Quite a Card Dear Editor, Orson Scott Card’s rollicking and keen observations about most anything are often exceptional. His range of interests and level of exuberance, paired with a generally kind and tolerant spirit, are a...
Read MoreA Hardister Thanks Dear Editor, Thank you to the voters of NC House District 59 for the strong vote in the May 8 Republican primary election. It was an honor to achieve a landslide, 43-point victory in this race. Our victory in...
Read MoreTeachers now are complaining about their salaries, not getting raises, and not having money allowed for new programs. Now they stage a big walkout. Let me ask you teachers this: Didn’t you vote for Roy Cooper? You had to have...
Read MoreThe May Rhino Times Schmoozefest is Thursday, May 24 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Greensboro Convention & Visitors Bureau at 2411 W. Gate City Blvd. Free snacks, beer and wine will be provided to all business professionals who...
Read MoreA First Lady of Accomplishments Dear Editor, I write regarding your comments regarding Melania Trump’s “Be Best” campaign and how it makes no sense. In the same article, you mentioned that she had no doubt become leery of...
Read MoreAs our broken immigration system in America, we are seeing evidence of it now with the train and buses coming in. We have illegals on the American side welcome illegals from Mexico to come in. Put them all on a train, and the...
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Tuesday, May 8, a about 89 percent of the voters in Guilford County didn’t vote, so about 11...
Read MoreThe Democrats want us to welcome the illegal immigrant at the border and welcome them in our country with open arms. They don’t want to stop anybody from coming into the country. They say we should welcome everyone. But they...
Read MoreDear Carolyn, I live in Raleigh and was divorced in 2009. Our separation agreement (signed and notarized) states that each parent is to pay one-half of all college expenses. My son is now 18 and daughter 16. My ex is now balking...
Read MoreAccording to reports in the news media, when Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hired Bob Mueller as special prosecutor, he was supposed to give him instructions on what he was to investigate.These reports state that it was...
Read MoreThe May Rhino Times Schmoozefest is Thursday, May 24 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Greensboro Convention & Visitors Bureau at 2411 W. Gate City Blvd. Free snacks, beer and wine will be provided to all business professionals who...
Read MoreMarching Teachers Need to Think Twice Dear Editor, For those teachers who are attending the Raleigh march to pressure the legislature to appropriate yet more funding for the schools, I would suggest their interests would be...
Read MoreRevenge Hurts Bystanders Dear Editor, Is anyone as concerned as I am for the survival of our republic? What will be the future of our government if those who didn’t get the result they desired in the election seek to overturn...
Read MoreHave you noticed how our educators always talk about money, but never about education? % % % It’s horrible what happened in east Greensboro, but we already feed a lot of these kids breakfast and lunch at school. Now they have to...
Read MoreConservatives Don’t Create New Taxes Dear Editor, Mark McDaniel is right; conservatives don’t impose new taxes on consumers. Sales tax killed my small business in England and led me to emigrate. The bathroom renovation business...
Read MoreHey, John, what’s going on with the puzzles in the Rhino? I really miss The New York Times crossword and the Hyper Sudoku. Thanks a lot. Goodbye. % % % Good evening, John. This is Dick in Gibsonville. Really nice article on...
Read MoreHello. I’m truly thankful for the Rhino and the Beep. For without it, I couldn’t speak my mind nor hear the thoughts of others. I’m especially thankful for Roy Carroll and John Hammer and staff for your dedicated effort to keep...
Read MoreMissing Rhino Times Dear Editor, While in Greensboro recently, I ran across the Rhino Times, which conjured up happy memories of the original RT in Charlotte, which, quite frankly, I had forgotten about since you discontinued...
Read MoreCongressman Howard Coble would be the best name for our airport. He served our community, our state faithfully for over 30 years. He was loved by everyone. I can’t think of a better person to have an airport named after than...
Read MoreAirport Renaming Simply Distraction Dear Editor, Regarding the issue of renaming and re-branding the Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTIA). It’s easy to see why the PTIA wants to get this done. Name changing and...
Read MoreNot a Police Fan Dear Editor, The sentiments I recently expressed in this column regarding the psychological profile of police officers have been assailed and challenged by someone who is not brave enough to disclose his...
Read MoreGood morning, Beep. I hear where there’s some school administrator wanting to fit everybody with a box of rocks. What kind of leadership is that? They’re taking us back to the Stone Age. Don’t they know that...
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House sizes are coming down, but the size of apartments is going up. According to preliminary data...
Read MoreDriver Shakedown Dear Editor, What is the point of interstate highways/motorways/autobahns? The Germans who pioneered the concept understood the great economic and personal advantages that accrue from swift, seamless and free...
Read MoreYes, I’d like to clear up several false talking points of the left. One is that McCabe will not – he will receive his pension. He just won’t receive advanced benefits. The other is that for a federal employee to be fired, it’s...
Read MoreMask is Slipping Dear Editor, The mask of the socialist, progressive, radical left has slipped, and I’m thinking they don’t care. These school walkouts supporting gun control should prove once and for all what is going on in the...
Read MoreI believe that most Americans, Republican or Democrat, believe that the Second Amendment right of self-defense against aggression and tyranny is absolutely necessary. But I want to talk about the First Amendment, which is...
Read MoreDowntown Needs Parking to Grow Recently, I posted the question, “What do you want our home town to be? Should we grow or stay as is? If we grow, what does it look like?” Overwhelmingly, the responses confirmed that we need to...
Read MoreCounty to pursue drug dealers, colon, the corporate kind. Since this is a family paper, I cannot describe the county commissioners as I would. So I will just call them fools. There are strict federal and state laws that...
Read MoreIn response to the Beep caller who complains that this president didn’t give him any Social Security boost when people got $1,000 bonuses from their company. We all know that people want to blame this president for everything....
Read MoreSchools Safer Than Homes Dear Editor, Youthful exuberence can result in a severe lack of objectivity. After the extremely rare but recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, there were several student protests. In one, a young...
Read MoreThank you for the papers you leave at the Thomasville Library. I pick some up to take to some of the folks at the senior center. We enjoy reading them, especially your cartoons and your crossword puzzles and sudoku. I like your...
Read MoreWhy Have a City Council? Dear Editor, I read with interest and frustration John Hammer’s article on the City Council retreat. My first comment is “no new taxes!” The City Council needs to work within its budget like taxpayers...
Read MoreThis is for Scott Yost. I graduated from Greensboro Senior High School in 1946. The team was known as the Purple Whirlwind, one of the outstanding teams in the state coached by the legendary Bob Jamison. For the new reporters,...
Read MoreTransgender Athletes Hurt Women’s Sports Dear Editor, Texas is divided as an 18-year-old transgender individual has won the state girls wrestling championship. Mack Beggs was born a female and now identifies as a male. Beggs...
Read MoreNews flash for Scott Yost. The Greensboro-Guilford megasite is in Randolph County near Liberty. Not one inch of it is in Guilford County. And I know Greensboro likes to think they’re the biggest gorilla around. Well, they are...
Read MoreScary Sheriff Dear Editor, You can go online and see police body camera footage from a recent incident in Tennessee. An unarmed driver named Michael Dial was suspected of driving with a suspended license. A car chase ensued....
Read MoreAnother President on Immigration Dear Editor, Here are Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on immigrants and being an American in 1907: “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an...
Read MoreHello, John. Hello, Beep. Pennies are good for one thing. Throwing them in a fountain. However, if my wishes were to come true, I would want more than a penny’s worth. Now that I think about it, I see more nickels, dimes and...
Read MoreFolks, just when you thought you had already heard it all. I have been watching and listening intensely for weeks Sean Hannity’s weeknight show on the Fox News Channel about the fake Russian dossier. One guest panelist this week...
Read MoreCleansing Memo Dear Editor, I’m listening closely for a sound that would be music to the ears of not just me, but of all freedom loving Americans. That would be the sound of the hoof beats of the horses carrying the various...
Read MoreReader Wants to Know Dear Editor, Three questions with respects to the Rhino transparency: Have you ever been to any of the countries or to the African continent? How many minorities are full-time employees at the Rhino? Are you...
Read MoreI don’t claim to be the brightest bulb on the tree, but it looks like to me – I’m watching Channel 8. It’s 12:15, Wednesday – people standing out in the snow freezing cold, snow sticking on their face. It looks like to me that...
Read MoreI would like to thank the Rhino for being the Rhino, and printing great editorials and interesting attitudes about what’s going on in Greensboro. And I’d like to comment about the Greensboro airport changing the name from PTI to...
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by 13th District Congressman Ted Budd In 2012, President Barack Obama went outside the law...
Read MoreLogical Airport Name Dear Editor, It wasn’t so long ago that Greensboro was once referred to as that little town between Horneytown and Climax. Today, Greensboro is the third largest city in North Carolina and it can easily be...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: In Orson Scott Card’s Jan. 4 Uncle Orson Review Everything, Card wrote about My Cousin Vinny as well as the sequal, Back to Brooklyn. Back to Brooklyn’s author, Larry Kelter, was unhappy with the content and...
Read MoreCan’t Have It Both Ways Dear Editor, The alt left is quick to praise “diversity” and yet considers diversity to be about how a person looks, not about how they think or what they do. Politically they believe that a person can...
Read MoreMichael Wolff’s new book is salacious. I mean, it’s really astounding. It’s dossier adieu, version 2. I mean, the investigation by Mueller has uncovered no collaboration, no conspiracy between Trump and his administration and...
Read MoreYes, this is just a comment for the gentleman that called into The Sound of the Beep in this week’s edition, and he said, quote, the $1,000 I may get, I’m going to spend it. The $175,000 he’s going to get, he’s going to put it...
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