The City of Winston-Salem will use federal recovery zone bonds to get this —– renovate playgrounds and resurface city streets. Needless to say this is stuff the city should do anyway, but they’ve been to concerned with Billy Prim’s big playground off Peters Creek Parkway.

City finance director Denise Bell says “it’s a good deal for the city.” Okay, time for me to take a deep breath and step away from the keyboard.