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Greensboro's Republican Mayor leads city council in 8-1 vote against Amendment One

Submitted by usernamehere on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 7:54am

On Tuesday night, Greensboro's City Council voted 8-1 to pass a resolution opposing Amendment One on May's ballot. Parts of the live blog from Yes! Weekly are here.

Greensboro County Commissioner Alston gets blamed for doing his job.

Submitted by stormbear on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 4:32pm

There is a little nugget of a story that has been haunting the front page of the Greensboro News and Record for the past week that has been bugging me.

With the revelations of American Express this past week, announcing the loss of yet more jobs from the state, you would think NC local governments would be more ambitious in their efforts to keep jobs in NC.

Part 2: Capeless Crusader Wayne Goodwin Fights Insurance Fraud

Submitted by Wayne Goodwin on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:40pm

The exploits of North Carolina’s Insurance Commissioner as crime fighter have been well-documented on this site and in other places, including countless news accounts and the official website of the Department of Insurance.

Triad Area (Greensboro/Winston-Salem) Fundraiser for NC Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin

Submitted by Wayne Goodwin on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 11:21pm



NC Senator and Mrs. Don Vaughan cordially invite you to the

TRIAD AREA FUNDRAISER RECEPTION

for NC Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin
September 23, 2010 (Thursday)

5:30-7:30 pm

902 Sunset Drive, Greensboro

Sponsorship Levels: $1000 - $500 - $250

Suggested Donation: $100/person

Please make your personal or PAC check out to
"The Goodwin Committee"
and mail to P.O. Box 27841, Raleigh NC 27611;

Lock and load

Submitted by James on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 7:10am

It should be wild time in Greensboro on August 14, when teh crazies will gather in an armed demonstration to "restore the constitution" ... whatever that means. If I get back from a business trip in time, I'll be there, armed and dangerous as usual.

Equality NC Conference & Gala

Submitted by usernamehere on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 1:53pm
Nov 14 2009 8:30 am
Nov 14 2009 9:00 pm

Equality NC Foundation's 2009 Conference & Gala in Greensboro

Info here

Equality NC Conference and Gala

Submitted by usernamehere on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 9:07pm

The Equality NC Foundation Conference and Gala will be held on Saturday, November 14 in Greensboro.

Registration is open now for the daytime conference, the evening gala, or both! Prices go up after October 30, so register early.

Full schedule here

The daytime conference at UNC-Greensboro's Elliot University Center includes an opening session, three breakout sessions with five workshops to choose from during each breakout session, and a closing keynote in the afternoon.

The evening gala will be held at downtown Greensboro's Empire Room. Senator Julia Boseman is this year's Legislative Leadership Award recipient.

Big Oil Lobbyists Stage Astroturf Rally in Greensboro Today; Real Grassroots Activists to Hold Counter Rally

Submitted by alina_CCNC on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 7:50am

This evening, a fake grassroots rally is being orchestrated at the Greensboro Coliseum to trick Senator Kay Hagan into believing there is a groundswell of popular opposition to reforms that will create clean energy jobs and lessen our dependence on foreign oil.

These events are organized and paid for by the American Petroleum Institute (API), an umbrella group that lobbies for Big Oil and businesses that want to block investment in new, cleaner forms of energy. Petroleum Institute members include ExxonMobile, Halliburton and GE, to name a few.

The “citizens” with the urge to rise-up on this issue just so happen to live in states with U.S. Senators whose vote is being sought by Big Oil.

My racist haircut - why tomorrow is not so far from 1960

Submitted by DrFrankLives on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 12:28am

I am not equal to the task of addressing what tomorrow means to a Southern white man. I grew up in the South. I grew up in Guilford County, North Carolina. So did my mother. Mom grew up a few miles from the Woolworth where, in 1960, when my mom was 11, four young men from North Carolina A&T State University sat down and asked only to be allowed to eat their food.

1960.

Think about that. 1960. Ten years before I was born. Two years before the birth of the black man who will, tomorrow, take the office of President of the United States.

How long? Not long.

Wait For It

Submitted by Fecund Stench on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 12:29pm

I've been listening to Iron & Wine a lot, lately. Here's my new favorite song.

Thanks to Molly McGinn and monkeywhale.com, I finally have the Christmas Spirit.

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