Citizen Will

Month: October 2006

  • Here comes the judge: The Forum – Baddour’s Question

    What is the most important thing, if elected, you’ll accomplish over the next 8 years? Adam Stein talks about how he can only serve about 1/3rd of a term (about 2 years).

  • Here comes the judge: The Forum – Question #2

    What role should political parties play in judge elections?

  • Here comes the judge: The Forum – Question #1

    Importance of community? Your role in the community?

  • Here comes the judge: The Forum – Openings

    Oct. 16th’s UNC Young Democrat Superior Court 15B forum. Candidate openings. In an effort to clean up the original post and make the page load faster, here’s a playlist version.

  • Here comes the Judge: The Forum

    [UPDATE:] All videos have been uploaded to youTube and are available here. Tonight, four candidates for Superior Court faced off before 24 folks that appeared to be students (grad or otherwise) and, including myself, two older folk. Our cup runneth over. Every one of the candidates this evening was quite impressive. While our choices can […]

  • Redistricting Referendum: Is Education Enough?

    The League of Women Voters has asked me to speak at two forums in the coming weeks as “the opponent” to this referendum (because of my Sept. 2006 Chapel Hill News column “All Quiet on the Election Front”). Moses Carey will argue for the referendum and I’m supposed to do 5 minutes on my opposition. […]

  • Here comes the judge, and the judge and the judge and the potential judge

    I know, short notice of tonight’s (Wed. Oct. 11th, 2006) forum for Superior Court 15B candidates. The forum is sponsored by UNC’s Young Dems. From Matt Liles OrangePoltics notice: The Orange County Young Democrats will hold a forum with all four candidates for Superior Court on Wednesday, Oct 11th at 7pm in Room 4085 of […]

  • A Measure of Transparency in Local Government

    Mark Peters, one of the founders of Orange County political forum SqueezeThePulp and a school-focused activist, created this report card to publicly track local governments fulfillment of their stated goal of greater online efforts to promote e-democracy . Mark’s site, OrangeRecordings, serves as a clearinghouse for podCasts of school board, council, board of alderman and […]

  • Pork-o-polis? Federal largesse in NC District 4

    Wonder what federal monies wend their ways back to North Carolina? To local District 4? The new online database of federal transactions, FedSpending.org, is now open for business. A collaboration between the Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Zephyr Teachout’s Sunlight Foundation and the conservative OMB Watch, the idea is to promote greater access for […]

  • Durham Literacy on the run…

    As reported by local activist and former VISTA volunteer BrianR , the Durham Literacy project has to move and needs help: The Durham Literacy Center in Durham, North Carolina who helps hundreds of people a year learn how to read and get a high school equivalency is being forced out of their building due to […]

  • SxSWi: Inciting Self-Organizing Mobs for Local Progressive Activism

    I submitted a panel proposal for Austin’s South-by-Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) 2007 titled Inciting Self-Organizing Mobs for Local Progressive Activism Educated and opinionated, netizens are a fractious bunch. Rarely does on-line irritation translate into “real-world” local activism. With the proliferation of no-cost, net-based infrastructure and the power of the “long tail”, why do so few arm […]

  • Back with a Backlog

    Yes, I’ve been gone (thanks for the emails). I’ve got a backlog of issues, posts, news, updates – enough to keep me going for a couple weeks. I’ll be trying to catch-up as I juggle new developments on: This weekend’s ConvergeSouth unconference Carolina North and UNC’s Leadership Advisory group Updates on “Licensed for the Lawn”, […]