The City Council is holding a work session next month to discuss a proposed economic development incentive policy. The council was expected to pass the new policy at its meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 16, until Councilmember Sharon Hightower brought up a new requirement that the council had not considered during its three work sessions on economic development in November and December.

All nine seats on the Greensboro City Council, including mayor, are up for election in 2021, but it may be that the 2021 election won’t be held until 2022.

In this topsy-turvy coronavirus world, it’s time for high school football.

Both the Men’s and Women’s Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Basketball Tournaments will be played at the Greensboro Coliseum the first two weeks of March.

However, at least one commission has escaped this effort for race and gender equity.  The Commission on the Status of Women has no gender diversity at all.  The City Council has appointed nine women to the nine-member commission. The last appointment in December 2020 was after the City Council held an entire work session to discuss race and gender equity on boards and commissions.  And that appointment was another woman, making no move toward bringing the Commission on the Status of Women in line with the demographics of Greensboro, where 46.5 percent of the population is male.