I have no doubt that Greensboro Mayor Bill Knight is an earnest, hard-working individual.

But I still don’t see where he’s shaking things up in local government. If anything, it’s the same old-same old:

Most recently, he accompanied Assistant City Manager Denise Turner on a lobbying trip to Washington to ask federal delegates to help fund various Greensboro projects with federal money.

“We are trying to build a presence up there,” Knight said of the trip to the capital. He said future visits with the delegation should be on home soil.

Relying on the fed dollar is local governments’ typical shirking of their financial responsibilities. That’s not why the majority of Greensboro’s citizenry elected Mayor Knight.