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Late this week Judge Jack McConnell issued a ruling in a US District Court in Rhode Island that ordered the Trump Administration to fully fund the government’s SNAP program that provides funds for low-income families, households and individuals to buy food.  Guilford County leaders – who are trying to keep food on the table for poor county residents – may have been pleased with that order and breathed a sigh of relief; however, soon after, the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court for an emergency block on the order.  

The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office is now providing information regarding an incident that occurred at the county’s Greensboro Detention Center on Thursday, August 14, involving 27-year-old Kurtis Darko Asante.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, Asante had been arrested by the Greensboro Police Department around 3:50 p.m. that day on a second-degree trespassing charge and he was transported to the Guilford County Detention Center in Greensboro….

“Surprise!”

At a top-secret ceremony in downtown Greensboro just after 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 28, the assembled group, a Who’s Who of area leaders, didn’t actually shout out that word. However, a very confused Kay Cashion – who’s been a Guilford County commissioner for over two decades – was clearly both surprised and confused.

Everyone had kept this secret from the birthday girl: that the Guilford County Board of Commissioners had decided to dedicate the county-owned building at 201 South Greene St. in Greensboro to Cashion and name it after her thanks to her long-time public service…