September 2, 2009
Given what's at stake, Guilford County Schools can't leave any stone unturned in finding out what sickened students and faculty at Oak Ridge Elementary School. Solving that riddle means going back to 2005 before the new and renovated school was fully open...
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September 1, 2009
The difference between protecting your home and taking the law into your own hands can be slight. Ideally, citizens should let law enforcement and courts handle lawbreakers, but for some crime victims that may seem too little, too late. Two recent i...
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Some people believe the best way to deal with fringe groups such as the National Socialist Movement is to suffocate them with indifference. If a neo-Nazi screams in the middle of a forest, they figure, he doesn't make a sound. And, by and large, tha...
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August 31, 2009
School system gumshoes Who knew Guilford County Schools employed gumshoes? But it required good detective work to uncover families' efforts to circumvent school attendance policies. Court documents released last week detailed the evidence gathered by inve...
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August 30, 2009
Melvin "Skip" Alston admitted he was skeptical about the question-and-answer format of this year's State of Our Community event Wednesday. He quickly warmed up and, by the time the program concluded, suggested the Greensboro Chamber of Com...
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August 29, 2009
When Rashad Young was installed as city manager in Dayton, Ohio, in December 2006, Mayor Rhine McLin declared the occasion a "celebration of youth." Young was 30 years old. He's still only 33 and, if the Greensboro City Council confirms i...
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August 28, 2009
Should older drivers have to abide by stricter standards to renew and keep their licenses? A tragic accident in Raleigh last week claimed the life of a pretty 6-year-old and rekindled that simmering debate. According to witnesses, an SUV rolled thro...
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Guilford County commissioners made the right decision in delaying further discussion of a plan to give grants to small businesses until legal questions are resolved. Since apparently enough votes already are committed to approve the proposal formula...
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August 27, 2009
The five starting players on the UNC Tar Heels' national championship basketball team this year came from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri and California. Carolina's outstanding basketball program always attracts top players from across th...
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Though the cloud of Chappaquiddick derailed Sen. Edward Kennedy's presidential aspirations, he went on to serve as one of the nation's most effective, long-standing and passionate members of the U.S. Senate. Not unlike North Carolina's Sen. Jesse He...
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August 26, 2009
State legislators are still working to get it right regarding restrictions on registered sex offenders. They have a lot to do. An example in a bill considered during this year's General Assembly session illustrates the difficulty. It would bar offe...
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Questions continue swirling around the fatal shooting of a UNC-Chapel Hill student early Sunday along Interstate 85 by an Archdale police officer. While authorities remain tight-lipped as the State Bureau of Investigation launches its investigation...
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August 25, 2009
Former High Point City Councilman Ron Wilkins lived in the federally subsidized Morehead Court Apartments for three years until early 2009. A Baptist minister, he was flabbergasted to learn that the High Point Housing Authority recently notified re...
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For a while Saturday, it seemed questionable whether it would stop raining long enough to get the Wyndham Championship back on schedule. Who knew that the PGA tournament at Sedgefield Country Club would deliver four rounds plus three playoff holes b...
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August 24, 2009
Mack bulldog's new home For four decades, the Mack Trucks golden bulldog statue greeted employees and visitors to the company's Allentown, Pa., headquarters. Now, he can make new friends in Greensboro. As part of a corporate reorganization, Volvo Tr...
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August 23, 2009
The best town hall forum on health care reform will feature several members of Congress, has room for a huge audience and probably won't be disrupted by shouting or angry demonstrations. It will be produced by UNC-TV and broadcast live at 9 p.m. Tue...
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August 22, 2009
Good thing some very smart people work for the University of North Carolina. It may take all of their collective brainpower to explain how the 17 UNC campuses nearly doubled the ranks of their top administrators over the last five years, even as b...
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August 21, 2009
What we know is that a 38-year-old inmate in the Guilford County jail in Greensboro died after being Tasered by a guard during an altercation. And that's all we know. Only after thorough investigations by the N.C. State Medical Examiner's Office and...
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After nearly 14 transformative years at the helm of the Triad's largest university, former UNCG Chancellor Patricia Sullivan had looked forward to tamping down her hectic schedule and returning to one of her earlier loves: the classroom. Sad to say......
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August 20, 2009
At Michael Charles Hayes' last recommitment hearing in September 2007, one expert after another testified that the patient no longer was mentally ill or dangerous. Superior Court Judge Steve A. Balog wasn't convinced. Hayes still had mental disorder...
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We may disagree about the best path to meaningful health care reform, but we shouldn't disagree about the critical need. A report released on Tuesday has confirmed what many North Carolinians already knew: Health care costs in the state are growing...
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August 19, 2009
The Wyndham Championship golf tournament at Sedgefield this week is more than a breath of fresh air in the oppressive, late-summer heat.It carries on a 71-year tradition of funding charitable groups, promoting regionalism and getting national media exposu...
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It’s never surprising to hear new allegations of political shenanigans at the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles.“No state agency has such a rich history in scandal and misdeeds or has been such a dumping group for political hacks,” Rob Chr...
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August 18, 2009
The state can't force lawyers to pay for judicial campaigns, a Wake County judge ruled last week. That should get other professions off the hook if the state tries to expand public campaign funding. In a decision worthy of Solomon, Superior Court Ju...
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What's "business casual" for Nazis? With luck, most of us won't find out when the National Socialist Movement holds a regional conference in Greensboro Aug. 29. The event was announced on the neo-Nazi group's Web site as a "non-unifor...
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