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My Discontent with Dillard's

Posted by | Mar 5, 2012 |

The Chapelboro community is a demographic dream: lots of highly educated people, many of them with disposal income.  Let’s not forget those shopping students either.  Why then, I wondered, is our only department store so dowdy?...

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Industry for a Sustainable Future

Posted by | Mar 2, 2012 |

It’s time to shift gears on our economic development plans. County leadership seems to be embracing a new openness to encouraging business. Presentations and discussions almost always include vague statements to the effect that...

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Exploring for Business Success

Posted by | Feb 21, 2012 |

Since September or so, I’ve been working with one of the Chapel Hill Vision 2020 theme groups; the one called Community Prosperity & Engagement.  The group has identified three goals for recommendation to Town...

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Food Trucks and Protectionism

Posted by | Feb 17, 2012 |

There are many forms of protectionism. One type protects local businesses against big corporations. Another type protects larger local businesses against local smaller upstarts. The first can be good policy that helps protect...

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Framework for Change

Posted by | Jan 11, 2012 |

A few weeks back I wrote about how a presentation from Chapel Hill Town Manager Roger Stancil had made it crystal clear that services would go down, taxes would go up or we could add to our tax base.  With that in mind I...

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2020 Business

Posted by | Nov 18, 2011 |

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