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After months of controversy, protests and discussion about southern history, confederate monuments and the appropriate way to remember our history and learn from the past, I was touched by a…
According to the StarNews, Wilmington Police Chief Ralph Evangelous shared the following good news with the City Council on Tuesday: [C]rime within city limits [fell] from 5,385 in 2016 to…
The N&R reports four Greensboro City Council members have negotiated a deal to help keep the International Civil Rights Museum afloat: If approved by the council, the museum would immediately…
The effect is wearing off, and only nine of fifteen headlines in the local daily pertain to the president’s visit to Asheville. And so I turn to another topic: The…
No exaggeration: This is most unbelievably awful thing I’ve heard involving local government since I returned to Charlotte in 2003. Word is now out that City Manager Curt Walton intends…
From the News & Observer on the Durham overtime debacle in the police department: A city audit has found at least $60,000 in overtime paid to a Durham police officer…
The overtime scandal in the Durham Police Department is peeling back layers of crud and revealing just how inept and incompetent the management of the department really is. From The…
As this legislative session begins to wind down, there is an urgency to pass certain legislation before adjournment. And this session many of those urgent bills are to take advantage…
Can I sue Charlotte city attorney Mac McCarley for making blood spurt out my nose? What an arrogant man in spite of having so little to be arrogant about. Thank…
I’m just now getting around to Hoggard’s July 11 post on the Geeensboro Parks and Recreation Commission’s hard work on the $10 million aquatic center, which is part of the…
An idea for a bumper sticker. With everything else going all, the Greensboro City Council (as we speak) is considering high-powered developer Roy Carroll’s mixed-use development near the already-congested intersection…
Buried in the business section of the N&O is an article on the ranking of North Carolina as a place for businesses. Although N.C. fares well in some rankings, The…