Durham People's Alliance
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PA Members and Friends, Please see the following message from Tom Miller. We are asking you to send a quick email to the Senate Finance Committee (emails below) and ask them to vote NO on Senate Bill 183. Then ask your friends and neighbors to do the same! Thanks for your continued activism on this Read More
posted: May 16, 2011
posted in: Digital Billboards, Email Campaigns
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Your e-mails and resolutions are really beginning to work! Support for the billboard bills has been dropping off as your legislators have begun to express some doubts about this legislation which has proved to be so unpopular. The sponsors are determined, however, and the billboard industry’s lobbyists have been relentless. There is a strong chance Read More
posted: April 26, 2011
posted in: Digital Billboards, Email Campaigns
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Please take a moment to read the following article, written by Tom Miller, President of the Durham InterNeighborhood Council. Then please email and urge elected officials not to give in to the billboard companies.The City of Durham unanimously rejected Electronic Billboards in 2010 – there is no reason for the state to take away our Read More
posted: April 4, 2011
posted in: Campaigns, Digital Billboards
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Big win! Here’s the news, via Bull City Rising: City Council was pressing well into the 11 o’clock hour last night by the time the procedural event happened: City Councilman Mike Woodard made the motion for a vote on the billboard industry’s rezoning proposal, while Cora Cole McFadden seconded the item. By this point, the Read More
posted: August 7, 2010
posted in: Campaigns, Digital Billboards, DPA
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