October 5, 2009
Costs down, demand up? Guilford County voters last year approved a $115 million bond proposal for a new jail in Greensboro. Last week, the lead contractor guaranteed the project won't cost more than $84.9 million -- thanks to a deep recession that is push...
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October 4, 2009
Some N.C. A&T officials had a hard time explaining how a rap act who glorifies violence, has had serious brushes with the law (including a murder arrest) and makes no secret of his affiliation with a well-known street gang was ever a headliner f...
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October 3, 2009
One more state government scandal was too many. Gov. Bev Perdue cracked down Thursday with an order that tells executive branch employees: No gifts or favors. This should have been decreed a long time ago. Instead, the state has been plagued by pet...
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October 2, 2009
Tuesday's City Council primary elections in Greensboro aren't for Democrats or Republicans. They're nonpartisan and open to all registered voters. That means candidates don't carry party labels, either. Each one runs independently, not on anyone's t...
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Today's News & Record is a little more colorful than usual. Those pink-tinted pages are a gentle reminder of today's Pink Out and its goal of promoting breast cancer awareness. You can help make Greensboro pretty in pink by attending Pink Out at...
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October 1, 2009
A few days after his 21-year-old son was shot and killed by an Archdale police officer on Interstate 85 in Randolph County, Pharr Smith expressed understandable frustration. "We do continue to have faith in the system," he wrote in an e-ma...
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The state's $51.5 million no-bid contract with Verizon Business raises questions beyond whether state employees wrongly accepted free meals or hockey tickets. But, at least, getting those answers will help keep attention focused on the state's seemi...
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September 30, 2009
Every American's right to vote must be protected. And there's a special obligation to guarantee ballot access for Americans serving their country overseas. "If we do not make it possible for the folks defending our democracy to participate in...
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UNCG trustees made a great decision Sept. 10 when they opted to renovate rather than replace seven residence halls on the university's historic quad. The plan also calls for construction of a new dorm elsewhere on campus. Not stated at the time was...
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September 29, 2009
While a consultant's recommendations on how to improve the Greensboro Police Department include a long list of possible fixes, two issues bubble to the top. Both promotions and patrol schedules remain sore spots with rank-and-file officers. In resp...
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As a 26-year United Way veteran, Keith Barsuhn has seen his share of steep challenges. "But this is absolutely the largest mountain," Barsuhn, president of the United Way of Greensboro, says of the current community giving campaign. "...
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September 28, 2009
A boost for Tdap boosters A year ago at this time, about 1,000 sixth-graders hadn't complied with a new state law requiring students to have booster shots to ward off tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. Talk about a pandemic of dog-ate-my-homework exc...
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September 27, 2009
Are Guilford County's public schools doing right by their very brightest students? And with so many other concerns to address -- a rising tide of poor students, the racial achievement gap, surging numbers of children who arrive in local classrooms s...
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September 26, 2009
You'd think by now that every manager in every organization would have these eight words memorized. But in the case of a massive sewage spill in Thomasville, these words bear repeating: It's not the crime; it's the cover-up. It's too soon to say i...
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September 25, 2009
There's no excuse for the Greensboro Police Department not informing Guilford County Schools officials that its school resource officers now are armed with Tasers. Or, for that matter, not letting the public know either. Notifying the community tha...
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Guilford County’s long-range look ahead at construction projects and how to pay for them raises more questions than answers.The proposed capital investment plan released last week predicts the county could need $1.3 billion over the next decade. Fun...
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September 24, 2009
The facts known so far about this incident should give some pause: A Guilford County sheriff's deputy used a Taser last week to subdue a 15-year-old girl at Ragsdale High School. The girl was apparently unarmed. Her alleged crimes: threatening two teacher...
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By cutting 65 middle management and administrative positions, UNCG Chancellor Linda Brady is protecting the classroom. That's her top priority. On whose jobs the ax landed should come as no surprise. Following news reports that administrative ranks across...
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September 23, 2009
Let's say someone who is in this country illegally enrolls in a state community college and gets a degree. Then what? The contradiction in the State Board of Community Colleges policy approved last week that allows illegal immigrants to enroll in c...
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While the city shouldn't close the door on buying the YWCA property in downtown Greensboro, it would be smarter to wait and gauge the response from the private sector. Given the steep $2.98 million asking price and a slow downtown commercial real e...
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September 22, 2009
With reported flu cases already at winter levels in North Carolina, health officials must prepare for the dreaded worst-case scenario. And because the 5-to-24 age group is particularly vulnerable to the H1N1, or swine flu strain, school systems and...
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A hotel can be a nice place. The sheets are clean. It's quiet (unless it's by the airport). And there aren't many distractions -- unless you count free HBO and the all-you-can-eat continental breakfast buffet. That's why nearly all big-time college...
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September 20, 2009
Almost from day one, the Guilford County Courthouse was declared an architectural injustice. Its corridors were confusing, its jury boxes and courtrooms too small and acoustically challenged. Judges strained to hear witnesses and attorneys in the fr...
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September 19, 2009
The next president of Greensboro College faces several monumental tasks: restoring financial stability, improving the aging campus, restoring confidence of faculty and staff, and ensuring the school's survival for years to come. But before the perma...
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September 18, 2009
Elected officials shouldn't gain financially from decisions they make on public issues. That's easy enough to say but more difficult to enforce. One step is disclosure. Greensboro City Council candidates who say they will reveal their personal and f...
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