Tag: Economic
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Make That A Flood of Tax Payers
Following up on my earlier post, it appears that appeals to the tax assessors office this year will be at least triple the norm. More from the Herald’s Lisa Young.
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Trash Talk: Will We Stand United?
A Lion used to prowl about a field in which Four Oxen used to dwell. Many a time he tried to attack them; but whenever he came near they turned their tails to one another, so that whichever way he approached them he was met by the horns of one of them. At last, however, […]
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Trash Transfer Site: And then there were seven?
Quick reminder about tonight’s Board of Commissioner’s working session on siting the Orange County trash transfer station – 5:30PM at the Southern Human Services Center [MAP] (agenda). I continue to be concerned about the process – including the criteria – but hold out hope that a good result will eventually be crafted. More on tonight’s […]
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Halloween Trick: Bank-rolling Boozing
Local teen alcohol awareness activist Dale Pratt-Wilson asks if the $225,000 spent managing Downtown’s Halloween booze-fest is worth it: Wow…What an awesome use of my tax dollars! I am especially pleased with having to pay for twenty-one Orange County EMS calls related to drunkenness. It would be interesting to see a cost analysis of what […]
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2035 Orange County’s Garbage Center of Gravity?
I was struck by a conjunction between the following image from the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan Socio-Economic projections I mentioned earlier and the debate currently raging over siting a trash transfer station on Eubanks Road. 35 years ago the Orange County landfill currently blighting the Rogers Road community was […]