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Motion to fire Guilford County mgr. goes nowhere
At last night’s meeting, Guilford County Commissioner Kirk Perkins —good for him —- made a motion to fire County Manager Brenda Jones Fox, who is being investigated by the IRS…
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Tale of two school systems
Alamance-Burlington Schools Interim Superintendent Del Burns has a presented a plan to the school board that will downsize the central office. Note the ‘interim’ before Burns’ title; he’s making way…
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Guilford commissioners spike mgr’s land contract
N&R above the fold headline reads: Manager criticized for land contract But for some reason it’s buried deep in the story that Guilford County commissioners unanimously voted to cancel the…
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Guilford commissioners to vote on downtown hotel
Guilford County commissioners will once again vote on the proposed downtown Greensboro luxury hotel that would be financed with federal stimulus bonds. Commission chairman Skip Alston, who brokered the land…
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Am Ex unveiled
I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge that the N&R unveiled American Express as the double super-secret company looking for incentives from Greensboro and Guilford County to locate a…
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Gee, why did Skip Alston recuse himself?
Funny, I was talking with a fellow blogger on the phone last night and he mentioned that he was watching the Dec. 10 Guilford County Commissioners meeting and thought it…
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Arnold and Winstead: MIA on CM at-risk
Strikes me as odd that Steve Arnold and Mike Winstead, the two Guilford County commissioners in the construction business and who oppose the contractor-at-risk method for construction of the new…
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Getting heads out of the sand
Guilford County Commissioner Mike Winstead after last night’s budget presentation, which includes a 5.46-cent tax increase: Winstead said he was chagrined by the results of the May 6 primary, which…
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‘This is going to be an automatic property tax increase’
Boy, I wish Guilford County could be like the rest of the state, where ballot measure to hike taxes got walloped. True, Guilford followed the state trend by overwhelmingly defeating…
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Yow speaks out on HOT
Before the Guilford County Commissioners approved the resolution supporting the Heart of the Triad, Billy Yow had his say: The steering committee of the Heart of the Triad has gone…
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Some clarity, but not much
Guilford County Schools Superintendent Terry Grier clears up the confusion surrounding Commissioner Linda Shaw’s claim that GCS would get $42 million in insurance money to rebuild Eastern Guilford High School.…
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CYB: ‘Cover Your Butt’
Guilford County Commissioners reject a resolution pursuing legislative approval to raise the county sales tax by one cent. Voting against the measure were Bruce Davis, Carolyn Coleman, Skip Alston, Steve…