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Posted by John Hammer | Apr 26, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
Tuesday night was a doozy of a Greensboro City Council meeting and it was City Manager Jim...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 26, 2018 | Archives, Shorts
The April Schmoozefest is Thursday, April 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Loaded Grape at 2915 Battleground Ave. Free snacks, beer and wine will be provided to all business professionals who sign in and wear a name tag while supplies...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 26, 2018 | Archives, Under the Hammer
Reading the Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights, is a pretty scary practice these days. Even strict constructionist don’t seem to actually believe that the rights guaranteed to Americans in the Bill of Rights should be...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 24, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
The two new parking decks planned for downtown Greensboro have taken a bizarre twist. According to...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 19, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News, Other
Early voting opens Thursday, April 19 for the May 8 primary. So far most of the races have been...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 19, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News, Weekly Hammer
The good news is that Cafe Europa will be staying right where it is – in the city-owned Cultural...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 19, 2018 | Archives, Weekly Hammer
In all the news coverage of the severe thunderstorms and tornados that caused so much damage in...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 19, 2018 | Archives, Under the Hammer
Finally something all Americans can agree on: Former Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta said that former FBI Director Jim Comey was an idiot, “an honest idiot but … an idiot” in an interview on CNN. Trump supporters...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 18, 2018 | Archives, Shorts
Preservation Greensboro Julian Price House Tour Tours of the Julian Price House in Fisher Park...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 12, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
The Greensboro City Council opened its small group meetings or mini-work sessions to the public...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 12, 2018 | Archives, Weekly Hammer
I have never been a big fan of the Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise program, mainly because I have always said that it was designed to discriminate against people who look like me. City Councilmembers and city staff have...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 12, 2018 | Archives, Under the Hammer
It’s hard to believe the Facebook scandal is a scandal at all. How did people think that Facebook came to be worth over $50 billion dollars allowing anybody to post nearly anything for free? Did they think that if they posted...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 12, 2018 | Archives, Shorts
It turns out old politicians never go away, they just go out to lunch with each other. Former...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 5, 2018 | Archives, Shorts
The Julian Price House in Fisher Park – which was already famous and made much more famous when an episode of Hoarders was filmed there – will be open for tours in April. Julian Price was the president of Jefferson Standard Life...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 5, 2018 | Archives, Under the Hammer
According to the mainstream media, the Republicans are toast in the 2018 elections, the Democrats are going to sweep into majorities in the House and Senate, impeach Donald Trump and everyone in the world will be smarter,...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 5, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
The City Council chambers were full for the monthly City Council town hall meeting, with the main...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Apr 5, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
The Greensboro City Council agreed to a settlement on an easement dispute over the February One...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 29, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
Mayor Nancy Vaughan says she is going to make the City Council more transparent, which, as she...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 29, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
I don’t think we are supposed to call what is being planned for the downtown area streetscaping,...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 29, 2018 | Archives, Under the Hammer
Last week Congress passed a $1.3 trillion budget and President Donald J. Trump signed the bill that is over 2,000 pages long into law. Congress was given less than 24 hours to read it, so nobody actually knew what was in the...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 29, 2018 | Archives, Weekly Hammer
The News & Record has never been one to let the facts get in its way, and it is in the midst of an all-out campaign against the proposed new parking deck and Westin Hotel complex on February One Place because the city can’t...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 29, 2018 | Archives, Shorts
The next Schmoozefest is Thursday, March 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Community Theatre of Greensboro at 520 S. Elm St. There is plenty of parking at the Railyard, which can be entered from Barnhardt or Lewis streets. The entrance...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 22, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
The federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – which according to the mainstream media primarily benefits...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 22, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
No city councilmember came down from the dais to give the folks from Publix Super Markets a big...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 22, 2018 | Archives, Shorts
The next Schmoozefest is Thursday, March 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Community Theatre of Greensboro at 520 S. Elm St. Free snacks, beer and wine will be provided to all business professionals who sign in and get a name tag while...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 22, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
The City of Greensboro may start giving preference to businesses located in Guilford County when...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 22, 2018 | Archives, Under the Hammer
Why should the special prosecutor be completely unsupervised and have an open ended investigation? Wouldn’t it make more sense if the special prosecutor’s role was more narrowly defined and he answered to someone outside the...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 15, 2018 | Archives, Under the Hammer
The House Intelligence Committee has completed its investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government and will issue a report saying that it found no evidence of collusion. They did find evidence...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 15, 2018 | Archives, Shorts
The next Schmoozefest is Thursday, March 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Community Theatre of Greensboro at 520 S. Elm St. Free snacks, beer and wine will be provided to all business professionals who sign in and get a name tag while...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 15, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
Greensboro may soon be getting 1,000 “very well paying jobs,” according to Mayor Nancy Vaughan....
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 15, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
The Greensboro City Council has plenty on its plate right now. City Manager Jim Westmoreland is...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 8, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
Council Encourages Mind-Numbing Repetition Boring is the best way to describe the...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 8, 2018 | Archives, Weekly Hammer
A tale of two cities and two city projects: Early in 2011, Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins said...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 8, 2018 | Archives, Weekly Hammer
The February One Place city parking deck and Westin Hotel complex is still on hold. Superior Court...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 8, 2018 | Archives, Under the Hammer
Trump lost his chief economic advisor, Gary Cohn, to his call for tariffs. People who don’t like Trump lament the loss of Cohn, but it didn’t appear that Cohn and Trump were in much agreement on economic policies anyway, so it...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 8, 2018 | Archives, Shorts
The Natural Resources Defense Council is running full-page newspaper ads, radio commercials and ads on the web against District 27 state Sen. Trudy Wade. That’s politics, and Wade – who is an up-and-coming leader in the...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 2, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
Greensboro City Manager Jim Westmoreland, who has been city manager since 2014, announced his...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 1, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, Guilford, News, Other
Filing for the 2018 elections closed at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 28, which means no new candidates...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 1, 2018 | Archives, Shorts
I learned a long time ago that you can’t trust daffodils as a sign of spring. I’ve taken too many photos of daffodils in bloom in the snow. What blooming daffodils prove is that we’ve had a couple of warm days but not that...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 1, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
The status of the February 1 Place parking deck and Westin Hotel complex is on hold. It is still...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Mar 1, 2018 | Archives, Under the Hammer
Judging from how the Democrats have been acting, they want to see some folks go to jail over this whole Trump-Russia collusion thing. But at this point it looks like the ones most likely to go to jail are Hillary Clinton...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 22, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
If you missed the Tuesday, Feb. 20 meeting of the Greensboro City Council, you didn’t miss much. ...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 22, 2018 | Archives, News, Other
State politics with a Democratic governor and a Republican legislature has had some bizarre twists...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 22, 2018 | Archives, Weekly Hammer
I picked up my News & Record on Wednesday expecting to read about the layoffs at the News & Record that occurred Tuesday, Feb. 20, but there was no mention of it. I do know that columnist Susan Ladd and editorial writer...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 22, 2018 | Archives, Weekly Hammer
Here’s an interesting update on the Café Europa saga. Assistant City Manager Chris Wilson said that the request for proposal (RFP) process was being used for Café Europa because the same process had been used for the Gillespie...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 22, 2018 | Archives, Under the Hammer
After a shooting like the one in Florida, there is always talk of banning the particular type of gun used in the shooting – which serves little purpose. There is a way to ban firearms in the US. It’s a method that has been used...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 22, 2018 | Archives, Shorts
The Rhino Times Schmoozefest returns Thursday, Feb. 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Four Flocks and Larder at 433 Spring Garden St. Free snacks and beer and wine while supplies last for those who sign in and wear a name tag. *****...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 15, 2018 | Archives, Under the Hammer
The mainstream media are obsessed with the resignation of Rob Porter because of accusations of domestic abuse by two former wives. Considering how fast the federal government does anything, the timeline that White House Press...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 15, 2018 | Archives, Greensboro, News
Councilmembers officially got one to two minutes to express their views on priorities at the...
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 15, 2018 | Archives, Guilford, News, Other
So far the biggest news to come from the opening of filing for the 2018 elections at noon on Feb....
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