"Glad Cuts the Hyperbole for Its New Green Trash Bag" - NYTimes.com

Still, let's use fewer of them and concentrate on buying less that must be discarded and more that can be recycled in some way.

"Head Outdoors This Fall" - Chapel Hill Magazine

This may offer some good ideas.

"Library bids come in too high" - Chapel Hill News

I still wonder a lot at the wisdom of proceeding on this project. There are many views of the initiative that just don't make sense today, and perhaps for all time.

Raleigh-Durham International Airport

First time I've seen a mention of a Customer Service Council for RDU. Seems like an excellent idea if it worls.

"Carrboro could get dollar store" - The Daily Tar Heel

I think we need a whole new set of criteria and approaches and thinking when it comes to something like this. The proposal needs to be viewed from every possible angle, working with the developer, to help everything succeed better. Instead, these things take on a food fight feel more often with people choosing sacred cows to defend or advance. What is needed is a way to work with the plan, the store, the people who live within walking distance to make it emerge not as something dropped into place from Mars but something that works organically well with the environment of place and people into which it is proposed to be placed.

"Chapel Hill 2020 meeting sees turnout of 200 to discuss drafting plan" - The Daily Tar Heel

I worry that only activists or people with a lot of extra time on their hands will make important decisions on this. How to get more people involved in ways that don't require as much touchy-feely time? The fact that some of us don't especially like that sort of approach, how does technology allow us to offer our views? It sounds like a lot of decisions are getting made by a few unelected people who just showed up.

"Portland, Me., Casts Off a Sculpture Spurned by Many" - NYTimes.com

Anything for Chapelboroham to learn here?