From Mark Binker at the N&R : RALEIGH - The protest petition is back. Greensboro residents will be able to fight unpopular land-use cases with that tool after a vote in the Senate on Wednesday. The city lost the right in 1971 and until this week remained the only North Carolina city without it....

He hasn’t been gone a day and already, I miss Mitch Johnson. Somehow, things don’t seem as safe and secure knowing he’s not there at the helm of Greensboro. The torch and pitchfork club are well drunk by now, having made it a holiday. But I’ve got news for you. City Council b...

Here’s the 117 page pdf that Mike Barber doesn’t seem to have read: Pursuant to G.S. 143-215.1(c5), 143-215.8B, and 143B-282(c) and (d) of the Clean Water Responsibility Act of 1997, G.S. 143-215.1(c5), the Environmental Management Commission hereby establishes the initial goal of reduci...

Despite the partying in the street, the Simkins PAC maintains its control of Greensboro politics. Perkins knows it. Methany and Anderson Groat are about to find out. Scooter Sanders and Tom Fox are getting their pay restored and have returned to duty. Mitch Johnson is demoted, but still employed. Re...

Is it a coinkydink I can’t get through a week without reading the comments of Perkins the Paver in the N&R ? One would have reason to believe not. Are we to be constantly reminded of Robbie’s courageous leadership? What about the valiant service of his fellow councilman, the vapid b...

The Wife is currently morphing her better plus-size women’s retail and consignment businesses into one store, lessening overhead in an attempt to survive our currently reduced circumstances. She has sought to ameliorate the challenges of competition with specialization and diversification. To ...

I'm sad to be missing Mardi Gras this week! Last year, I was in New Orleans partying it up w/ my brother, and this year, I'm stuck here in freezing cold (below average) temperatures in North Carolina! Oh, well, at least Laura (@sitter007) is still in town to keep things lively! So, did any of my blo...

This past weekend, Elizabeth's hot cousin Laura was back in Greensboro house sitting for Elizabeth and her husband David while they sun it up in Miami. [FYI-- we're real pissed about that b/c it's freezing here in North Carolina this week--big time!] Anyway, In this episode, you'll see Laura attendi...

Realizing that the yard wasn’t going to clean itself, we ventured to CraigsList and found a great resource: local people offering services for pay! Who’d a thunk it? Our yard is 90% done and he’s returning tomorrow to finish. A hard worker, a real gentleman and he may have found a ...

From Frank Mickens at digtriad : Greensboro, NC — An officer at the center of the Greensboro police scandal is on trial this week. Scott Sanders faces a judge and jury accused of illegally accessing a government computer. Prosecutors say he used a federal computer assigned to a Greensboro poli...