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I know this is OrangePolitics.org, but your neighbor to the south wants to pollute your quality of life with more traffic, more pollution and big box goliaths sucking retail out of Carrboro and Chapel Hill. Chatham County progressives need your help to oust the men who are selling off the county to any developer who dangles promises of tax revenue in front of their frothy mouths.
We barely survived the last four years under Bunkey Morgan, the car wash king and bag man for Briar Chapel. Now is our chance to show him and his ilk the curb.
The Chatham Coalition, a PAC that succeeded two years ago in electing candidates into office, is looking north for help in making a clean sweap of politicians who engage in back-room deals with wealthy landowners, believe Cary is the economic model of our future, and turn a blind eye to our streams and rivers turning brown with silt.
Looks like Hillsborough will be getting a Weaver Street Market, but not a light industrial area. This seems like a step in the right direction.
Plans for a Gateway Center with a branch of the market can move forward after Judge Howard Manning approved a settlement between the town and the center's developer Tuesday.
Mayor Tom Stevens said he thought some of the settlement's conditions addressed concerns raised by Board of Adjustment members who had voted against the plan for a market.
- heraldsun.com: Weaver Street Market coming to Hillsborough
And:
A plan to bring light industry to the north side of town suffered a setback Tuesday night.
The town's Planning Board unanimously recommended that the Town Board deny a request to rezone 38.58 acres off N.C. 57 for a light industrial use.
- heraldsun.com: Panel's advice: Deny light industrial rezone
Anyone from north of I-40 care to share their thoughts?
The Sierra Club is kicking off this spring's County Commissioner
forum season on Wednesday night from 7-8:30 at Carrboro Town Hall. You
can also tune in and watch it on channel 18. We'll try to get it
reshown throughout the campaign on the People's Channel as well.
Each candidate will have a two minute introduction and conclusion
and there will be about 20 minutes for audience questions (in addition
to 40 minutes of prewritten questions submitted by Executive and
Political Committee members.) If you'd like to submit one you can do it
right here and I'll put it in the stack (they should be strictly
focused on environmental issues.)
The forum along with candidate interviews and their prior record on
environmental issues will be used to evaluate the candidates for the
Sierra Club endorsement, which will be announced in early April.
Hope to see a lot of you out there on Wednesday night!
Sometime around noon an SUV drove into the Pit on the campus of UNC. It's being reported by WRAL that one five students were hit and taken away on a stretcher. Many people on campus were alerted to this event by the sound of helicopters flying overhead. Some live video is being shown of the area on WRAL's Sky 5 video.
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