February 11, 2012
GREENSBORO - The N.C. General Assembly has offered a solution in the legal battle over its controversial redrawing of Guilford County voting districts. The plan would put all Guilford County commissioners up for election this year and would cut some...
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February 10, 2012
GREENSBORO — A federal judge could undo a controversial Guilford County redistricting law as soon as next week.Judge William L. Osteen Jr. today set a date to consider a preliminary injunction against the law. The matter will come before him Feb. 17...
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February 8, 2012
GREENSBORO — Motions to prevent the opening of candidate filing for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners primary have been filed.
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February 2, 2012
GREENSBORO — HealthServe Community Health Care Clinic will close one of its two Greensboro locations this month.
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February 1, 2012
GREENSBORO - HealthServe Community Health Care Clinic will close one of its two Greensboro locations this month.
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January 31, 2012
GREENSBORO - Conservatives for Guilford County, a tea party-affiliated political action committee, will hold a press conference Wednesday on an ongoing free speech conflict with the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.
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January 27, 2012
GREENSBORO - The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina has challenged a ban on video presentations at Guilford County Board of Commissioners meetings as unconstitutional.
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GREENSBORO — The N.C. Attorney General's office told Guilford County election officials what they already knew Thursday: They're "without power" to address problems with a redistricting law that leaves nearly 43,000 Guilford County voters...
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January 24, 2012
GREENSBORO — Rich Martin thought he’d swing by the DMV license plate office on West Market Street during his lunch break Monday. One look at the parking lot, jammed with cars even on a gray and rainy day, and he decided against it.
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January 17, 2012
GREENSBORO — County leaders say this year’s county commissioners elections could be delayed for months unless problems with a new district map are ironed out quickly.Last year, the General Assembly rushed through a redistricting plan that rede...
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January 14, 2012
GREENSBORO — Guilford County commissioners already are sparring over a plan to open a county-owned license plate office weeks before the issue appears before the board. The idea of the county opening a license plate office — a service for whic...
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January 5, 2012
GREENSBORO — A Greensboro company is looking to open a new hotel in one of Winston-Salem's most historic buildings.Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants and Hotels, owners of the O. Henry and Proximity Hotels, are collaborating with the R.J. Reynolds Tobacc...
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January 3, 2012
GREENSBORO — In his first full year on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, Bill Bencini has criticized its leadership, questioned the way it does business and called for less speed and more contemplation.It’s a performance that has som...
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January 2, 2012
GREENSBORO — A 26-year-old man was shot to death in the final hours of New Year’s Eve, becoming the city’s last homicide victim of 2011.Police said they responded to a shooting call in the 900 block of Tuscaloosa Street at 7 p.m. They fo...
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January 1, 2012
HIGH POINT — Last month the company that wants to build a for-profit psychiatric hospital to house criminal patients in High Point overcame skeptical residents, a zoning board hearing and even the City Council.
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December 20, 2011
HIGH POINT — A proposed psychiatric hospital to house criminal patients narrowly escaped the High Point City Council’s attempt to block it Monday.
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December 16, 2011
GREENSBORO — Guilford County has thrown its weight behind a proposed psychiatric hospital that would treat criminal patients in High Point. County Manager Brenda Jones Fox made it more difficult for the High Point City Council to block the hospital...
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December 15, 2011
GREENSBORO - Guilford County has filed a protest petition that attempts to block the High Point City Council's rezoning of the potential site of a new mental hospital that would treat criminal patients.
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November 14, 2011
GREENSBORO — A planned legal challenge to Guilford County’s new voting districts is slowly taking shape.The effort, spearheaded by Democratic county leaders, civil- and voting-rights groups, aims to stop a redistricting plan passed by the Repu...
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November 9, 2011
GREENSBORO — Two veterans will return to the Greensboro City Council as at-large members, joined by one new face.The three councilwomen who won election said they hope to return respect and focus to a divided council.
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November 8, 2011
GREENSBORO — A last-minute phone campaign urged voters not to cast ballots for either mayoral candidate — incumbent Bill Knight or Councilman Robbie Perkins — in Tuesday’s election.
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November 4, 2011
GREENSBORO — The U.S. Department of Justice has cleared new voting district lines for Guilford County, allowing a new district map to take effect in 2012.
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November 2, 2011
GREENSBORO — The draft copy of a consultant's report on Guilford County's fire departments is generating controversy.Fire chiefs and county leaders say some cost-cutting suggestions could hurt services and that the departments aren't being given eno...
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November 1, 2011
This story originally appeared in the News & Record on Oct. 29, 2011:GREENSBORO — This year’s Greensboro City Council races have been hard fought and, in some cases, intensely personal — even in those races not seen as competiti...
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October 22, 2011
GREENSBORO — Last weekend’s Occupy Greensboro protest, hosted at downtown’s Festival Park, has set off a community argument about who can use the parks for such demonstrations and how much they should pay. At issue: City officials gave t...
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