My best friend is not fond of the heat and is not an early riser, so we usually take walks late at night. It’s quiet, peaceful, cool, or at least cooler then it is during the day and, as long as you’re not scared of the dark, a...
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If you thought that since the budget was passed the Greensboro City Council was going to get to...
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The word on the street is that the agreement signed in April between Rocky Scarfone, owner of the...
Read MoreThe shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis last week hit home for those of us in the newspaper business. We are accustomed to covering and writing about shootings in other places, but the fact that a lone gunman...
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Although the November election is not on most people’s minds right now, the negative advertising...
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Imagine Center City and LeBauer parks covered with tents, tarps and shelters made of cardboard,...
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If you have read the salary issues for the past three weeks and think government salaries are high, you’ll be shocked this week because we are running the top 100 salaries for the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and North Carolina A&T State University.
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Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Alan Branson managed to pull off what in...
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It looks like Greensboro won’t be getting a new skyscraper this go round, but a parking deck,...
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Greensboro held five public forums in the past week, ostensibly to get input on a range of...
Read MoreThe Democratic leadership is shocked that New York Congressman Joe Crowley lost the Democratic primary on Tuesday to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Crowley was the fourth ranking Democrat in the House and considered one of the...
Read MoreThe Democrats keep losing political races. In 2016, their unbeatable candidate for president managed to snare defeat from the jaws of victory. But it wasn’t her fault – it was the fault of the awful people who voted for...
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Late Monday night, June 25, a press conference was scheduled for Tuesday to talk about the Cure...
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The Guilford County Board of Education deserves to be congratulated. While the salaries of other...
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What the Greensboro City Council did on Tuesday, June 19, was agree on how to spend $543 million...
Read MoreReading the report of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, it is obvious that Dr. Jill McCabe, the wife of fired FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe, was recruited by the Clinton machine to run for office and then...
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New York Times best-selling author Jerry Bledsoe has a new book out. Bledsoe – who was a columnist...
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The 2018 City of Greensboro salary list has some changes at the top and bottom. Coliseum Director...
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The Greensboro City Council held its in-depth discussion of the budget at its work session on...
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This is the tale of two bills. The first one requested by the Greensboro City Council could be...
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One of the perks of being a journalist is you get to have fancy lunches with important people. So...
Read MoreWhen President Donald Trump called North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un “Little Rocket Man” and said that his nuclear button was bigger than Kim’s and it worked, the mainstream media went ballistic and said that Trump was starting...
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The Guilford County salary list for the 2017-2018 budget year doesn’t have any big surprises but...
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Republican State Sen. Trudy Wade is in the midst of her 15 minutes of fame, although it may be...
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Just when you think that rational thought has been banned from the Council Chambers, the...
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If it’s the job of the Greensboro City Council to listen to complaints from any citizen who walks...
Read MoreThe saying that if you repeat something often enough people will think it’s true certainly is the case for the media reporting on President Donald Trump. It has been reported so many times that Trump said that he fired FBI...
Read MoreTo no one’s surprise, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the budget passed by the Republican state legislature. It really doesn’t make any difference. The Republicans don’t care because they have the votes to override the veto....
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It’s just like old times – Greensboro is once again being sued by a former Greensboro police...
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On Wednesday, May 30, the North Carolina state Senate, by a 36-to-14 vote, gave initial approval...
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The public hearing on the $542 million Greensboro 2018-2019 budget is Tuesday, June 5 at 5:30 p.m....
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It’s not your grandfather’s Republican Party anymore. If you think the Republican Party is made up...
Read MoreThe Washington Post – in an attempt to defend the FBI for spying on the Trump campaign – is claiming that for President Donald Trump to say that the FBI spied on his campaign is false because the FBI doesn’t call it spying. In...
Read MoreCity Councilmember Michelle Kennedy is asking for a correction of the article about the budget work session, but we stand by the story that states she objected to the funding for Sanctuary House. Kennedy says that she is a...
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A large part of east Greensboro was officially designated as a North Carolina opportunity zone on...
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Most people aren’t interested in the city budget. It’s a bunch of numbers that don’t make much...
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The News & Record building at 200 E. Market St. owned by BH Media Group, a subsidiary of...
Read MoreThe mainstream media reporting on Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian attorney who he was told had dirt on Hillary Clinton covers it as if having a meeting to get dirt on a political opponent is illegal in and of itself....
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J.J., The Rhinoceros Times office cat, died Saturday of cancer. J.J. was 11 years old. As an...
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...
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The News & Record building at 200 E. Market St. owned by BH Media Group, a subsidiary of...
Read MoreSo the FBI had a spy inside the Trump for president campaign. It seems all the big time journalists know who it is but aren’t telling. Rush Limbaugh says he knows the name but it isn’t one that would mean anything to most...
Read MoreThere is a solution to the panhandling problem that plagues downtown businesses that doesn’t involve arresting people, new laws or any government intervention at all. This is a problem that can be solved completely by the people...
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The saga of the two proposed downtown parking decks continues. As far as the proposed parking deck...
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The Greensboro City Council spent over two hours discussing the solicitation ordinance it had...
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A long-standing Guilford County election tradition is not dead yet, but Tuesday night it looked...
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The Rhino Times is retracting and correcting the portion of the article with the headline “Get...
Read MoreAccording to news reports, special prosecutor Bob Mueller has threatened to subpoena President Donald Trump if he doesn’t agree to be questioned by Mueller. If it comes down to that, I hope that Trump refuses and takes the case...
Read MoreNews & Record editorial page editor Steven Doyle had a column in the paper on Wednesday, April 25, that made me wonder what planet he is living on, because it’s not planet Earth. The funny thing is that I agree with Doyle’s...
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Here is an aspect that seems to have been overlooked in the hoopla following Mayor Nancy Vaughan’s...
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