Rhino Times July 5, 2012

Vol. XXII No. 27 © Copyright 2012 The Rhinoceros Times Greensboro, North Carolina www.rhinotimes.com Thursday, July 5, 2012

Garbage Deal Getting Messier and Messier

Illegal Meeting To Replace Fox

Airport HS Dies A Lonely Death

by Scott D. yoStcounty eDitor

by paul c. clarkStaff Writer

by john hammereDitor

Photo by Sandy Groover

These weren’t the only Uncle Sams at Fun Fourth in downtown Greensboro on Wednesday, July 4, but the juxtaposition of the old fashioned and the new fangled in the Fun Fourth Independence Day parade caught our fancy. Special thanks should go out to all the folks who put on costumes in this heat to help celebrate our nation’s birthday. More photos page 30

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Rumors it’s hard to believe, but next week is another endorsement issue. several races in the may primary have runoffs, which will be held on July 17, but early voting started last week. The Rhino will have runoff endorsements for the 10 people who plan to vote. actually, if you want to vote in an election where your

vote really counts, don’t miss this one. the voter turnout statewide is expected to be well below 10 percent. some smart person could figure out how much more powerful your vote is in this runoff primary, but, according to our calculations, it is a lot more powerful.

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Florida Us sen. marco rubio will be at Barnes & noble in Friendly Center on Friday, July 6 at 6 p.m. to sign his autobiography. rubio is thought by many to be the front runner to be mitt romney’s vice

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Photo by John Hammer

The Kirkwood Parade is well into its seventh decade, and although the parades vary from year to year, at the base of every parade are kids on decorated bicycles. This year was no exception. More photos page 26

Inside this issueHigh Point News ........... 8 Entertainment Guide ..... 9Uncle Orson Reviews .. 10Puzzles ..............10,11,32Yost Column ............... 12 Scott’s Night Out ......... 13Freedom Run photos ... 15Rhino Real Estate ....... 17Letters to the Editor .... 25under the hammer ...... 38

the Guilford County Board of Commissioners may not have had the courage necessary to second a motion to fire Guilford County manager Brenda Jones Fox at the thursday, June 21 meeting, but the commissioners did have the courage –in an illegal closed session, that is – to hire

a headhunter to start looking for Fox’s replacement.

several sources in that closed session said that the board – after Fox and assistant County manager sharisse Fuller were asked to leave the room – decided to hire the firm of Young & associates.


the plan by the Guilford County Board of education to build a $72 million “airport area high school” has collapsed utterly, leaving school board members scrambling to put distance between themselves and the plan, which would have built a 125-acre a high school and middle school complex somewhere in western Guilford County.

the plan also included spending an additional $2 million to pay for part of the land, which would have been used later to build a middle school costing unknown millions more. only the land, not the

construction cost, of the middle school is included in what would be a total of $74 million.

the airport area high school and middle school were the most grandiose of the school board’s plans during the boom years before the 2008 financial crash. Voters approved $457 million in school bonds in may 2008.

the high school was originally planned to be an $80 million school, $8 million of which would have been used for a state-of-the-art autism wing. the school board now plans to add the autism facility to the campus of Hairston middle


the garbage disposal deal for the City of Greensboro has gotten even messier. secret polls are being taken, and meetings scheduled and canceled, while a serious conflict of interest accusation against one councilmember may raise legal questions about the council’s actions.

Last week the rhino times reported that Councilmember Zack matheny worked for Green day, a recycling and waste management

company that isn’t bidding on the Greensboro garbage disposal contract. But matheny also hadn’t announced to the public, or even his fellow councilmembers, that he was in the solid waste disposal and recycling business.

as it turns out, one of Green day’s compet i to r s i s arC recycling LLC. and arC is a sister company of a-1 sandrock, which is a subcontractor to waste Connections on Greensboro’s solid waste disposal bid. if you go to

the websites of Green day and arC, you see the same kinds of photos and much of the same kinds of recycling and waste disposal offers.

City attorney mujeeb shah-Khan received an email on tuesday, July 3, from tom terrell, an attorney with smith moore Leatherwood, who is representing a-1 sandrock and arC. terrell details the reasons that matheny has a conflict of interest.


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Paying For Privilege Of Doing Business

by john hammereDitor

the next time a city councilmember says they are a supporter of small business, it will be all i can do not to stand up and shout liar, liar, liar. the City of Greensboro would be hard pressed to be more unfriendly to small business.

this is my yearly rant about the Greensboro privilege license, which a business has to buy for the privilege of doing business in the City of Greensboro. not that businesses don’t already pay plenty of taxes to the City of Greensboro, but someone came up with this idea, and cities who hate small businesses add this tax, for which a business gets nothing in return other than a listing on a city website. so if someone should ever be searching around the city website for a list of small businesses, they may or may not be able to find it. But what good that does anyone is a mystery. However, the council voted to put all small businesses up on the website, so they do. as we say in the advertising business, it’s like putting a billboard up in the desert; it may look wonderful but no one will see it. the list might be great, but why would anyone go to the city website looking to buy a newspaper ad, get a car repaired or a carpet cleaned?

imagine for a moment if income taxes were capped so that if you made $50,000 a year or $50 million a year you paid exactly the same amount of tax. most people would agree that wouldn’t be fair. But in this case the privilege license tax can be considered worse. the way the privilege license tax is figured is that the business pays it on its gross revenue. it is a stupid way to pay any tax because gross revenue doesn’t mean anything. You gross revenue could be $20 million, yet your profit might not be enough to pay your privilege license tax. someone else might have gross revenue of $500,000 and have a profit of $400,000.

But the tax for businesses other than video gambling is capped at $1,200. so a small business with revenue of less than $2 million has to pay a percentage of its gross revenue, whereas a big business just pays $1,200, which is nowhere close to the percentage the small businesses pay. it is completely backwards. the small businesses are carrying the freight for the big companies. any business that has more than about $2.4 million in revenue pays the flat fee of $1,200, while businesses with a gross of less than $2.4 million pay a percentage of their gross. the city could make the percentage of gross tiny if it just charged everyone the same percentage.

imagine if the city charged everyone the same amount of property tax no matter how valuable their property was. say each property owner paid $1,200 in property tax no matter how much land they owned or how many parcels of land except for very small property owners who would pay a percent of the property value. would that make any sense to anyone? But that is how the privilege license works: small businesses write what for them could be a huge check, and for big businesses it’s not even a drop in the bucket. which business is more likely to have an extra thousand dollars lying around? it isn’t the small business that is struggling to deal with all the increased costs of doing business. But i think Lincoln Financial and VF Corp could both come up with $1,200 out of petty cash.

to add insult to injury, the city makes it as difficult as possible to pay. i went over to the new collections area, which is all bulletproof glass, speakers and surveillance cameras, and about as customer friendly as a sand spur.

i walked in and got in line where it said “Collections.” it was either that or police records, and i was pretty sure i didn’t want a police record.


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New Kinder, Gentler DMV Office Planned

City Near 3 Million Square Feet, Growing


a new department of motor Vehicles (dmV) license plate office will open in mid-august in Golden Gate shopping Center in Greensboro. that’s just a stone’s throw from the previous dmV office in that shopping center – one that was shut down by the state last september due to fraudulent practices.

the new license plate office, which will be about halfway between staples office supplies and Food Lion, will be a welcome addition for county residents who, for the past 10 months, have had to endure exceptionally long lines whenever they went to a dmV office in Guilford County to handle license plate renewals, title work or related motor vehicle matters.

the closing of the Golden Gate license plate office left Guilford County with only two dmV tag offices – both of which routinely saw very long lines due to client overload. state dmV officials say a county the size of Guilford County should have at least three tag offices, and the state dmV has been anxious to get a new office up in running in the Greensboro area.

the new license plate office, which will employ about a half dozen people, is being opened and operated by a group led by Jack proctor, service department manager of mcKnight Hardware.

proctor, who was one of 38 applicants for the state contract, won the right to

open the office only after Guilford County administrators made their own botched attempt to open and run the new license plate agency out of the main office of the Guilford County tax department in downtown Greensboro. that attempt by top county staff went down in flames – but not before delaying for five months the process of opening a much-needed office.

state dmV officials have not made any announcement on the new office or on who won the contract, but proctor did confirm to The Rhinoceros Times that he and his group had been selected, and the office is expected to open sometime around “the second week in august.”

marge Howell, the communications director for the nC dmV, said there were just a few more details to work out before the new office opens. Howell said that, for instance, staff will have to go through a three-week training course in raleigh.

proctor said he and his staff are excited about opening the new office, and he added that his goal is for the new Golden Gate office to offer a much more pleasant customer experience than dmV offices have been known for in the past. proctor said he plans for the office to have several amenities.

according to proctor, the new office will have a good number of service windows to help keep the line moving at a brisk rate – though he warned there could be a few

glitches when the office first opens.proctor said that, when he went in for the

interview with state officials last fall, he had a good feeling about getting the contract. “the interview went really well,” he said.

He said he was disappointed soon after, when it looked as though the state would bypass all of the private contractors who applied, and instead award the new office to Guilford County.

However, after months of preparations by county staff, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners shot down the idea of the county running a dmV office. the board did so on a unanimous vote and proctor said he was then hopeful about his chances once again.

He said that, in his conversations with dmV representatives, he had tried to stress to them that he wanted to do things the right way, and that he was trying very hard to create a pleasant experience for clients. “we’re really focused on ethics,” he said.

proctor also said he takes pride in the way the mcKnight Hardware business is run, and he said he wants to transfer that kind of customer service to the license plate office, despite the reputation the dmV has often gotten.

in one popular comic strip, for instance,

dmV offices are portrayed as the gateways to hell.

“people have a bad association with the dmV offices,” proctor said.

He said the new location will be good for county residents since it will take some of the customer strain off of the other offices. He also said he doesn’t know what kind of customer traffic to expect when the Golden Gate location opens.

“it may be light at first – or it may not,” proctor said.

He said a lot will depend on how quickly the word gets out that a new office is up and running.

the two current license plate agencies are at 5551 w. market st. in Greensboro and 1677 westchester dr. in High point, and both of those have been overwhelmed with customers since the former Golden Gate office was shut down. in some cases county residents have waited in line for hours to have their business handled, and many county residents have been going to neighboring counties to get their dmV work done instead.

Before the former Golden Gate office was shut down, it was processing over 150,000 transactions per year.


by alex jakubSenStaff Writer

when denise turner roth was named city manager June 19, she became the boss of 3,000 city employees and the property manager of almost 3 million square feet of indoor, heated and air-conditioned space. Factoring in the parking decks pushes the number to nearly 4 million square feet under roof. even in the midst of the recession the city continues to add large chunks of space to its assets.

the Greensboro police department in particular has been adding space. twenty years ago just about the entire department was at city hall but since then they’ve acquired a 60,000-square-foot training facility and three substations: a 90,000-square-foot building at 2602 south elm-eugene st. (which it shares with the water resources department and Greensboro Fire department), a nearly 80,000-square-foot station at 300 swing road and a 40,000-square-foot station at 1106 maple st.

in 2011 the city bought a nearly 100,000-square-foot former irs building to serve as the new police headquarters. the irs building only cost the city $1 to buy from the federal government, but the cost of renovations is expected to reach $900,000.

and the Fire department isn’t far behind in floor space growth. since 2000 the city has added nine fire stations ranging from around 5,000 to 11,000 square feet each for

a total of 24 stations. one of the facilities, at 1539 mt. Hope Church road, is built on land the city annexed before the building started.

there are also two proposed fire stations for sites at 4306 Burlington road and 4229 short Farm road. Both are in unincorporated Guilford County and will have to be annexed before the fire stations are built. arrangements with county fire districts have stretched the Fire department’s area of operations roughly 15.5 square miles outside of the city limits.

Libraries also grew dramatically over the last two decades. the city built a new central library in 1995 and has added several new branches since including the Hemphill Library in 2004, the Kathleen Clay edwards Library in 2004 and the mcGirt-Horton Library in 2010. this expansion brought the square footage of Greensboro libraries to almost 140,000. there have also been extensive renovations to Benjamin Branch Library, and the city is preparing to add another branch at Lake Jeanette.

the population of Greensboro has also grown substantially. the population increased by roughly 20 percent to about 270,000 between 2000 and 2012. Likewise, city-owned floor space increased by 506,247 square feet. the Greensboro sportsplex, which serves as a recreational facility, is the single largest contributor to that figure at 101,000 square feet.

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Schools May Heavily Tax Private Donations

County Gets Back Together With COG

Disparity Study Finds Disparity


a committee of the Guilford County Board of education is considering a misguided policy that would almost certainly kill private donations to schools by ptas, community groups, booster clubs and private individuals by taxing private donations by 50 to 75 percent.

the draft policy, which is being considered but has not been approved by the school board’s donated Funds for Construction Committee and has not yet reached the school board, would require such groups to raise 50 percent to 75 percent

more than their target goals which would go into an “equity fund” for schools that haven’t gotten such donations.

the policy change would take the form of modifications to the school board’s already existing policy known as eCK – “Contributions and purchases by outside agencies for school Use.”

the draft policy, and the draft procedure that accompanies it, are preliminary enough that the additions to them are still in red text.

the draft policy states, “in order to address legitimate concerns regarding the

equitable distribution of private donations, contributions and gifts, the Board requires a matching donation of 50-75 percent of the total value of the gift and/or matching funds to an equity Fund that will be maintained and administered by the superintendent and/or his/her designee for this purpose.”

there are numerous proposed changes to the policy. Guilford County schools Chief operations officer andy Larowe said the additions to the policy dealing with the equity fund came from Guilford County schools Chief of staff nora Carr – which means they would have been approved by

Guilford County school superintendent mo Green. Carr was out of the office this week and could not be reached for comment.

“in answer to your question on the ‘equity part,’ the drafts were prepared by nora Carr and she would need to answer the question,” Larowe wrote in an email. “material for the draft policy and procedure documents are the result of discussion by the committee and research of similar policies and procedures from other school districts.”

the reconsideration of the private donations policy was triggered by an effort



by alex jakubSenStaff Writer

as they say, breaking up is hard to do, and apparently that applies not just to couples who have been married for a long time – but also to local governments that have a long history together.

after a one-year breakup with the regional Council of Government (CoG) association of local governments – which, before the break, Guilford County had been involved with for 40 years – the county has decided to get back together with the piedmont triad regional Council (ptrC).

ptrC is part of a system of associations of municipal and county governments that was created by federal and state legislation.

Federal legislation established the program in the 1960s and, in 1972, the north Carolina General assembly created the state CoGs to promote regional cooperation among members as well as to address regional concerns.

with Guilford County rejoining the council on July 1, ptrC will have 74 member governments including 12 counties: alamance, Caswell, davidson, davie, Forsyth, Guilford, montgomery, randolph, rockingham, stokes, surry and Yadkin.

Last July, the northwest piedmont Council of Governments (npCoG) and the piedmont triad Council of Governments (ptCoG) merged to form the ptrC.

as those two organizations joined, Guilford County opted out of the new group – over strong objections from Commissioner Bill Bencini and a minority of Guilford County commissioners.

some commissioners wanted “weighted voting” in the new association of governments – that is, they wanted large members, such as Guilford County, to have more say than smaller members that paid much less in membership dues.

other commissioners added that it was unfair that the county paid, in some cases, 20 times the dues other members paid to be a member.

Commissioner Carolyn Coleman was on

the board of the ptCoG and was in line to be the head of the merged CoG. she was upset when she was left off a committee set up to handle the transition.

“i felt i had been disrespected – well, not me but Guilford County,” Coleman said.

several representatives of the CoG said they never intended to disrespect Coleman or Guilford County. However, they added, she was facing health issues at that time, which meant she had to miss many of the meetings, or attend by phone – and, they said, those negotiations really needed to be


Greensboro city councilmembers expressed deep concern over the color and gender of the city’s contractors and subcontractors at a special meeting on Friday, June 22 to review a recently completed disparity study.

the $206,000 study, which purported to show the unfair advantage held by white male businesses in Greensboro over their female and minority competitors, was presented to a council on which white males are outnumbered 7 to 2, in a city where white males make up about 25 percent of the population, while 75 percent of the population is made up of women and recognized minorities.

a large part of the 90-minute meeting in the plaza level conference room at city hall was spent discussing ways to engineer desirable race and gender percentages for subcontractors without getting the city in trouble with the courts.

representatives from mGt of america, who performed the study, presented lists of statistics and anecdotes indicating that registered businesses owned and run by women and officially recognized minorities were underrepresented in the pool of city contractors and subcontractors. “the

numbers speak for themselves,” assistant City manager andy scott said as the meeting closed.

those numbers centered on the “disparity index,” which is the ratio of dollars race or gender “disadvantaged” businesses take from city contracts to the percent of race or gender disadvantaged businesses in an area that could participate in such contracts. the disparity index was presented to the council on a point scale where a value of 100 would mean parity, while anything below 80 would mean significant disparity or “substantial underutilization.”

according to mGt, the gap between available minority and women-owned Business enterprise (mwBe) registered businesses and mwBe firms utilized shows significant disparity among businesses owned and run by women and ethnic minorities during the study period between 2006 and 2010 on both disadvantaged Business enterprise (dBe) projects and non-dBe projects. For example, for non-dBe construction project subcontractors the index for black-owned businesses is reported at 27.89 and the index for non-minority women-owned businesses at 53.73.

Hispanics had an index over 100 in that category, but according to mGt this

was due to one large contract and wasn’t representative of Hispanic business in general. despite their own figures that proved otherwise, they claimed that Hispanic businesses in Greensboro were underutilized.

the presenters went on to suggest some approaches the city might take to remedy the disparity. the city’s mwBe program requires that contractors make a “good faith effort” to contact and engage registered women and minority businesses in city designated dBe contracts, but direct mandates and quotas are illegal. so mGt representatives encouraged the city to look at more “creative” ways to influence contractors to hire more registered minority and women-owned businesses.

technical advisor for the mGt study team Vince eagan pointed to atlanta, Georgia’s, mandatory joint venture program that requires contractors on city contracts worth over $10 million to work with “someone who doesn’t look like” them as a way of diversifying contractors without explicitly favoring a particular race or gender. the program would also require mwBe prime contractors to engage firms whose owners are the opposite gender or of another



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Dogs, Coltrane Festival Have Long Legs

Davidson County Gets Its HP Moat



it’s summer, and with public officials fleeing for the beaches, government business is slow.

High point City Councilmember Latimer alexander used part of his down time to write a mocking letter to local news media, saying he found it funny how easy it was to identify local media outlets by their stories.

For Fox 8 news, he said, it’s dog stories. “it used to be, if it bleeds, it leads, but for Fox 8 - if it barks, it’s on top of the news,” alexander wrote. “You would think that we live in a community where there is no child abuse or crime – they are all about dogs.”

more relevantly to this story, alexander called out The High Point Enterprise (Hpe) for its steady stream of stories, editorials, columns and postings on the City Council’s funding of the John Coltrane international Jazz & Blues Festival, held for the first time on sept. 2, 2011. the City Council, late in the planning for the 2011 festival, gave the Friends of John Coltrane inc., the nonprofit created to run the festival, $32,000 at the request of Councilmember Bernita sims to pay for advertising.

“For the Hpe, it’s a Coltrane story,” alexander wrote. “we drop the paper in the recycle bin following seeing another in the endless stream of coverage you’ve given to this nothing story. You’ve got 10 people

in town that have nothing better to do with their time but write on your blog following the story. the rest of the 107,000 people in High point understand this isn’t worth reading.”

alexander didn’t single out The Rhino Times.

alexander is just one councilmember – and a lame duck at that. He has said he is not running again for his at-large seat in november.

a certain segment of the High point population has been obsessed with the Coltrane festival, and the city money given or lent to it.

the $32,000 given to the Friends of John Coltrane by the council came from the High point downtown improvement Fund, a $50,000 pot of money the Guilford County Board of Commissioners provides High point for the downtown.

an argument could be made that spending $32,000 of it on a festival held at oak Hollow park didn’t do much for the downtown.

You can also make an argument that the funding for the festival was badly handled, and that the City Council should have kept a closer eye on the festival, even though a majority of the festival’s funding came from private donations, the largest an $80,000 donation from the Hayden Harman

Foundation of Burlington, whose founder, patrick Harman, is the treasurer of the Friends of John Coltrane.

there have been accusations that board members of the Friends of John Coltrane have been paid – which would be perfectly legal – but sims has denied it. even if other councilmembers thought sims was benefiting from the festival, they trust Harman. several councilmembers have said, privately, in varying words, that if Harman is holding the checkbook, they are not worried.

this year, the nonprofit asked for $50,000 from the city – which the council voted, as part of its 5-to-4 June 18 vote on the $328 million 2012-2013 budget, to hand off to the High point Convention and Visitors Bureau (HpCVB), with instructions to provide the $50,000 for the festival out of its budget. that set off another round in The Enterprise, its postings from its readers and on local blogs about the $50,000.

the HpCVB is funded by a Guilford County hotel occupancy tax created by a local act of the north Carolina General assembly. part of the act requires 15 percent of the tax’s proceeds to go to groups like the visitors bureau who attempt to attract events and increase hotel bookings. the city doesn’t pay into the HpCVB’s $1.3 million budget. in this case, the City Council handed the job of funding part of the Coltrane festival to the visitors bureau, which was set up to attract exactly that sort of event.

all of this merely backs up alexander’s argument that the Coltrane Festival is a tempest in a teapot.

why does the Coltrane Festival story have such long legs?

one reason is certainly that the $32,000 the city gave the festival last year was handled irregularly. it was given to the Friends of John Coltrane at the request of

Councilmember sims outside the usual process for funding outside agencies. the nonprofit had raised enough money to book acts, but not to advertise.

another reason the story is still alive is High point planning Board member and probable 2012 at-large City Council candidate Cynthia davis, also has made the festival her signature issue.

davis made some good cost-cutting suggestions during the budget process this year, including reducing the number of city employees with city-paid cell phones. But she is apparently determined to keep the Coltrane festival issue alive until the september anniversary of last year’s festival – or election day in november.

Yet another reason, which davis has, however, distanced herself from, is race – an issue which comes up surprisingly seldom in High point politics, at least compared to Greensboro, but has been raised in postings on the Coltrane festival. some people apparently think that because Coltrane and sims are black, the festival funding is some sort of sop to black voters.

However, it the Coltrane festival is successful, it would provide publicity High point couldn’t buy. How many people would have heard of newport, rhode island, (population 24,672, about a quarter of High point’s) without its festival?

while media outlets have tied themselves in knots over the Coltrane festival funding, the High point City Council has spent hundreds of millions in bond money with hardly a peep from the media. the budget the City Council approved provides for the spending of $129 million in bond money, $5.8 million of it two-thirds bonds money that didn’t have to be approved by voters.

during one City Council debate over issuing bonds, a reporter for one local media outlet, who shall remain nameless, leaned over and asked, naively, “what are bonds?”

the davidson County commissioners have won the right to set up their maginot Line on their border with Guilford County, in hopes of blocking High point annexations in davidson County they don’t like.

the relevant part of the new law is the following:

“no city not primarily located within the territory of davidson County may adopt an annexation ordinance under any of the provisions of article 4a of Chapter 160a of the General statutes that applies to any territory located within davidson County unless the Board of Commissioners of davidson County has, prior to the adoption

of the annexation ordinance, approved a resolution consenting to that annexation.”

so for now, according to High point and davidson County officials, davidson County commissioners can reject any annexation by High point in davidson County, even if was voluntarily requested by the property owner.

High point, for its part, has said that owners of property in davidson County shouldn’t bother coming to High point asking for voluntary annexation to get High point sewer service. High point mayor Becky smothers said property owners should approach the davidson County


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movies about the end of the world are a genre unto themselves.

we’ve got the end of the world by nuclear war, by global warming turned to global quickfreeze, by disease, by alien invader and by zombie.

my favorite, though, is the end of the world by asteroid. that’s because it has happened before; it could happen again; and there wouldn’t be much we could do about it.

we have our moon because of an absolutely cataclysmic collision. since then, the meteor impacts have ranged from trivial “shooting stars” to massive extinction events. How could Hollywood overlook the special-effects possibilities?

we all remember – unless our memories have mercifully lapsed – the Bruce willis formula movie Armageddon, complete with ticking clock and almost infinite plot idiocy. that one ended with the world being saved by astronauts pretending to be characters.

then there was the other asteroid movie of that summer, Deep Impact, which had actual characters, moving personal storylines and astronauts who gave their all and only partially succeeded in saving the world. it was tragic and larger than life and it can actually be watched over and over without killing brain cells.

naturally, it made less money than

Armageddon. But it still made a lot of money, because movie-goers don’t actually reject movies because they’re good – they reject them when they’re pretentious drivel, and when they’re too stupid to be endured.

otherwise, we’re a forgiving lot. we only ask that you care enough not to make us feel embarrassed about going to the movies. Unless “hangover” is in the title.

Until now, i thought Deep Impact was the best of the end-of-the-world movies – even better than the old black-and-white On the Beach, where the world ended by nuclear fallout, with australia dying last.

now we have a movie that i think is even better, in large part because the end of the world is in the background. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World begins only a short time before Deep Impact ends. the astronauts have all died in an attempt to stop the huge asteroid that’s heading for earth. Complete failure. the world is going to end.

so ... what now?writer-director Lorene scafaria (Nick

and Norah’s Infinite Playlist) had about $10 million to work with.

ordinarily, for $10 million you can’t shoot a grocery list. the rule of thumb is that it costs a million dollars a day to shoot a serious movie. and you can’t shoot a serious movie in 10 days.

Seeking a Friend has a cast that should

have used up the entire budget and then some, just to show up for the first day of shooting: steve Carell (in his best performance ever – and that’s saying a lot), Keira Knightley (in her best performance), and martin sheen in a truly moving role near the end.

obviously, these actors worked for way, way less than their normal asking price. why would they do that?

they did it because of the script.i keep saying that movies are never

better than their script (though they are often worse). well, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is the kind of script that actors pray for.

not because it will lead to an oscar – i doubt this one will be oscar bait for anybody, because nobody has that kind of scenery-chewing role.

no, they pray for a script like this because, 10 or 15 years from now, looking back on their career, this is one movie that they won’t feel a moment’s regret about. a movie they’ll be proud to have been part of.

a movie they can watch themselves in, because they are completely absorbed in characters who are human beings that we can believe in, care about, and even, by the end, admire.

steve Carell plays dodge, an insurance agent. the bad news is, insurance companies are going to go bankrupt at the end of the world. the good news is that since nobody will be alive by the end of their 30-day grace period, they’ll never have to cut a check.

But for dodge, the bad news is that his wife gets out of their stopped car and runs

away. apparently, he was not the man she wanted to be with at the end of the world.

For a while, dodge’s acquaintances – we can hardly call them friends – seem to be trying to hold things together. some of them still show up for work. a lot of others are showing their true colors: since there’s no tomorrow, or at least no three-weeks-from-now, they can do the things that they only refrained from doing because they dreaded the social consequences.

the trouble is, dodge didn’t want to do those things. and so he’s more alone than ever, since he doesn’t like any of these people, and he doesn’t want to spend the last three weeks of the world doing the things they’re doing.

then a much younger woman shows up on the balcony outside his window, a semi-narcoleptic “free spirit” named penny (Keira Knightley) who seems, at first, to be the kind of selfish free spirit that i have become so weary of in movies from Breakfast at Tiffany’s to ... well, to all the others.

i knew a few “free spirits” in college, and they were selfish and boring. But bad movie writers seem to think they bring a breath of fresh air to the lives of dull characters (who always seem to be suspiciously similar to bad movie writers).

But Lorene scafaria is not a bad writer, and penny is not a breath of fresh air. she’s selfish and oblivious and dodge does not immediately fall in love with her. But he does know her well enough that when rioters threaten to overrun the building they


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happy about the fact that every day was a perfect balmy 78 degrees, i told everyone who commented on the great weather: “oh yeah, well you can bet the farm that we’re going to pay for it this summer – you’re not going to be so happy about it when it’s 130 degrees in august.”

and they were always, like, “Hey, don’t be such a debbie downer – it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.”

But now, here it is just at the start of July, and it’s too hot to even go outside and get in your car to go buy an ice cream cone. the other day, i was talking to a guy who said his kids had been at the pool all day, and i said, “wow, that’s certainly the place to be today,” and he said, “not really,” and i asked him, “what do you mean – not really?”

He said his kids had called and said the pool water was so hot it was too uncomfortable to get in.

Listen, in this current realFeel temperature of 110, even my house isn’t cooling like it should, so it’s too hot right now to even write a real column since all i do is walk around in a daze all day long teetering on the verge of a massive heat stroke.

throw on top of that the fact that we also have a short week to turn in stories, thanks to independence day, and all of that adds up to the reason that i just want to say a few things this week and get out of town – this year to Grandfather mountain where it should be a little cooler at least …

Hey, i came up with an idea of a sweeping grandiose goal for Guilford County government. i’m calling for county commissioners, the county manager and other county administrators to strive to work together toward this massive achievement for Guilford County later this summer. i definitely think we should give it a try. we could all use a lofty goal, a target – something to shoot for that calls for grand ambition.

Here’s my idea. You know how, when it comes to Guilford County government, we’ve had at least one giant new scandal every month since october 2010? and, for that matter, sometimes we’ve even managed to have three or four giant county scandals a month?

well, by my calculations, that means Guilford County government has had a string of scandals for 20 months in a row.

that has to be some kind of world record. i guess that’s what they mean when they say that there’s no rest for the wicked.

anyway, that gave me the idea to come up with something lofty to shoot for – kind of like how Kennedy called for a man on the moon by the end of that decade. only, the moon shot may have been a little easier than what i’m proposing.

i’m suggesting that, here in Guilford County, we make august of this year an historic month for our county.

Here is my radical high-bar proposal: that we make august 2012 a completely scandal-free month for Guilford County government.

that’s right, i said it: i’m proposing the unimaginable.now, before you get all crazy on me and say that it’s clearly impossible under our

current county government, let me remind you that they also said it was impossible to put a man on the moon, and they also said it was impossible to achieve peace in the middle east by invading it, though that last one might not be a very good example for me to use right here.

anyway, i picked august because many top county officials will be on vacation much of that month.

also, a lot of reporters will be on vacation for much of august – so, even if there is a scandal, there will be less chance for people to find out about it. so i’m just saying, not that it will be easy, but it is doable.

so, Guilford County leadership, how about it? one month, that’s all i’m asking.Certainly, there’s not any graft, thievery, cronyism or corruption that can’t wait one

month. on saturday, sept. 1, you can go straight back to your usual ways of bilking the taxpayers, handing out favors to friends and on and on …

Come on, everyone reading this: won’t you help make august Guilford County scandal-



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well, if you think for two seconds you heard of everything obama could come up with, you’ve got it timed about right. the Fox news has reported that if you are getting married, they put it on their website. instead of giving money to the bride and groom, donate it to the obama reelection. that beats anything that i’ve ever heard of. i thought when he thought that a man ought to marry a man would be enough. But this takes the cake. Line up, people, we’ve got to get him out.

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talk about fiddling while rome burns. today’s headlines: “Local nonprofits overwhelmed by the need for Food.” another, “Unemployment stubbornly High,” and recent headlines have been, “opera House Goes to $60 million over night from $50 million.” and the mayor stubbornly insists this is a need. How about blowing up at the council meeting and just throwing away $200,000 because you are embarrassed that somebody stands up to you and calls you out while people really are having needs. Let’s all look at this, please. really, truly look at it.

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as patriotic and proud citizens of our country wait for the supreme Court to rule on the affordable health care act, it might be time to reflect on several relatively recent decisions issued by the republican-controlled rehnquist and roberts’ courts, all of which are poorly reasoned and are simply insupportable intellectually and legally, based on the facts and the legal precedents that were in front of the court at the time. these anti-american, anti-capitalism, anti-democracy rulings include, but are not limited to, Bush v. Gore, Kelo v. City of new London, the second amendment and Citizens United. Given these horrendous decisions, it is painfully clear that these republican-appointed judges had a great desire to be the primary movers in the decline and fall of the United states. it may not be obvious to all americans today, but it is inarguably that these four decisions will go down in history in the same disgraceful way as dred scott …

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it will be interesting to see if the court continues their incredible display of bad judgment by striking down any portion of the affordable health care act, which is likely the single-most important piece of legislation for the future health and prosperity of our great country. it is painful obvious that the biggest threat to our country is not sharia law but scalia law.

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County manager Frankenfox runs amuck. what a story. Loaded with persistent scandals of secrecy, dishonesty and contempt, protected by charming enablers who smooth the waters of deceit. a bit of cunning here and there. embarrassed officials, some cowering in fear, and a general public of wide-eyed taxpaying citizens whose trust is betrayed. enter now the forces of justice and truth. Citizens of Guilford County, awake. we must do better than that. tell Frankenfox to go. and take the igors with you.

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was it the Bible, or was it shakespeare who said, by their words ye shall know them? at any rate, i just had to laugh out loud just now listening to national propaganda radio’s report on the environmentalist summit in rio de Janeiro in which an oriental gentleman inadvertently provided the definition of socialism when he said equally unhappy equals equally happy. Quite so. doesn’t that just say it all? Just sign me off as an independent thinker.

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both live in, he goes in search of her in order to warn her to get out.

they get away from the riot under appalling circumstances, and soon enough things get even more appalling. in fact, by the end of their road trip, we might think we’ve been watching a screwball comedy. there’s a scene in jail that is meant to remind us of a similar situation in Bringing Up Baby.

But the world is ending. and there is business to do. there are people to reconnect with. dodge is trying to get back to his high school sweetheart; penny wants to get back to her family.

But along the way everything changes – and not in a cheap, Hollywood way. everything is earned. most people turn out to be better than they might have been. whenever a cheap Hollywood cliche turns up, scafaria turns it on its head, usually letting characters find their humanity.

How would it change us to know the world is ending, irrevocably, for everybody? there are the people who refuse to believe it, who expect to ride it out (a six-month supply of food? oh, that will work); there are the people who don’t want to wait for it; there are the people who just go about their ordinary lives as if nothing bad were about to happen.

Let me just say that both dodge and penny get a chance to reconcile with their own lives. to grow up just a little more. to find the best person inside themselves.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is funny – though it’s dark comedy indeed! – and it’s also moving. it never goes for the cheap laugh – the characters are real at every moment. nor does the movie ever stop for some pretentious “director moment” when you’re slapped in the face with a symbol so the director can feel like an artist.

i can’t help but compare Seeking a Friend with last year’s Tree of Life. Tree of Life was arty and difficult because the writer/director was trying to communicate that which could not be communicated. i loved it, but it wasn’t for most people, at least not people with a normal metabolic rate.

But Seeking a Friend covers an astonishing amount of the same kind of material, and does it within a clear narrative that is entertaining from beginning to end. not child-entertaining, not teenager-entertaining. Grownup-entertaining. How many movies in that category are made per decade?

not everybody will love this movie. it has some rough language, though there’s no nudity. there are some disturbing moments, but most of what makes it wrong for young viewers is the fact that the movie never gives us a moment’s hope that the world might not end.

it ends.so does the movie – but it ends having

convinced us that even at the end of the world, life is worth living, and joy is worth giving and discovering.

when you think about it, the only difference between this movie and real life is that the world ends for us one at a time, by and large, instead of all at once, and it

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takes us by surprise, instead of following a published schedule.

so the question, “whom do you want to be with at the end of the world?” is one that we all have to answer in our own way, in our own lives.

this is a movie that instantly makes it into my top 50 movies (and at 60 years of age, that’s a pretty exclusive list). i may find that it eventually moves up into the top 20. i’ll have to watch it again. and again.

so if you’re a grownup, and you don’t mind movies that deal with the most fundamental human issues in the midst of more-or-less realistic comedy and adventure, take a break from this summer’s comic-book movies and give your eyes and ears to Seeking a Friend at the End of the World. it might also earn a place in your mind and heart.

it might be the kind of movie that would be worth watching one more time in the last three weeks of the world.

....American Idol has had some very good

singers, and lots of pretty good singers, and some good albums have come from the show’s alumni.

But i think my favorite contestant in the whole run of the show was Casey Abrams, the bass-playing jazzman with the bushy red hair and the sense of perpetual delight.

He doesn’t have the glorious voice of adam Lambert. He doesn’t have the pop sensibility of a lot of singers who will surely sell more albums.

But Casey abrams’ first album, entitled Casey Abrams, is wonderful.

now, i love cover albums – that’s why i raved about rita wilson’s first album last week. wilson had only one new song, “Faithless Love,” which i assume was written by J.d. souther, because they made a live-performance, mostly-off-key video of it together, which you should avoid in favor of the beautiful recording.

so if Casey abrams had sung only existing songs, but with his unique, playful, beautiful jazz treatment, i would have been content.

He wasn’t content with that. there’s only one cover, as far as i can tell – “Hit the road Jack,” with Haley reinhart, the fellow contestant who was so productively paired with him on the show.

the rest is new. and i am delighted to tell you that the songs are quite different from each other, and they are all good – ranging from interesting-good to beautiful-good to makes-me-grin good.

and while you’re contemplating the first album by a wonderful new singer-songwriter, you might want to pick up a new album by an old, old favorite. Willie Nelson’s new album, Heroes, shows that nelson is still a great singer with a deceptively simple style.

in a way, willie nelson has always sung like an old man – not much range, a bit of wandering on the pitch, a wide and sagging vibrato. You can’t really tell that he’s any older than he was 30 years ago.

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than rolf Harris’ “tie me Kangaroo down sport.” especially the verse that begins, “tan me hide when i’m dead, Fred.”

But it’s not all silly. nelson sings the spiritual “Come on Up to the House,” which i first heard performed on tom waits’ classic Mule Variations Cd. Joined by sheryl Crow and Lukas nelson, willie nelson gives it a performance every bit as good.

and willie nelson’s country roots are still vigorous, with “Cold war with You” and “Home in san antone” and “my window Faces the south.”

You’ll see what i mean, because if you know willie nelson’s music you’re already planning to buy the album – or you’re already listening to it.

so let me just say that even though i’m not a fan of music that takes Jesus lightly and i’m no particular fan of John wayne movies, i have to admit that the song i came away singing was “Come on Back Jesus (and pick Up John wayne on the way).”

....i stopped in at the Savory Spice Shop in

Friendly Center, because there it was, right next to Red Mango on our weekly smoothie stop. i was planning a barbecue that week, and they had a whole array of really cool-sounding rubs.

i picked the ones that seemed like they might go well with fish – i barbecue salmon and tuna because even people with no brain can do it successfully, and my brain is going

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now, i’ve never used a rub before. i think i put on too much of the spices. the result was that they overpowered the fish a little.

they were still delicious. But if you’re going to spring for wild salmon specifically because it actually tastes like salmon, it’s not smart to overpower it with spices.

next time, i’ll use them more sparingly.But the rubs were delicious in their

own right, and if i had been cooking a less flavorful whitefish or something as dull as chicken or steak, every one of the savory spice shop rubs would have made them stand up and sing.

in other words, even in the hands of a fairly inept griller like me, they’re still delicious.

....in the aftermath of the Fourth of July

festivities in downtown Greensboro, it occurs to me to wonder: why does our illustrious and all-wise city government sell a monopoly to one ice cream store – especially one not owned by someone who actually lives in Greensboro – when they could just as easily have sold a location to every single ice cream store in Greensboro so that customers could sample any or all of them?

it just seems to me that people who haven’t tried Gnam Gnam or Bruster’s or any of the other ice cream and yogurt places in town might have enjoyed having a choice.

and if Greensboro’s leadership doesn’t think it’s important to promote an open market and to give locally-owned businesses a chance to find new customers at a city celebration, then what exactly are we paying them for?

next year, no monopolies, please. Ben and Jerry’s is good ice cream. But it’s not the only ice cream. Let more businesses – especially local businesses – through that door, folks. that would be a much better use of our tax money.

For decades The Rhino Times has provided a true and objective source of information. many times its predictions were based on data and stories hidden from the public. Hopefully, obama rule shall end in november. How about starting a list of those persons most likely to be pardoned by obama? their crime or offense should be listed and organization or position of employment which they held. my guesses include tony rezko, eric Holder, aCorn, other similar organizations and the ex-governor of illinois, ron Blagojevich. Have a nice day.

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i’m not particularly an obama or a democratic person, but i find it disgusting the way you try to make them look bad by printing things that are not proven and by twisting things around to make them try to look bad when it is not justified. a couple of examples: You say the vast majority of americans are much worse off than they were four years ago. majority means more

Beep(Continued from page 13) than 50 percent, and when you put vast in

front of it, you are implying 60 to 70 percent are more or worse off. worse means one thing but put much in front of it, and it means a great number of americans are very, very much worse off than they were four years ago.

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this continues my previous call. another example. You try to make democrats look bad because of their requirements of processing our milk. You call it cooked milk. But the proper name is pasteurization and it probably has saved many lives because of it. do you know of any state that does not require pasteurization of milk, whether it is under democratic or republican control? You write to your readers to form a correction to explain the benefits of pasteurization so they will not be misled into thinking it is something useless.

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ethnicity. so when a black-owned firm happens to win such a contract, companies in the area who share their gender or race would have difficulty partnering with them. eagan said the program was “technically race neutral.”

Councilmember Jim Kee latched onto the idea, saying, “it sounds like the closest thing to a mandate that we could implement in Greensboro.” when reached for comment Kee said that if legality were not an issue, direct mandates were “certainly something i would advocate for Greensboro.”

other suggested ways to target race and gender without breaking discrimination laws included programs to require inclusion of small businesses and firms in larger contracts and programs that would require “a larger, more varied group of subcontractors”

according to eagan. scott noted that such an approach is “not

race and gender specific but it has as a side effect the likelihood that it will increase dramatically the number of minority or women-owned businesses that get to take advantage.”

missing from the meeting was a discussion of the overall economic costs and benefits of maintaining an mwBe program and the costs that more race and gender related ordinances might impose on Greensboro businesses. there was also no mention of the fact that whites are a minority in Greensboro, making up approximately 48 percent of the population.

Councilmember dianne Bellamy-small was particularly interested in the study and whether or not it got into “the down and dirty” of the issue. she expressed concern

that the study was too focused on whether or not there was disparity and not enough with why it exists and what could be done about it. “anytime you talk about somebody other than the group in control, it’s not going to be comfortable,” she said. Bellamy-small didn’t specify which group controls Greensboro. she also inquired about the justification of being “more aggressive for corrective action” but was advised by scott that being too forceful with race and gender goals might open the city to lawsuits.

the study includes a section on “anecdotal evidence,” which was based on interviews and group meetings with woman and minority business owners and operators about what kinds of discrimination they had experienced in pursuit of contracts. part of that section councilmembers repeatedly brought up involved claims by mwBe

subcontractors that they had been dropped by a prime contractor soon after winning a city contract, suggesting that the prime contractor was abusing mwBe good faith efforts. it was suggested by the report that greater and continued oversight may be necessary to prevent that sort of bait and switch.

to move toward implementing new ordinances in light of this study, scott said that City attorney mujeeb shah-Khan and the city staff plan to meet with the City Council about the specifics of possible new bidding and contract procedures sometime between august and october.

mayor robbie perkins and Councilmembers marikay abuzuaiter, nancy Vaughan and nancy Hoffmann also attended the meeting. Councilmembers trudy wade, Zack matheny and Yvonne Johnson were absent.

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terrell doesn’t refer to arC in his email, only a-1 sandrock, which is the parent company. arC is a limited liability company (LLC) with the same ownership as a-1 sandrock. But terrell makes a strong case that matheny does have a conflict of interest.

in the first email from terrell to assistant City attorney Jamiah waterman, terrell states, “i have just received additional information regarding what i consider to be a serious conflict of interest with one council member that would prevent that member from participating in a discussion and vote on the solid waste contract.”

terrell in two emails asks to meet with city officials rather than correspond by email because , he states, “it is my strong preference to deal quietly with what i conclude is a clear conflict rather than through newspaper articles.” shah-Khan requested to receive the information in writing, which makes them public records.

waste Connections, with a-1 sandrock as the prime subcontractor, had the low bid on the Greensboro garbage disposal contract. waste Connections has a landfill in anson County and a-1 sandrock was going to transport the garbage to that landfill. even though the landfill is about 20 miles further from Greensboro than the republic-owned Uwharrie landfill currently being used, the bid from waste Connections was about $1.2 million less per year than the bid from republic services

matheny, who now sells Green day’s garbage and recycling services, has been one of the most outspoken opponents of accepting the low bid, despite the fact that waste Connections is the third largest waste management company in the country and could certainly handle Greensboro’s garbage. matheny said that a-1 sandrock didn’t meet the minimum criteria for what the city needs.

so time after time members of the Greensboro City Council have blasted a-1 sandrock as unable to do the job. perhaps some of his fellow councilmembers would

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have found it useful to know that matheny was selling the services of one of a-1 sandrock’s competitors. maybe that wouldn’t have changed anyone’s opinion on whether or not to accept the low bid, but it is information that the city staff, members of the City Council and the public might want to know.

when asked about it, matheny said, “i’ve never heard of arC.”

He added, “there is no conflict. You can try all you want but there is no conflict.”

when asked about possible conflicts of interest, Councilmember Jim Kee said, “You know we certainly could have avoided a lot of speculation and drama if everyone had come forward and stated what their positions were.” Kee added that Councilmember trudy wade did come forward and say that a-1 sandrock was owned by her cousin, but the city attorney said she didn’t have a conflict and had to vote.

matheny mentioned several times that wade was related to the owner of a-1 sandrock. matheny, however, says that he does not have a conflict of interest, but he has not done what other councilmembers do and asked the city attorney at a public meeting to get his legal opinion on the record.

terrell, who is an attorney, certainly disagrees with matheny’s legal assessment of the situation, and in his email itemizes the reasons why it is his opinion that matheny does have a conflict and should be recused from discussing or voting on the contract.

te r r e l l i n t h e e m a i l t o s h a h -Khan states: “1) Both a-1 and Green day provide commercial and industrial waste hauling and recycling in the Greensboro market.

“2) a-1 directly competes with Green day for a limited number of customers in the market.

“3) among the companies whose business they compete for are samet, Lomax, and KV Homes.

“4) a-1 has recently won bids over Green day with aC Corp, matrix Furniture, the new UnC-G development that crossed Lee street, the nano-science building,

Jsnn and numerous Lomax jobs. a-1 reasonably believes there is a high degree of frustration on Green day’s part because a-1’s ownership of its own disposal site makes it difficult for Green day to submit competitive bids. a recent contract Green day did land over a-1’s bid was the new apartment complex at the former north state Chevrolet site.”

the email goes on to note that most people selling services as matheny is doing are paid at least in part on a commission basis, and if that is the case “then a-1’s competition directly affects his income.”

terrell makes several more points: “9) By using his position in public meetings to describe a-1 as a company that is not good enough or inadequate to handle its part of this contract, then he has reasonably harmed a-1’s reputation among their mutual potential clients, which indirectly could work to his company’s and his personal financial benefit.”

and “10) there is a vehemence and emotional undertone in Councilman matheny’s public comments that suggest his decision to go with the high bidder in this matter has a personal and undisclosed basis (or at least lends credibility to that conclusion.)”

terrell notes that his facts come from his client a-1 sandrock but that he has no reason to doubt their word.

one of the complaints about a-1 sandrock was that its equipment wasn’t listed in the bid package. waste Connections, which is the actual bidder, said the equipment wasn’t listed because they had not acquired it and were not going to unless waste Connections got the contract. the estimated amount of equipment is 15 tractors and 30 trailers. so you are talking about several million dollars worth of equipment that realistically a-1 sandrock would be stupid to buy or lease before a contract was signed.

But matheny said the city should not award the contract to anyone who didn’t already have the necessary equipment in place. this makes Hilco transport just about the only trucking firm in the area that could win the contract because Hilco

is currently doing the job, so they have all the equipment in place. what trucking firm would be making payments on 15 tractors and 30 trailers that are sitting around gathering dust in hopes that the city would award them a contract? particularly with this indecisive council.

For some reason the fix is in for republic services, and it has been from the beginning.

Kee said that since the consultant, who came with high recommendations, has been hired, he doesn’t see the majority on the council voting to bypass the results and go ahead and award the contract. He said, “that’s how i anticipate it would play out now. i can’t imagine anyone wanting to not receive the report and vote before hearing all the facts.”

But despite the vote of the council on June 19 to hire a consultant, that almost didn’t happen. on wednesday, June 27, City manager denise turner roth polled councilmembers by phone to see if there was a consensus not to hire the independent consultant to review the proposals for the waste disposal contract and just award the bid to republic services, the current contractor. she said to go forward with hiring the consultant if the majority of the council was, at that moment, opposed would be “a futile agreement with the company.”

the problem with that reasoning is that the City Council had taken an official, recorded vote to hire a new consultant to look at the proposals and that action of the council was about to be overturned by a secret, private, unofficial, unrecorded poll to award the contract to republic services, the higher of the two bidders

roth said if it appeared the majority of councilmembers were in favor of awarding the contract to republic then the contract to hire the independent consultant would not be signed, despite the fact that an official, recorded vote of the City Council had taken place. she said that going forward with action based on a “sense of council” was an established way to do business.

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Letters to the EditorTime to take a stand

Dear Editor,this letter is to highly recommend

Jeremy williams for Guilford County commissioner. i have had the pleasure of knowing Jeremy for almost six years now as a fellow partner at Cintas Corp. Jeremy’s role as a human resource director at Cintas has helped prepare him to handle complex problems and situations that could come up at any moment. Being able to cross his expertise over to our local board would be beneficial to the citizens of Guilford County. it’s time we have a voice for the people who is willing to take the tough stand and make the tough decisions others have not in the past and Jeremy truly exemplifies that.

Jeremy has lived his adult life here in north Carolina and he met and married his wonderful wife, donna, right here in High point. the couple continued to reside in High point and have since been blessed with three beautiful children.

the simple facts are that Jeremy is one of the few candidates who regularly attends and speaks out for his fellow citizens at the commissioners meetings. He is the only candidate who has taking a significant amount of time to go through the county budget line by line.

during his research Jeremy and a team of other dedicated citizens found approximately $72 million in potential savings. when this information was brought before the county commissioners,

not only did they ignore their findings but they also passed a 6 percent tax increase, which by the way, is one of the highest in the state. the hard working families and businesses in Guilford County deserve better and this is why i recommend Jeremy williams for county commissioner.

it’s time we take a stand and say goodbye to the same old complacency and open the door for lowered debt and reduced taxes at a more competitive rate so the free market can finally thrive and help create jobs. Leigh-Ann Wilson

National health careDear Editor,

Health insurance companies are no doubt licking their chops after the supreme Court upheld the “individual mandate” of the inappropriately named “affordable Healthcare act.” You will now be forced to buy their product and at whatever price they decide to put on it. in terms of health insurance company profits, the sky is now the limit.

millions of americans who currently do not have health insurance and pay their medical bills out of their pockets must now buy health insurance or pay a tax/penalty. paying the tax/penalty, however, will not result in coverage. therefore those who the government deems able to afford health care, even though it may cost them all or the majority of their disposable income, will be assessed a tax/penalty and then be

left with a reduced or no means to pay for health care.

Certainly there will be many “bare bones” type policies offered. Just enough to satisfy the mandate. But therein lies another problem – such polices are likely to cover only catastrophic illnesses and therefore the user will still be required to pay as they go for basic health care, but will be unable to do so because the money previously used to pay for that basic care will now go towards buying a policy that does not cover basic care. make no mistake, millions of americans just got taken to the cleaners.

there is something wrong with a system where prices are so high that a majority cannot access it without an insurance policy. if the people of this nation truly want a national health care system, then the government will have to step in and regulate every aspect of it, setting prices and then distributing the total cost among all taxpayers (obviously, half will get it for free). while this may seem unsavory, it is a far cry better than the absurd enrichment, by force, of private insurance companies under obamacare.Tom Kirkman III

Bungled policy decisionsDear Editor,

Guilford County manager Brenda Jones

Fox needs investigating for her role in giving herself a retirement bonus plus all the other shenanigans she has pulled since she has been county manager. this county manager has done nothing but use her power to interject her policy decisions into certain departments whether the department heads wanted them or not. there were times when the head of a department could not cross her without repercussions.

this is a prime example of politics played by a person who thinks she is above all other employees. in addition, she punishes those employees or department heads who disagree with her beliefs or the way she is managing county funds. in addition, there are those commissioners and other politicians from both sides who know what is going on here but they have consistently stood by her or their party and their allies who may owe them a personal favor will benefit somehow from her policy decisions.

their own personal benefits outweigh the benefits of the people that they are supposed to represent. it is time to elect people from both parties who will truly represent the people and the people’s interest who elected them and put their trust in them rather than who elected them in the first place and crack down on those who use their office for their own political gains. the people are the true victims.Steven M. Shelton

Free month? if it’s a success, maybe we can even make it an annual thing.

speaking of Guilford County, the county has a solid waste recycling mascot named pete, and the big news this week is that pete may have undergone a sex change operation.

pete is a talking plastic bottle with a face and hands, and he has always seemed to be unquestionably male – not to mention that pete is unmistakably a boy’s name.

However, the other night, at a meeting of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, the board heard a report on the county’s solid waste efforts from susan Heim, who heads up those efforts for the county. Heim was expounding on the increasing popularity of pete and his demand at kids functions and other events. then came the statement that threw me.

“He has become quite the little media diva,” Heim told the board.

she didn’t go into any more detail than that, but it sounded strange to me that he could be a diva if he was still a he. so i looked it up. the two main definitions for “diva” that i found are:

1. a famous female opera singer2. a female singer who has enjoyed great

popular successso, i’m still looking into the matter, but

Yost(Continued from page 12) pete may now be a female solid waste

management mascot – not to mention a singer as well. not that there’s anything wrong with any of that.

there has been a great deal of confusion over the impending zombie apocalypse, and not just about whether to capitalize it or not. the medical examiner in Florida revealed this week that lab tests only detected marijuana in the system of the Florida man who was shot while chewing off another man’s face. the authorities have ruled out any other street drugs – “including the components typically found in the stimulants known as bath salts.”

so, after all that commotion, it turns out that it wasn’t bath salts after all.

this week a report from the associated press shed some light on the situation. Here you go; i’ve added the italics …

“there has been much speculation about what drugs, if any, would lead to the bizarre behavior that authorities said rudy eugene exhibited before and during the gruesome attack that left the other man horribly disfigured. a miami police union official had suggested that eugene, who was shot and killed by an officer, was probably under the influence of bath salts.

“The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner said in a news release that


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the toxicology detected marijuana, but it didn’t find any other street drugs, alcohol or prescription drugs. eugene also tested negative for adulterants commonly mixed with street drugs.”

so that’s good news and that’s bad news.

the good news is that now everyone can go back to taking baths to their heart’s content, and, when they’re soaking in a nice refreshing bath, they can use bath salts without having to worry about getting out, toweling off and then feasting feverishly on the flesh of the living.

so, whether you use bath salts to exfoliate, to soften your skin, to add

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essential minerals or merely to emerge from your bath refreshed, revitalized and relaxed, go ahead and do so without fear.

the bad news is that, since the guy was only on weed, it means the attack was really just a severe case of the munchies.

Listen, if you are one of those who partakes of the evil weed – or, as it’s sometimes known these days, mary Jane, Ganja, aunt mary, Chronic, Cheeba or the Jolly Green – well, please, for the sake of everyone, just satisfy your munchies the way people have always done: Call out for pizza.

remember, no matter how stoned you are, there is never any reason to eat another human being. if you find your craving for flesh becomes overwhelming, then try the

meat lover’s pizza and perhaps that will take care of it. i think the meat lover’s pizza may even be on special right now.

i came up with a catchy public health slogan for the public information campaign. if you are with the CdC or if you are one of the other government people dealing with this problem, you have my permission to use it free of charge. Here you go:

If you say yes to cannabis, just say no to cannibalism.

oK, one last thing, speaking of the zombie apocalypse.

Charles eugene, the brother of the man gunned down, said his family doesn’t plan to pursue any legal action against the police for

shooting his brother – who’s now frequently referred to as the “miami zombie.”

His brother said the police used the force they felt was necessary – even though he and other family members thought it seemed excessive. He said the family just wanted to put the matter behind them. the ap report said, of the brother, “He said that eugene has been buried.”

Buried? a zombie? i don’t know if they’ve seen the same shows and movies i have, but if you simply take a zombie and bury him, it’s a pretty good bet that that’s not the last time you’ll have to deal with him.

Buried? sure he is – but for how long? For how long?

the closed session discussion and straw poll vote are clearly illegal since the state’s open meetings law doesn’t allow the board to hold a vote to contact a consulting firm or even discuss the matter behind closed doors. the law does allow for the board to talk about some matters in closed session – for instance, matters of attorney/client privilege, the expansion of business or industry or specific personnel issues. However, hiring a consulting firm is not a legal exception to the open meetings law.

amanda martin, the general counsel for the north Carolina press association, said that the board is not allowed to discuss hiring a consulting firm in closed session.

“it was not legal for them to hold the discussion – and certainly not to take the vote – in closed session,” martin said. she said the board can discuss job performance of a specific employee in closed session, but discussions of general issues such as hiring a search firm must be in open session.

regardless, the board took the vote illegally behind closed doors.

Young & associates is an asheville-based consulting firm, which, among other services, conducts searches to fill high-level positions for governments and businesses.

in recent months, the Board of Commissioners has talked about letting the next board, which will be sworn into office on monday, dec. 3, worry about hiring the

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new manager. However, there has been a heightened

call to get rid of Fox before that, after Fox threatened to sue the board if it took away a plan that would have given her a $61,000 bonus with her last paycheck. the board had approved the bonus program because they didn’t read their agendas or ask questions about items they didn’t understand. when the commissioners found out what they had done by reading The Rhinoceros Times, they voted 9 to 2 to stop the bonuses. as of yet, Fox hasn’t filed a lawsuit.

Fox has stated that she intends to retire on Feb. 1, 2013. However, that’s not nearly soon enough for some commissioners, and a majority of the board in that illegal part of the closed session, out of the public eye, considered it a good idea for the county to hire Young & associates and begin the process. moments earlier, in the open session in full view of the public, not a single one of those commissioners would even so much as second the motion made by Commissioner Kirk perkins calling for Fox to be fired.

Guilford County staff and the search firm are working out the details of an agreement and several sources said they expect the board – perhaps at its next meeting on thursday, July 19 – to approve a contract.

the firm has worked with local

governments in north Carolina, including pamlico County, mitchell County and the town of spring Lake in Cumberland County. it has also acted as consultants for the north Carolina real estate Commission – which Chairman of the Board of Commissioners skip alston has been chairman of multiple times.

Young & associates has also worked with Guilford County before with much success: in the fall of 2009, the firm was hired to conduct a search to fill the county attorney position. that search found Guilford County attorney mark payne, who, at that time, was the attorney for Johnston County. payne is still the Guilford County attorney, and he has now held that job for twice as long as the half-dozen attorneys and interim attorneys who preceded him combined.

in early 2009, after the board forced County attorney sharron Kurtz out of that position, a committee made up of commissioners and local attorneys was put in place to fill the position but didn’t have any luck in that effort.

then the board agreed to hire Young & associates and paid the firm $9,500. david Young, who heads up that agency – and who was born and raised in Greensboro – appeared to work well with the commissioners during that search.

one of the options the commissioners discussed illegally behind closed doors

is having an interim county manager – perhaps another manager from another county to come in. there’s a feeling among some commissioners that Guilford County government has been so scandal-ridden and dysfunctional for the last two years that it needs to start fresh, rather than fill the position with any existing county staff – something the board and county administration does often when top-level county positions are vacated.

Commissioner mike winstead, who would not vote to fire Fox at the June 21 meeting, said it’s very clear to him that the current board can’t wait to let the next board take action.

“it’s a good idea to move forward on this,” winstead said.

He said some commissioners have argued that, since a new board will be elected in a few months, it’s premature to hire a headhunting firm or to begin a manager’s search in any way now. they say that the board in place after the next election should handle the search for a new manager.

“i don’t buy into that,” winstead said. “You can always wait – we can say that with everything.”

He said that, depending on how the election turns out, the next board may look very much like the current board. winstead said that, other than the departure


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the new dmV office is now being renovated, and the new office will no longer be hidden away behind other businesses, as was the former agency.

proctor initially wanted the new office to be next to mcKnight Hardware, at 1709 e. Bessemer ave., but he said there were parking issues and other drawbacks with that location.

there is ample parking and easy access at the new Golden Gate office, which has seen the departure of several businesses in recent years, including a Harris teeter.

the reason county drivers have had to suffer without a sufficient number of offices for so long is because, after the Golden Gate office closed, Guilford County manager Brenda Jones Fox, tax director Ben Chavis and other top county staff, pushed forward with an unusual plan for Guilford County to be one of only a handful of counties in the state to run its own dmV office. those county administrators moved ahead without consulting the Board of Commissioners, which has the say over that type of decision.

there are about a half-dozen counties in the state that run license plate offices. However, those counties are very small and run an office out of necessity – because there aren’t enough clients in those areas to make it a profitable business for a private provider.

Howell of the nC dmV said that, unlike Guilford County, some locations across the state can be difficult to find people or businesses who want to open an office.

DMV(Continued from page 6) “in some cases, we don’t get any

applicants at first,” she said.the right to open a Guilford County

office, however, was highly prized: 37 private contractors applied to run. However, Guilford County government came into the picture – and moved to the front of the line after submitting a nearly blank application after the deadline had passed.

the county got the go-ahead from the state, sent a group of high-ranking county officials to raleigh, made plans to renovate the county’s independence Center in downtown Greensboro and took a great many additional steps toward opening the office.

However, the county manager, in all her excitement, forgot to so much as run the idea by the Board of Commissioners. Guilford County administration has a well deserved reputation these days for moving forward with major initiatives without informing the commissioners, the ultimate authority in the county.

the first time the Board of Commissioners publicly discussed the idea was in mid-January – when not a single one of the board’s 11 commissioners voted in favor of the move.

By the time Guilford County officially notified state officials of the vote and the fact that the county wouldn’t be opening a dmV office, five months had gone by – time in which the state could have been working for a private license plate office provider, like proctor and his group, if Fox had simply communicated with the county commissioners on the matter.

there were eight people in line, or 10 if you count children, and one city employee working. But although the city couldn’t afford to man another window on the day the privilege license tax was due, it could afford a security guard to sit behind a bulletproof glass wall and watch.

i waited in line, i won’t say patiently, and as the collection agent waited on one person, one or two more would be added to the end of the line. so the line always stayed somewhere around 10 people long. Finally it was almost my turn and the city opened up another window for me. when i handed over the paperwork and the check, i was told i had to go to the Collections office before i could be helped at the Collections window. this is evidently something that everyone is supposed to know. of course you go to the collections office before the collections window. But i didn’t know.

a sign would have been very helpful. the city is fond of signs. there were signs all over the place telling people that the city would be closed for business on July 4. adding one sign that said, “to purchase or renew a privilege License please go this way,” and an arrow, would be so helpful.

or here is a better idea that is even cheaper than a sign. take the security guard out from behind his bulletproof glass wall and put him out by the front door directing

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people to where they need to go. most of the security guards are really nice people, and i know many of them would prefer to be out talking to people instead of watching them from behind glass.

the response i got from city employees when i complained about the inconvenience is, “we do it the same way every year.” no doubt it is just as inconvenient every year, but i don’t remember everything i did last year.

when i got inside the Collections office there was one person waiting on people and another city employee just sitting in his office not waiting on people or doing much of anything. i had plenty of time to watch him while i waited. then i saw him a few minutes later down the hall and he told someone he was “taking a break.” He was taking a break in the hall from taking a break in his office and still there was only one person waiting on people.

on a day like July 2, when privilege license taxes are due, if the city wanted to keep its citizens happy, it would put on more workers or get the workers they have to work more for one day. it won’t kill anyone to work for a couple of hours without a break. Having two windows open and two people taking care of licenses would have made all the difference. mainly it would have made citizens feel like the city was looking out


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of alston, Commissioners Billy Yow and John parks, and himself, not much will be that different.

“i’ll be gone; skip, Billy and John will be gone – but the majority of the board may be the same people,” winstead said.

there will be some familiar faces on the Board of Commissioners after the first monday in december. However, a board without alston – who wields an alarming amount of power on that board – will no doubt have a totally different character than the present one.

winstead also said that not much county business, including a search, will take place around the Christmas and new Year’s

holidays. and, with Fox leaving Feb. 1 at the latest, he said, that wouldn’t give the new board much time to conduct a search if the current board hasn’t taken any action.

winstead also said Fox’s fate right now is very much up in the air – she may be fired; she may retire on Feb. 1; she may retire before then. He added that starting to look now might make it possible for a new manager to learn the job while Fox is still with the county.

actually, Fox’s fate is squarely in winstead’s hands. she has her job because winstead would not agree to fire her, leaving only five commissioners in favor of terminating her contract.

Commissioner paul Gibson said he

thought it was a good idea to contact Young & associates and get them on board, but he said he didn’t like winstead’s idea of having Fox train a new manager.

“i completely disagree with mike on that,” Gibson said.

Gibson has been one of Fox’s most vocal critics on the board, and, he said this week that what the county is looking for in a new manager is something completely different from Fox. therefore, Gibson said, it makes no sense to have a new manager learning the ropes from Fox.

Last week, Gibson said he would rather have any of the first 200 people listed in the phone book as county manager instead of Fox.

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school and Falkener elementary school.despite the $8 million slimming down,

the airport area high school would have been the most expensive ever built in Guilford County, and one of the most expensive ever built in the state. the 125-acre complex would have been the culmination of Guilford County’s 12-year trend of building larger and grander school complexes without enough classrooms. But, in the end, it collapsed under the weight of its own ambitions.

the school was a bad idea for many reasons. Finding a suitable 100-plus acre tract in what will soon be the most industrialized part of Guilford County was nearly impossible. the model of building high schools with stand-alone stadiums and athletic fields is reaching the point where it will be financially difficult in Guilford County when land prices increase.

the high school was planned to be, like northern Guilford High school, a 1,200-student school with a core library, cafeteria and administrative offices that could handle an eventual 1,600 students. But the school system didn’t need 1,200-seat schools with soaring, two-story atriums, coffee bars and massive common spaces that were built with more square footage per student than schools in other counties.

what Guilford County schools desperately needed in 2008 was more classroom seats. at the time, it was using more than 600 mobile classrooms for students. it needed as many classrooms as possible, built as quickly and inexpensively as possible, to handle what was then an influx of more than 1,000 students a year.

now, as school board members have admitted, the very rationale for the school is in question. that flood of new students has slowed to a trickle, only a hundred or so a year, as the economy has reduced the number of people moving into Guilford County.

Guilford County voters have approved about $1 billion in school bonds since 2000, and Guilford County schools in october 2011 released a 10-year plan calling for $1.24 billion more in spending, long before the conclusion of the current half-billion dollar building program.

in that plan, Guilford County school

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superintendent mo Green and Chief operations officer andy Larowe predicted that the school system would have 6,350 more kindergarten through 12th grade students by the 2020-2021 school year. that figure, even taken at face value, showed that the school system was growing at a much slower pace than the school board had projected when selling the 2008 school bonds.

as recently as september 2008, Guilford County schools was projecting that it would need 13,800 new seats for students by the 2017-2018 school year. now, the projected enrollment has dropped by half – and Guilford County schools has had to push it three years into the future to get even the 6,350 number.

the Guilford County schools Facilities department has made mistakes during the current construction program. projects have gone over budget, employees have had ethics problems and designs have gone wrong. But the fault for the failure of the airport area high school plan lies squarely on the shoulders of the school board.

Larowe – the third person to head the Facilities department since the bond referendum – Guilford County schools executive director of Facilities robert melton and Guilford County schools director of Facilities planning donna Bell, in their presentation to the school board on thursday, June 28, at the north eugene street building, basically threw up their hands and told the school board what had been obvious for some time – that the school board’s plan was unworkable despite countless hours their department had thrown at it. they begged the school board for better direction. Larowe said the department’s work on the project had literally begun the day after the bond referendum.

the chickens were coming home to roost for the school board, which was paying the price for lax oversight of its building program, political promises made without thought, a lack of the skill needed to generate public support and a plan for the new high school and middle school that most real estate agents would have told them would have taken the luck of the gods to pull off.

the school board members tried to explain the fix in which the school board had gotten itself.

school board member ed price – the only real estate agent on the board and who wasn’t on the board during the bond referendum – cleared the deck at the beginning of the conversation

price asked the basic question that should have been asked long ago: “do we have to build this high school?”

school board attorney Jill wilson, clearly enjoying herself, said, “i don’t have to answer this. it’s all up to you.”

price was asking if the bond referendum required the school board to build the high school. wilson, as she made clear later in the meeting, was responding that the bond referendum did not require the school board to build its staggeringly expensive high school.

wilson said the bond referendum only requires the school board to spend the money on school stuff, “which is very general.” she said, “there is nothing about the bond referendum that commits you to any particular structure.”

price said that $72 million would pay for many badly needed repairs and expansions at other schools. the school system’s failure to maintain its schools is a constant mystery.

price, who represents district 2, also complained that he was the only school board member who didn’t get the presentation about the high school in advance by email. “and this is in my district,” he said. “i’m disappointed that someone didn’t have the courtesy to send this to me.”

Green said, “i’m sure it was an honest mistake.” But there’s no reason to assume that at all.

the Guilford County schools administration had regularly and persistently failed to send price, his predecessor Garth Hebert, and district 5 school board member paul daniels documents that always seemed to reach the other school board members on time. although school board races are non-partisan, district 2 and district 5 are two safely republican seats on the majority-democrat school board, meaning their representatives are more likely to question the judgment of the heavily democratic Guilford County schools administration.

price pointed out something that no other school board member has pointed out before: the proposed airport area high

school has no constituency. it was planned to ease crowding at northwest Guilford High school, to some extent at southwest Guilford High school, and to take a few students from western Guilford High school.

By far the most students would come from northwest Guilford High school, the best-performing regular, non-academy high school in the school system. one of the biggest mistakes the school board made was probably calling it an “airport area high school,” which was probably done to avoid a political backlash from the fact that the rapidly expanding northern part of Guilford County got northern High school and northern elementary school from the last building program, yet northern Guilford County would already be getting another high school.

in public meetings and hearings, as price pointed out, it’s hard to remember anyone standing up and demanding that the school be built. it doesn’t have crowds of supporters like ragsdale High school, which is getting a $29 million facelift, or the promised southeast area elementary school, for which hundreds of parents turned out several times when the school board tried to build it in mcLeansville, rather than in southeast Guilford County.

“i haven’t seen a swell of support on this,” said price, who is from High point. “i see $72 million worth of expenses. $72 million would repair a bunch of our problems in a bunch of our existing schools. i could



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Board of Commissioners first.“they will say, ‘You have limited my

land to a development pattern that is not cost effective,’” smothers said of the property owners. “and they won’t get sewer service, because we don’t give sewer service without annexation.”

smothers said that High point didn’t lobby against the bill, although she did send a letter opposing it to rep. Julia Howard, the senior chair of the House Finance Committee.

“well, for openers, and maybe it was a bad call, we saw no reason to go down and have a fit in raleigh,” smothers said. “we didn’t have anybody in our camp there.”

that does seem like a bad call by High point. Local bills are generally reserved for noncontroversial legislation that affects only one county or municipality – and had High point raised a stink, the annexation bill might have been considered controversial.

“they looked at it only in terms of the davidson County delegation, i assume,” smothers said. “in that case, it was noncontroversial, i assume.”

“who in the world would have thought a republican legislature would act on a bill that restricts the rights of property owners?” smothers said. “if someone wants to sell their property, they have to go to the

davidson County commissioners.”smothers also said High point didn’t

lobby heavily against the bill because it was introduced by north Carolina state rep. Jerry dockham.

“i think the world of Jerry dockham,” smothers said. “i respect him. He’s a nice man, and he’s helped High point on issues. it didn’t seem worth it for the embarrassment to him if they were going to pass it. we didn’t have any recourse anyway.”

Chairman of the davidson County Board of Commissioners sam watford said that he too was surprised – at least that language giving his board control over voluntary annexations made it into the final bill and was enacted.

“it really surprised me that it passed with the voluntary as well as the involuntary,” watford said. “that was the big issue. But nobody seemed to mind it. we’ve got people living in fear of annexation, and there’s no reason for that.”

How much that fear of annexation is justified is disputed between High point and davidson County. High point has not used involuntary annexation since the 1980s except in one 1992 case. davidson County manager robert Hyatt said he didn’t see the law as an attempt to keep High point entirely out of davidson County.

“i certainly would not call it a wall at

the county line,” Hyatt said. “what our commissioners have always wanted was a voice in that process. a city that annexes now goes through a process to see if that annexation is good for that city. right now our county hasn’t had that, and our counties in general haven’t had that – to look at it and say, do we have the capacity in our schools and infrastructure?”

smothers said the new law would make an ineffective wall.

“it’s not a wall between two counties,” she said. “it’s essentially a net that davidson placed around davidson”

Just how porous that net is depends on the strictness of the requirements the davidson County commissioners put on property owners seeking annexation by High point. the main objection raised against some developments built in davidson County and annexed into High point has been that they were too dense, and their populations strained davidson County schools and services.

watford said the davidson County Board of Commissioners will probably consider each annexation separately, rather than setting any hard-and-fast rules against annexation in certain areas, and that there will be more to each consideration than the density issue. He said other issues that affect davidson County include traffic safety and

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the effect on adjoining properties.“i can only speak for myself, but i feel like

we’ll look at them individually, at the issues and the impacts on the schools,” watford said. “and impacts on the neighborhoods and if it’s being developed according to our zoning ordinance.”

High point has annexed considerable property in davidson County as a result of property owners requesting annexation to get High point sewer service.

even watford said that not all the High point annexations into davidson County have been bad.

“we’ve got some nice developments in High point that are in davidson County, there’s no question about that,” he said. “there’s just some that were developed too densely.”

north Carolina state sen. stan Bingham said that he didn’t think the davidson County commissioners would use the bill to prevent voluntary annexations. He said that blocking voluntary annexations would almost certainly land the commissioners in court.

“i just see a huge battle on this and the county commissioners losing on this,” Bingham said. “people don’t want to be told what to do with their land.”

davidson County won its battle with the ratification by the north Carolina General assembly of House Bill 943, a local bill proposed by the davidson County commissioners and initially filed on april 25, 2012 as senate Bill 796 by Bingham.

spend $10 million at High point Central and northwest and andrews. is this school needed now?”

price got no direct answer. But school board Chairman alan duncan, who, along with the three other members of the school board’s architect selection Committee, essentially runs the building program out of sight of the school board, stepped in to try to clarify things, which he often does when the school board has tied itself in knots.

duncan said the school board had four basic options – to reconsider building the school, to reduce the size of the school, to have the Facilities department come forth with other land options or, a catch-all category, to come up with ideas outside of the box. He said, “those are sort of some of the options that are out there.”

Bell said, in essence, that what the project had come to is the Facilities department needing some real leadership from the school board, or as she phrased it, “guidance.” she said, “this is really the crux of why we’re here, is to get some input.”

Bell pointed out the numerous problems with the search zone the school board had decided on – that the jurisdictions controlling it had planned industrial development for much of the land, that there were a welter of highways planned to be built by the north Carolina department of transportation there in upcoming years, and that the Facilities department had looked both north and south of i-40 without success.

she said, “this particular area is kind of difficult, and we’ve tried to find what we could find.”

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were two sites, each of which was adamantly opposed by the jurisdiction it was in.

the first site was on land south of i-40, near Boylston road just east of Bunker Hill road between the High point city limits and the interstate.

in october 2010, High point mayor Becky smothers and High point City manager strib Boynton killed the Boylston road site, which was on land that High point will eventually annex and plans to use for industrial development, by refusing to guarantee water and sewer for the site, which forced the school board to look for land north of i-40.

the school board then voted to option land in the least likely of places – the triad Business park in the part of western Guilford County that has been annexed into Kernersville.

Kernersville killed the idea of putting the school in the middle of an industrial park next to a Fedex Corp. package-sorting facility. the Kernersville Board of aldermen voted unanimously on June 5, 2012 to deny the zoning changes necessary to build the school in the industrial park.

the fact that, in both cases, the school board was dealing with experienced builders, all of whom knew very well that they would be selling to Guilford County schools, completely invalidated the rationale in north Carolina law for debating the purchase of land in closed session – which is that if the owner found out who it was selling to, it would jack up the price.

despite that, until thursday, the school board dealt with the idea of, and plans for,

the airport area high school almost entirely in closed session. Had it not done so, it might not be in the fix it is in now.

Both high school sites failed because the school board did not have an adequate public debate over the need for the high school and where it should be built.

school board members acknowledged that.

school board member Jeff Belton said the school board needs to go slow, and get public input, so it wouldn’t be perceived as sitting on pile of money and not buying land.

now, four years into the construction program and the search for land for the airport area high school, the school board needs public input on the high school?

school board member Kris Cooke said the board needs to be more open with the public on the project.

“i think it’s important for us and the public to see what is spent,” she said. “i don’t think it’s going to be something we’re going to be pleased with, especially if we don’t build it. these are precious dollars.”

that was the first time a school board member has ever publicly questioned how much Guilford County schools has spent searching for land for a high school that no one seems to want and an elementary school that no one seemed to want where the school system wanted to put it.

News & Record reporter morgan Josey Glover wrote on her blog that the Facilities department has spent $484,117 on the search for land for the high school and middle school, and there’s no reason to


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in July 2011, when The Rhino Times requested all the invoices and purchase orders for outside consultants on the construction program, Guilford County schools had spent $3.47 million on outside consultants for its construction projects since 2006.

documents provided by the school system at the time listed two real estate consultants: sandra iris taylor, and imperial Construction and development LLC – basically the same person, since the company is taylor’s –for “Land acquisition and real-estate matters.” the school board claimed it needed to use third parties to disguise the fact that Guilford County schools was negotiating to buy properties.

at that time, taylor was listed as having been paid $194,330, and imperial Construction and development was listed as having been paid $104,250, for a total of

Airport(Continued from page 31) $298,580. that was a year ago, and much

of the search for land for the high school has occurred since then.

Guilford County schools, as part of the construction program, needed to find land for only three schools: the airport area high school, the southeast area elementary school, and a north Greensboro elementary school that is now being built on Yanceyville road and has been named the ronald e. mcnair elementary school.

of those three schools, only the high school and the southeast elementary took any effort; the school board snapped up the Yanceyville road site quickly with no protracted search and no apparent difficulty. the high school site was the one duncan on thursday called “arduous and time consuming.”

after four years of never questioning the proposed high school, publicly at least, duncan did so. “do we need to hold off doing this right now?” he asked. “do we need to look at doing a middle

school instead?”duncan also, after years of supporting

the $72 million cost of the proposed high school, said the school board should consider plans that would spend less. “i think that is achievable,” he said. “i really do.”

school board member nancy routh, who, like other school board members, had kept any doubts she had about the airport area high school private, came out with a torrent of criticism

routh said the school board should reconsider its goals for the size of high schools, and find out if it is reasonable to increase the size of high schools, and what implications would follow.

routh said, “i have had some concern from the beginning, not so much about the need for additional classroom spaces in this area and to try to maintain our existing high schools at what seemed to be a reasonable enrollment ... but in terms of how much land do we really need for a building.”

routh said, as The Rhino Times has

said for four years, that the school board should focus on classrooms, not extras. she said Guilford County schools could have athletic facilities and programs that draw from several schools, while focusing on classroom space in new schools.

the school board, routh said, has been guilty of chasing land and not thinking it costs money – which surely makes the school board a tad dim.

the Facilities department asked for direction, but it didn’t get it. the school board complained about cities and towns not wanting tax-exempt schools, it dithered and its members stared at the floor. what they didn’t do was come up with any concrete plans.

what was clear is that the airport area high school plan, as originally conceived, is dead. duncan may have listed finding another 100-plus-acre site as an option, but the school board, having been down that path twice disastrously, will certainly never have the political will to go that way again.

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i wonder how much money changed hands, and how much the war chest, how big it is, for Judy mendenhall to run against mike pugh here in High point for City Council. it’s like dragging up a dead horse. But they

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revive that dead horse, pump new blood into her, got her fired up. i’m sure there’s a big war chest to buy ads in the High point paper and on the different places downtown here to get poor old mike pugh put out to pasture. i’m sure that Judy has got enough money to put him out there. i know they’ve tried several years to get Bill Clinton to come down here and run against him. so, i just wonder how much money really changed hands on that deal. this is moe.

by a group of millis road elementary school supporters to raise $1.5 million from private donors to build and furnish a new building at the elementary school that would be a combination gym, assembly space and four-classroom expansion.

if the policy were in place, the millis road supporters – who are going much further than most donors and actually proposing to construct a building that the school needs and the school board hasn’t funded – would have to raise, instead of $1.5 million, $2.25 million at the 50 percent premium and $2.62 million at the 75 percent premium.

in other words, a bunch of community volunteers would have to raise an additional $750,000 or $1,125,000 over their already lavish proposed donation.

the problems with this policy are legion. the most obvious is that it would kill most large donations to the school system. it’s fairly astonishing that a group of millis road supporters, organized by millis road principal russell Harper, even working hard for almost four years, has come up with a plan for a $1.5 million donation that

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to picture that same group, despite their and Harper’s efforts, coming up with $2.62 million, unless they’ve got an extraordinarily wealthy backer – and even if they did, few other groups would.

a second problem is that, if building or equipping schools by private donations were to take off in Guilford County, as it has in California and other places where school funding has been slashed, it would create a slush fund for a superintendent – or his designee – to use as desired.

the draft procedure that accompanies the policy does call for money raised from the 50 to 75 percent tax on private donations to be held in escrow – but it does not set standards for, or limits on, a superintendent’s use of the money.

“to help ameliorate equity concerns, GCs requires that a matching amount be raised for equity purposes and/or a minimum of 50-75 percent of the total cash amount raised,” the procedure states. “GCs will hold these matching funds in escrow to be used to address capital improvement projects at schools that lack similar

fundraising capacity.”that would leave the superintendent

enormous latitude, although a school board vote would be required for projects costing more than a yet-determined amount.

the draft policy makes a token nod to Guilford County taxpayers who pay for much of the Guilford County schools operating budget and most of its construction, through school bonds. it reads, “the Guilford County Board of education (Board of education) recognizes and appreciates

the financial support received from local taxpayers as well as from state and federal sources.” that’s nice of them.

the proposed additions to the policy then get down to the meat of the matter – private donations.

one states, “while the Board of education strongly advocates for adequate public funding of public schools and school districts, it does recognize that the active search for and the prudent use of


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private philanthropic donations and/or in-kind contributions may help fund/support special initiatives and supplement ongoing programs.”

so the school board will take money from private sources. that is nothing new. Guilford County schools has taken large donations from foundations, primarily the Joseph m. Bryan Foundation, as well as small donations or in-kind contributions from ptas and booster clubs, since its inception in 1992.

an addition in the draft policy states that the school board “recognizes that parent groups, alumni associations, and other groups may want to raise funds from private donors to improve, enhance, expand, or build new school or district facilities, or to meet other, unmet capital needs (including furniture, fixtures, equipment, for example) when adequate public funding is not available.”

the draft policy and procedure do not address the issue of whether the 50 to 75 percent tax on raised funds would be applied to foundations, or merely to parent groups struggling to help their schools.

the inclusion of parent groups, alumni associations and “other groups” implies that the proposed policy would apply to ptas, active alumni associations such as that at dudley High school, which regularly appears before the school board, and

Donations(Continued from page 32) probably booster clubs, under the “other

groups” phrase.that worries parents and alumni at

schools other than millis road as well.it certainly worries susan tysinger, the

president of the page alumni and Friends association, another very active alumni group.

tysinger spoke to the school board at its June 28 meeting, saying the page alumni association is worried about the auditorium at page, which was built in 1958. she said the auditorium is in bad condition. the alumni association has created a Friends of the page auditorium group to attempt to renovate it.

the most recent edition of The Page, the newsletter of the alumni association, states that the Friends of the page auditorium has a preliminary plan to renovate the auditorium, and that several members of the group have met with a professional theater consultant with many years of experience with high school theater and auditorium renovations. it states that the group hopes to work with the consultant to come up with a conceptual design plan.

“the plan itself is a large expense, but it will be our blueprint for a first class community theater. any donations for start-up expenses of this project can be made through the page alumni and Friends association,” the article states. “additional committee members are always welcome!”

tysinger told the school board that the renovation of the page auditorium, to be paid for by private donations, is expected to cost $2 million. that would mean that, if the equity policy were in place, the Friends of the page auditorium would have to raise between $3 million and $3.5 million, possibly an insurmountable hurdle.

tysinger said, “taking from one group to give to another will only destroy the groups that are in place.”

equity among schools is a problem in Guilford County, as it is throughout the United states. the difference between well-built, well-maintained and well-equipped schools and less well-funded schools is particularly noticeable in elementary schools, which don’t usually have the strong alumni groups and booster clubs that high schools have. some Guilford County schools are in terrible shape and are poorly equipped. others are brand new and have every doodad and geegaw you can put on a school

part of Green’s strategic plan calls for a baseline of facilities and equipment that would be provided to all schools – an admirable goal, which should be implemented over time. But the baseline policy envisions equalizing schools through the school system’s operating and maintenance budgets and, when available, school bonds – not by slapping a tax on parent and alumni groups.

as Guilford County schools officials have said in meetings on the millis road proposal, one of their concerns with private donations is that a group will begin to raise money for a building or project and then not be able to meet its goal. that problem would be compounded greatly by taxing the groups by 50 to 75 percent.

handled in face to face talks.there was also a feeling among many

Guilford County commissioners last summer that the county might be able to save money by leaving the group. Guilford County’s dues are over $100,000 annually, and some officials said they thought the county could rather easily take over the major service that the CoG provided Guilford County – the administration of a large adult care federal program.

County officials talked about possibly hiring new staff to handle the administration of that contract and also discussed giving the duties to existing staff – however, in the end Guilford County simply ended up contracting out the service to the newly merged CoG at a cost of $54,000 a year.

Coleman said that, recently, before Guilford County passed its 2012-2013

COG(Continued from page 7)


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for them rather than treating them like they were an inconvenience to the city.

the only pleasant person i ran into was the woman who actually tallied the bills and, of course, ours was wrong. there is some secret to it that no one who has ever done it for us has figured out. if i was a good reporter i would have written down the nice woman’s name, but by that time i was simply trying to get out of the building without attracting the attention of the security guard.

standing in one line for 10 minutes only be told that i should go stand in another line, so that then i can go back to stand in the first line again, is not my idea of a good afternoon.

it’s infuriating that they have a tax that is much more regressive toward small

businesses. But if they are going to have such a tax then they should at least make paying it as painless as possible. even the post office puts on more workers on april 15 when they know they are going to have more business.

or imagine a retail business that didn’t put on any more workers during the Christmas season, or a restaurant who let most of their employees take a break from noon to 2 p.m.

the fortress that they built to protect city employees from having to breathe the same air as the public is intimidating enough, but the uncaring attitude of the city supervisors is too much.

next year, no doubt the city and i will make exactly the same mistakes, except i’m going to write down the names of everyone who is nice.

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budget, she met with Chairman of the Board of Commissioners skip alston, County manager Brenda Jones Fox and representatives of the ptrC.

Coleman said those talks led to a meeting of the minds, and the commissioners and ptrC representatives worked through some issues, and the discussions helped mend fences over the spat last year between Guilford County government and the CoG.

“Brenda and skip said the county wouldn’t join unless i made the recommendation,” Coleman said.

Coleman added that ptrC representatives told her, Fox and alston that there had been “a big misunderstanding” last spring before Guilford County decided to pull out.

Coleman will be the Guilford County commissioner who represents the county on the ptrC board. However, Coleman is no longer the person in line to head up the merged CoG, as she was before Guilford County pulled out.

when Guilford County adopted its 2012-2013 county budget on thursday, June 7, the commissioners added $46,500 to the $54,000 already in the budget for CoG services to fund membership dues. the cost of membership is based on population: dues are 21 cents per resident, with a minimum payment of $550. Guilford County’s annual membership will be $102,565 (slightly over what the county budgeted for that purpose this year) while some small cities and towns just pay a 1/186 of that amount.

several Guilford County officials said the county was already paying the $54,000 annually, so it made sense to pay the difference and be a member once again. when commissioners are asked what the county will get for the additional $46,000 and change, they have a hard time coming up with specifics. Guilford County, as a large county, pays more in dues and also has many departments that perform services offered by the CoGs. For instance, the ptrC offers planning consultation services that can be very beneficial to a small town,

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paying $550 a year in dues. However, Guilford County already has an entire planning and development department that performs those functions

Last year the majority of the board voted to leave the CoG and they argued, aside from administering the large federal adult health contract, the county does not use CoG services. the 2011-2012 budget, when Guilford County was not a member, does not seem to contain any additional money to cover expenses for services the CoG was providing Guilford County.

others say that Guilford County does get added value for being a full member of the organization: For instance, it sometimes plays a role in franchise contracts, such as cable television services that may affect a region, and it also plays a role in regional transportation initiatives that help reduce traffic and air pollution, advocates say.

the county’s membership is also seen as an act of cooperation from Guilford County, which was important to the CoG: 73 out of 74 eligible members had joined the merged CoG. Before the merger, the CoGs were used to seeing full participation by all eligible counties, cities and towns. now, at least, cities like Yadkin and King will see Guilford County as more of a team player, but it’s not clear if that’s worth $46,000 or not.

Commissioner paul Gibson said he felt spending the extra money was worth it, though he said there didn’t appear to be any huge negative consequences when Guilford County went a year without being a member.

“the county didn’t wither up and blow away when we pulled out,” Gibson said.

But he added that he felt regional cooperation in both spirit and action was important, and he said he thought that rejoining the CoG would be a good move for Guilford County. He said that the county has to work together with other local governments on regional issues and being part of the association should make that easier.

ptrC Finance director robin shelton

said that Guilford County’s participation was missed during the year that the county was away.

“they are a vital part of our organization,” she said.

High point Councilmember Latimer alexander, who serves on the executive council of the ptrC, said he’s not surprised to see Guilford County back in the fold. it was the only one of 74 eligible governments that didn’t join, he said.

“the CoG performs a lot of useful services,” he said.

alexander said that, since Guilford County was already paying the lion’s share of a membership fee to administer the federal contract, it didn’t make sense for the county not to have access to any of the other CoG services, not have a vote in regional matters, and to be the odd lone wolf out.

according to alexander, the ptrC provides members useful planning services, helps coordinate regional initiatives and serves the populations of the member towns, cities and counties with other advisory functions as well. For instance, he said, the

group provides consultation and services that promote clean air and water.

“they do a lot of regional work,” alexander said.

He said that, when Guilford County pulled out of the CoG last June, the move didn’t benefit either Guilford County or ptrC.

“it wasn’t a positive thing,” he said.He said that he and Bencini were part of

the transition team during the merger and he said he didn’t feel that either of them thought Coleman was mistreated during the merger.

“i saw nothing except complete respect for miss Coleman,” alexander said.

He said that, because of Guilford County’s exit just before the two groups merged, the CoG’s new expanded headquarters is in Forsyth County rather than in Guilford County. He said that the new merged ptrC has a staff of about 30 that eats and shops in the area surrounding the office.

“Guilford County lost out on the economic impact of the CoG operations,” alexander said.

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theory, particularly with this council, is you have some wishy-washy councilmembers who will vote one way in front of the public and the television cameras and do something entirely different at an illegal, secret, unofficial, unrecorded polling of councilmembers.

it turns out roth ran in to just that problem. Because after it was pointed out to roth that overturning a public vote of

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the council with a private, secret, illegal, unofficial, unrecorded telephone poll would not look good, the word was released by the city clerk’s office that the council would have a special meeting on monday, July 1. then the word was released that the monday, July 1 special meeting would be televised. then the monday, July 1 special meeting was cancelled.

the reason the meeting was cancelled is because at least one of those councilmembers who was willing to secretly vote by telephone

to overturn the earlier action of the council to hire an independent consultant was not willing to vote officially in public on television to give the contract to republic services, knowing that republic’s bid was between $1.2 million and $2 million higher per year than the bid from waste Connections.

there is a good reason why the north Carolina open meetings law requires elected bodies to do their work in the light of day and not in secret telephone polls of which

there is no official record. the council had voted at the June 19

meeting on abandoning the consultant process and awarding the contract to republic services. that motion by matheny failed on a 5-to-4 vote with Councilmembers Kee, wade, Yvonne Johnson, nancy Hoffmann and marikay abuzuaiter voting against bypassing the consultant and spending an extra $1 million to $2 million a year.

it is likely that the word came down to roth that one of those five was willing to change her vote (it wasn’t Kee or wade), and that prompted the polling of the council. However, if every close vote is treated like that this council will never get anything done.

Councilmember dianne Bellamy-small said at a recent meeting that this council is getting a reputation for being indecisive. if the council doesn’t have that reputation yet, it might be only because some news organizations are not reporting what is really happening.

the good news is that whatever happens Greensboro is going to save at least $1 million because, since republic services had competition this time around, it lowered its prices. republic didn’t lower its prices anywhere near what waste Connections is offering, but it still saves the city about $1 million a year over the old contract. and if the city votes to award the contract to waste Connections, the city will save an additional $1.2 million a year, for a total savings with waste Connections of over $2 million a year compared to the old contract.

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presidential running mate. so the next time he comes to Greensboro it may be with a huge campaign entourage.

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some democrats didn’t fair too well in the first redistricting run by republicans in over 100 years, but for rep. pricey Harrison the road back to raleigh just got a little easier. republican Chris phillips, who was Harrison’s opponent in the district 57 race, announced this week that he was dropping out of the race. it’s the economy that got phillips. He said he still loves north Carolina but has been unable to find a job so he is moving back to new York where he is from. phillips ran for mayor of Greensboro in 2011. we wish him the best of luck.

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the News & Record reported sad news for Greensboro last sunday. N&R executive editor Jeff Gauger wrote about position changes at the paper, and if you read between the lines the truth is that the N&R is not going to have anybody covering the state government in raleigh. mark Binker, who was based in raleigh, left the N&R in march and will not be replaced. so the daily newspaper from north Carolina’s third largest city is no longer going to cover the state government. You have to wonder what’s next? will they stop covering the Greensboro City Council or the Guilford County commissioners?

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the fact that the 911 system in northern Virginia went down because of the power outage is being reported as a big news story. it’s amazing how dependent we all are on modern technology. the first 911 call in the

Us was made in 1968, and was for a small part of alabama. it took awhile for the service to get rolled out across the country, but now we can’t live without it. or, as they found out in northern Virginia, we can live without it. the 911 outage caused a lot of anxiety but evidently no injuries or deaths.

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the new GreenLine building at CityView at southside has its grand opening coming up, and it appears the Greenway at Fisher park has started on its last building. those two projects will significantly increase the number of people living downtown and that is good for downtown and for Greensboro. You just can’t have a vibrant city center without people living there. and it appears we have more people who want to live downtown then there are places available, making the downtown real estate market hot.

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By John HammerChief Justice of the United states supreme

Court John roberts threw everybody for a loop last week.

Both Fox and Cnn reported on the supreme Court ruling on obamacare wrong the first time around. which is understandable because days later pundits are still trying to make sense of what happened.

one of my favorite pieces so far is by thomas Friedman of The New York Times, who, of course, praises roberts for putting his country above partisan politics by using creativity and “finding a way to greenlight obama’s affordable Care act.”

Friedman credits roberts with putting partisan politics aside and doing what was best for the country. it is such an arrogant, closed-minded liberal world view it would be funny if it weren’t such a serious issue. shoot, it is funny. according to Friedman the liberal view is what is best for the country. this is a fact. so roberts is to be congratulated for putting his conservative ideals, which are by definition bad for the country, aside and figuring out a way to twist the law into a pretzel that says obamacare is constitutional. to believe Friedman you have to accept his premise that what conservatives believe is not and cannot be good for the country, and when conservatives can put aside their own beliefs they can sometimes manage to work for the good of the country. You either have to laugh or cry. i choose laughing.

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Here’s an explanation i haven’t read anywhere, but it seems possible. the problem is that roberts has spent too much time in washington. people talk about getting inside-the-Beltway syndrome, and maybe roberts has been in washington for so long he believes that the extreme left-wing views that dominate washington are the norm for the nation. or he doesn’t believe it, but like living in a town with a paper mill, after a while you think stench is normal. it’s tough for conservatives living in washington because it doesn’t matter how big a majority the republicans have in Congress, in washington conservatives are a tiny minority of the population that usually dash to Capital Hill and then back to reagan national airport and somewhere more normal.

maybe roberts has been in washington so long, he believes that the opinions you hear in restaurants, coffee shops and on the metro are the norm. of course, it’s hard to imagine roberts in a coffee shop or on the metro, but it could happen.

Look at president George walker Bush. He was convinced that people wouldn’t be that upset about a tax increase. it’s hard for a president to get out and mingle, but he should have been told that the rest of the country didn’t like the idea of a tax increase from a president who had been in every corner of the country saying, “read my lips, no new taxes.” in washington, it was considered par for the course. there are

politicians everywhere in washington and nobody except someone straight in from the countryside believes anything they say. the voters in washington elected marion Barry after he had been convicted of possession of cocaine. it’s a different world.

on the good side of the roberts’ judicial reasoning is that it has now been established without a doubt that obamacare is being paid for with a tax. it is also definitely a tax on the middle class, and president Barack Hussein obama has promised over and over he would not raise taxes on the middle class. according to some estimates this represents by far the largest tax increase in history and will result in over $1 trillion in new taxes.

imagine how much more power it gives to the federal government to take an additional $1 trillion out of the private economy and decide where and how it will be spent.

the other parts of the ruling really are good news. Finally there is some check on the federal government forcing the states to do whatever it wants by withholding funds. the federal government might have to use reason or compromise in the future. one state legislator has told me that north Carolina won’t be able to afford the new medicaid provisions, and north Carolina is not alone.

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one of the most interesting articles to come out of the supreme Court decision is by Jan Crawford of CBs news, who evidently has great sources inside the supreme Court. she reports that Justice anthony Kennedy was relentless in his pursuit of roberts, attempting to get roberts back in the conservative fold.

those on the outside had figured that Kennedy would be the conservative judge to vote with the liberals, but according to this report, which seems to be generally accepted as true, Kennedy was the one who wouldn’t accept the fact that roberts had changed sides.

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Here is another theory about roberts. this was his one attempt at being a wild and crazy guy. some men have a midlife crisis and go after younger women and some buy a red convertible. perhaps some very conservative chief justices of the supreme Court who, from reading their bios, never really did anything fun in their lives, decide to try something “Crazy, man, crazy” and vote with the liberals on a big case.

Human beings are very strange creatures and anything is possible.

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the House has found attorney General eric Holder in contempt of Congress. Holder is now the first sitting attorney general to be found in contempt of Congress, and when you think of some of the partisan battles that have been waged between the president of one party and the House of another, it is quite an accomplishment.

it was a bipartisan vote. the republicans

couldn’t do it alone. nothing may come of it except it will be on his permanent record, kind of like the fact that president william Jefferson Blythe Clinton was the first elected president to be impeached. But nobody even mentions it these days and it doesn’t seem to have hurt his career at all.

it gets worse for Holder because, during the floor debate, House oversight and Government reform Committee Chairman darrell issa read a letter into the Congressional record that included detailed information from wiretap applications that were under court seal. issa could only produce the letter because of the immunity the Constitution gives to congressional speech, in particular on the floor or in the chambers.

the letter gives some insight into why issa and others have been so hot after Holder. they knew Holder was misleading Congress about “operation Fast and Furious,” had the documents to prove that he was not being honest in his testimony and couldn’t release them because they were under court seal. issa found a way to get some of this information on the record and prove that Holder has not been truthful.

Holder had maintained that the wiretap applications did not contain detailed information, but those who have now seen them say that they contain a remarkable amount of detailed information and that any one who read them would know what the fast and furious program was actually doing.

what it was doing was selling guns to known members of drug smuggling rings and then letting the guns cross the border into mexico, even though they knew the guns were going to be used for illegal purposes. these were not a couple of guys buying a few guns. Four buyers bought over $375,000 worth of guns and the alcohol, tobacco, Firearms and explosives (atFe) agents knew the buyers were purchasing them for someone else because the buyers had practically no income.

the guns were simply allowed to cross the border into mexico and the mexican authorities weren’t even informed of what

the atFe was doing. the plan was to pick up the guns at crime scenes and trace them back to their owners.

what Holder keeps testifying is that he and the high level administrators in the Justice department didn’t know about this program. what the wiretap applications prove is that, if they were even attempting to do their jobs, they did know because they had all the information provided to them.

Holder has testified that emails that used the term fast and furious were not actually about operation Fast and Furious but about something else. Clinton was known as a good liar, but Holder may be taking it to a whole new level. who knows, in his next appearance he may claim he’s not eric Holder.

Here’s an idea that would help: abolish the atFe. this is a law enforcement agency that seems to attract trouble. remember all of those Branch davidian men, women and children who were killed at waco, texas? that was an atF operation gone bad. the massacre at ruby ridge was the atF. it might be a whole lot simpler if the Us folded the atFe into another law enforcement agency.

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the electrical outages in washington, dC, remind me of when i was living in dC and there was an electrical outage that hit right around rush hour. so everyone was trying to get home and the traffic lights were out all over the city and northern Virginia. they predicted massive traffic jams because they didn’t even have time to get police to the intersections to direct traffic.

it turned out that traffic actually moved faster and more efficiently without the traffic lights and without police. on the main streets the traffic flowed just like they all had green lights and then at some point traffic would stop and allow the side streets to get through and then start up again. the authorities were amazed, because it worked without them. For a few brief days there was a thought that maybe americans could survive with fewer traffic regulations, but it was quickly quashed.

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