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...
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Councilmembers officially got one to two minutes to express their views on priorities at the...
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So far the biggest news to come from the opening of filing for the 2018 elections at noon on Feb....
Read MoreThe 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. ***** Anyone...
Read MoreIt wasn’t that long ago that downtown Greensboro was deserted after 5 p.m. The only people downtown were folks working late in their offices. People didn’t come downtown to eat, drink and be merry. One reason for this, which...
Read MoreThe 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. ***** At...
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It didn’t take long for the new City Council meeting format to break down. Tuesday, Feb. 6, the...
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Café Europa has a loyal and passionate following, but the Greensboro City Council doesn’t care....
Read MoreI’m not a big fan of CNN or any of the news networks, including Fox News for that matter. But after the House Intelligence Committee released the memo on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants, I watched CNN...
Read MoreA speech that lasts an hour and 20 minutes has a lot of different messages, but it seemed like President Donald J. Trump was reaching out to the Democrats in Congress with an olive branch tied to a sword. Everyone in Washington...
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The much beloved Café Europa, which has been a mainstay in the Cultural Arts Center on Davie...
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After over six months of negotiations, on Monday, Jan. 29, Rocky Scarfone and the City of...
Read MoreThe NFL rejected an advertisement for the Super Bowl program that says, “Please Stand,” and was sponsored by American Veterans, as being too politically controversial to allow in the program. The Rhino Times is no stranger to...
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The price of the downtown parking deck at February One Place and Market Street set at $30 million...
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Guilford County may become known as the hot wine capital of the country, if by hot you mean...
Read MoreCampaign finance reports aren’t due until the end of the week, but former District 5 City Councilmember Tony Wilkins has filed his and it has some startling information. Wilkins had $19,823 left in his campaign account at the...
Read MoreForget about Dreamers who have been in this country for at least 10 years and aren’t going anywhere. Forget about the bogus government shutdown that dominated the news cycle for days. These are both smoke screens. The real...
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Director of the Interactive Resource Center (IRC) and City Councilmember Michelle Kennedy last...
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Protestors took over the City of Greensboro’s open house on two proposed parking decks downtown, demanding a public hearing – and got it.
Read MoreIt makes sense when you have different political parties in control of the White House and Congress for there to be big battles about spending and threats of a government shutdown. But it makes no sense with Republicans in...
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I’m doubling down on my complaints about traffic lights in Greensboro. While most people wisely...
Read MoreIt was sad news that the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite was not chosen for the Toyota-Mazda plant. It would have provided the manufacturing jobs that Greensboro needs. Nobody would talk about it on the record, but off the record,...
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Protestors took over the City of Greensboro’s open house on two proposed parking decks downtown, demanding a public hearing – and got it.
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It appears the federal courts are attempting to overturn the North Carolina Constitution and take...
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Cartoonist Bill Lunsford is joining the Rhino herd (which as I just learned is also called a...
Read MoreThe liberal media talks about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients as if enforcing the laws of this country is wrong. President Barack Obama was in office for eight years, and for months he had a...
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Protestors took over the City of Greensboro’s open house on two proposed parking decks downtown, demanding a public hearing – and got it.
Read MoreOK, I drive a car with a big V8. I used every aerosol can I could find, even when forced to buy them at discount stores when regular stores quit carrying them. Charcoal grills, outdoor fire pits, indoor fireplaces, if it’s not...
Read MoreI usually don’t think much about toll roads when I’m on vacation. I stop, pay the toll and go on my way. OK, maybe I complain a little about the cost, but that’s about it. But this year when the Muse and I were traveling in...
Read MoreIt has been almost a year since Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, and none of the dire predictions made by the Democrats and the mainstream media have come to pass. Remember back during the...
Read MoreHappy 2018. This is the last Rhino Times of 2017, which seems incredible. One thing I’ve learned putting out a weekly publication for more than 25 years is that a weekly deadline makes time fly. Last week I had to look up an...
Read MorePresident Donald John Trump and the Republicans did it. They passed a major tax reform bill without a single Democratic vote in the House or Senate. That fact is pretty amazing; not a single Democrat elected to serve in the...
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Protestors took over the City of Greensboro’s open house on two proposed parking decks downtown, demanding a public hearing – and got it.
Read MoreIt seems like Tex and Shirley’s Family Restaurant has always been on Pembroke Road in Friendly Shopping Center serving breakfast, but it won’t be much longer. Tex and Shirley’s is moving, and the last day at its current location...
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Protestors took over the City of Greensboro’s open house on two proposed parking decks downtown, demanding a public hearing – and got it.
Read MoreProtestors took over the City of Greensboro’s open house on two proposed parking decks downtown, demanding a public hearing – and got it.
Read MoreSome people are calling for President Donald John Trump to fire Special Prosecutor Bob Mueller, and even though Mueller is giving the mainstream media plenty of opportunities to attack Trump, firing him would be the wrong move....
Read MoreYankees – or perhaps to be politically correct I should say people who have moved here from northern states – make fun of the way we deal with snow in the South. And perhaps rightly so. At the first mention that there might be...
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Protestors took over the City of Greensboro’s open house on two proposed parking decks downtown, demanding a public hearing – and got it.
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If things go according to plan, on Jan. 8, the final stage of a project that began as an idea...
Read MoreDepending on how much you like snow, last week we either dodged a bullet or missed a great opportunity. Saturday the snow was beautiful but the temperature stayed just high enough to keep much from sticking. A couple of degrees...
Read MoreThere a lot of different ways to look at the win by Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama, in what has been a safe Republican Senate seat for over two decades. But my take is that you had the Washington swamp take on President Donald...
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The new Greensboro City Council was sworn in on Tuesday, Dec. 5, among a multitude of thank yous...
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The 2017 election has barely ended and already the 2018 election is getting underway. Tuesday,...
Read MoreJust another indication of the bias of National Public Radio (NPR). A reporter on Monday was talking about what was, at the time, speculation that President Donald John Trump would reduce the size of the Bears Ears National...
Read MoreYvonne Johnson – who has served on the City Council since 1993 except for two years – as usual was surrounded by children and grandchildren when she took the oath of office on Tuesday night, and then she received a surprise....
Read MoreSome people, including most journalists, work better under deadline pressure. Other people freeze up under pressure and can’t make a decision. In the next month we will find out which group the Republicans in the Senate fit...
Read MoreFor months I have watched a small portion of the Downtown Greenway take shape, and since it has opened, I decided to take a walk down the portion of the Greenway that runs along Fisher Avenue from Greene Street to Eugene Street....
Read MoreThe Greensboro Department of Transportation is holding a workshop from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7 on what to do about Old Battleground Avenue and Cotswald Terrace, an area that has become a mess since the construction of...
Read MoreParticipatory Budgeting – a way for the City Council to give away more money, as if it needed another way – had a huge problem in its first year of operation: People didn’t participate. Less than 100 votes were needed to spend...
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