Who says real estate is boring? High Point ethics watchdog keith Brown, who keeps a close eye on neighboring Greensboro's real estate industry, posts a critique of the Triad Real estate and Building Industries coalition's clout in the shaping of Greensboro's draft land development ordinance on July 27.

Downtown Greensboro, Inc., the non-profit, economic development organization for Greensboro's center city, announced via e- mail last week that it has finally caught up with the rest of the reality-based community and established presences on both Twitter and Facebook.

Wake Forest University's public radio station 88.5 WFDD is up and running at full power once again. The station was forced to switch to a low-power auxiliary transmitter on July 12 after an antenna burnout. The station's analog FM antenna transmitter was restored Sunday evening and signals were available again just after midnight on Monday.

News Record religion reporter Nancy McLauglin posted a press by Pulpit Forum, an organization of African-American pastors in Greensboro, on Monday. It seems the Pulpit Forum held a demonstration outside of Shiloh Baptist Church on July 10. The church recently fired its pastor, the Rev.

Greensboro resident Stacy Haines recently won a gold award for photography from the National Magazine Awards Foundation (NMAF). Haines, a Canadian native, returned to her hometown in Nova Scotia to work on a project titled Everyday Getaway in Canadian Home and Country.

When violent crime creeps up its often viewed as evidence that our cities are coming apart at the seams. Its taken as an article of faith by liberals that the root cause is poverty, while conservatives point the finger at distractions caused by bogeymen such as identity group politics.

Thanks, then, to the Raleigh News Observer, which has dubbed the bridge the opposite of the Bridge to Nowhere, for lending its editorial voice to the cause. The DOT has plans for a replacement all drawn up, but the cost $335 million for the bridge and associated road widening has been prohibitive, the NOs Monday editorial relates.

Going to the Dark Side before his days as a controversial talking head on Fox News, bill oreilly wrote for several alternative weeklies in the boston area. oreilly attended boston university in the 1970s and to gain experience and guarantee himself good grades in his classes, he wrote for the Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper alongside his work at Free Press, the universitys student paper.

The Carrboro Ctizen was described at last years ConvergeSouth by Editor Kirk Ross as the newsprint answer to the slow food movement, which stresses local, sustainable ingredients.

The financial clout of the political lobbyists who bend lawmakers ears is well documented in their campaign contributions, which are disclosed as a matter of law. Less transparent is the investment in shaping media coverage.