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UNC is updating the Campus Master Plan. This update seems to be hapenning rather quietly, considering its great importance. ("Quiet" meaning I haven't seen any publicity or listings and can't find any information about it online.) The Master Plan is an internal document UNC uses to guide its growth, and as such it has no formal connection to the Town. However, it is often cited by UNC as a justification when requesting Town approval for various development projects, so it is involved in most of the town-gown conversations about growth.
The Chapel Hill News is replacing long-time editor and publisher Ted Vaden with Brenda Larson ("business development analyst for The News & Observer's community newspapers") who will also act as the publisher of the Cary News. The loss of Vaden is bad in itself, but replacing him with someone who is not from Chapel Hill and won't be focused on Chapel Hill sounds like a disaster to me. I hope I'm wrong!
Before joining The N&O, Larson was director of new product development for York Region Newspaper Group, a group of Canadian community newspapers north of Toronto. In addition, she served as editor-in-chief for seven newspapers in that group, which is owned by Metroland.
Larson also will become publisher of The Cary News, another N&O community newspaper, and will split her time between Cary and Chapel Hill.
Talk about write-ins, endorsements, the OP voter guide, what-have-you...
What's wrong with the Indy's endorsements? Is a vote for Nader as good as a vote for Bush?
What do you think of one-stop early voting? Is it advancing democracy or messing up the process?
I am excited to release our first-ever Orange Politics Voter Guide! This is not intended to endorse any candidate or issue, although readers may feel free to post their own endorsements in the comments with the caveat that you may not refer to any other candidates that you are not endorsing (same rules as this primary thread).
A lot of this inforation is available from the Orange County Board of Elections or the N.C Board of Elections.
We tried to find candidate web sites when available, please contact us if you have more information. Also, we would like to add columns listing which endorsements each candidate has received, but we need volunteers to do the research... hint hint. Basically, this is a work in progress, so wait until closer to the election before you print it out for November 2.
I don't get offended by much, but this is really shocking to me:
A woman who has been fighting to stop high school
students from drinking at unsupervised parties had three vehicles egged
[and received an obscene note] at her home...
It's the fourth such incident since Pratt-Wilson went public with
her concerns that local teenagers seem to have easy access to alcohol
and that parents aren't properly supervising their children.
The first incident occurred July 14, when someone threw beer bottles
and trash in Pratt-Wilson's yard, Cousins said. The second incident
occurred July 23, when someone broke the right side mirror off her car,
cracked the windshield and put a dent in the door above the window,
according to the police.
- Chapel Hill Herald, Police Log, 10/18/04
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