Filing for the 2017 Greensboro City Council races opens on Friday, July 7 at noon, and things are already starting to get interesting. District 2 City Councilmember Jamal Fox announced last week that he would not run for...
Read MoreThe Rhino Times Only Schmoozefest of Summer is Thursday, June 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Kickback Jack’s at 1600 Battleground Ave. The Schmoozefest is taking a well deserved summer vacation, so this will be the last Schmoozefest...
Read MoreThe Republicans won another congressional race – this time in Georgia – that according to the mainstream media the Democrats were going to win, thereby demonstrating the unpopularity of President Donald John Trump. It’s the...
Read MoreGreensboro announced Tuesday, June 20, that after rebidding the site work for the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts, it was awarding the contract for Phase 1 to D.H. Griffin Co. at a cost of $1.2 million. It turns out...
Read MoreBig changes may be coming to Buffalo Lake and Lake Jeanette. Both lakes were built and owned by Cone Mills, and when International Textile Group (ITG) bought Cone, it got the lakes as a bonus. Now the lakes are under contract to...
Read MoreThe Greensboro City Council raised taxes 2.1 cents on Tuesday, June 20, with the passage of the 2017-2018 budget. However, most of the discussion was not about the tax increase but about raising wages for employees, both in this...
Read MoreSixth District Congressman Mark Walker was at that congressional baseball team practice where a man with a rifle opened fire. Walker said he was shaken but not hurt. The good news so far is that no one other than the shooter was...
Read MoreThe bias of the news media against President Donald John Trump cannot be exaggerated. Former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by Trump, claims that Trump tried to get him to stop an ongoing investigation. Even if you take...
Read MoreJust because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do it. It seems there is general agreement that in the case of police body-worn cameras, the technology has gotten ahead of the law. But there is a good argument to be...
Read MoreThe Greensboro City Council on Tuesday, June 6, unanimously voted to offer a $1.2 million economic incentive grant to Gateway University Research Park, a joint venture of North Carolina A&T State University and the...
Read MoreThe Greensboro City Council will pass a $533 million budget next week that includes a sizable tax increase and that is, with only a couple of exceptions, the budget that was presented to the council by City Manager Jim...
Read MoreThe Rhino Times First Schmoozefest of Summer is Thursday, June 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Kickback Jack’s at 1600 Battleground Ave. Those who sign in and wear a name tag are welcome to enjoy free hors d’oeuvres and beer and wine...
Read MorePresident Donald John Trump is living and working in a building filled with Barack Obama supporters. It appears that since Trump took office there hasn’t been a single private conversation in the White House. Calling them leaks...
Read MoreThe News & Record has a long history of personal attacks on state Sen. Trudy Wade. Now the News & Observer in Raleigh has joined the party. The N&O apparently believes in the old lawyers adage: “When the law is...
Read MoreFormer Greensboro Police Chief David Wray filed a slander lawsuit against Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan and City Attorney Tom Carruthers last week. This lawsuit seems to be the result of the city forgetting why it refused to...
Read MoreThe Greensboro City Council held its annual public hearing on the budget on Tuesday, June 6 in a full Council Chambers. But the main topic of the evening was not the budget, it was more attacks on Councilmember Mike Barber and...
Read MoreThe city heard back from Trader Joe’s after sending a letter signed by all nine members of the City Council and some emails have been going around among those nine. Trader Joe’s was not impressed. They call the letter a...
Read MorePresident Donald John Trump is living and working in a building filled with Barack Obama supporters. It appears that since Trump took office there hasn’t been a single private conversation in the White House. Calling them leaks...
Read MoreImagine this fictitious event for a moment. There is a break in a sewer line in Greensboro and, during a storm, a large amount of storm water flows into the sewer line causing an overflow at the pump station and millions of...
Read MoreThe Greensboro City Council finally got around to admitting that it is raising taxes this year even though Greensboro currently has the highest tax rate in the state of any comparable city. At the City Council Budget Work...
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The large group of economic development officials, business leaders and elected officials who...
Read MoreThe Rhino Times will hold its Country Club Schmoozefest on Thursday, May 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Starmount Forest Country Club at 1 Sam Sneed Drive. Those who sign in and wear a name tag are welcome to enjoy free hors d’oeuvres...
Read More“It’s silly.” “We have an ordinance that makes no sense.” “We’ve got to get this changed. It’s like a broken record.” Three comments from three members of the Greensboro Board of Adjustment (BOA) during its Monday, May 22...
Read MoreThe Greensboro City Council held a budget work session on Tuesday, May 23 where the City Council discussed budget matters in some detail and gave clear direction to the staff. That may not sound like news, but it is. This City...
Read MoreIt looks like the center of downtown Greensboro is moving northwest a couple of blocks. Wednesday, May 24, GEMCAP and Carolina Investment Partners announced they are building a nine-story, 112,000-square-foot office building on...
Read MoreI can’t remember who was mayor when the City Council first talked about building a skateboard park, and because of a fire at city hall in 1888, those records are not available. If the city had just had a few more buckets perhaps...
Read MoreThe New York Times and The Washington Post served President Donald John Trump a double whammy of scandal this week. According to The NYT, an unnamed associate of former FBI Director James Comey read part of a memo Comey wrote to...
Read MoreTuesday night, May 16, Mayor Nancy Vaughan had another tough City Council meeting, but this one had a much better outcome than the City Council meeting two weeks ago. Vaughan took control, had three people removed from the...
Read MoreThe people of Greensboro are looking at a tax increase and a water rate increase if the fiscal year 2017-2018 budget proposed by City Manager Jim Westmoreland is approved by the City Council. The budget will go into effect on...
Read MoreThe proposed $22.9 billion North Carolina budget released by the state Senate this week takes advantage of the increased revenue – which is the result of tax cuts that have spurred the state’s economy – to increase spending and...
Read MoreThe Rhino Times will hold its Country Club Schmoozefest on Thursday, May 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Starmount Forest Country Club at 1 Sam Sneed Drive. Those who sign in and wear a name tag are welcome to enjoy free hors d’oeuvres...
Read MoreFBI Director Jim Comey was reportedly caught off guard when he was fired by President Donald John Trump. The reports are that when he first heard about it, he thought it was a joke. If that is true then it is simply more proof...
Read MoreThe duplicity of the four members of the Greensboro City Council who held a press conference on Wednesday, May 3 to divulge information about the Jose Charles video is disturbing but not shocking. At the City Council meeting on...
Read MoreThe Greensboro City Council made two major mistakes at its meeting on Tuesday, May 2, which are likely to haunt the city for years. First, the City Council allowed Nelson Johnson and his minions to take over a meeting and run...
Read MoreCrossover in the state legislature was last week, and a bill sponsored by state Sen. Trudy Wade to take away a state-mandated subsidy of newspapers with paid circulation passed the Senate and will move on to the House. The bill...
Read MoreWhile president, Barack Obama said, “Elections have consequences.” It turned out he was wrong. The American people went to the polls last November and rejected the policies of Obama. The people elected a Republican president, a...
Read MoreWhen an elected official can no longer adequately perform the duties of their job, for whatever reason, it is their responsibility to resign. One of the few actual duties of the mayor of Greensboro is to conduct City Council...
Read MoreThe City Council did conduct some business on Tuesday night, May 2, before fleeing the Council Chambers to get away from a disruptive audience. After calling the meeting to order, Mayor Nancy Vaughan said that the council was...
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A semi-impromptu press conference was held Wednesday, May 3, shortly after 3 p.m., outside the...
Read MoreThe Tuesday, May 2 City Council meeting was a sad night for Greensboro and a humiliating night for the City Council. The City Council was forced to leave the dais by an unruly crowd, and councilmembers only returned after the...
Read MorePresident Donald John Trump will have completed his first 100 days in office on Saturday, April 29, but reporters have been writing about that milestone since almost his first day in office. The mainstream media are trying their...
Read MoreThe Rhino Times will hold its April Showers Schmoozefest on Thursday, April 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Blue Agave Mexican Bar & Grill at 3900 Battleground Ave. Those who sign in and wear a name tag are welcome to enjoy free hors...
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 MoreProtestors took over the City of Greensboro’s open house on two proposed parking decks downtown, demanding a public hearing – and got it.
Read MoreThe whole thing about people associated with President Donald John Trump working with Russians reminds me of the political candidate who said his opponent should be disqualified because it was a well-kept secret that the man was...
Read MoreIf the News & Record were a reputable business, the publisher would call state Sen. Trudy Wade and apologize. But the N&R is not reputable. It doesn’t correct its mistakes and has shown little regard for common decency...
Read MoreThe Rhino Times will hold its April Showers Schmoozefest on Thursday, April 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Blue Agave Mexican Bar & Grill at 3900 Battleground Ave. Those who sign in and wear a name tag are welcome to enjoy free hors...
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 MoreProtestors took over the City of Greensboro’s open house on two proposed parking decks downtown, demanding a public hearing – and got it.
Read MorePresident Donald John Trump tweeted that his campaign was “wiretapped” by President Barack Obama’s administration. The mainstream media, the Democrats and even a bunch of Republicans said Trump was paranoid and wrong. In...
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