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Fair is Fair… Free Health Care Benefits for Part-time Sitting Elected Orange County, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro Officials, But Not For Part-Time Municipal Employees

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Developers "Park" Paying Full Taxes On Southern Village Parking Lot For Years, Awaiting Hotel



The Crime Of Retail Snobbery, How One Chain Store Reveals A Decades Old Legacy Of Fiscally Irresponsible Local Politicians

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Commish Nelson Gets Cavities Filled And More... Not Locally, But In Tijuana, Using County Taxpayer Supplied Dental Insurance Moneys



Local Government Takes Its Toll, As Workers Need Meds For Depression, Heartburn, Insomnia, and Migraines



OWASA Board Member Installed, No Relevant Management Experience Required, Pals Preferred

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Town Manager Announces 5% Emergency Budget Cut, Councilor Czajkowski Asks For Discussion Of Expensive Future Expenditures, Rest Of Council Sees No Problem Using Consent Agenda To Spend Big Money

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No "Schools Of Excellence" For County Or City Districts As City Ratings Deteriorate

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Congressman David Price Wins In Campaign Funded Mostly By Out-of-District Money

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"Noble" Chapel Hill Courage & Political Tolerance On Display, As Child Steals GOP Yard Sign

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Affordable Taxpayer Subsidized Housing Or Affordable Taxpayer Hosing?

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Local Tax Exempt Leader Calls For Government Bailout Of... Local Tax Exempts???

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Commishes Shocked To Find Millions "Missing" From County Till, Not Shocked At Primary Election Cycle Coverup

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Cosmo Commentary - Carrboro Cat Fight Ahead



State Of The Art Solid Waste Trash Transfer Station Not Welcome In Progressive Hillsborough... Tourism Trumps Environmental Justice

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With Flaccid Local ED, Can Overbuilt Real Estate Market Be Penetrated?

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Village Project Hails Light Rail Project Linking Southern Orange To Raleigh, Cost No Object

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Laws Are Made To Be Broken, But Alderman Herrera Gives A Crap About His Lawn Being Crapped On As Carrboro Gets Pooperscooper Law

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Commish Jacobs Scolds Representative Faison For Having To Fight "Rear Guard Action", Developer Pals Not Part Of Local Airport Economic Engine

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State Tells Big Bird Watchers To Fly Away, A Generous Reward For Reporting Lewd Behavior At Jordan Lake

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County Commishes To Decide On Leaving Growth Impact Fee "Barn Door" Open As Developers Pay Only 23% Of Maximum Supportable Fee In City, 32% In County

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Illegal Apartments Abound In Carrboro, So Carrboro Sues Second Class Non-resident For Town Staff Barn Apartment Mistake After A Decade... The Cost Of Not Being A Boa Pal

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Tax Exempt Free Ride At Carol Woods! How Low Income Homeowner Retirees Pay The Tax Load For Higher Income, Tax Exempt Retirement Community Retirees

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Oops! Owasa Provides Bonus Rewards With Additional 7% Basic Sewer Rate Increase... A Total Average 17% Water & Sewer Increase

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Cutting Corner Cutson Commentary - Economic Meltdown... Surreal Government

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Gangs... The Devil Inside, Chapel Hill Admits Presence Of Gang Members At Halloween UNC Street Party



UNC Washes Hands Of Waterless Urinals As Carrboro Aims Firmly For Relief Using Waterless Urinals

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Faith Based Governance, Chapel Hill Mayor Foy Seeks Support For Issuing Library Expansion Bonds While Keeping Secret The Rise In Taxes

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Drought Over, OWASA Rewards Customers With 10% Basic Residential Water Rate Increase

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Oops! Affordable Housing Model Broken, Lifetime Job Bureaucracy Needs Deep PILOs of Cash

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Hispanic Communities Don't Have Crime Problem... Just Ignore Governor's Report On Hispanic Gang Activity

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Chapel Hill Approves An Office Park Disguised As "Smart Growth" Village Mixed Use, Existing Neighborhood Character Ignored Again

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Dense Is As Dense Does, Politically Connected Developers Continue Profits Over People Development

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Chapel Hill May Lend Bond Rating and Tax Exempt Status to Apartment Complex Buyer

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Orange Home Tax Assessment Values Up 15% to 35% in Four Years

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Carrboro Adopts Affordable Housing Maintenance Giveaways, Coming Closer to a “Right to Shelter”

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Local Governments Are Watching You... But Not Because Crime Against You Is Increasing

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Flying Cowpies! Ex Town Councilor Capowski (aka "Weaver Guy") Seeks to Fly Local Future Airport Into the Ground

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Boa Continues to Shower Beaucoup Gifts on Developer Pals, This Time It's The Butler

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Amnesia Strikes Local Media Again, Local Chair of "Environmental Friends of Development" Bridges Being "For" and "Against" Winmore Mixed Use Village

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Want To Be a Local Junketeer Without Using Your Money? Follow The Exploits of Political (and Now Junket) Expert Ruby Sinreich

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Carrboro Mayor Chilton and Alderman Lavelle Fence With Apartment Owner's Right to Provide Security to Tenants Versus Usufructer and Trespasser Right to Use Private Property

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Rhymes Without Reason from Carrboro's Poet Lariat - Merry Carrboro Has a Little Lawyer

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Commishes Pick At Budget Edges, Avoiding Developer Impact Fee Discussions While Local Media Praises Them For Being "Tough On Taxes"

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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.

To Add Your Thoughts, Log In and Type In the White Box Below

Feedback

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

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

Editor, %2008/%04/%26 %11:%Apr:

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:%Apr:

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

Weaver Guy, %2008/%09/%16 %11:%Sep:

[Cosmo], the web statistics sites show that almost nobody is reading your site, (see www.statbrain.com). You might as well save the money you pay your web guru and just email the two or three people who look at it. On the other hand, you might be better off canning the whole idea in favor of taking a Dale Carnegie course or something.

Editor, %2008/%09/%17 %17:%Sep:

Dear Mr. Weaver Guy/Joe Capowski:

Your note was forwarded to Cosmo Flamer over in the Flame Pit. Cosmo sends the following response back.

(For the record, Cosmo is not the editor.)

“Joe baby, work with me. As long as I have you admiring my “cosmological geniousity”, you gotta admit, it’s you who can’t resist me baby!

I can understand your “moth to a flame” attraction to Statbrain. “Statbrain” – the perfect description of an Orange Progressive brain. It needs medical assistance stat! That site is about as lame as it gets. But even it admits that it has no basis in fact. I guess a “facts optional” person isn’t bothered by those limitations.

I’ll let the Pulp editors address the hit data. But I know I have more admirers (and detractors) than other local sites, such as Opium Politics and the RingaDingNing. (Talk about dead!). My hits are more in line, with say, www.moronsinchapelhill.com or www.annarborisoverrated.com.

But thanks for your continued patronage! Gotta go. Got some juice to squeeze for the locavores.

Love ya baby… Cosmo”

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