February 2010
I have reviewed a lot of letters sent to the Chapel Hill Town Council about whether or not the Town should move forward on expansion of our Library. Letters fall on either side of the issue, but in letters against expansion, I see a theme. Writers often want it known that they are a fan of books, but they don't want to pay more taxes toward making more available to Library users.
From the ToCH web site:
The Chapel Hill Police Department is reaching out to residents to
receive input on perceptions of its services and its overall presence
in the community in a series titled Community Conversations about the
Chapel Hill Police Department.
Working with the UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Government and the Town of Chapel Hill Justice in Action
Committee, the department has scheduled four sessions scheduled on
weekday evenings and Saturday mornings.
- http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?recordid=1455&page=22
I wonder if RSVPs are required?
Date:
Saturday, February 6, 2010 - 5:00pm to 7:00am
Location:
Chapel Hill Public LIbrary, 100 LIbrary Drive, Chapel Hill
Date:
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
United Church of Chapel Hill, 1321 Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., Chapel Hill
Date:
Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 5:00am to 7:00am
Location:
St. Thomas More Catholic Church, 940 Carmichael Street, Chapel Hill
Date:
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Hargraves Community Center
by Chris Blue, Assistant Chief of Police
Starting this weekend, the Chapel Hill Police Department plans to undertake a unique approach to hear about our community's expectations of us. Beginning on February 6th, we will hold a series of community conversations to hear how we are doing as an organization. Each session will last no more than two hours and will be managed by an outside facilitator. The input will be used to develop a strategic plan aimed at improving the community-oriented policing program in Chapel Hill.
We're hoping that residents, merchants, students, and other community stakeholders will attend one of the sessions to help us think about the following questions:
I love the Carrboro Citizen, but not as much as I love midwives. And yet CC's recent article about a midwife practicing in Carrboro struck me as vapid puff piece, the likes of which I expect to see in the News or Herald's business or feature sections. For example, while touching on why women might choose a midwife instead of a hospital for childbirth, it failed to even mention the many other midwives practicing in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area, including the pioneers who founded the Women's Birth and Wellness Center something like 20 years ago (originally in Siler City).
In what way was this "news article" not just a press release for this new business? Where is the reporting? What is this kind of thing doing on the front page of the Citizen?
Candidate filing for 2010 elections starts today at noon. Folks only have two and a half weeks (until February 26th) to declare their intent to run in the May primary (and presumably the November general election). Information will be posted at the Orange County Board of Elections.
The offices that will be on the ballot this year are: County Commissioner (districts 1 & 2 and at-large), Clerk of Court, Register of Deeds, Sheriff, Orange County Board of Education, State Senate, State House, Soil Conservation District Supervisor (non-partisan, no primary).
Help me keep an eye on the BOE page, and let everyone know if anything interesting happens!
Carrboro was notified yesterday that their Town Hall would not be used as a one-stop early voting site in May. Apparently, the Orange County Board of Elections has decided to only have two one-stop locations for this year's primary: Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, and the Board's own office in Hillsborough. The e-mail below indicates that there will still be an early voting site in Carrboro for the Novemeber general election, but doesn't offer any explanation for the primary change.
Not sure if people saw this, but Google is planning on rolling out "ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States." It sounds like they're doing this as a sort of proof-of-concept, in an effort to convince the FCC that a workable nationwide ultra high-speed internet access scheme is practical and affordable. According to the Big G, they can "deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what mostAmericans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second,fiber-to-the-home connections," and they "plan to offer service at acompetitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000people." Here's some more information.
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