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If you haven’t already made plans, please consider watching tonight’s presidential debate at the
Peoples Channel on Elliot Road.
Copied from the
Peoples Channel web site“TPC is opening the airwaves to members of the community to come in the studio to watch the Presidential debates. We will be going LIVE Friday Sept. 26th at 8:30pm with the debate between Sen. John McCain & Sen. Barack Obama
on the big screen.
The community is welcome to come in to
share their thoughts before, during, & after the debates.
Live coverage will go on until 11pm
with rebroadcasts the following day.
Don’t let the corporate pundits have the last word,
come in & tell the community what you think while you watch.
What: TPC Watch & Share of the Presidential Debate LIVE
When: Friday Sept 26th. Doors open at 8pm,
we will broadcast LIVE at 8:30 until 11pm.
Where: TPC Studios 300AC S Elliott Rd Chapel Hill
Please call 919.960.0088 if you have any questions”
*Commentary Playing on WCHL1360 Local Radio this week*
This is Jake Goad, I'm a Chapel Hill resident, and I've got something to say.
It's time as a community to get serious about LGBT equality. We can all
take a stand through simple acts, like asking our employers to include
sexual orientation in the non-discrimination clause of their employee
manuals—which I did at my own workplace in Carrboro. We can support
local chapters of groups like the ACLU, the Human Rights Campaign, and
Equality NC. And we can support fair-minded candidates like Kay Hagan
for Senate and Barack Obama for President, both of whom have campaigned
right here in Chapel Hill.
We've already seen domestic partnerships established and a gay mayor
elected in this area. But we have to go further than that. It is time
for marriage equality.
To those on the left who would say "too soon, wait for a more
convenient season"—I call to mind the words of Dr. King. "We who engage
in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely
bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring
My favorite absentee landlord, Joe Riddle, has found a tenant for the vacant Gap/Carolina Theater space* at the corner of Franklin and Columbia Streets. However, he's being very tight-lipped about what is going in there. This makes me hopeful, but also nervous. This should be an improvement over the other vacant Franklin Street storefronts and lots that Riddle owns, but then again he doesn't exactly have a record of being terribly concerned about the well-being of our downtown.
The Daily Tar Heel reports that Riddle has signed a lease and begun demolition inside, but hasn't applied for any permits that might offer a clue as to at least what type of use this will be nor who the tenant is. Anyone want to guess?
This may come as a bit of a shock to those of you who've heard nothing but doom and gloom about newspapers.
Over the past couple of months, publisher Robert Dickson and I have been talking about how we can expand The Carrboro Citizen.
With a healthy, growing local ad base, incredible encouragement from readers and a pickup rate that now leaves us with very few returns and a lot of empty boxes at the end of the week, we sense that we can grow and should.
As regular readers may have noticed, we've started to cover more news out of Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and Chatham County. We've also expanded distribution into these areas.
Following are a couple of things we're looking at to make our decisions. We've decided to share them in the interest of gathering feedback and suggestions.
Fiona Morgan at the Independent reports that a number of newsroom staff have accepted the buyout offers that the McClatchy-owned News & Observer offered last month.
Among them is Samiha Khanna, who covers Durham County and its school
system; Matt Dees, a former Durham city reporter who was recently
transferred to the Orange County bureau; and Cheryl Johnston Sadgrove,
who covers Orange County government. Until the newsroom is reorganized
to adjust for these losses, that leaves one Orange County and four
Durham reporters.
- Triangulator: N&O loses more reporters, 9/22/08
I still can't understand the business model that has them eliminating the one uniquely valuable thing that the paper has. No-one's going to buy the paper just to pick up wire reports and local classifieds. Or as McClatchy's CEO said:
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