Chapel Hill Budget

Chapel Hill: Graduation Weekend, Budget Season and Live Music

Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger joins 97.9 The Hill’s Brighton McConnell on Thursday, May 5 to discuss recent news around town. She details the proposed budget the town council saw last night, as well as Chapel Hill’s priorities to bring people together for events like concert series.

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A Bright Idea

Forgive me for the title.  I do love a pun but when it’s particularly apt, well, I just can’t resist. This post is about some of the work being done by the Town of Chapel Hill to cut costs during this difficult budget time. ...

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Necessary Border Crossing

This column was always supposed to be about how and where we spend our money.  Many times I’ve expanded my definition to talk about how public money is spent and the choices made by people paid with public money.  This edition...

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Why Chapel Hill is Lucky

       I’ve had so much to say over the past few weeks that I’ve found myself virtually (!) tongue-tied.           I couldn’t seem to focus my thoughts about so many less-than-savvy spenders:  the staffer of Kansas Gov....

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