Author: John Hammer

It’s what’s not on the agenda for the last scheduled meeting of the Greensboro City Council in 2023 that’s the big story.

While nobody wants to pay taxes, if you happen to be someone who pays millions of dollars in taxes every year, you would probably like to have that recognized.

The 2024 general election is nearly 11 months away – on Tuesday, Nov. 5 – but it’s not too early for the Rhino Times to project some winners.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation has some bad news for teen drivers hoping to get their Level 2 permits after completing six months at Level 1.

The Greensboro City Council Work Session on Thursday, Dec. 14 beginning at 2 p.m. is going to be a real work session without much room for holiday cheer or fun.

The Greensboro Police Department (GPD) is getting into the Christmas spirit with Operation Yuletide, which will bring some holiday cheer to good people who are experiencing rough times.

With the filing deadline for the 2024 election a few days away, the North Carolina District 62 State House Republican primary is getting crowded.

A year ago in December 2022, District 59 state Rep. Jon Hardister announced he was considering running for North Carolina commissioner of labor and would make a decision over the holidays.

At the Tuesday, Dec. 4 meeting the Greensboro City Council delayed the implementation of the short term rental ordinance to April 1, 2024.

According to a recent study, the arts and culture in Guilford County accounted for $240 million in economic activity in 2022.

Sixth District Congressional Rep. Kathy Manning, on Thursday, Dec. 7, announced that she would not be running for re-election.

Recycling in Greensboro can be complicated and confusing.

It may seem like common sense that, when helping the homeless population, it is necessary to go to them and not expect them to come to you.

The Greensboro City Council voted unanimously to allocate an additional $100,000 to provide hotel rooms for the homeless at the Tuesday, Dec. 5 meeting.

Supporters of Palestinians in Gaza took over the Tuesday, Dec. 5 meeting of the Greensboro City Council.

Filing for the 2024 election in North Carolina officially opened at noon on Monday, Dec. 4 and 17 candidates filed in Guilford County.

Despite massive tax increases the past two years, Greensboro isn’t spending enough money to maintain its streets to the same level as similar municipalities in the state that have lower and, in some cases, much lower property tax rates.

Last week the City of Greensboro Office of Sustainability and Resilience launched its “Leave the Leaves” program.

At the Tuesday, Dec. 5 meeting, the Greensboro City Council is expected to vote to delay the implementation of the controversial short term rental ordinance it passed in May.

If the Downtown Greensboro Festival of Lights is Friday, Dec. 1, that means the Greensboro Holiday Parade is Saturday, Dec. 2.

The Greensboro City Council is set to get some bad news about speed bumps, speed humps and other traffic calming devices at the work session on Thursday, Nov. 30.

The Greensboro Aquatic Center (GAC) is open to swimmers of all skill levels. However, from Wednesday, Nov. 29 through Saturday, Dec. 2, the GAC will be hosting some of the top swimmers in the world.

The City of Greensboro is really into this “Leave the Leaves” thing.

Greensboro has no shortage of festivals, and what many people say is their favorite, the Downtown Greensboro Festival of Lights, is Friday, Dec. 1 beginning at 5:30 p.m. and ending whenever people go home.

Greensboro City Manager Tai Jaiyeoba wants to provide water and sewer service to the town of Pleasant Garden.

The City of Greensboro has come up with a new solution to the controversial end of loose leaf collection.

Former Republican State Rep. John Blust has announced he’s coming out of political retirement and running for the open North Carolina House District 62 seat in 2024.

The Greensboro City Council is meeting on Monday, Nov. 6 at 5:30 p.m. in the Katie Dorsett Council Chamber, instead of meeting on its regular meeting day, which is Tuesday.

It’s that time of year again, when for a couple of days or weeks everyone is confused about what time it is.

If you’ve always wanted to own a gently used theater in downtown Greensboro, this is your chance.

It appears Greensboro is planning to extend water and sewer service to the town of Pleasant...

The controversy over a proposed casino on 192 acres on US 220 in Rockingham County near the Guilford County line is far from over.

While the new North Carolina congressional districts sucked up most of the press, the North Carolina legislature also approved new maps for the North Carolina state House and state Senate Districts.

Toyota announced another expansion of the battery plant now under construction at the Greensboro Randolph Megasite on Tuesday, Oct. 31.

Any college or university can have a homecoming, but only one university has the Greatest Homecoming on Earth and that is North Carolina Agriculture and Technology State University in Greensboro.

Greensboro didn’t do well in the 2023 legislative session.

It is difficult to overstate the incompetence of Greensboro’s first Intergovernmental Relations Manager LaToya Caesar-Crawford.

It didn’t take long for former 6th District Congressman Mark Walker to announce that he wanted his old seat back.

There is sure to be a lot of bobbing and weaving at the Greensboro City Council work session at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26 in the Plaza Level Conference Room.

It looks like Lake Townsend is going to be the place to be and be seen on Thursday, Oct. 26.

The North Carolina state Senate is expected to approve a new congressional redistricting map Tuesday, Oct. 24.

If you’ve always kind of enjoyed raking all those leaves to edge of your yard and having the city come by with a huge truck mounted vacuum and hauling them away, it’s time to get out there and start raking because that program is coming to an end.

The push to legalize more casinos in North Carolina appears to be a dead issue for now in Raleigh, but the controversy in Rockingham County flared up at a meeting of the Rockingham County Board of Commissioners on Monday, Oct. 16.

The economic development of downtown Greensboro continues on an upward trend according to President of Downtown Greensboro Inc.  (DGI) and Greensboro City Councilmember Zack Matheny, speaking at the annual fall event sponsored by DGI held at the Cadillac Service Garage on East Market Street on Thursday, Oct. 19.

The City Council approved three annexation and original zoning requests at the Tuesday, Oct. 17 meeting.

The North Carolina legislature has released the redistricting maps for congressional, state Senate and state House districts.

At the Tuesday, Oct. 17 meeting, the discussion on funding the pallet shelters for a second year morphed into a discussion on how Greensboro was attracting more homeless people to the city.

Last year, the Doorway Project, which placed pallet shelters for the homeless on the ball field at Pomona Park, was controversial.