[Durham INC] help to save free public parking in our community

Wed Oct 16 13:22:08 EDT 2013

This note from the Regulator Bookshop on Ninth St is an appeal that citizens speak up to keep parking free along Ninth St. 
This is the same problem we stand to face along W. Chapel Hill St... and it remains as a deterrent to future development of small business in our  community .
 I hope you will review and circulate this e-mail and  support FREE PUBLIC PARKING in our community . 
Thank you -
Hillary Honig 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: The Regulator Bookshop 
 Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 5:01 PM
Subject: Support Free Parking on Ninth Street!

            Support Free Parking on Ninth Street! 
            Please send the mayor and city council a brief email (to council at durhamNC.gov) asking them to keep free parking on Ninth Street and in the Ninth Street lot. City staff is recommending to the council that the city begin charging for parking on Ninth Street, to pay for expenses associated with the new development on the west side of the street. But the new development is bringing the city plenty of new revenue to pay for these expenses-and to keep the parking free.

            Paid parking will discourage people from shopping on Ninth Street, it will create the need for guards to be posted on the sea of free parking just about to open between the new Harris Teeter and Ninth Street, and it will discriminate against people who shop during the daytime, since parking will be free after 6:00 p.m. So you will be able to park for free to come to Ninth Street to drink late at night, but you will have to pay to park if you want to buy books at The Regulator during the day.

            If none of this makes much sense to you, please send an email telling the city council that you support keeping parking on Ninth Street free.

            Thank you!

            From The Regulator and other independent locally owned businesses on  Ninth Street 

            Upcoming Events:   
            DANA TRENT

            Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:00 p.m.
            Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk is the intriguing memoir of the relationship between Dana Trent, a Baptist minister, and Fred, a devout Hindu and former monk. The two meet on eHarmony.com and begin a fascinating, sometimes daunting but ultimately inspiring journey of interfaith relationship and marriage.Dana's compelling vignettes laced with self-deprecating humor and refreshing honesty, give you a glimpse into the challenges and benefits of bringing together two vastly different spiritual paths into one household.
            Saffron Cross includes chapters on Dana and Fred's honeymoon at an ashram in India, their individual spiritual journeys, Sabbath keeping, vegetarianism, grief, community, and more. You will sense what an adventure their East-meets-West partnership has been, and you'll also see how much Fred's commitment to his faith has enhanced Dana's Christian growth. Dana Trent Will be in the store to read, discuss, and sign books.

            JADE SYLVAN

            Wednesday, October 16th, 20137:00 p.m.

            Kissing Oscar Wilde is the true memoir of author Jade Sylvan, who went to Paris to chase love and a man but was awakened by the endless open doors provided by new lovers in all forms. The prose within this high concept erotic novel erupts like poetry as we follow her trail from America to the endless undergound world of artists, food and sex in this new non-fiction venture.  Sylvan will be in the store for a reading and signing.

            LIGHTSEY DARST

            Thursday, October 17, 20137:00 p.m.

            A zodiac that builds poems into horoscope machines, Kabbala, botany, the gnostic gospels, fashion, the plague, and the prophetic writings of a high school friend all contribute to a poetry collection that teeters on the dangerous edge between form and anarchy.  Lightsey Darst's DANCE is a precarious and joyful performance that takes the reader on a journey through hell, earth, and paradise.  Darst will be in the store for a reading and signing.

            RON MACLEAN

            Friday, October 18, 20137:00 p.m.

            Ron MacLean's new novel Headlong is a literary thriller about fathers, sons, eco-terrorism, murder, immaturity, anarchism, marriage, friendship, and failure.  In Headlong, Boston is in the throes of an ugly labor strike, pitting janitors against corporate leaders with everyone, including the mayor, taking sides. A wave of anti-globalist violence has hit town, with attacks against businesses, and demonstrations that call out the riot squad. Nick a 42-year-old former journalist, once Boston s top investigative reporter is reluctantly back from LA, on the rebound from a failed marriage, tending to his dying father.  MacLean will be in the store for a reading and signing.  

            DEAN SWINFORD

            Saturday, October 19th, 2:00pm

            David Fosberg plays guitar in Valhalla. But don't worry: this is no jukebox hero saga of his rise to fame and fortune. Valhalla's a death metal band. From Florida. And the rest of the guys just quit. There's not a lot of money in metal hymns to the Elder Gods. If David can record another album, Plutonic Records will send him on a two week tour to promote it. A Eurotour. Where people like metal.  Author Dean Swinford will be in the store to read from and sign his new novel Death Metal Epic (Book One: The Inverted Katabasis).  Unplugged, of course.

            MARK PINSKY

            Monday, October 21, 7:00 p.m.

            Mark Pinksy's new book Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Old Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan is a stirring mix of true crime,  North Carolina political history, and one man's devotion to finding the truth.  Madison County in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina is a place of ear-popping drives and breathtaking views.  It is also where federal antipoverty worker Nancy Dean Morgan was found naked, hogtied, and strangled in the backseat of her car in June 1970.  An inept investigation involving local, state, and federal law-enforcement agencies failed to find a clear explanation of the motive or events of her murder. The case was left unsolved. Years later, after most of the material evidence had been lost or mishandled, one of Nancy's fellow VISTA workers--the last person known to have seen her alive--became the prime suspect, based on the testimony of one of the town's most notorious resident criminals. Mr. Pinsky will be in the store for a discussion and signing..

            ALAN WIEDER

            Tuesday, October 22, 7:00 p.m.

            Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid tells the story of two leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemies for the white police state. Together they were swept up in the growing resistance to apartheid, and together they experienced repression and exile. Their contributions to the liberation struggle, as individuals and as a couple, are undeniable. Ruth agitated tirelessly for the overthrow of apartheid, first in South Africa and then from abroad, and Joe directed much of the armed struggle carried out by the famous Umkhonto we Sizwe. Only one of them, however, would survive to see the fall of the old regime and the founding of a new, democratic South Africa.  Alan Wieder's deeply researched work draws on the usual primary and secondary sources but also an extensive oral history that he has collected over many years.  Wieder will be in the store for a discussion and signing.  

            Tom Campbell
            Regulator Bookshop
            720 Ninth St.
            Durham, NC 27705
            (919) 286-2700
            http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/

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