Perhaps I'm the first back from the packed house at Dock side so I'll get the ball rolling.
What impressed me most was the strong group of progressive activists assembled from Chatham County. These folks are committed to achieving the kind of sustainable land-use planning and economic development strategies that progressive orangepolitics would surely endorse.
Based on last year's election, we can see that real change is coming to Chatham. Allies in Orange should acknowledge their leadership on their own turf (as was the case tonight) and work in solidarity where possible.
Some tidbits:
Wasn't expecting Kevin Foy who apparently carpooled with Bill Strom, Cam Hill, and Mark Chilton. The way my brain works, I noted that they comprised a group of Town Council members elected in 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2003 and a mayor to fill in the missing year of 2001 if you count Foy twice. I guess Alderman Chilton counts twice too.
Nearby was a table with Joe Capowski, Terri Buckner, Laurin Easthom, Alex Zaffron, and Mary Rabinowitz. Now there's a fivesome Roy might balk at coaching!
Last Friday more than 250 UNC workers rallied to protest proposed cuts in this years pay raises. According to the Herald,
The rally, one of three coordinated by the State Employees Association of North Carolina, was held in response to recent legislative deliberations that would lower a proposed raise for state employees from $1,086 to $625...
"Everybody's upset," Tommy Griffin, chairman of UNC's Employee Forum, said Friday afternoon. "Everyone had pretty much come to terms with the $1,086."
Yesterday, the N&O reported that House Speaker Jim Black, Rep. Richard Morgan, and Senate Leader Marc Basnight "weeks after the 2004 session, and without disclosing their action" secretly restarted a program to provide an additional 2-3 percent in raises to legislative employees. This action was only discovered when the N&O reporter went over detailed individual pay records, a painstaking task.
Help protect UNC-TV and WUNC from Bush Administration budget cuts and partisan appointees.
Community Forum on Defending Public Broadcasting.
Thursday, August 4th from 7 – 9:30 p.m.
The United Church of Chapel Hill
1321 Martin Luther King., Jr. Blvd.
(NC-86/Historic Airport Rd.)
*A screening of Bill Moyers' historic address on the threat posed to
public broadcasting by the Bush administration at the National
Conference for Media Reform
*A discussion panel featuring Congressman David Price and Jim Goodmon,
president and CEO of Capitol Broadcasting and national board member of
Common Cause
*Q+A, comments, calls to action.
Event sponsored by the Committee to Defend Public Broadcasting.
Co-sponsors: Common Cause North Carolina, the Independent Weekly,
Balance and Accuracy in Journalism, the People's Channel, Orange County
Democratic Party, Orange County Democratic Women, UNC Young Democrats
For more details or directions, contact Pete MacDowell @ 968-9184
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- The Independent Weekly, 5/10/06
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