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Mayor Perkins press conference II
Sticking with this week’s Rhino, John Hammer writes up Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins’ ‘I’m not a deadbeat dad’ press conference and raises the same issue I raised earlier: Perkins was…
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Re: Cascade Saloon
The N&R reports yesterday’s Greensboro City Council work session debating what action –if any —it can take toward preserving the 110-year-old Cascade Saloon building sitting on the railroad tracks in…
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$24m bond for G’boro Coliseum
Somewhat under the radar scope with all the talk of the downtown PAC is Greensboro Coliseum director Matt Brown’s request for $24 million in funding for improvements to the coliseum…
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N&R catches up on War Memorial Auditorium bond
The proposed improvements to the Greensboro Coliseum complex have been floating around alternative media for a couple of weeks now, and the N&R did editorialize on Sunday, saying Coliseum director…
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Matt Brown and War Memorial Stadium?
David Hoggard again suggests that War Memorial Stadium be turned over to Greensboro Coliseum director Matt Brown to create a new ‘City Market.’ Remember that Brown is a political powerhouse…
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What to do with War Memorial Stadium
I read with interest John Hammer’s analysis of the planned ‘renovation’ of Greensboro’s 83-year-old War Memorial Stadium. It seems to me that Hammer doesn’t think the stadium should undergo some…
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G’boro’s empty bowl of red clay
Sticking with today’s theme, the N&R editorializes on the Greensboro City Council’s vote to kill the proposed coliseum amphitheater, calling it ‘penny wise and pound foolish.’ (Funny, that’s how John…
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GSO amphitheater: half a million
Pretty incredible debate during last night’s Greensboro City Council meeting that hopefully the N&R will pick up on. Surely the Rhino will have something tomorrow. Triad Watch warned us to…
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Government shell game
It should come as no surprise that Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston tried to strong-arm Mayor Bill Knight and Greensboro City Council members Nancy Vaughan and Danny Thompson on the…
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A Greensboro tale
I won’t rant and rave, I’ll just lay it out and leave it open for individual interpretation: Developer asks the City of Greensboro for a $100,000 forgivable loan for a…
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Matt Brown — live!
Greensboro’s highest-paid employee made a rare appearance before the City Council during last night’s meeting. Coliseum director Matt Brown was called ot the podium by council member Mary Rakestraw to…
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Winston-Salem bails out ‘community developer’—again
The Winston-Salem City Council unanimously voted last night to bail out Goler Community Development’s investment in three acres of downtown land. The details: Goler’s redevelopment has not been without bumps…