League of Women Voters
Thanks to a candidate for sharing this info with OP:
The Orange County Voter Services of the League of Women Voters of Orange, Durham, and Chatham Counties (LWVODC) in cooperation with the Seymour Senior Center of Orange County are sponsoring a candidates'forum for Carrboro. It will be held:
Tuesday October 15, 2013 7pm to 9pm
Seymour Senior Center Theater
The candidates will be invited to give opening remarks followed by their responses to a series of questions developed by the Orange County Voter Services Team, and the general public via Facebook and Twitter. The candidates, running for Mayor and Councilman, of Chapel Hill, will be invited to give opening statements starting at 10 AM 7 PM. The public and news media will be invited, and the event will be recorded and available to news media outlets.
Date:
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Yup, I will be live-blogging yet another OC Commish forum for you guys! The forum is Wednesday April 14 in the Chapel Hill Council Chambers.
My coverage will be right here starting at 7pm. If you don't particularly want to go to the forum OR read my live-blog (where I periodically diverge on rants about people asking me to type softer)--the forum will also be televised live on the government access, Time Warner channel 18.
Scheduled to attend so far are: Joal Hall Broun, Alice Gordon, Barry Jacobs, Earl McKee, Joe Phelps and Renee Price.
I read the Town Council candidates' responses to the
League of Women Voters' questionnaire in the Chapel Hill News this morning. (A valuable service, but shouldn't the CHN actually publish reporting on the front page?) I noticed that the candidates were unanimous in their support for putting increased density (if it happens) in transit corridors, but not a single one of them named an appropriate area or an example of how this should be done.
It's easy to be reactionary and rail against tall buildings and vague notions of density or against East 54 in particular. Where are the courageous candidates that can hammer out policies, make the hard decisions, and stand up to the inevitable complaints about change? Evolution of this community's landscape is not optional. We must put on our thinking caps and establish some direction for doing this in the best way for our collective future.
Gene Nichol moderates this social justice
focused candidate forum on Wednesday, Oct 21 from 7-9 p.m. Hear
candidate ideas and positions on issues like affordable housing,
democracy reform and civil rights, welcoming Chapel Hill's immigrant
and refugee communities, and environmental justice.
Candidate
forum sponsors include: NC Common Cause, Democracy North Carolina,
League of Women Voters, NAACP (UNC Chapter), Justice and Peace
Commission of The Church of Reconciliation. Individual sponsors
include: Rev. Stephen Elkins-Williams (Chapel of the Cross), Rev. Bob
Dunham (University Presbyterian Church), Richard andJill Edens (United
Church of Chapel Hill), and Rev. Peter JB Carman (Binkley Baptist
Church).
Due to other church business that evening, THERE IS NO PARKING AT UUMC. Please plan to use street or other available parking.
Contact Josh Glasser, JGlasser@CommonCause.org or 919-260-1364 for more information
Date:
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
University United Methodist Church, 150 E Franklin St.
Date:
Monday, October 5, 2009 - 3:00pm
Location:
Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., Chapel Hill
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