A number used to denote an emergency alibi service enabling elected officials to record a false alibi after the commission of a crime. (See Coleman's Crazy Call).

A phrase denoting the use of public funds to create housing for house servants, landscapers et cetera of well-to-do Orange Progressives. Also, the use of public funds to support the ability of single, young college educated, well-to-do OPie activists with reduced cost starter housing and to establish them in the bourgeoise rentier position so admired by Orange Progressives upon the acquistion of a second house without the use of public funds.

A term used to describe an underemployed, elected public official with a short list of real accomplishments, a tendency towards misogynistic raving and uttering falsehoods to police, and an overblown ego, laced with a streak of sociopathic behavior and narcissistic indulgence. See ”9-1-1”.

A term used to describe the mental and lingual gymnastics of Orange progressives in speaking out on an issue from both sides of their mouth simultaneously.

A term used to describe a sanctimonious, self-righteous tribalist with a predictable political affiliation that always defends the Orange progressive rulership.

A term used to denote the governance board of Carrboro, known for its reptilian playpen mentality. Only pals are allowed in, all others are strangled out of political existence..

A phrase used to describe an “affordable housing” advocate that owns rental property leased by people needing “affordable housing”.

A derogatory term used to denote a heterosexual couple having children. For example, Mr. Frank Papa, owner of Phydeaux’s in the historic Carrboro business district referred to adults with children living in single family homes in Northern Carrboro as “breeders” when commenting on the needs for family-oriented municipal services.

An accolade for an Orange Progressives who is capable of drinking in and spewing out political dogma without question or regard for hypocrisy.

A term used to describe an Orange County commissioner with a propensity for spending tax dollars on developer friendly public “amenities”.(See ”School Equity”).

A laudatory phrase used to include people who are creative enough not to have to work for a living at a for-profit business. “Trust fund babies” are definitely of the creative class.

A phrase used to describe tax evasion of unemployment taxes for untaxed labor provided to a farmer by locavore nativists, displacing immigrant agricultural labor.

A term used to describe a cliqueish group of people that embraces everyone, so long as they are of a like mind.

A phrase used to describe the practice of combining select local land developers on projects facilitated by local politicians.

A phrase used to describe the Carrboro town planning staff that costs over $1,000,000 to run and hands out taxpayer funded gifts to developers.

A phrase used by Orange Progressive tax-exempt (aka “non-profit”) business owners in lieu of “taxable income”. (See “taxable income”.)

A phrase used to denote the use of public funds to profit a few downtown property owners and businesses. Downtown development is a co-supportive phrase for “Smart growth”. “Downtown development” requires “smart growth” in order to work, while “smart growth” requires “downtown development” in order to work.

A phrase or acronym used to describe the luring of a flaccid, sub-prime business to a municipality by offering sub-market rate municipal loans. “Economic development” does not require the use of normal GAAP practices to account for benefits to “financial mules”. “ED” problems are often found in older municipalities with hardened arteries of commerce with limited ability to erect cash flows.

A phrase used to justify spending money inefficiently within a defined geographic boundary of one's residence. It's a neo-Luddite belief that government should work to lower your standard of living by erecting barriers to competition. The concept of economic justice is erecting government and social barriers to competitive economic forces so as to prop up local inefficient businesses that can give you lousy service and high prices, but who are owned by “friends” who think like you do.

A phrase used to support dense real estate development and growth while hugging a tree in one's own backyard.

A phrase used to describe the process of diverting public capital into a select group of anarchistic private pockets.

A phrase used to denote taxpayers who pay substantially more than what they receive in municipal services. “Financial mules” are also referred to as “jackass residents”.

A phrase used to denote a group of Orange Progressives who wish to avoid being labeled as “nimbies”. By using this phrase, one appears to be socially repsonsible to the entire community, as opposed to appear to be stopping development in your backyard that you want in the backyards of others.

A label often used to marginalize anyone who challenges the political statements of any Orange Progressive politician or activist having an open, homosexual orientation. The more the challenge does not have an antagonistic basis as to sexual orientation, the more likely the term is to be applied.

A phrase used to denote municpal land use laws that favor “Affordable Housing”.

A phrase used to denote an individual having no visible means of income. See also a jobless, tradeless, or profession-less “worker”, aka a “bum”.

A phrase used to describe an Orange Progressive politician or activist who has accomplished little in the private for-profit world outside of real estate development, but is none-the-less deemed most qualified to advise those who have accomplished much. “Level-headed” local activists and politicans are often spotted spouting Orange Progessive platitudes to “Cool-Aid drinkers” in some “non-profit” or election setting.

A phrase used to describe media outlet stenographers who curry favor by regurgitating government and 'non-profit' press releases and promoting for favored political careers.

A phrase used to describe a tax-exempt, candidate endorsing, environmental injustice blind, local developers rights support group that supports intense urbanization (aka infill) and clearcutting of the little remaining mature forest stands, while blaming citizens for wasting water.

A term used to denote those individuals who stand to profit from local government steered development projects.

A term used to justify local government choosing which local business owners receive municipal favors and which ones are not encouraged to stay and to justify an elitist economic development policy of excluding regional or national businesses.

A term used to denote someone who advocates eating locally grown food for “global warming” reasons despite the lower carbon footprint of many non-locally grown foods while eating foodstuffs not available locally at all.

A phrase used to apply a faux patina of architectural significance in describing twentieth century cracker box housing for southern USA textile mill workers. (See also “affordable housing”.)

A term used to denote the temporary halting of real estate development in order to increase such development.

A term used to marginalize someone with first hand knowledge of a local Orange problem, knowledge that is not accepted by Orange Progressives. For example, if neighbors of an environmentally damaging development favored by Orange Progressives try to explain how damaging the development will be the local media will refer to them as “nimbies”.

A term used formally in lieu of “tax exempt” to denote tax paying status, but colloquially used to denote a local Orange organization that could not thrive as a for-profit organization. Representatives of local “non-profits” usually can be found at the meetings of municipal governance boards complaining about the failure of for-profit organizations or citizens to pay enough local government taxes, taxes which are repurposed to support the existence of those very same “non-profits”.

An acronym used as shorthand for one imbued with Orange Progressive beliefs. Not to be confused with the nearly extinct Orange Liberal. Myriad sightings in the wilds of Franklin Street of supposed Orange Liberals tend to be merely another common plumage display by an Orange Progressive.

A phrase used to characterize a nearly extinct local political phenomenon, someone promotes societal safety net measures to provide benefits for those who cannot otherwise get along without them, promotes public aid for public purposes that are not cloaked in “non-profit” clothing, and uses environmental codewords to contain real estate development without overlaying social engineering.

A term used to describe the local form of municipal government in Orange County. Only pals of current local governance boards can be elected to office, and in return they do favors only for their pals.

An acronym standing for “payment in lieu of”. A PILO is a developer extortion tool whereby local government can extract funding to support the jobs of local non-profit bureaucrats without solving the underlying excuse for demanding the funds. See "Affordable housing".

A phrase used to describe the practice of appointing a Pal to an elected board without requiring the Pal to run for office. For example, if a mayoral race opens an alderman position, then one doesn't appoint the highest vote-getter in that election not elected to an alderman office. Political anointees are usually decided secretly before the election in the proverbial progressive filled room.

A term used to highlight the “do what I say, not what I do” lifestyles and values of Orange Progressives.

A label often used to marginalize anyone who challenges the political statements of any Orange Progressive politician or activist having any ethnicity other than Caucasian. The more the challenge does not have an antagonistic basis as to racial or ethnic background, the more likely the term is to be applied.

A term used to marginalize speakers who are not in agreement with Orange Progressive dogma. The more rational the response and the more polite the delivery by the speaker, the more pejorative and unrelenting the use of the term “rant” is made by Orange Progressives. An accolade for those who are not “Cool-Aid Drinkers”.

A term used to remove all political responsibility of existing local politicans for conducting twenty years of bad, smug economic development that drove taxable sales outside a municipal jurisdiction. For example, Chapel hill and Carrboro elected officials have smugly kept most big box retail chain stores outside their jurisdiction, driving the associated sales of such stores into surrounding counties.

A euphemistic phrase for “Retail Leakage”.

An acronym standing for “School Adequate Public Facility Ordinance”, a local Orange County intermunicipal ordinance in which local developers gain the right to sue Orange County to build schools sufficient to meet residential growth.

A phrase used to obfuscate the desire to merge the two school systems in Ornage County in order to benefit real estate development. This phrase is preferred over the now moribund pharase ”school merger”.

A phrase used to justify dense development out of character with existing neighborhoods and a deteriorating quality of life for people who want to live in a small town, not a small metropolis.

A phrase used to marginalize those who don't agree with dense urbanized growth, but hold to the concepts of carrying capacity or overpopulation. This phrase allows “environmentalists” to hold hands in a Cumbayah circle with real estate developers as the environment is degraded.

A phrase used to justify taking rights or property from a group of hardworking overachievers and redistributing them to hardcore underachievers.

A phrase used to describe a select group of Cool-Aid drinkers chosen to give the appearance of deliberative, “level-headed” thinking, but in reality merely a collection of Orange Progressive toadies witnessing a predisposed outcome. “Task forces” are often used to disguise the reality of a situation or to justify an outcome not found anywhere else. “Task forces” are also used to promote the political career of an individual, to give false substance to someone unsuitable for employment in the for-profit world outside Orange County.

A phrase used to describe what people living outside southern Orange County earn or receive for their goods or services. (See “donations accepted”.)

A term used to describe any ill-fated attempt by a private property owner to remove unwanted “usufructers”. For example, “usufructers” staging a dance-in at the Weaver Street Mall lawn are not considered by the “BOA” to be trespassers. Rather, “BOA” members participated in the violation of written rules of conduct posted by the mall owners. In posting such rules, the mall owners were considered to be trespassing upon the “usufructer’s” rights to enjoy the mall owner's private property.

A North Carolina tax exempt organization dedicated to shifting property tax burdens from wealthy land owners to working class households through private conservation easements.

A phrase used to identify individuals who rather than be pleased at their luck in being in a position of receiving capital without work are peevishly displeased at the conditions keeping them from outright control of such capital.

A phrase used to identify “trust fund babies” who, upon realizing that their trust fund is not large enough to support the lifestyle to which they wish to become accustomed, engage in non-profit activities to supplement inadequate fund distributions. “Trust fund hippies” can be found in clusters, commonly reffered to as co-ops.

A term used to describe typically young, upper middle class, Euro-Americans who are either jobless or have a tax-exempt “purpose”, but also have an unearned income that subsidizes the adoption of a self-centered, self-conscious, counter culture lifestyle. The term is a portmanteau of ”trust” (as in trust fund) and ”Rastafarian”. The Weaver Street Market lawn is a comomon free range habitat for spotting this species.

A paradoxical phrase denoting local politicians and their surrogates bemoaning a lack of “Affordable Housing”, while driving the cost of housing higher through increased per household municipal spending, and thus, creating a higher tax burden.

A state of being usually exhibited by a highly opininated, unjust, and intolerant person who drones on about tolerance, social justice, and a progressive mindset. Such a person is so busy telling others how to live, they don't have time to accomplish mundane lifestyle goals, leaving them highly dependent on government handouts. See also “Trustafarians”.

A term used to take either public or non-Orange Progressive private property for the private use by a select few Orange Progressives, usually in tight with the local governance board.

A term used to describe any property location considered to be of value, usually located within a five minute walk of the historic business district. The owners of walkable properties have political pull and are deserving of public funds, as opposed to non-walkable owners who are the financial mules for the former.

A phrase used to describe anyone in the chain of land development who earns revenues without paying the full cost for the increased water use demand created by such land development.

A phrase used to describe an anonymous poseur pretending to be someone else in order to function as a political attack surrogate or shill. Alternatively, one having their courage match their capability. See Joseph Capowski.