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As far as I know, tonight's Chamber of Commerce/EmPOWERment/League of Women Voters event at Chapel Hill Town Hall is the only chance to see Senator Ellie Kinnaird and her challenger Commissioner Moses Carey in a direct dialog before their primary contest. I'd like to tell you more about the event, but only the LWV web site even lists it on their calendar, and they offer less info than the Chamber's press release (which is posted here).
Apparently it will also be broadcast on WCHL 1360 AM (live?) so if you can't make it tune in there and watch this space for updates from yours truly, who is bringing her laptop.
(PS: This and other items from our calendar are now listed under Upcoming events at the bottom of every page on OP.)
Corrected at 5:05pm 4/9/08.
The elephant in the room that nobody is talking about... factoring rising fuel costs into the equation.
It's mindnumbing that an area that prides itself on sustainability would even be considering a program to export it's own waste. The very definition of sustainability is something that can be maintained into the indefinite future. Is paying to haul waste out of county sustainable in any sense of the word? Is increasing transportation miles at the end of a product's long transportation chain to get to the consumer even sane?
What percentage of trash in the current landfill comes from UNC? What percentage comes from Chapel Hill and Carrboro? What percentage comes from elsewhere in the county? Maybe each district should be required to sustainably deal with it's own waste.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro have sustainable community as their vision. Carolina North has as it's stated vision: "This and other progressive measures will help make Carolina North a model of sustainability — a campus that is socially, environmentally, and economically sound."
I know I'm stepping into a hornet's nest with this one, but what is it about this one little word ("merger") that sends parents in both school systems into such a tizzy?
After nearly two hours of grappling with its options, the school board
for the Orange County Schools modified its enrollment plans for the
district's only year-round elementary school Monday night.
In a 4-2
vote, the board approved changes recommended by district administration
that will allow 30 students already at Hillsborough Elementary School
to re-enroll there next year.
Some parents who had feared their
children might be among those not allowed to return had dressed in
orange shirts and spoken at board meetings, posted to a blog devoted to
challenging the changes, and even hired an attorney to challenge the
board.
[...]
Board member Liz Brown voted against modifying the plan because she
felt it didn't do enough to help Central and Efland-Cheeks elementary
schools retain middle-income students.
The Town of Chapel Hill now has some drawings that visualize the plans for the high-rise mixed-use development they are constructing downtown on parking lot #5, known as the Downtown Economic Development Initiative. In my opinion, this is a visionary project that has suffered from not having enough public input at the right times.
So how does the Town make this critical information available to the public? Oh, it's "on display" down at Town Hall. So those of you who work downtown or have a lot of free time during the day can stroll down to the Mayor's office and check it out. The rest of us will have to make due with looking at photos of the plans on the N&O and Herald web sites.
Listen here:
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/73363.html
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