American cartoonist and creator of Garfield
Mecklenburg County voters recently rejected a sales-tax increase for “arts and parks.” Joseph Coletti places that vote in context of N.C. counties’ overall record on recent sales-tax votes for the…
The Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services met on November 14, 2017. The notes below highlight some of the meeting’s most important developments: Committee Members: Click Here Committee…
High Point Assistant City Manager Randy Hemann told the City Council on Monday that land acquisition for the proposed $30 million downtown baseball stadium should be completed by fall so…
Here is a press release that was sent out this morning from the NC Senate President Pro Tempore’s office: Raleigh, N.C. – Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) on Tuesday announced…
Seems like media coverage of Guilford County’s effort to become a Say Yes to Education community has been favorable—understandable considering the goal of $28 million in private donations appears to…
High Point Enterprise reports City Human Relations Director Al Heggins in May filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the City of High Point. While EEOC…
By a 5-3 vote, the High Point City Council approved Ignite High Point plan for a “library plaza” project at an estimated cost of $2.1 million. The project would “would…
How will turnover in High Point’s City Council election affect efforts to revitalize downtown? Hard to say, especially since a new city manager will be in the mix: The top…
High Point Mayor Bernita Sims resigned yesterday shortly before pleading guilty to passing a worthless check. Sims wrote in her resignation letter: “As a result of recent events in my…
Evergreen Packaging, a large paper mill located in Canton, NC, must replace its coal-fired boilers with a natural gas system in order to comply with new federal regulations. Since the…
As liberal critics of North Carolina’s Republican governor and GOP-led General Assembly gathered for their first so-called “Moral Monday” protest of the 2014 legislative session, the activist group Carolina Rising…
Yesterday, I commented about the walking dead, and how only a piddling 81 in the state showed up to vote. I advocated for more retroactive outreach to the Zombie Community,…