At last Wednesday’s Town Council meeting, viewers received a tutorial on municipal bonds, tax-exempt vs. Build America Bonds. At last night’s meeting, we learned about continuing care communities. And for those who had not been heretofore aware, it was a real eye-opener to learn how much it can cost to live out one’s golden years. […]

Who do the executives at Lowe’s know that the executives at Altridge Group don’t? On the agenda for public hearing at the Town Council meeting tonight is the request by Lowe’s Home Care Center (what the rest of us would call a home improvement center, so as not to confuse it with a big-box nursing […]

Save the date – Oct. 27. Town Council is set for a brawl, by the previews we saw at Wednesday’s council meeting. The agenda listed Adjustments to the Voter-Owned Election program among the discussion items for Wednesday’s meeting. The town enacted the VOE program two years ago to encourage people who have more drive than […]

Give Jim Ward credit for asking the best question of the night. Davenport & Co. representatives made a surprise appearance at last night’s Town Council meeting to educate council members and the rest of us on the pros and cons of traditional tax-exempt municipal bonds compared to the Build America Bonds, a federal program that […]

You don’t have to make money to run a business – just ask AIG and some of the banks and investment houses that our tax dollars have bailed out in the past couple of years. One local business I don’t begrudge supporting with my tax dollars is the town’s recycling center on Eubanks Road across […]

Goodness knows I’ve devoted enough of my life to grocery stores to weigh in on the Costco debate. State Sen. Ellie Kinnaird is leaning hard on town leaders in Chapel Hill and Carrboro to reach out to the members-only warehouse store that sells groceries and pretty much everything else you’d need for daily living. Durham […]

Just as I’m trying to figure out how to set up an online tip jar so that Don and I can spend more time on the blog and less time on work that pays money, I read that the Philadelphia city government requires blogs to be licensed. The City of Philadelphia expects bloggers to pay […]

“Technologically impaired” ought to be an official category of disability. With all the world wired for instant access, those of us who are completely flummoxed when we click an icon or a hyperlink and nothing happens are at a true disadvantage. Last night I wanted to listen to what other people thought about the county’s […]

About a dozen years ago, while playing in our front yard, my kids and I watched some contractors pour wet cement around a manhole in the middle of the intersection at our corner. After they’d smoothed the cement, the workers barricaded the spot with sawhorses and left. Though they probably worked for the DOT, they […]

For the past five weeks I’ve felt a bit like the fellows in the kgb commercial. You know, the one in which two men frantically search on their cell phones for a Japanese translation of “I surrender” before the sumo wrestler attacks. So I have an unbounded sympathy for the poor fellow who is so […]