Every Town Council member should be required to watch a video of one of our council meetings. We’d be mortified by our pettiness. I missed the June 20 meeting because I was part of a church polity updating positions on such issues as the church’s treatment of the LGBTQ community, interventions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict […]
All posts for the month June, 2016
‘We’re moving too fast’
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 28, 2016
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2016/06/28/were-moving-too-fast/
Ask the experts
Lead, follow, or get out of the way. When it comes to working on the problem of not enough affordable housing, town and county elected officials would do well to choose Door #3. At the joint board meeting of county commissioners and Town Council members on June 2, county commissioner Bernadette Pelissier suggested forming a […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 20, 2016
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2016/06/20/ask-the-experts/
Shedding stereotypes
If the members of the political salon that organized the panel discussion had wanted to set up Sunday afternoon’s event at Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist as a game-show spoof, they had all the elements. First the title: “Straight Talk With Real Muslims.” Then the cast: two hijab-wearing women, one black and one […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 13, 2016
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2016/06/13/start-the-conversation/
Make time for budget talks
We need to talk — council members with one another and with key staff. By the end of June, we hope to pass a budget for Fiscal Year 2017, which starts July 1, and we still haven’t had those all-important discussions about the best way to spend taxpayers’ financial resources. Guaranteed we won’t agree on […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 6, 2016
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2016/06/06/make-time-for-budget-talks/