Archive for November, 2005

From tonight’s agenda, Chapel Hill’s new communications plan the opening paragraph emphasizes a friendly openness:

The Town Council believes that open communication with all citizens is an important community value. The Town of Chapel Hill makes a consistent effort to be a helpful, accessible, consistent, unintimidating and human source of information; and works to assure [...]

Timber!

Holiday tree trimming comes a little early at Horace-Williams Airport.

Orangish will be trimmed, bluish are nuked.

Please stayed tuned….

I will be posting a much more extensive thank you’s, some ruminations on the outcome and various other miscellany fairly soon. For now, I’m busy fighting one heck of a cold from Tuesday, catching up on some work and pulling together some loose ends from my run.
Speaking of loose ends, [...]

7:21AM

By 7:21AM, my signs were out of almost every precinct (Frank Porter Graham/Scroggs were the last two I got after dropping E. at school) and off most of the roads. By 9:30AM, every sign I knew about (and I kept a log!) was safely retrieved.
If you have a sign or see a sign waving [...]

Wrap up….

At this point, with 38 precincts reporting, it appears I’m headed for a solid 5th place. If the trend of a vote for Thorpe is a vote for Harrison continues, I imagine that by the end count I’ll still be out of the running. Of course, it isn’t over until it’s over - [...]

5:45am The Balloon is Going UP!

The balloon is going up! Headed out from campaign headquarters to take a quick tour of the key precincts in town. Putting a few last flourishes on and checking for sign “corruption”.