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Author: Taylor Sisk

Uncertain days for small mental health providers

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Taylor Sisk

With a new system for provisioning mental health care services now in effect, the question remains of what will happen to smaller providers.

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Fired workers receive unemployment benefits

Posted on February 3, 2011February 3, 2011 by Taylor Sisk

Two Chapel Hill Public Works Department employees who were fired in October have been awarded unemployment benefits by the state Employment Security Commission.

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State implements new mental health care requirements

Posted on January 20, 2011December 15, 2011 by Taylor Sisk

Reiterating his pledge that the failed 2001 reforms of the state’s mental health care system are “done and over,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Lanier Cansler has now implemented the department’s long-awaited new model of services provider.

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Chatham cuts county positions

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Taylor Sisk

The Chatham County Board of Commissioners voted last week to eliminate four staff positions, discontinue the county’s funding of Chapel Hill Transit’s Pittsboro Express bus service and delay a consultant’s update of the county’s land-use plan.

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Town manager releases statement on disciplinary action, CAI contract

Posted on December 9, 2010December 9, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

Chapel Hill Town Manager Roger Stancil issued a memorandum to the Chapel Hill Town Council on Monday regarding the recent firings of Kerry Bigelow and Clyde Clark, former Public Works Department employees.

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UNC, XDS talk mental health partnership

Posted on November 24, 2010November 24, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

XDS Inc., a nonprofit agency serving adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses in Orange, Person, Chatham, Durham and Alamance counties, is in partnership negotiations with the UNC Department of Psychiatry’s Center for Excellence in Community Public Health, with the objective of providing better and more services throughout the area.

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Fired workers file complaint with EEOC, grievance with town

Posted on November 18, 2010November 18, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

Two Town of Chapel Hill Public Works Department employees who were fired last month have filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and a grievance with the town.

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OPC mental health program in merger talks with other counties

Posted on November 4, 2010November 4, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

OPC Area Program, the local governmental agency that oversees publicly funded mental health, developmental disability and substance abuse services, has entered into merger negotiations with the Alamance-Caswell Local Management Entity (LME).

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Chapel Hill workers fired

Posted on November 4, 2010November 4, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

Two Town of Chapel Hill Public Works Department employees who were suspended in September have been fired, according to a statement released by the town on Friday.

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Workers, lawyer question motivation of suspensions

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

The lawyer representing two suspended Town of Chapel Hill workers said that the tactics town administrators are using are “right out of an anti-labor playbook.”

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UNC housekeepers file group grievance

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

A group of UNC housekeepers was joined by students and others last Wednesday as they marched from the post office on Franklin Street to South Building and presented Chancellor Holden Thorp’s office with a list of workplace grievances.

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Local coalition to join march on Washington

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

State NAACP head William Barber traveled to Chapel Hill Tuesday night to help rally support for a march on Washington, D.C. planned for next month.

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Perry Deane Young’s return

Posted on August 26, 2010August 26, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

The distance from Phnom Penh to Saigon has diminished. Actually, you no longer can go from Phnom Penh to Saigon, as there no longer is a Saigon. But the last time Perry Deane Young was in the region, in 1972, the distance from Phnom Penh to what’s now called Ho Chi Minh City seemed considerable. War has that effect on distances.

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Live music to continue in downtown Pittsboro

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

The Town of Pittsboro Board of Commissioners has issued an interim interpretation of the town’s noise ordinance that management of The City Tap says will allow the bar to continue to present live music.

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Future of downtown music in Pittsboro in question

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

The management of The City Tap in Pittsboro will ask the Town of Pittsboro Board of Commissioners to reconsider the town’s noise ordinance to allow the bar to present live music at what it considers to be a reasonable decibel level.

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