The highest paid teacher on the Guilford County Schools (GCS) payroll, Mark Jewell, hasn’t worked for the school system since 2012, lives in Raleigh and currently heads up the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) – a...
Read MoreThe National Association of Counties (NACo) annual convention each summer is usually held in an exciting place such as Hawaii or Las Vegas, and taxpayers sometimes question whether the county commissioners who attend those...
Read MoreRingless voice mail drops are a non-nuisance form of messaging and are an alternative to robo-calls and it really does put the power in those consumers hands where they can listen to the message or not listen to the message....
Read MoreThe Guilford County Animal Shelter is moving to a new site very near the current site and closer to High Point than the existing shelter. Located in the I-40 corridor, Guilford County commissioners say the new site is convenient...
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Guilford County and the towns of Stokesdale, Oak Ridge and Summerfield have chosen...
Read MoreTwo big-name movers and shakers in Winston-Salem – including the mayor – have been named to the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority (PTAA), and airport officials hope that the men’s strong business connections can help bring more...
Read MoreMost people can’t pull money out of thin air. However, it turns out county budget directors do have that near magical ability – and that trick came in handy on Thursday, June 15, when the Guilford County Board of Commissioners...
Read MoreA school facilities and district line study sounds like the most boring thing in the world, so it’s a wonder that the new joint Guilford County Board of Education and Guilford County Board of Commissioners school study has...
Read MoreGuilford County officials always seek ways for the county to be a leader in the state – but no one wanted the county to be the leader in new gonorrhea cases. Guilford County is number one among major counties in the spread of...
Read MoreRingless voice mail drops are a non-nuisance form of messaging and are an alternative to robo-calls and it really does put the power in those consumers hands where they can listen to the message or not listen to the message....
Read MoreOne lesson that can be taken from the Democratic political war that took place in April in Guilford County Board of Commissioners District 8 is this: Don’t cross Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston. The District 8 precinct,...
Read MoreThe Guilford County Board of Commissioners has agreed on a budget deal that will keep county property taxes at current levels (though with a reduced tax rate), fund $5 million more in operating funds to Guilford County Schools...
Read MoreThe number of adult protective services cases taken on by the Guilford County Division of Social Services (DSS) has skyrocketed in recent years. One key component of that is “elder abuse” – when older people who are physically...
Read MoreThis may be the biggest, most important and most widely read column I’ve ever written. I say that because I’ve been lucky enough to have gotten (and I say this modestly) the scoop of the century: complete specs, pricing...
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The Guilford County commissioners are never more popular than they are each year in early June...
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The Guilford County Health Division has fallen way behind in restaurant inspections and is not...
Read MoreRight now, it’s budget time for Guilford County government, which might not mean much to you (until you get your tax bill!) – but, for me, it means attending a ton of budget meetings until the commissioners adopt the final...
Read MoreOfficials in Guilford County are fed up with the current state of mental health services and aren’t going to take it anymore. The county is now exploring all legal options for a potential pullout from its state mandated...
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Say Yes Guilford took a big hit earlier this year when representatives of the highly touted...
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After shooting bullets into some gelatin over and over again, the Guilford County Sheriff’s...
Read MoreI have this book titled 100 Best Solitaire Games that I’ve been reading. When you are single like I am, you are always doing things like sadly playing solitaire to kill time while all your married friends are living out their...
Read MoreGuilford County finally has an answer to its decade-old question, and that answer is the corner of Vandalia Road and Rehobeth Church Road. That’s where Guilford County will put a long-awaited $20-million Emergency Services...
Read MoreThe Guilford County Republican Party has a new secret weapon – however, due to growing success and widening reputation, that secret weapon is becoming less of a secret every day. Guilford County Republican Party Chairman Troy...
Read MoreGuilford County Manager Marty Lawing’s $606.8 million proposed budget had a little something for everyone – but not as much of that something as some, including school board members, wanted to see. Lawing presented his budget...
Read MorePeople always think that, because the Rhino Times and the News & Record are “competitors,” we don’t get along or we don’t like each other – but, really, nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, we love them and...
Read MoreGuilford County Commissioner Skip Alston has launched a formal protest with the Guilford County Democratic Party over what Alston said was an illegitimate organizational process of a key precinct in District 8 that hurt his...
Read MoreIn spring, young men’s fancy may turn to love, but the fancy of Guilford County Schools officials turns to something else entirely: How much money the Guilford County Board of Commissioners is going to give the county’s school...
Read MoreI accidently swallowed an ice cube whole two days ago and still haven’t passed it yet. I’m not sure how worried I should be and I’m getting very concerned as I write this, but I went ahead and wrote a column anyway … *****...
Read MoreThe State of North Carolina has compiled animal euthanasia numbers from all public animal shelters in the state, and an analysis of those numbers shows that, among the 10 largest counties based on population, Guilford County...
Read MoreWhat in the world is going on in this freakin’ city? I mean, suddenly, everywhere you turn … well, everywhere you turn you can’t actually turn because there’s a giant roadblock or a detour sign or a bulldozer sitting in your way...
Read MoreThe Guilford County Economic Development Alliance (GCEDA) has a brand new logo: a split, green, two-level image of the word “Greensboro” on the left, with a blue, likewise split, “High Point” on the right, with the phrase “you...
Read MoreFormer Democratic Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston has dropped the “former” from that title and added “new” to it. On Thursday, May 4, Alston will be sworn into that position by Guilford County Superior Court Judge...
Read MoreThe Golden Leaf Foundation of North Carolina has awarded $650,000 to the coming Center for Advanced Manufacturing at Guilford Technical Community College (GTCC). That news is making area economic development officials very happy...
Read MoreRecently, I’ve been trying to find someone to marry but I haven’t had much luck. I did get married once before but it didn’t take, so that has left me where I am today – a single man in need of a wife. It hit me recently that...
Read MoreWell, like you, I just sent in my taxes for 2016 and boy are the IRS agents being thorough these days. I don’t know if it has to do with the new presidential administration or with world events or what – but, this year, unlike...
Read MoreThe Guilford County Board of Commissioners just got a lot more interesting – but not as interesting as it could have been. Former five-time chairman of the board and 20-year veteran of it, Skip Alston was elected to the Board of...
Read MoreThe Guilford County Animal Shelter has been reprimanded by the Animal Welfare Section of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services over the treatment of a dog with a broken leg, inadequacies in record...
Read MoreGuilford County is finally entering the big time. It will be joining the state’s other major counties – not to mention the nation’s executive branch – when the county starts a new tradition next week: a televised State of the...
Read MoreIn all, so-called “Red Teams” of Homeland Security agents posing as passengers were able to get weapons past TSA agents in 67 out of 70 tests – a 95 percent failure rate, according to agency officials … This isn’t the first time...
Read MoreThe Executive Committee of the Guilford County Democratic Party held a raucous and chaotic meeting on Tuesday, April 18 that left many Democrats in the room angry and in a state of stunned disbelief after a contingent of white...
Read MoreNearly two years after state investigators found widespread animal neglect and abuse at the Guilford County and Davidson County animal shelters, Marsha Williams, who ran both shelters in 2015 and was charged in Davidson County...
Read MoreThe City of High Point has high hopes that, in the not too distant future, area residents will be saying, “Take me out to the ball park.” A large new $30 million downtown baseball project is the centerpiece of a massive...
Read MoreThe iPhone 6 uses an Apple-designed 64 bit Cortex A8 ARM architecture composed of approximately 1.6 billion transistors. It operates at 1.4 GHZ and can process instructions at a rate of approximately 1.2 instructions every cycle...
Read MoreThe children of Guilford County can celebrate because the Guilford County Board of Commissioners has saved the problem-plagued kiddie train at Northeast Park. Now everyone in Guilford County government has their fingers crossed,...
Read MoreThe wheels of justice are slow but they do turn: A year and a half after felony animal cruelty charges were brought against former Guilford County Animal Shelter Director Marsha Williams, the case is finally ready to move...
Read MoreGuilford County Commissioner Kay Cashion was in rare form when she pointed out, at a public meeting, the irony of the request from the Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship – a business incubator designed to teach budding...
Read MoreDistrict 8 Guilford County Commissioner Ray Trapp is stepping down from the Guilford County Board of Commissioners and former Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston may step in to fill Trapp’s seat....
Read MoreSay Yes Guilford has been answering a lot of questions this week, but many people who previously expected to benefit from that program haven’t liked the answers they’ve been hearing. Say Yes Guilford Communications Director...
Read MoreGuilford County is making it official. The Board of Commissioners has voted to close down Project Haystack – the giant but non-existent 2,000-acre data center park in eastern Guilford County and western Alamance County that was...
Read MoreThou hast set me free. That means that I am free to please thee. And I am going to please thee very much. – Jeannie, from I Dream of Jeannie There are lots of times, I think, that we are all not adventurous...
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