Greensboro City Council member Mike Barber made a compromise motion to reopen White Street landfill to 50,000 tons of municipal solid waste annually and using resultant transfer savings to restore funding to city libraries and provide funding for the Guilford County Day Reporting Center.
In the process, Barber got a couple of digs in, saying the White Street landfil “was an investment just like the Greensboro Coliseum,” the only difference between the two being that the landfill “will yield us 15 to times the value over the next three or four decades that the coliseum will.” Ouch.
Council member Goldie Wells vociferously opposed Barber’s motion, and Barber replied —-keep in mind that the council discussed truth and reconciliation earlier in the evening — that Wells was “the perpetual victim” and that Greensboro “should be the training ground for victims —if you’re a victim anywhere in America or want to be a victim— come to Greensboro, because we can train you.”
