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The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro-MPO created a Special Transit Advisory Commission, which has done a hard year's worth of work to create the STAC report.

After divorce, some huge percentage of people live at or below the poverty line. It turns out that most of those are women.

I want to be angry, and indignant, but I can't even be bothered, because it is so expected - the State Fair makes not even the slightest nod toward recycling.

It appears that liberal and conservative brains operate differently, according to one study published recently.

I'm trying really hard not to be skeptical with this, and really trying to give the two blues the benefit of the doubt and hope that they're not just having this conference because they heard the word 'Sustainability' and decided they had to have a conference, so here goes:

UNC & Duke are having a conference on how universities can impact sustainability. I'll probably go, as there are some interesting looking speakers and I can legitimately say it's for my work, and it's near my office, but if it wasn't and it wasn't, I probably wouldn't.

http://news.mc.duke.edu/news/article.php?id=10112

Attention everyone who lives in Durham (city or county), Chapel Hill, Carrboro, or Hillsborough (or inbetween CH and Hillsborough) - you are part of the DCHC MPO (Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization), a government entity. Please take a few minutes to fill out .this transportation survey

One of my friends who took this said that her results were 'skewed' because she doesn't have a car or a drivers' license, as if having a car and license was the natural state of being.

The other night I was talking to my husband in a part of our ongoing political dialogue. We had the following conversation (with interruptions by our 3-year-old) about progressives, libertarians, government-hating, and Bob Novak.

The hospital that tobacco built bans smoking, with some odd consequences.

Orangepolitics.org's post on boards got me thinking about a conversation I had with some friends the other night about being on a board.

Say goodbye to the 5th Amendment.

Just pondering - I read about this book excerpt in Freakonomics blog which always has fascinating things to think about, and it brought about this train of thought.

There was a conference last week outside of Asheville that just made you go 'Huh?!?' to read about.

Following up on my first medical post, I wrote a letter that I'm debating sending to the practice and a friend who is a doctor gave me some interesting advice.

Medical ineptitude, economic impact, and a really dumb tale of unnecessary pain, annoyance, frustration, and general stupidity.
Trust me, medicine has become a political issue. (I know, I'm preaching to the choir here.) Contains medical descriptions.