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Greensboro City Council: Halfway there
Greensboro News & Record columnist ponders the halfway point of the current City Council four-year term. Remember four-year terms were approved by voters in 2015, at the suggestion of Trudy…
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New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on a commission set up by Gov. Roy Cooper that urges more state spending on public schools. Sam Hieb’s Daily Journal explores the…
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Greensboro’s ‘historic’ City Council election
It seems somewhat overblown to describe Greensboro’s upcoming City Council election as ‘historic,’ and indeed Rhino Times editor John Hammer says as much in the lede to this week’s column…
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Leftist Greensboro City Council….
It was just the primary yesterday, but go ahead and pencil it in–Greensboro will have another leftist City Council. The lone conservative member of the council –District 5 Representative Tony…
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Gboro council race: quantity is not necessarily quality
Greensboro News & Record editorializes on the upcoming nonpartisan City Council race: Thirty-seven candidates are running, forcing primaries in every race. These preliminaries on Oct. 8 will just narrow the…
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Meanwhile, fourth-grade teachers thank Sen. Wade….
OK I embellish there a bit….A couple of weeks ago I posted on the City of Greensboro’s press release graciously thanking state Sen. Trudy Wade for her help in passing…
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Informed Debate
Common taters responding to an article in the Mountain Xpress about a park proposed for the land across the street from the Basilica St. Lawrence are engaging in discussion I…
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N&R and the late Jackie Manzi
Yet another letter to the editor complaining about the N&R’s obit on former Guilford Commissioner Jackie Manzi, who died last week at age 86. I wasn’t paying attention to local…
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Charlotte primary results (yawn)
Well waiting for results to come in last night is a couple hours of my life that I will never get back. And I say that because absolutely nothing changed…
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One more strange twist in Friendly-Hobbs rezoning
As the Friendly-Hobbs mixed use rezoning case comes down to the wire — the Greensboro City Council will vote on it during tonight’s meeting —-council member Nancy Hoffmann lashed out…
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My Mirror Says the Craziest Things
Alan Ditmore has long been involved in local politics. He used to be a regular common tater at city and county meetings. He is perhaps best known for wearing T-shirts…
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N&R and Gboro council’s ‘legal ploy’
Weekend’s not over — hasn’t even started—but the N&R hasn’t yet analyzed the Greensboro Council’s apparent legal maneuver to fight Sen. Trudy Wade’s bill to restructure the council. Perhaps a…