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Gboro police chief retiring
N&R reports Greensboro Police Chief Ken Miller will retire Sept. 1. This is particularly interesting news because just last fall rumors were swirling that Miller was on his way out…
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Just when Terry Wood thought it was safe to retire
Greensboro City Council names Terry Wood interim city attorney while the council searches for a permanent replacement for Mujeeb Shah-Khan, resigned last week over the unsigned civil rights museum contract.…
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Gboro museum contract —criminal or stupid?
N&R reports Greensboro City Council member Tony Wilkins “has asked for an investigation into whether any crimes were committed when city staff members issued a $750,000 check to the International…
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Gboro civil rights museum–the big picture
Latest N&R report on controversy surrounding the payout to the International Civil Rights Center and Museum: City Council members adopted a new rule Tuesday night: no more issuing checks without…
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Another Gboro civil rights museum snafu
That is if you call no signed contract for the first installment of the $1.5m forgivable loan a snafu: When the city wrote the International Civil Rights Center and Museum…
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Gboro civil rights museum misses audit deadline
N&R reports the International Civil Right Museum has missed the deadline to turn over its 2012 audit to the city —a condition of the two-year, $1.5 million forgivable loan the…
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Gboro $1m challenge running behind
Memo from outgoing Greensboro City Manager Denise Turner Roth informs that deadlines for the city’s Strong Cities Strong Communities Challenge have been pushed back yet again in order to better…
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Westmoreland named Gboro city manager
Last night the Greensboro City Council hired Deputy City Manager Jim Westmoreland to replace outgoing City Manager Denise Turner Roth, who is returning to her native D.C. to take a…
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Wilkins rounding up GPAC votes
At Tuesday night’s meeting, Greensboro City Council member Tony Wilkins got three other council members —two of them newly elected —- to vote with him on his motion that property…
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Gboro council: Year of the open wallet
N&R front-pager on the Greensboro City Council’s ‘year of the open wallet’—-$4.35 million in incentives handed out for everything from shopping centers to sitcoms (although –thank goodness—the sitcom deal was…
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The Browns
In a surprise that should come as no surprise, Greensboro Housing Authority pays director Tina Akers Brown $242,000—-far site better than City Manager Denise Turner Roth, even with her $5k…
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GPAC: Devil’s in the details
Greensboro Coliseum director Matt Brown —who will also be running the proposed downtown Tanger Center for the Performing Arts —-wants construction to begin in September ’14. But as the N&R…