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Enter the Chorus Girls and a Dancing Bear

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 23, 2012 | The Commentators

Chapel Hill Town Council’s Community Policing Advisory Committee (CPAC), at its meeting this past week, rejected the proposal of the Town Council to have a web-site gather facts about the Yates Garage incident last...

Yates, The Next Steps

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 11, 2012 | The Commentators

So. Where are we with the aftermath of protesters being evicted from office buildings they have occupied? Clearly, the Mayor of Carrboro has proven that it’s better to send in ice cream than SERT. The powers-that-be in Chapel...

Creeks Need Your Help

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 10, 2012 | The Commentators

Piedmont Creeks need your help! Rain water is running off roofs, roads, lawns – flowing too quickly into our creeks! Hard surfaces have replaced forest and dramatically reduced the amount of rain water that sinks into the...

Recycling, The Official Religion

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 9, 2012 | The Commentators

The recycling movement has finally become an official religion. Have you ever felt guilty for throwing that glass bottle into the trashcan, instead of the recycling bin? I believe the emotion of guilt should be reserved for...

A Joke, And The Mayor Is Laughing

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 2, 2012 | The Commentators

The latest incarnation of the Chapel Hill Town Government’s fumbling quest to cover up the Yates incident is a joke, and may be the most politically revealing. Town Manager Roger Stancil, and presumably the Mayor and Police...

Support For An Independent Investigation of Yates Incident

Posted by The Commentators | Jan 26, 2012 | The Commentators

Watching the inner workings of the Chapel Hill Town Government has been an education. I’ve learned how an unwarranted, dangerous SERT unit deployed at the scene of a mere misdemeanor can turn into a two-month long effort by the...

Our Community is at a Turning Point

Posted by The Commentators | Jan 25, 2012 | The Commentators

I thought I had experienced the village in the 70’s as a student at Carolina. Then, the old-timers corrected me, saying, “That wasn’t the village! It was back in the 50’s. Or the 60’s. When we were in school!” and so it...

Can a charter school do a better job?

Posted by The Commentators | Jan 25, 2012 | The Commentators

Can a charter school do a better job of closing the achievement gap than the Chapel Hill0-Carrboro public schools? We’re about to find out. A new charter school is coming to Chapel Hill and its raising some hackles....

Comprehensive Plan Process Needs More Time

Posted by The Commentators | Jan 23, 2012 | The Commentators

We have been enthusiastic participants in the revision of Chapel Hill’s comprehensive plan since it began in September. Now as the community heads into the second half of the Chapel Hill 2020 process, we ask: Is this where we...

What will the Council do now?

Posted by The Commentators | Jan 20, 2012 | The Commentators

A dozen red roses to Dave Hare for the fine editorial in Sunday, January sixteen’s Chapel Hill News. Unless you are living under a rock, you have already heard about what happened on November 13… and now followed by Manager...

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