When a US Army doctor guns down 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounds 29 others, naturally some questions arise, particularly when the doctor in question is a Muslim and has ties to the very same mosque where a couple of the 9-11 terrorists worshiped for a time, and its radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki.

You might not have noticed it during all the election hoopla, but while most of you were out not voting, another chapter of the Greensboro Police Department saga unfolded in a Greensboro courtroom last Tuesday.

Believe it or not, we at YES! Weekly cannot tell the future. We have no special powers of divination, no crystal ball tucked away in the office, no eerie connection to seers or shamans or soothsayers.

Well folks... this is it. This is your last chance to get involved in the municipal election process. Nov. 3 is the big day - that's the first Tuesday in November, just like always.

The list of problems in the Camel City continues to grow. In the last three years, two policemen have been slain in the line of duty - in 2007 Sgt. Howard J. Plouff was gunned down outside the now-defunct Red Rooster nightclub, and just last week Sgt. Mickey Hutchens, a 27-year veteran of the force, took a fatal bullet outside a Bojangle's restaurant.

September was another beastly month for regular American working folks. A quarter million of us lost gainful employment last month, even as the Dow Jones Industrial Index crept toward 10,000.

And in this, the first year of Obamas presidency, those who profess it seem emboldened to do so without fear of reproach or censure. Only one example last week was the comment thread beneath the online version of an Oct. 8 editorial in the News & Record applauding NC A&T University for severing financial ties to a homecoming concert headlined by mercenary rapper Gucci Mane.y...

But we have some ideas, even at this early hour. If history can serve as a guide, we anticipate that perhaps 10 percent of Greensboro voters felt moved to make a choice in the primary election. The last municipal election here in 2007 drew 11,460 voters, about 7 percent of the total.

Boosters use every trick in the book to get them passed, from obfuscation, as was the case in the $12 million swim center that was couched in a parks and rec bond last year that was then deftly removed from under the purview of the Parks ...

It wouldn't have been difficult to write off Derwin Montgomery out of hand. The 21-year-old Winston-Salem State University senior is the youngest ever to run for city council in the Twin City; he has no professional political experience or even a business profile - he has not yet graduated from college.