John Rhodes, a writer from Efland, contributes this report. Portions were previously published in a Chapel Hill News Guest Column on June 15, 2011. In 2007, the board that oversees UNC Health Care decided to purportedly “cut” $555,467 in executive bonuses. The board also purportedly reduced $834,753 in bonuses for 22 other managers. Yet the […]
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UNC ethics, part II
Posted by NancyDon on August 10, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/08/10/unc-ethics-part-ii/
Another UNC ethics scandal
John Rhodes, a writer who lives in Efland, contributes this report: While citizens of North Carolina and the rest of the nation go down an economic drain initially created by improper oversight in the real estate/finance market, there’s hope … at least for a few. Former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles is one […]
Posted by NancyDon on August 4, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/08/04/another-unc-ethics-scandal/
Better with beer?
Penny Rich’s proposed ordinance change offers insight to the problem of underage drinking and binge drinking on campus and the ubiquity of alcohol-related offenses in the daily police blotter. Rich’s proposal, an item on the consent agenda for tonight’s Town Council meeting, recommends an ordinance to permit alcohol to be served at private events at […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on May 23, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/05/23/better-with-beer/
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/
Trust me
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 […]
Posted by Don Evans on November 11, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/11/11/trust-me/
Business as usual?
Another season of Town Council meetings begins tonight at 7, and it already looks like déjà vu all over again. Over the summer some council members seem to have gotten in touch with their inner sneak. Like students returning from summer break, they are trying to see how much they can get past the teacher […]
Posted by Don Evans on September 15, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/09/15/business-as-usual/
Ethics
On Monday night, Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos will present a proposed code of ethics for Town Council and others in town government to live by. The timing of it, nearly a year after the Bill Strom shenanigans, strikes me as locking the barn door after the cow has wandered off. But it seems the proposal […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on May 7, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/05/07/ethics/
Public forum without the public
The Budget Status Report and Public Forum was the first item on the agenda for Monday night’s Town Council meeting. Town Manager Roger Stancil was there at the microphone to update the council and residents on his staff’s work to fashion the fiscal 2011 town budget. Only the town had neglected to get the status […]
Posted by Don Evans on April 14, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/04/14/public-forum-without-the-public/