The Winston-Salem Journal editorializes on the new taxpayer-funded downtown stadium’s construction delays, rightly saying that “(s)omebody ought to give a lot of details, both to... read more >> 1 hour ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
6:20a: Received a robo call from Guilford County Schools advising me that all after school activities have been canceled… except for ACES (after school childcare). The call... read more >> 1 hour ago | Greensboro Topic: News & Info | via: www.hoggsblog.com Tags:
One of the country\'s leading design firms is working in Greensboro this week to help solve a knotty planning problem that has resisted solution for a quarter of a century.The firm... read more >> 9 hours ago | Greensboro Topic: News & Info | via: littleurbanity.blogspot.com Tags:
MOCKSVILLE ? George Allen Mebane IV, of Mocksville, North Carolina, died Friday, November 14, 2008, after an extended illness. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday,... read more >> 9 hours ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: ggoblogger.blogspot.com Tags:
\"Talk about a comeback: Two years after Greensboro almost lost its professional golf tournament, the PGA Tour named the Wyndham Championship its most improved event in 2008.Tournament... read more >> 10 hours ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: ggoblogger.blogspot.com Tags:
I just posted this message to our NightWatch Google group:
I have requested enough food from the Community Foundation’s Thanksgiving fund to feed 100 people. We usually get... read more >> 11 hours ago | Greensboro Topic: News & Info | via: chosenfast.com Tags:
Check the comments over at Chalkboard, where they ask whether or not GCS’ new chief of staff should be hired in light of $5 million in budget cuts.
I’m sure there will be more.
... read more >> 11 hours ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
I’m running short on time this morning, so I’ll leave this passage from a Lexington Dispatch article on Davidson County’s greenway master plan up for individual interpretation... read more >> 22 hours ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
Guilford County Schools is expected to lose $5 million as part of statewide budget cuts.
Superintendent Mo Green has ordered hiring freezes for vacant positions, but….
Not on... read more >> 22 hours ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
No one seems to know what’s up with the construction delays on Winston-Salem’s $22 million taxpayer-funded stadium. Correction — one man — Billy Prim —... read more >> 22 hours ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
\"1983 PGA Golf Greater Greensboro ESPN TV Media BadgeItem number: 2503275814391983 ESPN Greater Greensboro Open TV Media Badge in Excellent condition. With pin on reverse. Measures... read more >> 1 day ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: ggoblogger.blogspot.com Tags:
In case youe missed the ggoblogger on Fox 8, you can go to http://community.myfoxwghp.com/blogs/FOX8_Solutions/2008/11/19/CreateSpacecom#comments and see Melissa Painter\'s report on... read more >> 1 day ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: ggoblogger.blogspot.com Tags:
The Winston-Salem Journal’s feeling the love from the great coming together that helped preserve Pond Mountain. The Journal sings praises not only for the various conservancies,... read more >> 1 day ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
High Point’s City Council voted Tuesday to pan aggressive panhandling. The ordinance makes it a violation to continue soliciting after a first request, to use physically or verbally... read more >> 1 day ago | Greensboro Topic: News & Info | via: chosenfast.com Tags:
I’ve been writing about local efforts to come up with additional emergency winter shelter, and about the increase in requests for assistance and decline in giving. Today’s... read more >> 1 day ago | Greensboro Topic: News & Info | via: chosenfast.com Tags:
Interesting that the N&R mentions the number of residents speaking out on City Manager Mitchell Johnson’s black-book flip-flop while defending the city against black officers’... read more >> 1 day ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
Michael Troy Lewis sentenced to 23 years in prison for his role in the sexual assault of three UNC football players. I guess judge and jury decided not to give him a chance.
... read more >> 1 day ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
Construction on the new, taxpayer-funded downtown Winston-Salem baseball stadium is being delayed while Warthog owners Billy Prim and Flip Filipowski negotiate a buyout after Filipowski’s... read more >> 1 day ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
The Greensboro City Council voted last night to buy the the Canada Dry and Coliseum Inn properties, with council members Mike Barber, Trudy Wade and Mary Rakestraw voting against, with Mayor... read more >> 2 days ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
While still in Raleigh, I read this morning’s N&O account of three UNC football players’ testimony during the trial of Michael Troy Lewis who, along with his female... read more >> 2 days ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
The Greensboro City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on buying the Coliseum Inn on High Point Road, and the plan is to tear down the hotel and sell the property to a developer. ... read more >> 2 days ago | Greensboro Topic: News & Info | via: chosenfast.com Tags:
I went down to JLF command center yesterday and heard Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Mike Munger speak at the Shaftesbury Society lunch. Listen to the whole thing, and you’ll hear... read more >> 2 days ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: triad.johnlocke.org Tags:
From my friends at Greensboro Urban Ministry, Greensboro’s largest homeless services provider and a leader and ally in serving hungry and homeless people, and working to end homelessness... read more >> 3 days ago | Greensboro Topic: News & Info | via: chosenfast.com Tags:
The ggoblogger got an email from Fox 8 News Reporter Melissa Painter saying the interview she conducted with me will air on Wednesday, at 5:00 pm. Melissa wanted to do a story about... read more >> 3 days ago | Guilford County Topic: News & Info | via: ggoblogger.blogspot.com Tags:
?Local merchants like ?Joe The Plumber? usually don?t have a web presence and many don?t really even want one.? - Fred Wilson, Joe The Plumbers Landing Page post on AVC... read more >> 3 days ago | Topic: News & Info | via: beecoz.tumblr.com Tags:
My friends Janet and Jonathan passed on this story from the New York Times about bare cupboards at food banks. An accompanying slideshow is here. The article notes a scarcity of... read more >> 3 days ago | Greensboro Topic: News & Info | via: chosenfast.com Tags: