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I feel a little behind on the latest Carolina North stuff so I'm going to TRY to attend this session tonight. (Never make promises when responsible for an infant.) I can only stay until 8 and can't live-blog (but might tweet). I hope too see some of y'all there.
Date:
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 3:00pm
Location:
Council Chambers, Chapel Hill Town Hall
Visioning
Forums
The Town of Chapel Hill visioning project is
designed to engage the Chapel Hill community through a range of outreach
efforts to both inform and gather public comment on community values and
future growth.
The information will assist the Sustainable
Community Visioning Task Force, a group of volunteer citizens appointed by
the Town Council to prepare recommendations on what growth should look like
over the next 10 years.
The visioning forums are just one of a number of
ways that the Sustainable Community Visioning Task Force will be obtaining
information about the community over the next 7 months.
As part of this initial outreach, Chapel Hill
residents are invited to attend community forums, draw on visioning walls, and
participate in online surveys as part of "Chapel Hill 2020," a
community visioning project scheduled June 1-7.
I usually try to discourage wholesale posting of press releases - as I'm about to do - but this just sounds like a great idea and I don't have anything to add to it.
Orange County’s Partnership to End Homelessness would like to invite the public to participate in a “Community Read” of the book The Soloist by Steve Lopez. The event is the first in a series of community education activities that will explore the issues of homelessness.
The Arts Wing does not compete with teaching positions for funding. Construction projects are funded through construction bonds NOT the operating budget.
- Federal stimulus package provides $5.5 million in interest-free loans for qualified school construction.
The County Commission needs to vote to accept these funds, which would
Originally posted on Amplify: http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org/u/dandaman6007/2009/5/14/NCmarriage
One man. One woman. That’s marriage.
This is the tagline of the conservative North Carolina organization called NC4marrige. They are trying to pass the Defense of Marriage Act, which would protect marriage under the state constitution, making it harder to legalize same-sex marriage in the future. North Carolina is the only southern state that doesn’t have a constitutional same-sex marriage ban in place, which makes it a target for conservative activists and same-sex marriage advocates alike. Basically, these groups tell their supporters that North Carolina could become the next state to legalize gay marriage unless it becomes banned under the constitution.
Advocates for Youth opposes the bill, saying:
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