Watch out! The legislature is coming back to Raleigh this month. “Nothing is safe while they are in session,” the old hands say. They are only half joking. That rule will not change this year in North Carolina as Republicans take control. But some …
Day: January 17, 2011
Be an Eco Hero! Get out of the empty Pittsboro Express and get into a carpool
Chris Garriss, I am happy to hear that you have been around for more than 60 years. Hopefully it means you are a man of some wisdom. I am not so happy to hear that you feel that you and about two or four or six other people feel that you are entitled t…
Last word on my opinion about the empty Pittsboro Express bus
Here’s my last word on my opinion about the Pittsboro Express “Ghost” bus. I need my car for work and cannot ride the bus. I have to run errands for my work daily. When I lived in Chapel Hill, I did not own a car and used the transit system. Wasting fu…
Community meetings on landfill siting evaluation process postponed due to inclement weather
The schedule of community meetings to discuss the Chatham County landfill siting evaluation has been revised. The meeting scheduled for January 11 at the Western Chatham Senior Center in Siler City was canceled due to a winter storm warning and will be…
Chatham Commissioners’ night meeting on January 18 moved to Horton Middle
Due to a facility conflict, the regular session of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners meeting at 6 pm on Tuesday, Jan. 18, has been moved to Horton Middle School in Pittsboro. The work session at 2 pm will remain in the Multipurpose Room in Buil…
Chatham County seeks volunteers to serve on nonprofit grant review panels
Chatham County needs interested citizens to serve on panels to review nonprofit funding requests. To allow more citizens to serve on the panels, the county is scheduling panel meetings during daytime and evening hours. The deadline to apply is Feb. 17,…
Chatham County wins coveted budget presentation award
Chatham County has received the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) for its 2010-11 budget presentation, the first time it has received this award in 14 years. The award requires governmental …
Chatham residents are tired of political gestures and we want real results
Paul Caudros says that eliminating the Human Relations Director position was nothing more than politics because people were angry about the passage of the 287g immigration law enforcement resolution. He points out that the resolution carried no authori…
Chatham County commissioners are no better than David Duke
The actions by the new County Commissioner majority were wholly political and an example of “get back atcha” politics where one party simply wanted some payback and a message sent that a new political wind was blowing. The new majority of Commissioners…
How about being constructive and sharing your observations
On January 11, jkabreu wrote that “I attended the January 3 Board of Commissioners’ morning meeting and subsequently read the “notes from that session” that were posted on the Chatham County Online bulletin board service. I am concerned about the biase…