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Raleigh’s parks department has reconsidered its decision to do away next year with punch passes for its aquatics centers. The parks board’s fees and charges committee approved updated charges which again included punch passes, albeit at new rates. The passes still offer a discount of 20% off of a single use pool admission.
The passes were retained after the public expressed interest in keeping them, citing their convenience.
My neighbor Bobby Poole got some more information about Oakwood North, the East Raleigh subdivision to be built by KB Home.
The homes will be in the 2,500 square foot range and are expected to be priced starting in the $300s. They should have hardiplank siding similar to the ones in my neighborhood.
So far I like what I’m hearing about this new neighborhood. The developer has been invited to the January meeting of the East CAC to tell us more about their plans.
I woke up today thinking how ironic it is that a group from Charlotte came to Raleigh to learn about working together. In many ways, the Charlotte business and political communities work together much, much better than the ones in Raleigh.
The family of Delvonte Tisdale filed suit against the city of Charlotte today, almost a year after the teenager sneaked into the wheel well of a 737 and died in mid-flight.
Again, it’s a shame that this young man died but he has no one to blame but himself. Only an idiot would attempt to stow away in the wheel well of an aircraft. I hope the courts throw this suit out posthaste.
Tim Funk at the News and Observer also points out the value of the non-white vote.
Tuesday’s voting results held some good news for North Carolina Democrats hoping to keep the state competitive in future election years.
Black voters, who make up 22 percent of the state’s population, cast 23 percent of the vote and went for Obama 96 percent to 4 percent, according to exit polls.
And Latinos went for Obama 68 percent to 31 percent. “You’re talking 2-1 in a group that’s getting to be a bigger part of this state,” said Bitzer.
But exit polls also said this: White voters, who now represent 70 percent of the state’s electorate, were even less supportive of the president than in 2008.
That year, 35 percent of white voters in North Carolina cast their ballots for Obama.
In 2012, he got 31 percent.
via 5 reasons why Obama didn’t carry North Carolina – Elections – NewsObserver.com.
NBC News’s Red Tape Chronicles blog mentioned the Hacked by Mitt Romney Facebook page in its story this afternoon on political social media fakery.
There have even been claims by hundreds of Obama supporters that they were somehow tricked or hacked into “liking” Mitt Romney on Facebook, as evidenced by the “Hacked by Mitt Romney” page. Facebook says there’s a much simpler explanation than hacking; it’s fairly easy to accidentally like a page on Facebook, making that the likely culprit.
What’s ironic is that this issue is gaining legitimacy largely due to the growing numbers of Facebook fans that the Hacked by Mitt Romney page is attracting.
via On social media, fakery muddies political discussion – Red Tape.
I found this interesting Tweet from Hannah Sampson, business writer for the Miami Herald:
Hannah Sampson ?@hannahbsampson
@mkramer I like no candidate on Facebook (per my newspaper’s policy) but someone decided I liked Mitt Romney and hacked my page to say so.
Journalists are often prohibited by their media employers from publicly displaying their political beliefs in order to maintain nonpartiality (or the illusion of it, anyway). That Sampson would have made herself a fan of Mitt Romney’s Facebook page is quite unlikely indeed.
Veteran tech journalist and Windows expert Fred Langa found himself Hacked by Mitt Romney:
It happened to me about a week ago, when Facebook told me — and all my contacts — that I’d “liked” Romney.
I’d done no such thing.
Fess up, Facebook. You think he made a mistake with Facebook Mobile, don’t you?
via Fred Langa: "What comes next?": It's spreading: Facebook name-harvesting for fake Romney 'likes'.
Bobby Calvan of the Boston Globe interviewed me this afternoon and wrote an excellent story on the Romney Facebook Hacking phenomenon. Hopefully this will bring out more information!
Visit Mitt Romney’s page on Facebook and you’ll see 11.6 million “likes.” Lee Wolf, a self-described liberal who likes nothing about Romney’s politics, was stunned to hear from friends on the online social network that his name had popped up as an apparent supporter of the Republican presidential candidate.
“I don’t believe in anything he says. He’s not somebody I’d be voting for,” said Wolf, who owns the Lobster Shanty, a restaurant in downtown Salem. “I’m still wondering how it happened.”
Others are wondering, too.
Forbes contributor Robert Hof wrote about the Romney Facebook Hacking phenomenon, though he was reluctant to contribute it to “skulduggery,” pointing instead to Facebook’s quickie diagnosis of fat-fingered mobile users. I’ve already shown that, in my case at least, it could not have happened from Facebook Mobile. I’ve also heard from other victims who don’t even own smartphones.
But what on Earth was the name of a friend, who I know is a vocal Obama supporter, doing on a Romney ad? The answer raises questions about how effective, or at least how accurate, these ads are–not necessarily due to a particular fault by Facebook but thanks to the byzantine rules and privacy features that have developed over years of user outrage and resulting Facebook accommodations.
via Why Do Obama Supporters Appear In Facebook Ads As Romney Fans? – Forbes.
