A recent article demonstrates that the percentage of students attending traditional public schools in North Carolina dropped from 86.5% in 2010 to 74.9% in 2025. That is a drop of nearly 12 percent over 15 years. (HT: JH) We had discussed this recently in the context of all the bond […]
Tag: Greensboro Political Culture
News and Record Article Illustrates Our Crime Problem
An article this morning describes interactions at a city council meeting last week. The topic was whether police should be disciplined for an unwanted interaction that took place in east Greensboro recently during a traffic stop. But perhaps unintentionally, the writer of the article reveals some important aspects of this […]
Greensboro Police: “Go Home, Downtown Is Closed”
The night of July 4 in the politically virtuous city:
Local Race-Baiting Group Wants Police Officer Railroaded
Somewhat of a drama unfolded this week in the Politically Virtuous City. A Greensboro police officer performed a traffic stop after gunshots had been fired in a neighborhood in east Greensboro. A video was taken in which the police officer threatened to shoot the driver if he did not comply […]
Rhino Times: Property Taxes To Hold Steady This Year
While this is a positive bit of news, Scott Yost warns that we are vulnerable next year to a property tax increase of upwards of 47% unless our county commissioners adjust the tax rate downward. The Guilford Board of County Commissioners is heavily socialist, of course. Readers are welcome to […]
Mayor Vaughan Calls For Federal Overreach on Electric Vehicles
Recall that the eastern Triad now has its Toyota battery plant that is creating thousands of jobs. The Triad Business Journal is reporting that democratic socialist local elected officials including Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan and state Senator Michael Garrett are banging their respective shoes on the table demanding that federal […]
Greensboro’s High STD Rates
A new report suggests that Greensboro has the highest STD rate for cities in the state of North Carolina; and among the highest in the country (#30). How could this be the case? Issues with morality and sinfulness in the local population is obviously an issue. STD’s would not occur […]
Making Greensboro “Car-Optional”?
A story at Fox 8 shares that one aspiration of our city’s leadership is to have such a robust public transportation system that cars will be optional by the year 2045. It will be interesting getting to that point. Past attempts to expand public transit have been met with empty […]
The Passing Of Nelson Johnson
Triad City Beat, in its final month of publication, reports on the death of Nelson Johnson. Johnson, of course, was a communist who became a local black “minister” involved heavily in anti-police agitation and racial identity politics. He specialized in “social justice”. He was infamous because he was part of […]
Will The Raleigh Republicans Cut Seniors’ Property Taxes?
A problem has arisen in the state of North Carolina. The rapid rise in valuations of residential real estate has caused folks’ property taxes to increase dramatically. That is especially true in the metropolitan areas because the socialist local politicians are often averse to cutting the tax rate to compensate […]