The old joke goes that a naïve business owner admitted he lost money on each product sale, but said, “I make up for it in volume.” Chapel Hill town staff are familiar with that business model, and after the Town Council retreat this past weekend, we are, too. We learned that for the past couple […]
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Operating at a loss
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 28, 2019
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2019/01/28/operating-at-a-loss/
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
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/12/03/on-the-road-2/
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
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/11/07/accidental-free-speech/
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
https://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
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/10/01/aclu-v-chapel-hill/
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
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/09/04/talk-and-ride/