The Holiday House Tour runs this weekend, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and the Christmas, make that Holiday, Parade starts its march down Franklin Street from Morehead Planetarium to Carrboro’s Town Hall at 10 a.m. Saturday. Parking is free downtown all day Saturday through Dec. 24. So why not make a day of […]
Food trek
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 9, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/12/09/food-trek/
Seating chart
Mark Kleinschmidt started his second term as mayor by shaking things up a bit. But the tech crew almost upstaged him by turning the mikes on before the meeting started. Those of us watching at home saw the agenda on the screen but heard council members chatting. No gossip to report, and eventually the audio […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 6, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/12/06/seating-chart/
New team
Recently I spent a day in a room full of one-percenters who were serving on an advisory board for an organization that does good works globally. I was not on the board, but I wished I could make a training video of the discussion process. Board members all had degrees from top universities and were […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 5, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/12/05/new-team/
Quiet business
Just as the Tar Heels have a harder time scoring without Kendall Marshall’s assists, Chapel Hill businesses could use an occasional feed – in the form of publicity. The Town of Chapel Hill may say it’s open for business, but it apparently doesn’t want anyone to know what those businesses are. A sign ordinance passed […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 1, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/12/01/quiet-business/
Smart shopping has limits
You can’t get Nordstrom quality on a Walmart budget. From town manager Roger Stancil’s finance and economic update last night, a report he promised to deliver monthly until the council’s budget retreat in February, he has trimmed and juggled and stretched the town’s budget with the best of them. And the bare patches are beginning […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on November 29, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/11/29/smart-shopping-has-limits/
Leftovers
The council picks up where it left off last Monday after citizen input on petitions and the proposed zoning changes in the Northside Neighborhood Conservation District pushed the meeting past its 10:30 p.m. target for adjournment. Tonight council will hear a financial and economic update, vote on the consent agenda, and hear reports on the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on November 28, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/11/28/leftovers/
Food fight
The transparency shoe is on the other foot for Chris Moran of the IFC. At different phases of the re-siting of the men’s shelter on Homestead Road, Moran has been accused of a lack of transparency. Now, he wants transparency from PORCH, a local nonprofit in the business of collecting and distributing food to the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on November 24, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/11/24/food-fight/
Backbone
Council members showed some spine and some dignity during the contentious start of what could have been a very long meeting last night. The crowd in the audience spilled out into the hall and a conference room and even outside, the vast majority interested in a petition submitted by Jim Neal, calling for an independent, […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on November 22, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/11/22/backbone/
Library belt-tightening
Does the library expansion construction contract with Clancy & Theys call for providing lunches to the construction crew? Because food is the only general commodity that has gone up in price noticeably since October 2008, when the contract was last drawn up. Yet the renegotiated contract, which appears on tonight’s consent agenda, has scaled back […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on November 21, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/11/21/library-belt-tightening/
How far is too far?
The Yates building arrests raise several issues that Don and I view differently. Should Joe Riddle, who owns the Yates building and pays property taxes on it every year, be forced to find a tenant for it? Should police have given the trespassers more notice before coming in to arrest them? Should reporters break the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on November 16, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/11/16/how-far-is-too-far/