When I was asked at a party on the 4th of July if I still posted on my Blog, I was a bit surprised that anyone even remembered that I wrote a blog. So yet again I have decided to resume "Life in the Pitt". Katrina has gotten so lazy and has informed me that she will appear on occasion and only when there is something really important to say, but I will pontificate on anything from the mundane to the all important ACC basketball news.
As with all the other resumptions of LITP, an update is in order. December 2012 seems like an eternity ago and much has happened here on the edge of the Triangle. The recession seems to have ended and Pittsboro is the talk of the economic world here in the Piedmont of North Carolina. A group of investors has been given the go ahead to build a 900 acre live/work community adjacent to our little city. Chatham Park will change the flavor of this corner of the Triangle. There are many who fear Pittsboro will loose it's quirkiness and small town atmosphere; we will just have to see how it all plays out. There is development galore on the 15/501 and traffic actually exists.
Politics has become pretty grim here in the old North State since 2012 with the most oppressive voter restrictions in the country, an outright war on public education, and somewhere in Raleigh Galt's Gulch has been created. Our neighbor Randy Voller is no longer the mayor but has become the head of the NC Democratic Party. The Party has been in chaos since he took the helm and there is much apprehension about November 2014. LITP will have much to say about that.
The Chatham County Courthouse has been rebuilt and is beautiful, but there are still a few unsightly buildings and dwellings that should be condemned.
So...The Pitt is back.
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