Good news!
I just heard back from city attorney Tom McCormick, who tells me he will
recommend to Council that the city does away with the insurance
requirement for encroachments by Neighborhood Improvement Grant-funded
neighborhood signs! This means that Raleigh's older neighborhoods that
have no common property can give their neighborhoods an identity through
grant-funded signs. The insurance requirement made this all but impossible.
The Council will meet again on July 7th.
Cheers,
Mark Turner
East CAC Chair
741.6329
DLA is the new downtown neighborhood association. It just started organizing
in February. You might find it interesting to see what this group is doing
with Facebook . www.facebook.com/raleighdla .
Philip W Poe
PWPoe(a)att.net
919.832.6777 voice
919.522.1078 mobile
919.832.6775 fax
Are you still watching analog TV? That is, do you not have cable TV,
satellite, TV, or a digital converter box? If so, you may be in for a
surprise Friday afternoon, when TV stations across the nation switch off
their analog signals permanently and switch over to digital-only ones.
In other words, unless you subscribe to cable or satellite TV or have a
digital converter box, all you'll get on your analog TV will be static
after 1PM Friday.
What can you do to keep receiving free TV? Digital converter boxes are
available from most electronics retailers for as little as $40. If you
obtain a converter box coupon from the federal government, you can buy a
converter box almost for free!
NOTE: If you've already got a digital converter box, good for you!
However, after Friday you will need to make it rescan the available
channels as the channel frequencies will change.
Find out more about the DTV transition here:
http://www.dtv.gov/dtv_resources.htm?zipcode=27604&x=0&y=0
Request a converter coupon here: http://www.dtv.gov/getcoupon.html
And if you have any questions about this change, feel free to ask me.
I'm a bit of a TV geek and may be able to help.
Regards,
Mark
East CAC
