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Wednesday, May, 16 2012
Posted May 16th, 2012 at 8:02 AM by Sam Hieb
NYT’s David Brooks — who so lovingly admired then Sen. Barack Obama’s pant leg —still has a mancrush on the president, as if we would think otherwise. Appearing in today’s N&R, Brooks writes: Normally, presidents look weak during periods of economic stagnation, overwhelmed by events. But Obama has displayed a kind of ESPN masculinity: postfeminist [...]
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Posted at 7:30 AM by Sam Hieb
N&R reports: The Greensboro City Council voted Tuesday night to take the first of three procedural steps to put a $30million bond referendum on the November ballot to help build a downtown performing arts center. The council’s 6-3 vote came after members heard the results of a consultant’s study, which said that a new downtown [...]
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Posted May 14th, 2012 at 10:16 AM by Sam Hieb
This isn’t exactly the left-handed compliment architect Andres Duany paid High Point a few weeks ago, but it’s not exactly a favorable comparison from fellow architect Tom Low, who’s part of Duany’s team working with city leaders in the effort to bring downtown back to life: …Low said his company has created consensus in the [...]
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Posted at 7:32 AM by Sam Hieb
Gubernatorial nominee Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton waxes in front of state Democratic Party’s Executive Committee about Chairman David Parker’s ‘selfless act,’ only to have Parker emerge from behind the curtain, still the chairman. Read on in the N&R’s account of the committee’s meeting in Greensboro: Perry Woods, a proxy who helped campaign for Baldwin, said [...]
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Posted May 11th, 2012 at 11:12 AM by Sam Hieb
Locker Room passes along this N&O article speculating on the John Edwards trial is having on Greensboro’s economy: It’s a big week for spectacle in this Piedmont town: the Greensboro Youth Council’s annual carnival is set up in the coliseum parking lot, and a few miles away, there’s a minor media circus around the federal [...]
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