Gene Pease brought up the issue, not me – the issue of trust. During the Monday night Town Council meeting, after speakers opposed to the Obey Creek development across the street from Southern Village rose again and again to speak to the council, after Town Manager Roger Stancil could not explain coherently what a consultant’s […]
High hopes
Anyone who has listened to WUNC Radio in the last couple of months has heard the ad for the 140 West project. The ad, which can run as many as four times a day, says that the project “is now rising in downtown Chapel Hill.” Last I checked nothing is rising on the spot where […]
Posted by Don Evans on November 10, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/11/10/high-hopes/
Brains, anyone?
It was a good weekend for zombies and the GOP. The non-stop spate of movies about the living dead, slashers, predators and merciless aliens broadcast over the Halloween weekend certainly captured the seeming philosophy of the Grand Obstructionist Party as we head into the Nov. 2 election. The only thing that differs from the current […]
Posted by Don Evans on November 1, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/11/01/brains-anyone/
Apology accepted?
Last night, council member Jim Ward went out of his way to condemn PAC contributions. “I want to create a climate in Chapel Hill where it’s distasteful for that [PAC contributions] to happen,” Ward said during a discussion of the town’s Voter-Owned Elections law. “What will keep PACs out of here is if all the […]
Posted by Don Evans on October 29, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/29/apology-accepted/
Thick as a brick
While two town workers have been told to hit the bricks, the Town Council moved quickly Wednesday night to resolve a petition that would use bricks to help raise money for the town library. The bricks got quick action as the council voted to approve a petition enabling the motion to move forward, but the […]
Posted by Don Evans on October 28, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/28/thick-as-a-brick/
Information and influence
Communication can be key to an organization’s success – even Hezbollah has a PR department. I learned that from listening to globe-trotting journalist Thanassis Cambanis, who was at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill on Oct. 7 to promote his new book, “The Privilege to Die.” The book takes a close look at Hezbollah, the southern […]
Posted by Don Evans on October 20, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/20/information-and-influence/
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/
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/
A newspaper on automatic
Some things you can rely upon – death and taxes. And The Chapel Hill News in your driveway, whether you want it or not. That’s why Judith Siegel spoke to the Town Council at Monday night’s business meeting. Siegel, who has lived in Chapel Hill for 32 years, stood before the council and implored its […]
Posted by Don Evans on September 30, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/09/30/a-newspaper-on-automatic/
Savvy use of town funds?
I wanted to learn more about tonight’s Town Council business meeting and the Consent Agenda item concerning Percent for Art allocations (still not sure why my tax dollars have to go to fund town art projects, but then there’s a lot of Town Council actions that don’t make the least bit of sense). So I […]
Posted by Don Evans on September 27, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/09/27/savvy-use-of-town-funds/