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The Town of Chapel Hill is proposing a system to provide public financing to candidates that can demonstrate a base level of community support. This can be a great way to help candidates focus more on talking to voters and less time on raising money.

The Council discussed this at their meeting tonight. Did anyone else watch this? If so, can you explain Kevin Wolff's comments, because I didn't find him especially coherent. He kept calling himself "viable" and claimed that incumbents running for re-election was hypocritical.

Chapel Hill is the first municipality in North Carolina to receive legislative authorization to provide a locally funded public campaign financing program. Session Law 2007-222 provides the following key requirements.

Following the news that central NC has been upgraded from "exceptional" to "severe" drought, the OWASA home page maes it official: We have been de-escalated from Stage 3 to Stage 1 water restrictions!

Please don't go washing your cars all at once. ;-)

At the OWASA Board of Directors meeting on April 10, 2008, the OWASA Board declared a Stage One Water Shortage effective April 11, 2008 (rescinding the February 28th Stage Three declaration). OWASA's storage capacity is now 70% full which represents 400+ days of storage (assuming no rainfall and average customer demand during the past 30 days).

In taking this action, the OWASA Board stressed that the drought is not over and that customers must continue to use water wisely.  The Board said they would continue to monitor water supply and demand very closely and would return to more stringent restrictions if conditions warrant.