August 13, 2007
Campaign Season The Greensboro City Council race began in earnest Thursday night when 14 of the 17 district candidates showed for a Greensboro Neighborhood Congress forum. So did a near-capacity audience, which confirms that this should be one of the live...
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Campaign Season The Greensboro City Council race began in earnest Thursday night when 14 of the 17 district candidates showed for a Greensboro Neighborhood Congress forum. So did a near-capacity audience, which confirms that this should be one of the live...
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August 12, 2007
New to Greensboro, Stanley Battle admitted to skittishness about jogging through unfamiliar neighborhoods before sunup. "Based on the experience in the United States of America, an African American man running around in the dark has to know where...
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Mayor Keith Holliday made an important move last week in launching a new planning process for development around Piedmont Triad International Airport. He asked city staff to form a committee made up of City Council members, county commissioners and airpor...
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August 11, 2007
Greensboro voters this fall will elect City Council representatives to speak for them in municipal affairs. But voters can still have the last word. In fact, they sometimes insist on it. Greensboro's city codes give citizens the powers of initiative, refe...
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Military families are used to shouldering a disproportionate share of the load when the nation's at war. But the collateral damage from fighting in Iraq is hitting home in unexpected and troubling ways. A report released by the nonprofit RTI Research in R...
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Greensboro voters this fall will elect City Council representatives to speak for them in municipal affairs. But voters can still have the last word. In fact, they sometimes insist on it. Greensboro's city codes give citizens the powers of initiative, refe...
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Military families are used to shouldering a disproportionate share of the load when the nation's at war. But the collateral damage from fighting in Iraq is hitting home in unexpected and troubling ways. A report released by the nonprofit RTI Research in R...
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August 10, 2007
An anti-regulatory bias in Washington that has for years starved FDA for funds now threatens to place unhealthy meals onto Americans' tables. The Bush administration cut food inspection money by 5 percent in its 2006 budget, for instance. Since then, ther...
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No denying Alisha Williamson is a cute 7-year-old. She's also a lucky one. By now, you've probably heard about the caper that brought her national attention. Last Sunday, Alisha was in the Rockingham County convenience mart where her mother works. A man e...
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An anti-regulatory bias in Washington that has for years starved FDA for funds now threatens to place unhealthy meals onto Americans' tables. The Bush administration cut food inspection money by 5 percent in its 2006 budget, for instance. Since then, ther...
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No denying Alisha Williamson is a cute 7-year-old. She's also a lucky one. By now, you've probably heard about the caper that brought her national attention. Last Sunday, Alisha was in the Rockingham County convenience mart where her mother works. A man e...
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August 9, 2007
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion." -- Theodore Hesburgh, former president, University of Notre Dame Yvonne Johnson envisions a city...
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What is your vision for what Greensboro can and should be? Yvonne Johnson: My vision for Greensboro is that this city will be one of the best places in the country to live, to work and to conduct business, a city that ranks high in quality of life, provid...
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Like him or not, Barry Bonds is baseball's new home run king. For an instant, allegations of steroid abuse were forgotten as No. 756 arced into the night air late Tuesday amid cheers from an adoring sellout hometown crowd in San Francisco. Baseball's elit...
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Correction The Wyndham Championship golf tournament will be held Aug.13-19 at Forest Oaks. An editorial in Wednesday editions misstated those dates.
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August 8, 2007
Even as the rest of the sports universe seems endlessly tangled in scandal and greed, Joey Cheek keeps about the business of hope. The Greensboro native and Olympic speedskating gold medalist began advocating for strife- and violence-torn areas barely sec...
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For once, let's not grumble about coming up short against Raleigh and Charlotte. While temperatures there soar well above the century mark, forecasters say we'll trail here by a couple of precious degrees. Add stifling humidity to the mix and there's no d...
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Even as the rest of the sports universe seems endlessly tangled in scandal and greed, Joey Cheek keeps about the business of hope. The Greensboro native and Olympic speedskating gold medalist began advocating for strife- and violence-torn areas barely sec...
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For once, let's not grumble about coming up short against Raleigh and Charlotte. While temperatures there soar well above the century mark, forecasters say we'll trail here by a couple of precious degrees. Add stifling humidity to the mix and there's no d...
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August 7, 2007
Tip O'Neill used to say, "All politics is local," but that's wrong when it comes to the Electoral College. There, all politics is national. North Carolina Democratic legislators just learned that lesson. They were all set to give final approval...
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North Carolinians can take pride in the legions of active military personnel and retirees living in the state. For this week, that number swells by an estimated 2,000 as delegates attend the national AMVETS convention at the Sheraton Greensboro at Four Se...
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Tip O'Neill used to say, "All politics is local," but that's wrong when it comes to the Electoral College. There, all politics is national. North Carolina Democratic legislators just learned that lesson. They were all set to give final approval...
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North Carolinians can take pride in the legions of active military personnel and retirees living in the state. For this week, that number swells by an estimated 2,000 as delegates attend the national AMVETS convention at the Sheraton Greensboro at Four Se...
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August 6, 2007
Snake In The Grass Indeed For a Charlotte woman and her toddler last week, a walk in the park was no walk in the park. Instead, a 4-foot-long python emerged from the grass, coiled around the 15-month-old's leg and bit him. Fortunately, the toddler suffere...
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