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Lame duck Gboro council gonna get to spend some big money….
On two downtown parking decks: City Council will consider Tuesday whether to spend $56 million on two parking decks, one of which would be part of a Westin hotel complex…
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Greensboro City Council moves further left
…Which in a way was not hard to do….Still both the council’s lone conservative—District 5 representative Tony Wilkins–and its lone moderate conservative– at-large representative Mike Barber–both lost their seats in…
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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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Your insane media update
As I’ve said a million times, some days I really scratch my head and wonder exactly what goes on inside the heads of the so-called brains in local mainstream media.…
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Gboro mayoral election issue presents itself
Bringing you up to speed, Greensboro has been front and center in the debate over police cam videos. The latest case involves Jose Charles, the teenager who was arrested and…
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Gboro “intersection”—greenway and….roundabouts?
Rhino Times editor John Hammer’s column addresses one of Greensboro’s busiest commercial “intersections”—-Lawndale Drive, Westover Terrace, Battleground Avenue and Green Valley Road. Hammer writes “you really can’t call whatever goes…
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Tense Gboro council meeting over civil rights museum
Things got a little testy—good–at last night’s Greensboro City Council debate and discussion over the International Civil Rights Center and Museum’s ongoing financial problems. What made the discussion tense was…
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A recent history of Gboro bonds
Right now Greensboro’s proposed bond referendum sits at $178 million. It’s not on the ballot yet but odds are it will be considering—as Rhino editor John Hammer puts it, City…
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Gboro council buckling on former chief’s lawsuit?
News & Record reports Greensboro City Council member Mike Barber sent an email to his fellow council members suggesting not only that the city settle with former Police Chief David…
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Gboro BID tax controversy update
For starters, the Greensboro News & Record is not happy with the way the Gboro council’s public hearing on the contract for the downtown Business Improvement District (BID) tax played…
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Gboro BID tax controversy
As required by a General Assembly law passed last year, the Greensboro City Council put out to bid management of the city’s downtown Business Improvement District and the tax money…