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Chapel Hill vs Carrboro

By On September 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Chapel Hill and Carrboro are related but they have significant differences. I love them both like family. I feel like their little brother constantly annoyed with one or the other but will remain steadfastly in love with them both till the day I die.

Many of my fellow Chapel Hillians do not understand these differences. [...]

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Local Business, Google & Chapel Hill

By On May 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Here’s video of the Google press conference in Chapel Hill that occurred May 25. Thanks to the folks at RTP for capturing this. AGAIN they provided more detailed coverage than the local media.

He’s the link to the Google Economic Impact info. This is the PDF of data for North Carolina.

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High-speed Internet must be a part of Carrboro’s infrastructure

By On January 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment

People who live, work and visit Carrboro love the free wireless Internet. But the Town of Carrboro’s wireless is a victim of its own success. I’ve heard from a lot of people who have problems with it and wish it worked in their homes. Fact is, the area the wireless signal covers is too small, [...]

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Green Business in Orange County

By On August 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I’ve just added a few posts to this blog about Green Business. I’m espcially interested in seeing it grow in Orange County, North Carolina. (That includes Chapel Hill and Carrboro.) So you’ll see on the top right of this blog a link to all the posts in the Green Business category. I hope this [...]

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Is Orange County ready for Renewable Energy?

By On August 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Al Gore calls for “100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.” What are our local governments doing to take this challenge and make it a reality locally?

This was originally a comment on a thread at OrangePolitics.org.

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Create Green-Collar Jobs in Orange County

By On August 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of seeing Van Jones speak. He co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and is founder and president of Green For All. He spoke convincingly of a future of increased equality and how one of the roads to this future is green [...]

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Atomic Age Architecture Symposium in Chapel Hill

By On August 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Saturday August 2, at the Chapel Hill Museum from 9am to 4pm there will be a very cool sounding discussion about Modern Architecture in Chapel Hill. Sponsored by The Preservation Society of Chapel Hill.

I have to say that new Preservation Society Director Ernest Dollar is sure making old stuff exciting. Even [...]

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Local governments withhold public access TV funds

By On May 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Local governments withhold public access TV funds. Get the story from this Independent Weekly blog post by Fiona Morgan called Legislature to consider future of public TV channels.

Both Chapel Hill and Orange County received money for Chapel Hill channel 8, on which The People’s Channel broadcasts.

Yet neither government has passed [...]

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Barack Obama’s Entrance to Dean Dome

By On April 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Excellent video by abbyladybug

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Barack Chapel Hill Blog

By On April 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Just found this new blog called Barack Chapel Hill. Looking forward to more content and discussion. Very cool that it was made using a WordPress theme called Probama created by Category 4. Such a neat idea to create themes for candidates then let supporters use it. Must try this for a state [...]

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