Month: March 2009

  • Two Birthdays, One Dude

    One local dude, Kirk Ross, definitely abides. March 23rd, he celebrated the 2nd anniversary of the Carrboro Citizen, a hyper-local newspaper he bootstrapped online and migrated, partially, off-line to real, physical print. Strangely, it feels like only a moment ago I posted on the kick-off of this growing outlet (a reverse of the sad trend […]

  • Carolina North: The Hole in the Taxpayer’s Pocket Live ‘blog

    I’m at the roll-out of tonight’s UNC explanation of the tardy (a year late) Tischler-Bise Carolina North fiscal impact study. The classroom at the School of Government is fairly packed with elective and governmental staff folks (about 45 from all three governmental bodies – Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Orange County). Beyond a smattering of media folks […]

  • Carolina North: Explaining the Hole in the Pocketbook

    I haven’t said much about the fluffy TischlerBise fiscal impact study commissioned and worked on jointly by UNC’s administration, our local governments and TischlerBise’s consultants. Fluffy? Like previous UNC commissioned analysis – notably the previous Carolina North and Orange County Airport Authority economic justifications – the upside is mostly in intangible (i.e. hard to measure, […]

  • A Stream of Concerned Taxpayers

    Made a quick trip to Hillsborough to submit my application for an informal review of my tax revaluation (we took a %35 whack , $327,697 to $442,912 or an $115K increase!). I definitely wasn’t the only concerned citizen. A crowd of folks were milling about the assessor’s front desk when I entered at 4:30. From […]

  • Temporarily Google Gagged

    If you use Firefox you might have noticed that Citizen Will has been flagged by Google as a possible “bad site” around 11:26am this morning. This is an error on Google’s part and they have been notified. It appears an old version of a WordPress (the blogging software I use) plugin triggered the alert. Strangely […]