It is not often that we see high-level chastisements of a local elected body take place twice within a period of 24 hours. Yesterday, the Rhino Times reported that two Republican county commissioners openly raised concern about the socialists’ county commissioners’ spending. That is to be expected, and part of […]
Category: Greensboro Political Culture
City Approves Townhomes On Friendly Avenue In Midst Of Conservation Overlay
The Preserve Friendly Avenue organization reports that the Greensboro Zoning Commission approved for Glenn Drew to build his luxury townhomes on the plot of land he inherited from his uncle. Recall that Drew is the Jewish guy who ran the failed American Hebrew Academy at Hobbs and Jefferson; who relinquished […]
Matheny Tries To Take Credit For JetZero Jobs
First, we must understand that the 14,000 jobs being discussed may not come to fruition. We have had other instances when employers have been recruited and showered with incentives; and things did not materialize. But last week, councilman Zack Matheny said the following: “The Council’s investments in community, quality of […]
Proposed Greensboro Budget Raises Water/ Sewer Fees Ten Percent
The Greensboro News and Record has the article here. What the article doesn’t report is the fact that we have had similar increases of water and sewer fees nearly every year, it seems, for nearly two decades. At annual increases of ten percent, fees double over a period of seven […]
Alston vs. Matheny
Yes!Weekly reports that Zack Matheny was verbally accosted by Skip Alston at a county commissioners’ work session because he did not cite the civil rights museum during a presentation about downtown Greensboro. Of course, Alston is a thug. That has not changed for at least thirty years he has been […]
The Guilford County Money Spigot
A couple of unrelated articles call attention to the way money is spent by our county commissioners. Scott Yost has an article at the Rhino Times that lists the dozens of nonprofits upon which the commissioners shower the taxpayers’ largesse. Fox 8 reports how the county school system is considering […]
Moms For Liberty: Guilford County Schools Breaking The Law
The issue is using pro-LGBTQ materials in elementary schools, violating parental rights: 🚨ATTENTION GUILFORD COUNTY (NC) PARENTS: Guilford County Schools (GCS) is violating North Carolina’s Parents’ Bill of Rights (SB49) by using https://t.co/N7DjwI1JK3 materials in K-4 classrooms. These materials, including books like Born Ready and What Are Your Pronouns,… pic.twitter.com/CVDWM45EOV […]
Robbie vs. Marikay
The News and Record reports this morning that Robbie Perkins and Marikay Abuzuaiter are both running to be Greensboro mayor. Perkins is a progressive Republican who historically has been aligned with the east Greensboro political establishment and with development interests. When conservative Republicans were elected to the city council in […]
Grievance-Mongers Flood Greensboro City Council
An interesting article at Yes!Weekly describes how leaders of several organizations– including school board chair Deena Hayes-Greene– agitated before the Greensboro City Council to obtain certain considerations with regard to economic development in east Greensboro. They claim they have been ignored; and that their neighborhoods lag behind with respect to […]
Chance To Speak Out Against Guilford Tax Increases
Via the Rhino Times, we learn that the socialist Guilford Board of County Commissioners is holding a series of Town Hall meetings. This is an opportunity to let commissioners know what you think about Skip Alston’s planned tax increases. Because of increases in property valuations, the Board would need to […]