http://www.yesweekly.com/articles.sec-235-1-dirt.html Seven proposals submitted by private companies for handling Greensboro%uFFFDs municipal solid waste disposal leave the city with a bewildering array of options ranging from traditional landfilling to alternative technologies such as plasma gasification and pyrolysis, but most of which involve reopening the White Street Landfill. ]]> Michael Evans said he will never for get the moment that he stood before Barack Obama, and shook the president%uFFFDs hand. Evans, a junior psychology major at Winston-Salem State University, attended the recent White House event where President Obama signed an executive order authorizing federal funding of nearly $100 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, in the 2011 Congressional budget and $850 million over the next 10 years. ]]> Voters in the Republican primary for Guilford County sheriff have a choice between a 16-year incumbent who has become a virtual GOP institution in the county and... a guy with pending charges for assaulting a government official and making a threatening phone call?. ]]> Greensboro has been known as the %uFFFDGate City%uFFFD ever since native son John Motley Morehead maneuvered to have the railroad run through the heart of Guilford County instead of its more direct path through Asheboro. High Point was so named reputedly because it was at the highest point on the North Carolina Railroad between Charlotte and Goldsboro. ]]> A humble, soft-spoken Ken Lewis had to speak a bit louder to be heard above the music wafting through the dining area of the Summit Station Eatery during a campaign stop in Greensboro on in late February. ]]> Business owners on High Point Road between Greensboro and Jamestown have long known of plans to widen and realign the thoroughfare. What they didn%uFFFDt know is how quickly the state of North Carolina would allocate the money and get the project underway.. ]]> The larger-than-capacity crowd packed inside the Forsyth County Government Center Monday night cheered when it heard the decision of the Board of Commissioners to appeal the Jan. 28 ruling of US District Court Judge James Beaty that the use of sectarian prayer at commissioners meetings violates the First Amendment. ]]> PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti %uFFFD It%uFFFDs dark, very dark, as there are no streetlights and the power is out. We see candles every now and then on the side of the streets, some of them placed in plastic buckets, giving the light a faint glow. ]]> Earl Jones, a veteran Greensboro politician with close ties to the Simkins PAC, faces his first Democratic primary challenge for the NC House District 60 seat since he first won it in 2002. ]]> The political times they are a-changin%uFFFD. Take it from Gerald T. Grubb, a 64-year-old loan officer with almost four decades in the business and a bedrock commitment to conservative principles and his Baptist church. ]]> The city of Greensboro had sought a temporary restraining order against Hairston apartments to delay Stimpson%uFFFDs eviction long enough to allow the fair housing specialist to complete an investigation into allegations of discrimination at the public housing project. ]]> Most incumbents appear to be running unopposed in this year's election, but a handful of challengers have stepped forward in races relevant to Forsyth County voters. They include a former Air Force inspector general auditor, a former elementary school principal, a UNCG business professor and a retired sheriff's office major. ]]> Cal Cunningham, a Lexington lawyer, filed his candidacy with the NC Board of Elections to run for the US Senate seat currently held by Republican Richard Burr on Feb. 11. A few hours later, the Democratic candidate held a press conference at Pilot Mill in Raleigh, where he described his Republican opponent as %uFFFDa symbol of what%uFFFDs wrong in Washington. ]]> The 49-year-old Rogers was promoted in 2007 to assistant chief, which gives him command responsibility for the investigative bureau. According to an official biography, Rogers has worked in patrol, vice/narcotics, criminal investigations and watch operations. ]]> Two hundred eighty-eight billion of the $787 billion in federal funding distributed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was aimed at tax benefits. To help spur investment in urban and economically depressed areas, or %uFFFDrecovery zones,%uFFFD the legislation allows cities and counties to authorize funding for recovery zone area projects. ]]> Companies around the Triad went RED for National Wear Red Day with the American Heart Association on Friday, Feb. 5. February is American Heart Month which focuses on awareness and prevention of heart disease in our community and around the country. ]]> The day after the blitz of media hype, celebration and commemoration surrounding the opening of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, about 150 people gathered at the Greensboro Historical Museum to puzzle through what lessons the sit-in movement might yield towards improving the conditions of African Americans and advancing justice. ]]> Bridget Chisholm, a financial consultant with North Carolina roots and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, had discussed an idea she had for a downtown Greensboro luxury hotel financed with federal recovery bonds with Ole Asheboro community leaders and a handful of reporters by mid-summer 2009. ]]>