{"id":47,"date":"2006-12-10T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2006\/12\/10\/the-noonish-report\/"},"modified":"2006-12-10T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T17:40:19","slug":"the-noonish-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2006\/12\/the-noonish-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Noonish report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, noon-ish. It&#8217;s Sunday after all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/207.59.145.199\/ramgen\/BoA-Agenda\/06\/120506BoA.rm?usehostname\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"408\" height=\"322\" id=\"image48\" alt=\"boa1206.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/boa1206.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Couple of interesting stories out there including this shocking headline in the CHN: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapelhillnews.com\/100\/story\/4134.html\">Carrboro trying to manage growth<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townofcarrboro.org\/BoA\/Agendas\/2006\/12_05_2006_D5.pdf\">agenda item<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townofcarrboro.org\/BoA\/Agendas\/2006\/12_05_2006_D5A.pdf\">additional materials<\/a> from the meeting (pdf) on guidelines for a development moratorium. If you&#8217;ve got time, you can see the discussion of this at 1 hour and 52 minutes into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/page\/2\/\">Board of Aldermen meeting on Dec. 5<\/a>. You can click the photo to start the RealPlayer. (You&#8217;ll have to scroll to 1:52 on yer own.)<\/p>\n<p>Also worth checking out in the CHN is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapelhillnews.com\/154\/story\/4168.html\">Will&#8217;s column <\/a>about Chapel Hill&#8217;s missed opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,<\/p>\n<p>The Herald has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com\/orange\/10-797808.cfm\">story<\/a> about the decreasing number of new courses being created in the schools and another story about public health officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com\/orange\/10-797807.cfm\">still looking<\/a> for the source of the recent <em>e. coli<\/em> outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>State &#038; National stories via my<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exileonjonesstreet.com\"> Exile<\/a> blog:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Wired News on how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,72248-0.html\">the new Privacy Board<\/a> that&#8217;s supposed to be reviewing the NSA program  is a joke.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/08\/education\/08frats.html?_r=2&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">Fraternity fires elsewhere<\/a> bring up painful memories here. The question again: Why are there still so many Houses without sprinklers?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/002101.php\">The 109th Congress<\/a>: Fought to do nothing for America until the bitter end.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 That&#8217;s right, they did do <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theblotter\/2006\/12\/willful_ignoran.html\">something<\/a>: They said they didn&#8217;t do nuthin&#8217;.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/scrutinyhooligans.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/goodbye-charles-taylor-former.html\">Screwy says so long<\/a> to The Hon. Charles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/10502683\/detail.html?rss=ral&#038;psp=apncnews\">Taylor<\/a><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcnc.com\/news\/topstories\/stories\/wcnc-120806-jmn-amber_alert.a0d4b0a.html\">Strange twist<\/a> from latest Amber Alert in WNC<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 From the <em>Char-O<\/em>: Meck sheriff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/mld\/charlotte\/news\/special_packages\/immigration\/16206612.htm\">signs up for the ICE program<\/a> and becomes anti-immigration hero<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Pam&#8217;s got a choice for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=144\">Queer of the Year<\/a><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 And, thanks to a sudden lack of television crews we all got to listen to Roy win his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarheeldaily.com\/article.html?aid=10210\">500th game<\/a> on the radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, noon-ish. It&#8217;s Sunday after all. Couple of interesting stories out there including this shocking headline in the CHN: Carrboro trying to manage growth. Here&#8217;s the agenda item and additional materials from the meeting (pdf) on guidelines for a development moratorium. If you&#8217;ve got time, you can see the discussion of this at 1 hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}