November 1, 2009
When asked about UNCG's hopes to establish a new pharmacy school by 2011, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp, a smart and impressive man, gingerly tip-toed through an answer. "It's not my decision," Thorp said in a meeting with News......
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October 25, 2009
If you're a Baby Boomer who has a hankering every now and then for old-school Top 40 radio, you probably know the song. It's called "Something in the Air" and it's so smooth and mid-tempo you could practically slow dance to it at the prom.
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October 18, 2009
If President Barack Obama comes to Greensboro next February for the opening of the downtown International Civil Rights Center and Museum, it would be a crowning achievement for the project, which has at times struggled mightily to keep hope alive o...
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October 11, 2009
The mangled remains of Mark Schulz's bicycle are in storage in the UNCG campus. He won't ever ride it again. It is twisted beyond repair.
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October 4, 2009
September 27, 2009
Julianne Malveaux knows how to party. If you attended the Sept. 12 "Black and White Ball" benefit for the downtown civil rights museum, you already know that. Malveaux was the feisty woman on the dance floor with the short, neatly trimmed...
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September 20, 2009
As Rep. Joe Wilson, Kanye West, Serena Williams, et al., were hard at work in recent days mangling the cause of civil discourse, I got to thinking about our own struggles for reasonableness on the opinion pages. For those of you who are familiar wit...
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September 13, 2009
One week from today, the News & Record's book page will be back in its rightful place, as part of the Sunday Ideas section. When we eliminated the section more than a year ago, you told us you missed it -- and you kept on telling us until ... well, wh...
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September 6, 2009
Sometimes all you need to solve a potentially serious problem is common sense and a pair of strategically placed stop signs. That's how the railroad giant, Norfolk Southern, addressed the inherent danger of two active downtown railroad tracks laid u...
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August 30, 2009
Not one solitary pig has either landed or taken off at PTI Airport. But staunch Republican Steve Arnold and staunch Democrat Skip Alston are still close partners, if not best buds. In "Star Trek," this kind of stuff only happens in alterna...
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August 23, 2009
It seemed like a good idea at the time. When we created a letters blog five years ago, we envisioned a place where printed letters would go on to spirited afterlives in cyberspace -- where others could comment in real time on those letters, and wher...
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August 16, 2009
A sizeable number of North Carolinians still believe Barack Obama was not born in the United States, a new survey reveals. More Republicans question the president's citizenship than Democrats, and more white voters than black ones. During the same w...
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August 9, 2009
A piece of now-famous state legislation that aimed to boldly go where no bill has gone before ... is going nowhere. For now. At least. Filed by state Rep. Earl Jones, a Greensboro Democrat, the bill would have provided seed money for a Starfleet Ac...
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August 2, 2009
As I write these words it is still several hours before President Obama, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley sit down for beers on the grounds of the White House. Rarely has a gathering of three guys for b...
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July 26, 2009
There's no shortage of dirty laundry in Raleigh. Just don't go looking for any clotheslines. Consider the case of Pricey Harrison, who dared to push a perfectly innocent piece of legislation in favor of drying our clothing and linen the old-fashioned way.
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July 19, 2009
Some people are calling for more sharply defined ethical rules for local elected officials. And they calling for them, from of all places, Raleigh, which has not exactly been a paragon of ethical virtue in recent years. A former governor and first lady ar...
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July 12, 2009
What is it they say about timing? It was purely coincidental that Guilford College President Kent Chabotar was scheduled to visit the News & Record last week for a conversation with reporters and editorial writers. That meeting had been set up weeks i...
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July 5, 2009
Make no bones about it, I’m in the tank for downtown Greensboro.Nowhere else is as fluid and funky and intrinsically unpredictable.You don’t plan downtown. It happens.What you see there is what you get, and from night to night you never quite...
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June 21, 2009
Following the recent rains in Winston-Salem, there wasn't much joy in Mudville. Just mud. The latest bad news: The owner of the city's minor league team was strapped for cash and needed help from the city to complete a stalled new downtown baseball stadiu...
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June 14, 2009
It was particularly hurtful to learn that Billy Nutt had been replaced as CEO of Greensboro's struggling United Guaranty Corp. In times like these, companies will do what they have to do to stay alive. United Guaranty is a part of embattled insurance gian...
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May 31, 2009
As someone who spent his formative years in a city neighborhood called Woodmere Park, I still remember the aroma of the air over there on a still, hot summer day. We were betwixt and between two local institutions that were seldom seen but often sniffed......
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May 24, 2009
If you got 'em, snuff 'em. North Carolina lawmakers have finally agreed to a statewide ban on smoking in most bars and restaurants and Gov. Perdue cheerfully signed the legislation into law last week. This is a big deal in the land of the golden leaf and...
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May 17, 2009
No offense to our good neighbors to the west. But who's in charge in Winston-Salem anyway: the City Council or Dell? If that seems a harsh assessment, you should have seen council members' abject eagerness to sing the computer maker's praises at Monday's...
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May 10, 2009
What Matt Brown wanted, he finally got Tuesday night. The planned Greensboro swim center will be built at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, which Brown directs. Next door to it will be the ACC Hall of Champions project. The first phase of the hall will be...
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May 3, 2009
N.C. A&T is intent on finding a replacement for departing Chancellor Stanley Battle by June 30. Members of the search committee say they are confident that can be accomplished -- and that there will be no need for an interim leader. I commend them for...
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