Author: John Hammer

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed another bill passed by the North Carolina legislature with bipartisan support.

These are unusual times, so unusual that the Greensboro City Council has scheduled two work sessions less than a week apart.

The Greatest Homecoming On Earth, the homecoming for North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University has been cancelled for 2020, with the exception of the football game.

To have activists groups call for firing the Greensboro city attorney is nothing new. In fact, it should probably be on the job description.

The Greensboro City Council held a work session on Thursday, June 18, narrowly focused on one aspect of Greensboro Police Department stops.

Greensboro City Attorney Chuck Watts explained to the City Council on Tuesday, June 16 that the city had not requested a “stay” in the lawsuit over the death of Marcus Deon Smith.

The Greensboro City Council met virtually from 5:30 to 11:14 p.m. Tuesday, June 16 with one 10-minute break.

The Greensboro City Council approved the vacant big box economic incentive grant and loan for the Freeman Mill Square shopping center at the corner of Freeman Mill Road and Florida Street on Tuesday, June 16.

The Greensboro City Council, after an acrimonious discussion, voted to allocate $250,000 in economic development funds to assist an estimated 50 businesses repair the damage from the vandalism and looting on Saturday, May 30 and Sunday, May 31.

The City Council passed the fiscal year 2020-2021 budget of $602. 4 million on Tuesday by a unanimous vote.

The Greensboro City Council has two public hearings for economic incentive grants on the agenda for the Tuesday, June 16 virtual meeting beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Some city councilmembers say that the vote on the budget is the most important vote of the year, but maybe not this year.

The Greensboro City Council is scheduled to adopt the fiscal year 2020-2021 budget right on schedule at its meeting Tuesday, June 16 at 5:30 p.m.

Some gyms and fitness centers in Wilmington opened last week.

If you are driving through an intersection on a green light and are suddenly T-boned by a car speeding through a red light on the wrong side of the road, you would probably expect the insurance of the driver of the other vehicle to pay for damages and injuries.

If you’re planning on watching the virtual City Council meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, it would be wise to start making some popcorn ahead of time because it’s going to be a long night.

Gov. Roy Cooper’s mantra during the coronavirus has been that his decisions are being made based on “the science, the data and the facts.”

Free parking in downtown Greensboro is not over yet, but free parking in the city’s parking decks is ending on June 15.

People familiar with the “Special Event” permitting process in Greensboro and with Gov. Roy Cooper’s restrictions due to COVID-19 have asked how the recent protests in Greensboro could have been held legally.

An Alamance County Superior Court judge granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) that forbids Ace Speedway in Altamahaw from holding races with spectators in the stands.

The Greensboro City Council didn’t discuss defunding the Police Department at its Tuesday, June 8 budget work session.

Gov. Roy Cooper may hit a grand slam this week and win the game, but currently the score stands at Ace Speedway 3 – Cooper 0.

The Greensboro City Council actually discussed the city budget at the work session on Tuesday, June 9.

The Greensboro City Council decided not to pay $500,000 for the school resource officer (SRO) program in Guilford County Schools at the virtual budget work session on Tuesday, June 9.

Several thousand people gathered in and around LeBauer Park in downtown Greensboro Sunday, June 7 at 2 p.m. to protest against police brutality and systemic racism at the Blackout NC rally.

On Monday, June 8, Greensboro Police Chief Brian James announced some modifications to Greensboro Police Department (GPD) policy following the concerns expressed by many people in the community.

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan rescinded the citywide curfew on Monday, June 8.

Since the executive orders from Gov. Roy Cooper ordering businesses and churches closed and people to stay at home began in March, people particularly, business owners, have complained about the confusing and often contradictory language of the various orders.

The afternoon of Sunday, June 7 saw the largest protest this year in Greensboro with an estimated 5,000 people downtown in and around LeBauer Park.

Friday, June 5, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have allowed bars in North Carolina to open and restaurants to increase their capacity.

Gov. Roy Cooper’s mantra during his rule of North Carolina by executive order has been that his decisions are based on “science, data and facts.”

Greensboro city hall will kinda, sorta reopen for business on Monday, June 8.

The Greensboro City Council has a virtual work session on the 2020-2021 budget scheduled for Tuesday, June 9 at 3:30 p.m.

The Greensboro City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday, June 2 to hold a work session within two weeks on the police policy on descriptions of people stopped as a result of calls to 911.

Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive orders have close to a million North Carolinians out of work, but they have created a lot of work for lawyers.

After being closed since the middle of March, the Greensboro Farmer’s Market is returning home, or almost home.

The Greensboro City Council discussed at length how to respond to the protests, vandalism and looting that took place over the weekend.

Although downtown Greensboro was devastated by vandalism and looting on the nights of Saturday, May 30 and Sunday, May 31, Mayor Nancy Vaughan noted several times at the Tuesday, June 3 City Council meeting that the damage was not limited to downtown businesses.

The Greensboro City Council held what it called a virtual public hearing on the 2020-2021 budget on Tuesday, June 2.

The Greensboro City Council spent most of the Tuesday, June 2 meeting discussing the protests, vandalism and looting that took place mainly in downtown Greensboro Saturday, May 30 and Sunday, May 31.

The Greensboro City Council is scheduled to hold its annual public hearing on the proposed budget on Tuesday, June 2 beginning at 5:30 p.m.

At 9:10 p.m. Monday, June 1, a little over an hour after the citywide curfew imposed by Mayor Nancy Vaughan when into effect, Elm Street in downtown Greensboro was all but deserted with the sidewalks empty and only one car other than police cars in sight.

After two nights of violence in downtown Greensboro, Mayor Nancy Vaughan announced via Facebook and Twitter shortly before noon, Monday, June 1, that she was imposing a citywide curfew.

The COVID-19 crisis has changed the way people work, play, worship and just about everything else. One change that people in Greensboro strongly reacted to was when the city discontinued yard waste collection.

The Greensboro City Council intends to hold the public hearing on the $612 million 2020-2021 budget without allowing the public an opportunity to speak.

For months when Gov. Roy Cooper said that his decisions on how to handle the COVID-19 crisis were based on science, facts and data, people accepted Cooper at his word.

The Greensboro City Council is holding its public hearing required by state law on the 2020-2021 budget virtually on Tuesday, June 2 at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 28, by a bipartisan vote, the North Carolina General Assembly sent Gov. Roy Cooper a message, “We’re back.”

Councilmember Sharon Hightower was the member of the Greensboro City Council who had the most to say about the proposed 2020-2021 budget at the City Council virtual work session on Tuesday, May 26 at 3 p.m.

Gov. Roy Cooper is being sued again over his executive orders.