After my colleagues on Town Council blew off applying for a quarter million dollars of free money toward the purchase of the American Legion property at the April 18 meeting, I was so disheartened I went out and got #NeverAgain tattooed on my chest. (Just kidding, Mom.) So when I walked into the April 25 […]
All posts for the month April, 2018
Autopsy of a vote
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 30, 2018
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/04/30/autopsy-of-a-vote/
Reverse Town Hall
North Carolina has 77 pages of gun laws on its books. But can they be enforced? A panel of 16 high school and college students discussed gun violence at a reverse town hall organized by the UNC Institute for Politics. The IOP invited four legislators from the N.C. General Assembly to pose questions to the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 23, 2018
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/04/23/reverse-town-hall/
Fear trumps finances
Last week Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents swept through the Triangle and snatched up more than two dozen Latinx residents suspected of being in the U.S. without proper documentation. An ICE spokesman claimed that the majority of those taken into custody had criminal convictions. But anecdotally, those in Chapel Hill were law-abiding, gainfully employed […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 16, 2018
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/04/16/fear-trumps-finances/
Real Diversity
People celebrate with music and dance all over the world. And that takes many forms. We got a taste of that variety this past Sunday afternoon at the Near & Far festival on the plaza at 140 West. Dancers from Colombia sashayed and stomped to a drum-heavy arrangement. Women from Korea swirled in colorful silks […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 9, 2018
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/04/09/real-diversity/
Master Fleecing
When I read the editorial by Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce head Aaron Nelson proposing what he called “master leasing” as a solution for high housing prices, I had to double-check the byline. Was this the same Aaron Nelson who stood before Town Council in 2014 swearing that Berkshire Apartments (then called Alexan) would be […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 2, 2018
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/04/02/master-fleecing/