In the wake of the wrist-slap the city has received from the state of North Carolina for its incompetent budget practices, the city is now planning cuts so its financial reserves can be restored to the state’s benchmark level. The News and Record has the story. In the past, city […]
Category: Greensboro Political Culture
Greensboro City Manager, City Attorney Both Decline Pay Raises
The story is here. They are both already paid quite handsomely. But the fact this concession is being made is an indication that each was involved in major issues. Recall the city of Greensboro has gotten into trouble with the state because its financial reserves had fallen below the established […]
Stabbing In Broad Daylight At Center City Park, Greensboro
This story has not received huge amounts of attention, but it should. On Saturday at 2:30 PM, someone was stabbed at Center City Park in downtown Greensboro. It should be noted that the idea of Center City Park was introduced to us a couple of decades ago as a location […]
Benefits of Greensboro’s Growth Don’t Extend To Taxpayers
George Hartzman has an excellent post at his Substack. He points out how we have repeatedly, over the years, forked over many millions of dollars in Greensboro on projects that are intended to facilitate and accommodate growth. We were told that we would benefit because of this growth. Presumably, because […]
Embarrassment For City Over Non-existent Hotel
George Hartzman has a piece that reveals city of Greensboro leaders expressed embarrassment over the fact that Randall Kaplan has not built his downtown hotel. This is after he had spent many years lobbying the city for money to build an adjacent parking deck. Taxpayers are spending $43 million on […]
Greensboro Determined To Borrow More Bond Money In Spite Of State’s Warning
You would think they would rethink their longstanding borrow-and-spend pattern after getting warned by the state that their reserves are getting too low. But this News and Record article suggests the city council is hell bent on proceeding with a proposed bond issue. Borrowing bond money, of course, encourages the […]
Greensboro City Council Members Scapegoating City Staff For Their Own Negligence
An interesting pattern is developing. Readers might recall that the city of Greensboro has gotten itself into trouble with the state because it allowed its financial reserves to fall well below what is ordinarily expected. The city council has been publicly and overtly blaming city staff for failing to inform […]
Greensboro Placed On Short Leash By State Of NC
We had reported here previously about our local units of government having inadequate financial reserves according to the state of North Carolina’s guidelines. Now, we learn that the state is requiring the state to get special approval whenever it pursues financing such as using bonds. Let’s review a bit of […]
Greensboro Seeking Flexibility From State
The news is that the city is seeking a city charter revision from the NC General Assembly that would enable it to sell city land below market value to private entities. The only interested buyers would be developers hoping to do something with the property. Here is an obvious question. […]
Greensboro Leadership Pretends To Be Trying To Fix The Crime Problem
There has been a string of violent incidents in the city of Greensboro during recent weeks. One of these was a particularly high profile incident downtown. The city tends to respond much more quickly when bad things happen downtown. The City Manager, Trey Davis, is trying to make it appear […]