This 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...
Read MoreLed by the same organization that created the Women’s March on Washington, this time the group is urging women to refrain from any kind of labor or spending to show the value of women on March 8, 2017. – “A Day Without a...
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 on...
Read MoreThe Say Yes Guilford Scholarship Board is meeting on Thursday, March 30 and, on Thursday afternoon, Say Yes is expected to answer some pressing questions regarding the program. The most important of those is which students will...
Read MoreGuilford County is having trouble attracting NCAA Tournament games, Springsteen concerts and marquee automakers – but one thing this area is having no trouble getting whatsoever is hot-shot economic development officials from...
Read MoreGuilford County government is getting beefed-up guard service and a new security provider. On Friday, March 31, the county’s contract that provides guards for the two courthouses and other county buildings is being transferred...
Read MorePeople, do not be fooled. This is not progress. I know that most of you think that – just because time marches forward and things change – it means that things are constantly and tirelessly improving, but I have some alarming...
Read MoreThe financial shortfall that has caused a major setback for the Say Yes Guilford scholarship program is raising a slew of questions regarding the group’s financial models, transparency, decision-making structure and the...
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 MoreSeventy-six trombones led the big parade With a hundred and ten coronets close at hand. They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos, the dream of ev’ry famous band. – “Professor” Harold Hill, The...
Read MoreThe sad Little Kiddie Train that Couldn’t that’s been stuck in a storage shed at Guilford County’s Northeast Park for over a year – and for almost all of its existence – may come chugging back to life if the Guilford County...
Read MoreThe huge financial fail of Say Yes Guilford – a program established to help Guilford County families pay college tuition for high school graduates – has sent a giant shockwave through the community and left confusion, questions,...
Read MoreIn Kevin Costner’s Field of Dreams, the theme was, “If you build it, they will come” – but now, Guilford County’s key economic development strategy mantra is, “If you train a workforce, they will come.” At times, top area...
Read MoreWe’re certainly not nervous. We’ve done this a few times and we prepare a lot. – Brian Cullinan of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the guy who screwed up the Oscars SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon...
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