Last week, the Durham County Commissioners voted Darius M. Little onto the Durham Planning Commission. Monday night, they changed their minds -- at least for the time being.

A vote to "reconsider" Little's appointment was unanimous, effectively leaving the earlier approval in limbo until another vote is taken. The commissioners did not set a date for a second vote on filling the Planing Commission seat for Oak Grove Township.

Commissioner Joe Bowser asked to have reconsideration on Monday's agenda after The News & Observer reported  that the N.C. State Bar plans to review complaints that Little misrepresented himself as an attorney. The Bar is scheduled to meet on the complaints Wednesday.

Little was approved for the Planning Commission, a citizens' advisory body on zoning and land-use matters, by a 3-2 vote over N.C. Central University student Antonio Jones. Little, who ran for a City Council seat in 2009, is a student at Phoenix University's Raleigh branch.

Little has felony convictions in Wake, Durham and Orange counties relating to checks he said he bounced when he fell on hard times while attending UNC.

Neighborhood email lists have been abuzz this week about a public registry requirement for managers of rental property. The idea is, such a list would make it easier for neighbors to make complain when rentals and/or renters become problematic.

Ward 2 City Council candidates Darius M. Little and Matt Drew have weighed in.

Little wrote, "Not a candidate plug here, but ... this idea is great." He added that, in his Woodcroft neighborhood, managers are supposed to let the homeowners' association know which properties they handle.

Drew suggested that a community organization maintain a roster of problem properties and those who manage them, rather than having City Hall list all. "Maintaining a registration database like this is much more difficult than you might think," he wrote, and enforcing a registry requirement would add yet another burden to the Police Department.

Neighborhood groups have kicked the registry idea around several times in the past four years, most recently last spring. According to Lorisa Seibel with the Durham Affordable Housing Coalition, it's a 2010 priority for that organization's Campaign for Decent Housing.

Barely had word got out of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People's endorsements for the Oct. 6 municipal primary before un-endorsed candidate Darius M. Little had something to say about them.

"I would like to congratulate my friends, Mr. Howard and Mrs. Anne Clement, on obtaining the endorsement," Little said in a prepared news release issued at 11:30 this morning.

But he went on to claim that the Committee's endorsement "doesn't mean as much as in the past."

Thursday night, the Committee came out for incumbent Howard Clement in the Ward 2 race, in which Little is one of four challengers. Newcomer Donald A. Hughes won the Committee's stamp of approval over incumbent Cora Cole-McFadden for the Ward 1 seat.

Little complained that the group's endorsement was decided by 11 Committee members, though there are almost 65,000 black voters registered in Durham. (Actually, 60,380 in the city, according to the Durham County Board of Elections.)

Those numbers show, he said, "It doesn't take a Harvard graduate to figure out that this year's Durham Committee endorsement doesn't mean as much as in the past."

Last month, Little sent Clement an email asking that the council veteran of 26 years drop out of the race in consideration of his age and physical infirmity. Clement has not publicly responded.

The Committee's nod gives Clement a sweep of Durham's three major political action groups. The Friends of Durham and the Durham People's Alliance endorsed his re-election earlier this week.

Durham County's commissioners praised Mount Zion Christian Church tonight on the occasion of its approaching centennial.

Established Sept. 13, 1909 as Good Hope Baptist Church, Mount Zion now has branches in Henderson, Raleigh, Hillsborough and Rocky Mount, and in Durham has established a 24-hour daycare center, a school, beauty college, food pantry and nationally renowned basketball program.

As the county considered its resolution, City Council candidates Donald Hughes and Darius Little took the opportunity to say words of their own.

"It's a pleasure to stand up and commend ... [an organization] actually doing positive things," Hughes said.

Little added, "We don't get to talk about positive things very often."

Later, Hughes said his campaign Facebook page has garnered 600 followers; the goal is 1,000, he said.

City Council candidate Darius M. Little has launched his campaign Web site, http://dariusforcouncil.weebly.com.

The site describes his experience, goals and platform — the last concentrated on public safety and economic development.

Among goals, he has:

"Creating a 'family atmosphere' in Durham, by working to include all people in our Democracy, by allowing them to see their concerns being seriously addressed, at the decision-making table."