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More media disappearing acts….
Word spread on social media…… I've got some horrible news, our publisher Charles Womack waited until we went to print today then shut down the whole paper after 31 years…
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David “Finley” Powell’s tragic end
I read with interest the N&R’s write up on former Piedmont Triad Partnership CEO David Powell, who in 2016 was charged with two felony counts each of embezzlement and for…
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Gboro doubling down on refusal to pay fmr chief’s legal expenses
Greensboro News & Record follows up alt-pub Yes!Weekly’s report that the City of Greensboro will pay Mayor Nancy Vaughan’s legal expenses related to a lawsuit filed by a downtown developer…
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No legal fees for the police chief, but for the mayor….
Interesting the same week we read about former Greensboro Police Chief David Wray going all the way to the NC Court of Appeals—and will probably have to go to the…
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What becomes of Yes! Weekly….
Now that the reporting staff has bolted for former editor Brian Clarey’s new weekly Triad City Beat, which opens its doors today. No word yet on the launch of a…
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Somewhat reliable sources II
Inside Scoop reports former Yes!Weekly editor Brian Clarey is indeed starting his own newspaper. Speculation week –based on somewhat reliable sources –was whether or not Clarey would do his on…
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Evil Art Pope, Part XXXIII
Former Yes!Weekly editor Brian Clarey’s N&R op-ed takes aim at the evil Art Pope and his evil Roses department store: There’s a good chance no one struggling to put together…
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High Point’s ‘Pink Code’
Ignite High Point’s eagerly awaited master plan has been released. New urbanist planner Andres Duany wants HP to become, well, new urbanist. For that to happen, you have to draw…
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Yes! Weekly cans editor
Yes! Weekly has fired Brian Clarey, the alt-weekly’s only editor in its nine-year history. Clarey’s dismissal comes on the heels of a rant against Obamacare on the paper’s Facebook page…
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Downtown Greensboro: Years behind Wichita
Lots going on out there regarding the dispute between the Greensboro City Council and Downtown Greensboro Inc. Yes!Weekly’s Eric Ginsburg on president Ed Wolverton: Wolverton began his position with DGI…
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Re: Marikay Abuzuaiter, C.I.
Sounds like a TV show, eh? Yes!Weekly publishes e-mail correspondence between the Greensboro City Council member and police Detective Rob Finch regarding acts of social justice around town. Maybe I…
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Re: City seeks Yes!Weekly restraining order
Yes! Weekly reports the City of Greensboro unsuccessfully sought a restraining order to stop distribution of yesterday’s story about Greensboro police surveillance of local activists. City Attorney Mujeeb Shah-Khan said…