Tag: wchl
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Happy Birthday Ron!
Happy Birthday to WCHL’s Ron Stutts! Ron, besides being the bedrock upon which WCHL’s success rests, is an all-around “nice guy” (hope that doesn’t mess with his street cred ;-)). I met Ron a longtime ago but didn’t really get to know him until I became more active in the local community. Ron seems to […]
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The Power of Sorry: A Local Apology to Get the Ball Rolling
Over the last six years, I’ve learned more than a tad about how our local political sausage is ground. The manufacturing of poor public policy for political gain adds a distinctively bitter taste to that meaty melange. Yes, at times, pettiness, spite, gamesmanship and ego overwhelm good sense and reasonable public policy. For a few […]
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WCHL’s 2007 Babble-thon: Growing, Learning, and Living Together
[UPDATE] I just called in to challenge the Chamber’s Aaron Nelson’s “triple bottom line” bull (the idea that the Town has greatly ignored economic development in deference to social and environmental justice) and to ask how we keep Chapel Hill affordable for existing residents. I’m afraid they’re not quite setup to take questions. I spoke […]
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Robert Seymour on Our Community’s Fit, Frail and Fragile
The fit 80+ year-old Robert Seymour has a short WCHL commentary [*MP3] on the Human Services Advisory Council’s 5-year master aging plan to help manage the greying of Orange County. He notes our county already has more than 18,000 residents over 60 years old – a figure sure to explode as the “baby boomers come […]