September 2011

Candidate info

The OP Editors will be adding data to this spreadsheet as we find it. See something missing? Let us know!

Haiku Contest for International Car Free Day!

To celebrate Car Free Day, The Village Project wants to hear about your experiences with cars and their ills or your thoughts on ways to go car-lite. But, we want it in a haiku!

Have you ever been in a town where walking, biking, or public transit is a viable way to get around on a regular basis? Do you miss that freedom?
Have you ever gone a day, week, month, or year without driving a car, but were still able to get around?
Does it strike you as silly that the Triangle doesn’t yet have a commuter rail system?

County Tries Again, Hires Local for Economic Development

And for the second time this year we have an announcement about the County's hire of a new economic development director. Knowing nothing else about him, here's my favorite part so far: "[Steve] Brantley, who has lived in Orange County for the last 25 years..."

Brantley Named Director of Economic Development for Orange County

HILLSBOROUGH, NC – Frank Clifton, Orange County Manager, announced the appointment of Mark Steven (Steve) Brantley as Economic Development Director for Orange County starting September 19, 2011.

OP Announces First-Ever Online Candidate Forums in Orange County

The editors of OrangePolitics are excited to announce our first-ever online candidate forums for the upcoming Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board, Carrboro Board of Aldermen, and Chapel Hill Town Council elections. Orange County journalist Kirk Ross, former editor of the Carrboro Citizen and a columnist for both the Citizen and the Independent Weekly among others, will serve as the moderator of all three forums.

Each forum will consist of real-time written conversations between the candidates and the moderator. Questions will be solicited from OP readers before and during the forum. The moderator will have final say in question selection. The events will take place online at orangepolitics.org, with one evening dedicated to each race covered.

What question would you like asked? Post it in the comments below!

OP Editors Monthly Open Meeting

Join us for our monthly gathering and see how the sausage is made!

Standing agenda: ideas and assignments for the next month of content on OP, technical how-to, site policy issues.

Special topics: election coverage, happy hour planning, candidate forum! 

Date: 

Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Foster's Market, 750 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill

Live Online Candidate Forum: Carrboro Board of Aldermen

The editors of OrangePolitics are excited to announce our first-ever online candidate forums for the upcoming Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board, Carrboro Board of Aldermen, and Chapel Hill Town Council elections. Orange County journalist Kirk Ross, former editor of the Carrboro Citizen and a columnist for both the Citizen and the Independent Weekly among others, will serve as the moderator of all three forums.

Each forum will consist of real-time written conversations between the candidates and the moderator. Questions will be solicited from OP readers before and during the forum. The moderator will have final say in question selection. The events will take place online at orangepolitics.org, with one evening dedicated to each race covered.

Learn more and suggest questions at http://orangepolitics.org/2011/09/op-announces-first-ever-online  

Date: 

Monday, October 17, 2011 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

http://orangepolitics.org

Live Online Candidate Forum: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education

The editors of OrangePolitics are excited to announce our first-ever online candidate forums for the upcoming Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board, Carrboro Board of Aldermen, and Chapel Hill Town Council elections. Orange County journalist Kirk Ross, former editor of the Carrboro Citizen and a columnist for both the Citizen and the Independent Weekly among others, will serve as the moderator of all three forums.

Each forum will consist of real-time written conversations between the candidates and the moderator. Questions will be solicited from OP readers before and during the forum. The moderator will have final say in question selection. The events will take place online at orangepolitics.org, with one evening dedicated to each race covered.

Learn more and suggest questions at http://orangepolitics.org/2011/09/op-announces-first-ever-online  

Date: 

Sunday, October 9, 2011 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

http://orangepolitics.org

Live Online Candidate Forum: Chapel Hill Town Council

The editors of OrangePolitics are excited to announce our first-ever online candidate forums for the upcoming Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board, Carrboro Board of Aldermen, and Chapel Hill Town Council elections. Orange County journalist Kirk Ross, former editor of the Carrboro Citizen and a columnist for both the Citizen and the Independent Weekly among others, will serve as the moderator of all three forums.

Each forum will consist of real-time written conversations between the candidates and the moderator. Questions will be solicited from OP readers before and during the forum. The moderator will have final say in question selection. The events will take place online at orangepolitics.org, with one evening dedicated to each race covered.

Learn more and suggest questions at http://orangepolitics.org/2011/09/op-announces-first-ever-online  

Date: 

Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

http://orangepolitics.org

Neighborhood Night Out and Good Neighbor Initiative Block Party

From a Town of Chapel Hill e-mail. I love this logo!

Neighborhood Night Out

Good Neighbor InitiativeJoin your neighbors for a walk around the Northside neighborhood, proclaiming the pride you have in your community, at the Neighborhood Night Out and Good Neighbor Initiative Block Party, Tuesday, Sept. 13, a joint effort of the Town of Chapel Hill and UNC-Chapel Hill. 

Registration begins at 5 p.m., and the walk will begin at 5:30 p.m. at Hargraves Community Center, 216 N. Roberson St. Stay for the block party from 6 to 8:30 p.m., for an evening of friendship, delicious free food, live music, games, raffle prizes and more. 
Now in its eighth year, the year-round Good Neighbor Initiative encourages students who live off campus to meet their neighbors and work with them to build community and keep neighborhoods clean and safe. 

For more information, contact Aaron at bachenhe@email.unc.edu or visitdeanofstudents.unc.edu/index.php/offcampus/152-good-neighbor.html

 

Date: 

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

Hargraves Community Center, 216 N. Roberson St., Chapel Hill

Campaign Season 2011

I would like to wish all candidates the best of luck during this campaign season.  

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