I had mentally packed Penny Rich away in mothballs after she took the county commissioner job, figuring I’d have to find new material for drama. But she hasn’t been gone even a month when here she is turning up like a bad – No, she’s heard all those jokes since grade school. Let me take […]
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Penny-wise or Penny foolish?
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 7, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/01/07/penny-wise-of-penny-foolish/
On the road
As many of us sweat a dive off the impending fiscal cliff and recession that likely will follow, the Town of Chapel Hill has stirred a little economic stimulus in the Public Works Department. Tucked unobtrusively in the consent agenda for tonight’s Town Council meeting is a resolution to haul our trash to a Durham […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 3, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/12/03/on-the-road-2/
Preferred by whom?
After running roughshod over the preference of voters out in the county by voting for the transit tax, Chapel Hill residents got a taste at the Nov. 19 Town Council meeting of what it felt like to be dismissed. Rural and urban voters differed sharply on whether to approve a tax that the bulk of […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on November 26, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/11/26/preferred-by-whom/
Accidental free speech
Jim Ward admonished Chapel Hill: No talking on the bus. The issues to be decided by the six council members who made it to Monday night’s Town Council meeting were whether a Chapel Hill Transit bus is a public forum, and if not, what sorts of ads, if any, could be displayed. In June 2011, […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on November 7, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/11/07/accidental-free-speech/
Yesterday’s transit tomorrow
Smart Transit for Orange County writes: Smart Transit for Orange County is asking voters to vote “NO” (AGAINST) the transit tax so that a better plan can be developed. The diverse group of pro-transit leaders from the towns and the county who joined together to oppose the transit tax referendum said the tax increase would […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 29, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/10/29/yesterdays-transit-tomorrow/
Policy goes; bus ads stay
At 11:20 last night, Town Council voted to suspend Chapel Hill’s bus ad policy. In a memo slipped to council members during the evening, town manager Roger Stancil explained that the bus ad policy the town approved in June 2011 prohibited any transit advertising of a religious or political nature. Thus, once transit work crews […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 25, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/10/25/policy-goes-bus-ads-stay/
ACLU v. Chapel Hill
The next lawsuit shaping up could pit Chapel Hill against the ACLU. On Friday, town attorney Ralph Karpinos received a letter from the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina warning that constitutionally the town can’t bar the ad placed on town buses by Church of Reconciliation that advocates for the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 1, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/10/01/aclu-v-chapel-hill/
Thank you, Gene Pease
Last night’s Town Council meeting ended at 12:25 this morning. And that was after Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt pushed a couple of items and appointments over to another meeting. Ed Harrison was right that, although only one agenda item invited public comment, people signed up to speak on several issues. Only one item – the transportation […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 25, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/09/25/thank-you-gene-pease/
Talk and ride
If Church of Reconciliation didn’t know it before, it knows it now: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Last month, the Presbyterian church that formed in support of the civil rights movement and since has taken controversial stands on a number of issues in the name of peace and unity put up […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 4, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/09/04/talk-and-ride/
Tax increase
I told you so. Not that I like rubbing anyone’s nose in bad decisions, but going ahead with the library renovation without thinking through what we would have to give up to make it happen was a bad decision you could smell before you stepped in it. On the last lap of what was a […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on May 22, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/05/22/tax-increase/