the sort of behavior that a friend complained to me about a few weeks ago. He lives in […]
Posted by Don Evans on October 7, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/07/a-house-for-everyone/
Where’s Gene?
Gene Pease’s chair sat empty at last week’s Town Council meeting. We don’t know why. Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt didn’t say. When Pease missed the council’s season opener, the business meeting on Sept. 15, Kleinschmidt announced that Pease was out sick. So why didn’t the mayor tell us why Pease was absent last week? I’m not […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 5, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/05/wheres-gene/
Tree rights
Having spent my formative years in the Midwest, I appreciate undulating fields of vegetation, broken only occasionally by a mitered stand of trees planted to protect a farmhouse. So the notion that the only way to have an eco-friendly community is to make sure 40 percent of it is covered by trees at least 20 […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 4, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/04/tree-rights/
Bicycle rack built for two?
While foraging for something for dinner one night last week, Don and I realized we were one ingredient short for anything we wanted to make. Not wanting to be so environmentally unfriendly as to drive to the grocery store for just one item, one of us got the idea of going by bike. After all, […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 1, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/01/bicycle-rack-built-for-two/