When I turned 18, I registered to vote as a Democrat, and I haven’t wavered since. So why did I feel uneasy when I went to vote last week and saw a string of Democrats on the ballot running unopposed? Orange County, with the vast majority of its population residing in the southern part of […]
All posts for the month October, 2018
Where are the Republicans?
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 29, 2018
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/10/29/where-are-the-republicans/
Vote like it’s finals
After my first child was born, I considered making a career change that would involve going back to college for several classes. I lived in New York City at the time, and my babysitter was a student at a different college than the one I attended. All of us relied on public transit to get […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 22, 2018
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/10/22/vote-like-its-finals/
How old is too old?
Age discrimination reared its ugly head at last week’s Town Council meeting. And this time, because we were talking about edifices, the youngster took the hit. Staff made two proposals — the first to donate town-owned land to be used to relocate nearly century-old tiny houses to be used for affordable housing; and the second, […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 15, 2018
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/10/15/how-old-is-too-old/
Where’s that hatchet?
During the inter-city visit to Lawrence, Kan., last month, some of us went to a hatchet bar. (No taxpayer dollars were spent there.) It’s like darts, only with a hatchet thrown into a thick, wooden wall, instead of a pin in a corkboard. It’s harder than it looks, and very few in our group were […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 8, 2018
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/10/08/wheres-that-hatchet/
What happens in Lawrence …
At the very last session on our intercity visit to Lawrence, Kan., participants stood up, Quaker meeting style, to say thank you to someone or to commit to something. It had been a jam-packed, eye-opening, exhausting three days, and we were trying to synthesize all we had learned before climbing back aboard the bus and […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 1, 2018
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/10/01/what-happens-in-lawrence/