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Commissioners take Transit Votes Tuesday
Blog entry Submitted by gercohen on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 9:45am.Item 7c on the Orange Couny Commissioners agrenda for Tuesday 5/14 7 pm (Southern Human Services Center):
c. Orange County Transit Plan and Related Agreements
The Board will consider adoption of the Orange County Transit Plan and consider approval of the Durham/Orange Cost Share Agreement, the Orange County/Triangle Transit Implementing Agreement and the Do Not Levy Agreement and authorize the Chair to sign if approved.
Early voting opens with a bang: 605 at Ramshead day 1
Blog entry Submitted by gercohen on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 8:13am.Early voting opened with a bang Monday.
1270 early voters countywide Monday, here are totals by location:
- Ramshead on campus 605
- Carrboro Town Hall 226
- Seymour Center 243
- BOE office in Hillsborough 168
- Mt Zion (Cedar Grove) 28
Five Early Voting Locations Announced for May 8 Primary
Blog entry Submitted by gercohen on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 5:08pm.Subject to expected State approval, the Orange County Board of Elections has published the locations and dates/hours for early voting for the May 8 primary.
Early Voting on Campus Moves Forward: Rams Head Center
Blog entry Submitted by gercohen on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 4:33pm.DCHC MPO sets public hearing on rail transit alternatives analysis January 11
Blog entry Submitted by gercohen on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 5:52pm.from an email:
CH Town Council 20 somethings Cohen - Chilton - Storrow meet at the 12/5 council meeting
Blog entry Submitted by gercohen on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 4:59pm.I attended last night's Chapel Hill Town Council meeting, my first since 1983. Mayor Mark K was kind enought to recognize the former council members in attendance -- me, Mark Chilton, Joe Capowski (and by the end of the meeting, Sally Greene)
Chapelboro had a great writer-up of the assemblage of 20 something council members at
http://www.chapelboro.com/Storrow-Swears-In-With-a-Little-Help-From-His-Frie/11655162 I won't repeat it.
Mark Chilton administered Lee's oath of office, and it was nice to meet old and new friends.
I did go back last week and check my 1973-75 campaign finance reports and Lee Storrow's 2011 report to see if any of the same people gave to both -- and I found 3: Jane Brown, Jane Stein, and Catherine DeVine.
former Carrboro Alderman Nancy White died last week
Blog entry Submitted by gercohen on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 8:54am.Elections Maps on the State Board website
Blog entry Submitted by gercohen on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 6:37pm.There are lots of nice election result maps linked from here:
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/Orange/33103/50010/en/summary.html
click on "contest detail map" for the race you are interested in, and from there you can ask for "view enlarge map", though the key does not come with the enlargement. Also note that early votes will not be reallocated back to the precinct totals and maps for aout 90 days.
For example Chapel Hill Council
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/Orange/33103/50010/en/md.html?cid=0108
(for Durham part of this, see http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/Durham/33075/49932/en/summary.html
to get to
Durham's big margin for transit -- Orange to vote in 2012?
Blog entry Submitted by gercohen on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 12:19pm.Durham's 60% to 40% margin for the 1/2 percent transit sales tax eclipsed Mecklenburg's 58-42 margin on its initial vote on the same issue in 1998. In 2012, the two allowed dates for a similar referendum are the primary (currently scheduled for May) and the November general election. Putting the issue on the ballot will involve approval by the Orange County Commissioners, the Durham-Chapel Hill Carrboro MPO, the Burlington-Alamance MPO, and the Triangle Transit Board.
Filling vacancies: school board, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro
Blog entry Submitted by gercohen on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 12:28pm.
