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What is fascinating?

Posted by Joe Schmitter on Monday, April 12th, 2010 Categories:
In a recent blog entry, I promised to write about a “fascinating” new book I’m in the process of reading entitled, Fascinate by Sally Hogshead.  Sally’s book makes a strong case that there are 7 Fascination Triggers used in all marketing.  Each person and brand has a unique combination that best suits them. We all [Click Here]

Tabling the Planning and Zoning Commission

Posted by Jacob Barker on Friday, April 9th, 2010 Categories:
With the ouster from the council of Jerry Wade and Karl Skala, both former Planning and Zoning Commissioners, the zoning-review body could wane in influence. Over the last three years while those two sat on the council, the body’s recommendations seemed to carry more weight than in the past. Wade spearheaded a change to the [Click Here]

P&Z beefs up bylaws

Posted by Jacob Barker on Friday, April 9th, 2010 Categories:
On Thursday night, the Planning and Zoning Commission passed a change to its operating procedures that establishes a standard time to table zoning requests where information is submitted late. I wrote about it at this post. Basically, the change says that the commission will usually table a request for at least two meetings when information [Click Here]

Local spending and the election

Posted by Jacob Barker on Thursday, April 1st, 2010 Categories:
As I anticipated, my last post about spending locally (a little snarky, I admit) promptly got a response from one of the campaigns. Edge Wade, Mayoral candidate Jerry Wade’s wife, sent CBT an e-mail pointing out that her husband did make an attempt to buy everything locally for his campaign. Mrs. Wade noted that she [Click Here]

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