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A Juicy Look At the Zany World of Orange County, North Carolina

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Freshly Squeezed Juice
Highlight Any Slice Below with Your Mouse and Press for a Refreshingly Different Taste of Orange County
Poet Lariat - An Ode to Involuntary Annexation
Carrboro Goes Into Debt To Avoid Winning Local Tax Rate Increase War With Only_a_5% Property Tax Increase, But Debt Goes Through Roof
Days After Chapel Hill Announces 11% Budget Increase, Hillsborough Follows With 10% Increase. Town Manager Cries Out For More Growth!
State Select House Committee Votes FOR Forced Annexation Moratorium. Local Orange Progressive Committee Member Judith Wegner Votes Against in Support of Financially Mismanaged Local Growth
Four Days After Home Sales Based Transfer Tax Fails Local Media Announces Home Sales Decline in Orange County of 38% From Last Year
Flame Pit - The Smell Is Killing Me! Cowpies, Please Dry Up and Blow Away!
Orange Progressives Trip on Transfer Tax... Will Schools Be Fully Funded Without Local Transfer Tax?
Two Days After Transfer Tax Fails County Announces $1,500,000 Sales Tax Shortfall by September
Chapel Hill "Stancils" in 11% Increase in Town Taxes, Will Town Council Ask for Town Property Transfer Tax?
Flame Pit - Orange Progressives Trip on Transfer Tax... End of an Error??
UNC Expands Northward Renting Land for Homeless Shelter in Exchange for Keeping Prime Land Off Tax Rolls and Available for Unspecified Use
Government Employment Reaches New Levels... Orange County Helps Lead the Way
Chapel Hill Councilor Czajkowski Remains Off Political Medications Confusing Politics With Financial Accountability
Chapel Hill Loses Tax Paying Art Gallery to Durham Compensates by Spending Taxes on New Public Arts Administrator
Feeling Heat on Anemic Economic Development and Imbalanced Growth, Commishes Discover Source of Problem... People's "Misperceptions"!
Dense Urban University Planner Proclaims US to Hit One Billion People by 2100, No Worries, Parking Lots Will Provide Housing Space
Local Officials Stymied in Search for Gang Presence
Flame Pit - We May Not Have a Pot to Pelissier In, But We Have Happy Talk in Chapelboro!!
Chapel Hill Councilperson Refuses to Drink Orange Progressive Cool-Aid, Asks Probing Questions of Planning Board Chair
Boa Votes for Local Transfer Tax, Mayor Chilton Uses Public Office to Help Out Fellow Developers
Chapel Hill Gentrifying Developer Advocates Capping Tax Rate Increases for Gentrifying Areas, Local Gentrifying Rentier Sinreich Declares Gentrification "Complicated"
Former Local Democrat Party Head Katz Hisses at Incumbent State Senator Kinnaird Local Stenographers Yawn and Change Ad Policy
Councilpersons Greene and Kleinschmidt Protecting Civil Rights... of Public Micturator and Genital Exposer?
Chilton Surrogate Capowski Shills for Home Equity Tax
Owasa Declares End to Stage 3 Alert, Steno Pool Dutifully Silent on Will Interim Stage 3 Rates Be Levied
Flame Pit - Katz Scratch Fever
Higher Paying, Tax Exempt, Non-profit Public Sector Jobs Grow While Private Sector Jobs and Wages Languish, Commish Jacobs Responds with Pledge of Living Wages for Buckhorn Village Retail Workers
Flame Pit - Carny Hand Barks "Walkable Northern Carrboro", Maybe He'll Visit Some Time
Chapelboro Schools Ask Local State Legislators For More Money...From You, Not Developers
Flame Pit - Kinnaird Canard Serves Up Fruity Advice, Comparing Apples to Orange. Talk About Misinformation on the Home Equity Tax!
State Senator Kinnaird on Taxing Home Equity... and Your Little Dog Too!
Carrboro Mayor Chilton Conjures Source of Water Demand Problem. It's Residents, Not Developers!
Flame Pit - Chapel Hill Town Council Unveils its New "Unaffordable Hosing" Policy
Chapel Hill Mayor Foy Announces 10% Increase in Town Taxes, Just Another Nickel to Local Media
Lowered Land Values From the Trash Transfer Station Process Benefit Friends of State Senate Candidate and Orange County Commish Moses Carey?
Carrboro Boa Calls for Forced Water Conservation, Neighborly Ratfinking to Keep Growth on Track
Magical Carrboro Mayor Chilton Creates Vanishing Act to Conjure Support for Local Transfer Tax Vote
Time to "Dosado"! School Budgets Presented to School Boards
Commishes to Spend $100,000 to Educate You on Local Transfer Tax, Tax Exempt Financial Acumen Triumphs Yet Again
More Green Cries Councilman Greene, Tax-Exempt Financial Acumen Triumphs Again
Bank Pitching Captive Students on the UNC OneCard... Priceless
St. Patrick's Stage 3 Fee Structure Flush With Green, Owasa Water Usage Down 10%, Owasa Revenues Up Over 10%?
Will Chapel Hill Mayor Foy Match a Great Compassionate Cry Over Loss With One About Obtaining Justice for the Senseless Killing of Eve Carson?
Governor Spitzer Resigns Office for Hitting on Woman, Should've Used a Car Like Alderman Coleman
Poet Lariat - Merry Carrboro Has a Little Lawyer
Thy Private Rod Not Thy Public Staff Shall Comfort Carrboro Boa & County Commishes
Poet Lariat - Der Commissionar
Cutting Corner - Population Growth and Water: A Taboo Subject
Rebuke to Call for Eradication of Capitalism by Local Political Analyst Ruby Sinreich
Ruby Sinreich Elevated by Chapel Hill News to Local Political Analyst Position, Sinreich Responds by Calling for Eradication of Capitalism
Pattern of Official Actions Leads Up To Buckhorn Village Deal?


The Pulpmeisters have always been interested in controversial, fact-based material flavored with humor. After all, when you squeeze the pulp, the juice flows in all directions.

Is there a place for you as a Pulp contributor? Do you have personal integrity? Can you tolerate the abuse of defamatory trolls? Could you be the next zesty personality providing your own flavor to the Pulp, as different as Cosmo Flamer is from the Poet Lariat? If so, develop some potential pulpy material, drop us a line, and let us know.

No promises, but we know where the true “creative class” lives.

Be forewarned, the Pulp isn’t looking for apologists, e.g., sanctimonious, self-righteous tribalists with a predictable political affiliation.

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Feedback

Charlie Buckner, 2008/01/01 17:42:

It's your site, to do with what you want, but I have to say I'm very disappointed. This used to be a place for open discussion, with any viewpoints welcome, unlike OP. After reading your intro, and seeing who the moderators are, it seems that the focus is now distinctly and exclusively anti-establishment. That brings STP down to the level of OP [a local personal political blog], and I think it virtually eliminates the potential for accomplishing change. I wouldn't be surprised if the BOA establishment is breathing a sigh of relief, as they know that STP will now be much easier to marginalize.

Again, it's your site, but I hope you won't intentionally shut down productive, balanced exchange.

Editor, 2008/01/20 15:42:

Dear Mr. Buckner:

Thank you for your comments.

Your equating the retired Pulp free-form forum to the OP political blog is a reflection of your dynamic analysis of the local political scene. A monitoring of the future respiratory patterns of the BOA will be apppreciated.

The Pulp looks forward to your exposition as to whose efforts most marginalized its “anti-establishment” views during the last municipal election by helping to elect establishment candidates.

Jason Stewart, 2008/03/06 12:53:

I can only wonder if those of you who write this drivel realize how you come across, not to mention the low bar for accuracy and truthfulness that you've set for yourselves. No wonder there is little attention to your “contributions” to public discourse on any issue.

js

Editor, 2008/03/09 17:39:

Dear Mr. Stewart:

Thank you for your kind words, which lack any content or perspective, but wonderfully capture your opinion. One can only guess that you are an expert in a low bar for accuracy and truthfulness.

Your intelligence and thoughtfulness is appreciated. Too bad life isn't like a computer game, all nicely coded. When you squeeze the pulp in real life, the juice flies in all directions.

May we suggest that you limit your perusing to Orange Progressive outlets. You have many from which to choose.

Jason Stewart, 2008/04/12 20:20:

Lame is not being able to properly format your “Flame Pit” stuff, Mr. Kramer.

Editor, 2008/04/26 11:03:

Dear Mr. Stewart:

Yes, the Pulp is addictive. But you really will feel better if you stay on a steady diet of Orange Progressive pablum.

As an aid to Pulpsters, all comments on Cosmo's contributions should be directed to the publicized “Feedback Section” in the Flame Pit, where Cosmo reigns as lord of the manor, firehead extraordinaire.

John K, 2008/04/26 15:47:

Correction, Mr. Stewart. Lame is posting a comment in the wrong section. If you are challenged by the layout of this site, perhaps you should check out Sesamestreet.com which I am sure will make you feel more at home.

Love,

Cosmo

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