My Quote of the Day (well worth reading again)
…from Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman), Intro to Ozark, Season 1: Sugarwood.
Inspiration at a Discount
Last Sunday, my teenage daughter and her younger brother walked to the Dollar General at Broad and West Markham near my home in Durham, NC, to buy some candy. When they went to check out, she thought she had left her wallet at home. They returned and we scoured the house; then she walked back to the DG, but they could find no wallet and none had been turned in…
Health Insurance Hostage
#HealthInsuranceHostage: Cut and paste or share if your or your spouse’s primary reason for staying in your current job is because of the health insurance coverage your company provides. Healthcare should not depend on where you work…
Assessing substitute problem
… DPS should investigate these schools that are “always short on subs.” If teacher turnover rates are high, the Durham PTA Council should be consulted regarding those schools. …
Money, Money, Money...
As a child, I wondered at the adults who spend most of their lives doing jobs they dislike so they can grow old and do next to nothing. Now that I’m an adult, I’m beginning to understand our addiction to money…
Protect and Improve Affordable Care Mental Health Coverage
It pains me to think of all the mentally ill persons languishing on our streets or in our prisons. So many are uniquely brilliant in ways we are only beginning to understand. What's more, the NRA and supporting politicians argue that we don't need better gun control, we need better treatment of mental illness. So it is completely irrational and incomprehensible to me how someone could be against gun control as well as against the treatment of mental health issues made possible by the Affordable Care Act…
Goodbye Amazon, Hello Ninth Street
… Last year I hoped Americans would boycott the holiday materialism that feeds the corporate monster and its wealthy share-holders. In retrospect, I couldn’t even do this myself..…
Neighborhood Revitalization: Be a Part of It
… Bill Anderson—passionate friend, neighborhood activist and watchman extraordinaire— recently became a realtor primarily to revitalize Durham neighborhoods House by House, Block by Block (as espoused in Alexander von Hoffman`s book)…
Cuts We’d Like to See
…This month’s Interneighborhood Council (INC) listserv is buzzing with discussion of Durham’s city budget. North Carolina's state government faces a budget deficit of more than 20% of the total 2009-10 budget, so it is no surprise that the city of Durham is looking toward drastic cuts as well.…
Streamlining Must Not Prohibit Input From Residents
… If streamlining is needed, then it should be on the part of developers not citizens. Right now, when development meets citizen opposition to rezoning and comprehensive plan amendments, they may actually request deferrals, presumably in the hopes of wearing citizens down …
Medlin Hired as Planning Director: A Breath of Fresh Air
… With regard to the announcement that Steve Medlin has been hired as Durham’s new planning director. All I can say is Whoooo-Hooooo! …
County OK another step in the wrong direction
…I was deeply discouraged by the Durham Board of County Commissioners' Feb. 25 approval of Epcon's comprehensive plan amendment for the West Side of Farrington Road, which permits a residential density increase from four single-family homes per acre (RS-20) to as many as eight units per acre (PDR 4.5) in an area where rural farmland now exists…
No to Barnes and Noble
… I am disturbed by the ambiguity surrounding Duke's plans for Central Campus and the possibility that a Barnes and Noble store may be moving in, with the assistance of President Broadhead and Duke University at large.…
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