UNC student Kylee Wooten has the proper mindset to succeed as a first-year associate in a big-city law firm: a willing slave mentality that all but welcomes abuse. I gleaned this from an essay she wrote pleading for the town to raise the occupancy cap on the number of unrelated people who can live together […]
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Tenant cap could tap down rents
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 6, 2014
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/01/06/tenant-cap-could-tap-down-rents/
We did what this year?
What a ride 2013 turned out to be. Yet despite the ups and downs, we moved forward. We began the year with Town Council members choosing Sally Greene over 10 other well-qualified and diverse candidates to fill the seat Penny Rich vacated a couple months before. In the November election this year, Greene was elected […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 30, 2013
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/12/30/we-did-what-this-year/
Annual lights tour
I never got around to putting up our Christmas lights this year, save for a lighted tree that opens like an umbrella. You know the kind – the Who’s in Whoville have them. This year I had time to either decorate the house or shop for presents, and I believe my family will appreciate that […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 23, 2013
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/12/23/annual-lights-tour/
Vote to be heard
In 2011, any candidate that broke 4,000 votes got a seat on Town Council. This year, it may take even fewer. Even though we are a town of about 50,000 people. As in 2011, nine candidates are battling, albeit quietly, for four seats on council. This year I’ve heard some voters talk about writing in […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on November 4, 2013
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/11/04/vote-to-be-heard/
Limits on listening
I never thought I’d say this, but I miss those all-nighter council meetings. Town Council had a rich agenda for its Oct. 21 public hearing – a discussion of whether to add large swaths of land north of Chapel Hill, which included the Historic Rogers Road neighborhood, to the ETJ; Central West’s controversial proposal; and […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 28, 2013
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/10/28/limits-on-listening/
Buybacks
Tell me I’m not the only person to have donated something to the PTA Thrift Shop, then a month later bought it back. Town Council members know the feeling. They are asked to give away affordable housing as they vote to approve redevelopment projects, then scrounge for town resources to buy affordable housing somewhere else […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 21, 2013
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/10/21/buybacks/
Price tag on the gift
Head and heart – they can coexist. We desperately want them to in Town Council members. At a council work session last week, DHIC, a housing nonprofit in Raleigh, proposed building 140 apartments – 60 reserved for senior citizens and 80 for low-income families – on 10 acres of what is now part of Chapel […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on October 7, 2013
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/10/07/price-tag-on-the-gift/
Lotsa lux
Remember Bicycle Apartments? Trinitas Ventures doesn’t, evidently. The Indiana-based developer of student apartment complexes has opened a rental office in the arcade on East Franklin Street for its project formerly known as Bicycle and now called Lux at Central Park. Gone are the images of healthy, clean-living students bicycling to campus and back, keeping reasonable […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 9, 2013
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/09/09/lotsa-lux/
Elected or selected?
Bill Strom started it, then Penny Rich took advantage, too; then Lydia Lavelle and now Ellie Kinnaird. All left office between elections, leaving a small group of politicians to select their successors. And if Valerie Foushee is appointed to Kinnaird’s seat, a small group of politicians will decide who takes her seat as District 50 […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on August 26, 2013
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/08/26/elected-or-selected/
Buy local
Last Wednesday, you had the chance to buy local, and it had nothing to do with the Carrboro Farmers’ Market. On July 24, a local company that has invested in Chapel Hill sold 2.5 million shares of its stock in its initial public offering. Heat Biologics, a biotech company working on cancer immunotherapy, moved from […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on July 29, 2013
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/07/29/buy-local-2/