Biggest Stories on Orange Politics in 2013

It's time for speculation about who is running in 2014.  We've all heard rumblings of competitive BoCC races, and Graig Meyer says he'll have a primary challenge for HD50. 

This was a milestone in what is arguably the most bungled issue in Orange County history. The issue was kicked down the political road and swept under the leadership rug for the last 20 years and now we are wasting money trucking our waste to Durham. Additionally, we are creating more pollutants.  We wasted many opportunities to gracefully transition away from the landfill, maintain control of our waste stream, and do the right thing for the Rogers Rd. neighborhood.

Not sure I posted (m)any updates about this here, but after years of work by Town of Carrboro Staff and elected officials, El Centro Hispano, and Orange County Justice United El Centro is poised to open a worker center for day laborers that they will run themselves and will provide them better, more safe working conditions. 

When Chapel Hill decided to pursue an approach to waste management, it included the very real possibility of breaking apart the very successful waste reduction/recycling program operated by the county. At one of the last meetings of the year, the council decided to stick with the county (Carrboro had made the same decision a few weeks earlier). Now that the partnership is again intact, the ongoing challenge is with rural recycling. Orange County has one of the premier waste reduction programs in the state. The fact that it has been challenged should have been a big story but it's not on the list above. Hopefully, the community will pay more attention to the continued possibility of undermining the program by changing the rural curbside program.

Just he might well see;