We’d like to think that we washed our left-leaning village clean of racism decades ago, stuffed it with liberals and made sure we always had a person of color on our otherwise all-white and privileged town council. While hiring, especially at upper management levels, a diverse mix of races and ethnicities is a good first […]
All posts for the month December, 2010
Power and prejudice
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 30, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/30/power-and-prejudice/
Convenient communications
Fresh from receiving an award for good communications earlier this month, the Town of Chapel Hill has been sending out a frenzy of public relations news releases. During the Christmas snowfall, we received twice-daily e-mail updates of plowing activity. And we received each e-mail twice, perhaps as part of a snow-emergency back-up system for e-mail. […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 28, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/28/convenient-communications/
Holiday lights tour
If you haven’t yet taken a photo to use as a holiday card, grab your cell phone and head to Creek Wood. There you will find an elegant house tastefully lit, looking like it could grace the cover of Southern Living magazine. We didn’t write down addresses during our holiday lights tour this year, but […]
Posted by NancyDon on December 23, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/23/holiday-lights-tour/
Double-parked
The Chapel Hill parking superintendent says that leases for residents will be reviewed more thoroughly starting June 30, 2011, due to a violation of the town’s code of ordinances. Brenda Jones verifies parking permits for Chapel Hill residents, which are issued July 1 and expire June 30. This verification process includes the review of leases. […]
Posted by NancyDon on December 22, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/22/double-parked/
Wall Street of the mind
The folks with J&D Tree Pros out of Apex have begun cranking up their chain saws and taking down the trees and shrubs at Municipal Lot 5. Half the property has been cordoned off with yellow tape, sort of like a crime scene, to set it off from the other half, where parking is still […]
Posted by Don Evans on December 16, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/16/wall-street-of-the-mind/
Ethics
Back when I was young, the man I was engaged to marry lived in a fabulous three-bedroom duplex on the top two floors of a high-rise on Roosevelt Island, a sliver of land in the East River, parallel to Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The panoramic view from his windows showed only the beautiful parts of […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 15, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/15/ethics-3/
Nighttime parking a nightmare
UNC-Chapel Hill students living off-campus are fed up with on-campus parking, or should I say lack thereof. On any given weeknight, it is at least a 20-minute ordeal to try to find a parking spot near the library or campus in general. And as it gets colder, the fight for close parking spots can get […]
Posted by NancyDon on December 13, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/13/nighttime-parking-a-nightmare/
Feed the parking need
Don and I met a friend downtown for lunch yesterday, and as we drove along West Franklin Street, we passed several open parking spaces, but the meters had bags over them, usually an indication of a broken meter. We didn’t realize that these spaces were part of the new parking pay stations being installed, so […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 9, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/09/feed-the-parking-need/
In need of a break
When Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt adjourned last night’s meeting, he bade council members goodbye until January 2011. Presumably, the business meeting scheduled for Dec. 20 is off the calendar. And a good thing, too. Council members present – Gene Pease and Laurin Easthom were absent – looked like they could use a break. Those on the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 7, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/07/in-need-of-a-break/
Values
I hate that right-wing extremists have co-opted and tainted the notion of values. Because I was very pleased to see during last week’s Town Council meeting council members paying attention to what we, as a town, value. I’m not talking about the Code of Ethics the council passed unanimously without comment that night. The vote […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 6, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/06/values/