Author: Scott D. Yost

The 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...

Guilford 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...

Guilford 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...

In 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...

The 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...

The 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...

Former 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...

The 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...

The 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...

The 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...

Guilford 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...

The 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...

Nearly 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...

The 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...

The 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,...

The 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...

Guilford 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...

District 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....

Say 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...

Guilford 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...

District 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...

The 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...

Guilford 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...

Guilford 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...

The 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...

Protestors took over the City of Greensboro’s open house on two proposed parking decks downtown, demanding a public hearing – and got it.

The 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...

The 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,...

In 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...

Say Yes to Education Guilford may soon have to start saying “no” to some students who were expecting to qualify for funding for the program that helps pay college tuition costs for students graduating from Guilford County...

Guilford County officials and animal rights advocates are in a dogfight. And a catfight too. County officials – from Animal Shelter management all the way up to the Board of Commissioners – have been greatly frustrated by recent...

The Guilford County Animal Shelter fired eight employees this week in a mass layoff of former United Animal Coalition (UAC) workers. Some of those former employees said the county had this move planned all along and said the...

“Empty,” “ghost town,” “sparse” – those were words used by Guilford County officials to describe the Don Cameron Campus of Guilford Technical Community College (GTCC) recently. After the Guilford County Board of Commissioners...

The Guilford County Tax Department is breathing a big sigh of relief. That’s because the department just sent out roughly 210,000 notices of new property values to Guilford County homeowners and business owners and, in return,...

When most people think of planes, trains and automobiles, they think of the 1980’s John Hughes’ comedy by that name. However, the phrase has renewed meaning in Guilford County right now because those three modes of...

Thomas Wolfe might not believe you can go home again but the Guilford County commissioners think you can build an animal shelter again in the same place you built it before. Given issues with other sites that have been under...