Remember back when professional athletes were banned from the Olympics because the Olympics was for amateurs? People said that if the Olympics were opened to professional athletes it would ruin the spirit of the games. But the...
Read MoreI was reading the latest spin from the liberal press and they are quoting some “nonpartisan” group about the tax reform that found that it will cause famine, plagues and swarms of insects to infest the US. Well, not exactly, but...
Read MoreWrangler headquarters has been in Greensboro for years, but now we’re getting something a bit more interesting. Wrangler is going to put a pop up store in the old Miller Furniture Building at 314 S. Elm St. The store will...
Read MoreI am tired of reading that the proposed tax cuts will mostly benefit the rich. Yes, they will. The tax cuts can’t benefit the poor because they don’t pay taxes. Any meaningful tax cut has to benefit the rich. The top 1 percent...
Read MoreThe new redistricting plan for the North Carolina state House and state Senate districts in Guilford County – drawn by the special master appointed by the federal court – have been released. The plan was drawn without...
Read MoreThe voter turnout for the City Council election last week was about 15 percent, which is terrible and sounds even worse if you say that 85 percent of the voters stayed home. What drives turnout in most election years is the top...
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The two new parking decks and hotels planned for downtown Greensboro hit another snag at the...
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For the next four years Greensboro will be run by a City Council made up of eight women and one...
Read MoreIt appears that special prosecutor Bob Mueller is doing what federal prosecutors do – they charge somebody at a relatively low level of an organization with a host of crimes and then make a deal to get more information and move...
Read MoreTuesday night, Nov. 7, Greensboro took a turn to the left, but not as sharp a turn as it appeared might happen in the primary when 38 candidates filed to run, including some of the most radical candidates Greensboro has ever...
Read MoreIt wouldn’t be election day without a crisis. Early Tuesday afternoon, due to problems at the substation, two polling places – G04 at Genesis Baptist Church and G05 at Peeler Recreation Center – lost power for the rest of the...
Read MoreHow about starting with some good news. Consumer confidence is higher than it has been since 2000. Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of economic activity. So if consumers are happy the economy clicks along....
Read MoreThey say that time flies when you’re having fun and I must be having a blast because I can’t believe it’s November. It seems like a few minutes ago it was May. Next week a new City Council will be elected and then I think the...
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The 2017 City Council election is historic even before the votes are counted because, for the...
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The Guilford Green Foundation announced Tuesday, Oct. 31 that Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan would...
Read MoreBack in the summer it looked like this City Council election was going to be boring. A couple of names were popping up on the radar screen but nobody that sounded like they were going to mount much of a campaign. But that...
Read MoreCandidates often say, “This is the most important election of our lifetime.” Which makes me think this may be the most important election of your lifetime for you, but not for me. However, the 2017 Greensboro City Council...
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The City Council candidates have had a plethora of forums in the past week. Rather than write...
Read MoreThe “It’s Finally Fall” Schmoozefest is 6 to 8 p.m., Oct. 26 at Rue-Bar, 318 N. Elm St. in downtown Greensboro. For those who sign in and wear a name tag, there will be free beer, wine and snacks while they last. ***** Imagine...
Read MoreAfter years of debate over creating the position, and months of looking for the right person to fill it, Guilford County has finally chosen a public relations specialist dedicated to handling the press, interacting with the...
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Politics is full of surprises. District 2 Greensboro City Council candidate Jim Kee changed his...
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This is City Council candidates’ forum season, with four scheduled this week. Tuesday, Oct. 17,...
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At the Greensboro City Council meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 17, representatives of Blue Bird Taxi...
Read MoreThe Rockingham County commissioners voted unanimously this week to ask the state to allow Rockingham County to place public notices on its own website instead of being forced by state law to buy ads in a paid circulation...
Read MoreIt’s funny when the shoe is on the other foot. When former President Barack Obama used executive orders to implement policies that he couldn’t get through Congress, the Democrats and its public relations arm – the mainstream...
Read MoreThe Greensboro City Council faced challengers from the left and the right in the primary on Tuesday, Oct. 10. Democracy Greensboro, one of the increasing number of organizations that have been spawned by Nelson Johnson of the...
Read MoreIt seemed odd when Steve Bannon left the White House because he was President Donald John Trump’s idea man during the campaign. But now Bannon has revealed why he left the White House and went back to Breitbart. He says he’s...
Read MoreTuesday night there was a good-sized crowd at the Old Guilford County Court House to watch the primary election returns come in, including seven of nine city councilmembers. Gathering at the courthouse for election returns is an...
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All nine members of the City Council made it through the primary, where a total of 38 names were...
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Sixth District Congressman Mark Walker and 13th District Congressman Ted Budd, who both represent...
Read MoreThe News & Record on Wednesday, Oct. 4 blamed state Sen. Trudy Wade for just about everything except the flu pandemic of 1918 and Hurricane Hazel. But that’s what happens when you mess with someone’s pocketbook, or in this...
Read MoreFrom what I’ve been reading, the Republicans in Congress don’t understand what kind of tax reform Americans want. Americans want the kind of tax reform where they pay less in total taxes, not more, or the same but divided up...
Read MoreIn the article last week headlined “High Point Wanted Yes or No on Baseball Stadium Money, County Gave Strong Maybe,” we got some folks confused. A part of the article states that Grasshopper President Donald Moore had posted...
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Early voting for the Greensboro City Council primary ends on Saturday, Oct. 7 and the primary is...
Read MorePresident Donald John Trump is missing his advisors that Chief of Staff John Kelly ran off. He made a big political mistake in getting involved in the Republican Senate primary in Alabama where Roy Moore, who Trump opposed, won....
Read MoreI’ve spent the last couple of weeks immersed in city politics. Usually I’m swimming in politics, but lately it’s been hard to keep my head above water. The City Council election has moved so far left that candidates who would...
Read MoreToday we are launching an all new and improved website. For the past couple of years we have had an electronic page-turn edition, but not a functioning website. The new rhinotimes.com site has all the bells and whistles of an...
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In the City Council primary, early voting is underway and the primary is Tuesday, Oct. 10. This...
Read MorePresident Donald John Trump went to the United Nations and did what you are not supposed to do – he told the truth and he told it in plain, unvarnished language. At the UN, heads of state are supposed to speak in platitudes. The...
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Just Because You Have a Deed, Doesn’t Mean You Own the Land By John Hammer The best part of the...
Read MoreThe first Schmoozefest of fall is Thursday, Sept. 28 from 6 to 8 at Lee’s Sports Bar at 2618 Lawndale Dr. in the shopping center across from Target. Free beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres will be available while supplies last for...
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By John Hammer Tuesday, Sept. 19, the Greensboro City Council met in closed session to discuss the...
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Changes may be coming to the Guilford County court districts according to state Rep. Jon...
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Last week we wrote about the campaign finance reports for the Greensboro mayoral and City Council...
Read MoreEvidently Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thought President Donald Trump wouldn’t punch back. But when Trump joined with the Democrats to raise the debt ceiling and provide emergency...
Read MoreLast November, the voters of Greensboro passed a $126 million bond referendum. At the time, one of the arguments in favor of passing the bonds was that this money would be spent quickly, in part to give the economy in Greensboro...
Read MoreI won’t promise it but I will consider endorsing any City Council candidate who will sign an affadavit promising to finish the Downtown Greenway in my lifetime. I’m 63 and seem to be a good health, so that should give them...
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Follow the money is always good advice in politics. If you are betting on political races, the...
Read MorePresident Donald J. Trump is learning the ways of Washington. If you are going to work in the swamp you have to get used to putting your waders on every morning, and Trump has done that with his decision on Deferred Action for...
Read MoreThe folks who live near the Shops at Friendly who managed to stop a Trader Joe’s from locating on the corner of Hobbs Road and Friendly Avenue might be interested in a report from Business Insider released last month. According...
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