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

Wed Oct 16 16:49:55 EDT 2013

As I been  saying for awhile, parking in general is going to be a bigger 
and BIGGER problem  as we grow.

As I had  lunch on Ninth St today, I noticed sizable gaps between the cars 
(at least in  front of International Delights. If there were lines painted 
on the street to  designate parking places, they've long ago worn off there.  

With no  lines, folks didn't pull up too close to the vehicle in front of 
them. The  resulting gaps meant five fewer cars could park on that block.

I realize  that doesn't address the "Free" or "Not free" issue, but we sure 
could use  better defined spaces.

Bill Anderson

In a message dated 10/16/2013 1:50:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ninth.st at frontier.com writes:

How  about no parking west side and free pull-in slant parking on east 
side?  

Jan Martell

On Oct 16, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Hillary Honig Ensminger wrote:

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_ (mailto: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_ (http://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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