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Posted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 12, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
High Point officials and business leaders who back a proposed baseball stadium and economic...
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Most people know about “the man without a country,” but few people know about the board without a...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 12, 2017 | Archives, Greensboro, Guilford, News
October is here and that can only mean one thing: Guilford County and the City of Greensboro...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 12, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
So, the other day, I’m lying in bed on Wednesday morning just minding my own business in my own...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 5, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The Guilford County Animal Shelter has failed inspection and been hit with civil penalties. On...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 5, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
If anyone wants to know how seriously the City of High Point takes its proposed baseball project...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 5, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Guilford County Health Director Merle Green has won the prestigious Carl Durham Award for...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 5, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Well, I’ve had movies on the brain this week because any day now my new fantastic MoviePass is...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 28, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Sliced bread was invented in 1928 when Otto Rohwedder, of Davenport, Iowa, introduced the first...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 28, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners did an impersonation of the Magic 8 Ball when, to the...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 28, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Guilford County just took a big step forward on two major and long-awaited projects – building a...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 27, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Jenks Crayton, who served as Guilford County tax director for nearly a decade, and who passed away...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 21, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
You might think that, if one of the largest and oldest churches in High Point had collected a...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 21, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The hundreds of opponents of a proposed move to allow blasting at a rock quarry near Pleasant...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 21, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Guilford County’s most watched soap opera, drama, comedy and tragedy all rolled up into one is...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 21, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
The other Sunday night, I was working hard to get some stories in so I could get to a bunch of other very pressing matters and my phone rang. It was my mother calling from Chapel Hill. When I picked up, I knew right away that...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 14, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
By Scott D. Yost Tempers have been flaring in the heated back and forth between Guilford County commissioners and High Point officials over a proposed baseball stadium for downtown High Point. But this week there was a new...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 14, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Just as many celebrities don’t appreciate what’s reported in unauthorized biographies about them,...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 14, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The wheels of justice may turn slowly but, when it comes to elections, time marches on. A recent...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 14, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Wow, this year is really speeding by. It’s already getting cold outside. Already. And it was just spring like two days ago. There is clearly no time whatsoever to waste, so let’s get straight to it.… ***** I was at Atlantic...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 7, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
High Point officials call Guilford County’s coming decision whether or not to participate in a new...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 7, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Clearly the Greensboro community has some image problems right now – and, for once, the 2017 State...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 7, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
On Tuesday, Sept. 5, the Guilford County Register of Deeds office opened the only no-appointment...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 7, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
I saw in the news that downtown Marion, North Carolina, is having a Bigfoot Festival in 2018 and I can promise you that, by doing so, they are going to draw in people from all over the place. It’s really going to be something....
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 31, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Before you get inundated with clever snarky tunes, may I remind you: There WILL come a time that...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 31, 2017 | Archives, County
They say knowledge is power and, in some cases, a lack of knowledge about election procedures may...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 31, 2017 | Archives, County
There has been a whirlwind of frantic activity behind the scenes this week as the Guilford County...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 31, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
At the Thursday morning, August 24 meeting of the Guilford County Economic Development Alliance...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 24, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Last weekend, I decided on a whim that it might be fun to play a round of golf, so I grabbed my...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 24, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
If the proposed High Point baseball stadium and downtown rejuvenation project is as well backed...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 24, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The Guilford County court system has a desperate need for more judges, is struggling hard to keep...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 24, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Now that the Guilford County Board of Commissioners has selected a site for the county’s new animal shelter, the county still has to find a major piece of the puzzle – a new Animal Services director – in order to complete the...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 17, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Last century, there were two trials of the century – the 1925 Scopes Trial and the 1995 O.J....
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 17, 2017 | Archives, Greensboro, News
The Greensboro City Council meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 15 was largely about the events in...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 17, 2017 | Archives, Greensboro, News
The Greensboro City Council is working hard to find the best way to provide citizen oversight of...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 17, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Guilford County has hired a big gun – one of the area’s most recognized attorneys – to help defend the Guilford County Board of Elections in a lawsuit filed against that board by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ)....
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 17, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
In a textbook example of a catch-22, the Guilford County Board of Elections has until Monday,...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 17, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners has made its decision: The land at 979 Guilford College...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 10, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Like you, I just got back from the beach and, for that reason, I have, of course, been thinking a...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 10, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The Guilford County Planning Board hearing concerning a proposed new rock quarry mining project...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 10, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The majority of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners are in favor of not being required to...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 3, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
County Editor Scott Yost is taking a well deserved break from column writing and will return next week. In the meantime, here is a classic Yost Column from 2007. The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy....
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 3, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
When the Guilford County Tax Department got the property tax collection rate up over 99 percent in...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 3, 2017 | Archives, Greensboro, News
It turns out there is more to Greensboro’s $95,000 settlement with Dejuan Yourse than was...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 27, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
County Editor Scott Yost is taking a well deserved break from column writing. In the meantime, here is a classic Yost Column from 2005. I got a call from former Rhino Times school coverer Lauren Slocum the other day....
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 27, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The State of North Carolina has now joined the rest of the country in treating 16- and 17-year-olds in the criminal justice system as juveniles rather than adults – and that could mean big changes for Guilford County government...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 27, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Guilford County Board of Elections Member Don Wendelken has resigned from that board and, by doing...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 20, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Every now and then, when my friends and I want a treat, we will grab something from China’s Best at Lawndale Shopping Center. Over here in my section of town, the place is legendary for its Chinese food, and I would put China’s...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 20, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The most complicated thing about building a new Guilford County Animal Shelter might be selling the old shelter property. Ever since the Guilford County Board of Commissioners decided to relocate the county’s animal shelter and...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 13, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
For centuries, the news has been the news; but now, in 2017, we have a completely brand new phenomenon, the thing that’s suddenly all the rage – fake news. Unlike most people, who rail against it, I consider fake news to be a...
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