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Re: Robbie Perkins’ financial troubles
Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins is having financial problems. Perkins owed the IRS $86,000, which he says he has now paid down to $30,000. Perkins also faces foreclosure on the home…
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FBI, IRS investigating Guilford County manager
The Rhino reports both the FBI and the IRS are investigating Guilford County Manager Brenda Jones Fox: The questions being asked by federal authorities revolve largely around three deals Fox…
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Guilford sales tax hike –third time’s the charm
Don’t look now, but some Guilford County commissioners want to put a quarter-cent sales tax hike to yet another a vote: County voters have knocked the idea down twice before…
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Re: N&R endorses Spag
I also noted the irony that the N&R endorsed attorney and local blogger Sam Spagnola in tomorrow’s District 3 Guilford County commissioners primary, while the Rhino endorsed incumbent Linda Shaw.…
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Congressman Billy Yow?
Don’t get me wrong, I think Billy Yow does fine as a Guilford County commissioner, but he’s more than a little rough around the edges and the thought of him…
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Arnold’s reval proposal
A couple of assumptions about Guilford County Commissioner Steve Arnold’s proposal to delay property revaluations. First, Arnold’s making this proposal with no guarantee that he’ll be around to take credit…
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Re: Dell is done
What jumped out at me were the reactions from politicos to the news that Dell is closing it Winston-Salem plant. Locker Room’s Becki Gray weighs in. First you have Rep.…
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Like pulling teeth
Hard to imagine, but Guilford County Commissioners and the Board of Education are going at it again over funding for school maintenance projects. The N&R presents the school board’s side,…
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Mo heading for a showdown with Skip
Big surprise, GCS is more than likely going to ask county commissioners for more money. Commission chairman Skip Alston says too bad, that “(w)hatever we have to do to absorb…
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Life without economic developers –and lawyers
The Greensboro Economic Development Alliance reports that it spends less for every job it recruits than the national average. So who needs a county economic developer, asks Commissioner Billy Yow:…
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According to Billy Yow….
…Guilford County Manager David McNeill will announce his retirement at tomorrow night’s county commissioners’ meeting: Yow said a coalition of commissioners led by new Chairman Melvin “Skip” Alston and Vice…
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A little humor to relieve the tension
Guilford County Commissioner Steve Arnold’s down on early voting: “I move farter and farter away from appreciating the value of early voting,” he said, proposing a shorter term closer to…