The News and Record reported on Sunday that Greensboro City Councilman Hugh Holston has accepted a position as executive director of the Greensboro Housing Coalition. That means three council members lead non-profit organizations that seek the resources of local government to fund their activities. That is an illustration of the […]
Category: Greensboro Political Culture
Greensboro Looking At Red Light Surveillance Cameras again
Nearly two decades ago, Greensboro had a red light camera program. It placed surveillance devices at certain intersections. The goal was to catch motorists when they sought to beat the change from yellow to red. In cases when the motorist ran red lights, their license plate was photographed and they […]
Now They Want Speed Bumps
The matriarchal dingbats on the Greensboro City Council have a new dragon to slay. According to John Hammer at the Rhino Times, they are directing city staff to plan to install numerous speed bumps on area roads to “calm traffic”. It is not specified whether these would be installed on […]
The Cost of Matriarchy in Greensboro
Yesterday, I was driving around Pisgah Church Rd. and Battleground Ave. as a thunderstorm was clearing. I noticed there were power outages along the way. I took a walk in my neighborhood yesterday, and noticed a utility truck working on the power lines. A portion of the neighborhood was without […]
Greensboro Worse Taxes Than Durham
North Carolina citizens have known for many years that Durham is a far-left jurisdiction with awful politics. This is the place that magically found a stash of thousands of ballots late at night on Election Day approximately seven years ago that helped elect Roy Cooper and Josh Stein. John Hammer […]
Greensboro Wants Tax Increase, Spends More than Comparable Durham
Greensboro and Durham are both left-wing cities awash in racial identity politics. They are of comparable size. But Greensboro spends lots more money than Durham does. John Hammer, Rhino Times: Durham, which is… growing much faster than Greensboro, is essentially the same size with a population of just under 292,000. […]
Civil Service Board Would Undermine Greensboro’s Corrupt Machine Politics
We had reported about the Civil Service Review Board bill passed in the NC House a couple of weeks ago, and there have been various news stories about it since then. One article noted some expressed concern about the ability of the city manager to take action in the event […]
The Greensboro City Council’s Decision to Make Triad Stage Less Viable
There had been a major push within the Greensboro establishment to fund and build the Tanger Center as a city-owned and operated facility. Bonds put city taxpayers on the hook for interest expense. And the annual operational expenses were bound to be a financial liability for taxpayers. But this decision […]
The Guilford School Board Conflict
When Pat Tillman ascended to the Guilford Board of County Commissioner, state law dictated that a Republican must fill his vacant seat on the county school board. But the current school board had the right to refuse to seat this person. The law the GOP had years ago passed in […]
Hypocrites on the Greensboro City Council
Those of us in Greensboro reside in a blue city. The city council is overwhelmingly democratic socialist. The progressive/socialist left hawking the green agenda wants people to abandon their cars and find another way to live and get around. They want us to no longer reside in single houses, but […]