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Sorting out HP city election
Mayor Bernita Sims — with a legal cloud still hovering —- is out; state Rep. Marcus Brandon is in. Brandon had previously said he would not run for High Point…
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HP road diet debate gets testy
High Point Enterprise reports ‘heated disagreements on display’ during the Comprehensive Planning Committee’s discussion of Andres Duany’s master plan to revitalize HP: The top priority in the study is to…
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HPU wants Montlieu Avenue
The High Point City Council voted 7-2 to move forward with High Point University’s request to close part of busy Montlieu Avenue in order to secure land for the expansion…
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HP council vote calling for mayor’s resignation
The High Point City Council will a special meeting calling for the resignation of Mayor Bernita Sims. Council members Becky Smothers and Judy Mendenhall –themselves former mayors —called for the…
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PART’s perfect storm..
As High Point Mayor and PART chair Becky Smothers put it last week: “In some respects, we have encountered the perfect storm,” Smothers told the board in her attempt to…
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G’boro top CFS II bidder
No secret Greensboro was going to make a bid for CFS II, but are we just today learning about G’boro’s $750 per job offer, which outbids Winston-Salem and High Point?…
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HP don’t like Davidson annexation bill
High Point Mayor Becky Smothers and the City Council are officially voicing their opposition to a bill sponsored by Reps. Rayne Brown and Jerry Dockham that would give the Davidson…
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No mental hospital in HP. Now what?
Interesting editorial in today’s N&R on the failed bid to put a forensics mental hospital in High Point: Doors will close at Dorothea Dix in Raleigh, and they won’t open…
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PART audit: Not pretty
The N&R writes up PART’s ongoing financial problems, mentioning in passing the recent federal audit: FTA auditors recently raised questions about some of PART’s bookkeeping practices, but PART moved quickly…
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PART’s financial crisis
Yet another irony: PART runs a half-page ad in yesterday’s N&R, and today I read this quote from board member Becky Smothers: Administrators also must refocus their time and money…
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Your editorial roundup
The Winston-Salem Journal editorializes on Fibrowatt’s failed bid to build a chicken s**t plant in Surry County: In two editorials on this page in 2008, we supported the plans of…
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Community college for everyone
GCS Superintendent Terry Grier keeps pushing his plan to provide two free years at GTCC for graduating high school seniors. I liked High Point Mayor Becky Smothers’ diplomatic response: Smothers…