Getting to No*

5 Comments

1. 

   Deborah Fulghieri

    /  June 29, 2015

   50 acres of forest between Wilson Creek and 15-501, and between SolarTech and Dogwood Acres Drive are to be entirely cut down, re-graded, and paved; 15-501 lined with 75-200 ft. building and widened to accommodate 16,000 new car trips per day, new traffic stop lights at Sumac Drive and Oteys Road.

   Is it any wonder why UNC Healthcare moved 300 jobs to Hillsborough this year? If the UNCH planners are reading local news, they’ll move more jobs out of Chapel Hill.

2. 

   Other Steve

    /  June 30, 2015

   Chapel Hill has a government almost exactly like the one in Havana.

   There are “elections” but with candidates only from a single party. They all act and talk the same; there is only an illusion of democracy. Fully 25% of the local electorate has no chance of representation whatsoever.

   Whether you vote or not doesn’t really matter anyway. Heck, the current mayor was effectively appointed. It’s not really an election when there’s only one name on the ballot, is it?

   Given this situation, I don’t know what else Nancy expects to happen. There are zero repercussions for the council ‘members’ doing what they are told to do.

   Until the situation changes, what’s there now will only get worse. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

3. 

   anon

    /  June 30, 2015

   @Other Steve – it used to be a “leftist” proposal to protect the environment; the Edge developer wants to develop in a conservation district and divert a stream bed under a building. So the council if they allow the developer to build in RCD is not even really representing typical “Democratic” voters

4. 

   many

    /  July 3, 2015

   Nancy what you seem to be describing is a form of confirmation bias where people are slanted toward confirming a theory rather than trying to disprove it. Many restrict the universe of possible questions to those that yield yes because it is already their belief.

   Problem solving is not generally an area where one is trained to ask questions that produce a negative answer Answers to questions that do produce a negative are often reflexively spun positive or ignored by those with a confirmation bias.

   When good leaders test a theory, they don’t just look proof they also think in detail and ask questions about how things might go wrong. The advantage to this more rigorous method is that seeking to disprove a theory, sometimes proves it and sometimes it avoids costly mistakes.

5. 

   Minerva

    /  October 1, 2015

   Nancy,

   Your edit to this post is quite possibly one of the best (worst?) non-apology apologies I’ve ever seen.