Members of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee union and supporters from across the street picketed outside Reynolds American’s corporate headquarters in downtown Winston-Salem last week in an effort to pressure the tobacco giant into signing an agreement to guarantee collective bargaining rights for farmworkers.

Finishing college is usually something people reflect on fondly, but for four student leaders at Bennett College, the experience has been marred with criminal charges.

Only three people spoke to the Forsyth County Board of Equalization and Review on Monday during a special meeting set aside for public comment, but their pointed questions about how revaluations were conducted in a band of predominantly black neighborhoods where residents saw deep markdowns in values put the tax office on the defensive.

The proposed sale of the two city facilities to separate universities yokes together two transactions that tap into an undercurrent of racial feeling, while satisfying and antagonizing a complicated mix of constituencies — on one hand offloading the...

Greensboro moved a step closer to approving a new tree ordinance last week as a city council subcommittee meeting unanimously passed the stronger ordinance. Council will hold a public hearing and a formal vote on the changes — a compromise between residents’ demands, city desires and Duke Energy’s interests — at its regular May 21 meeting.

The board of equalization and review elected Richard N. Davis, the only African-American member, as its chair, and David Shaw as its vice chair. All five members, including Marybeth Abdow and William V. White, are carryovers from previous year with the exception of Harvey Pardue, who is a former Forsyth County Tax Assessor.

It’s not difficult to find a cyclist in Greensboro who’s been hit by a car — just find someone who relies on their bike for transportation. Despite the city’s efforts to make the city more bicycle friendly, many cyclists know that they are risking serious bodily injury by biking and call for a societal shift in Greensboro.

“From a safety standpoint that’s not really safe because get a of lot of exit and entrance ramps, people trying to get on and people trying to get off and you’ve only got about 20 feet to do that,” Karen Simon, a Florida consultant working with NC DOT on the project, told a citizens working group at the Milton Rhodes Arts Center last week.

The possibility of a small bowling alley adjacent to the Westerwood Tavern is an idea worth waiting for, worth your life savings and then some — at least to Westerwood bartender and partner in the venture Mike Bosco.

Larry Little (holding microphone), a founder of the Black Panther Party chapter in Winston-Salem and former city council member, unveiled a historic marker honoring Local 22 with Richard Koritz (wearing cap), an elected state officer with the National Association of Letter Carriers, on April 20.

“It’s progress, I guess,” he said ruefully. About a dozen houses will be demolished on the north side of Diggs Boulevard to make way for the new road, which will link Winston-Salem State University to the nascent Wake Forest Innovation Quarter and provide a southern gateway to downtown in advance of the temporary closing of Business 40 for repairs.

Aspecial subcommittee of NC A&T State University’s board recommended last week that the university’s board authorize administrators to continue discussions with the city of Greensboro to better understand the potential benefits of the Florida Street extension project.

A handful of employees in the department have complained that drivers in non-air-conditioned trucks have passed out from heat exhaustion during the hot months in the summer. The remaining 21 trucks in the department’s fleet are equipped with air conditioning.

The unveiling of the marker coincides with the 70th anniversary of a strike that began in June 1943 when female African- American stemmers spontaneously walked out at RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. in response to a male colleague dying on the job after being denied permission to leave due to illness.

By the time FaithAction International House Director David Fraccaro made the announcement at the end a community meeting on Sunday, the audience had thinned significantly, but the news could have a strong impact on immigrant communities in Greensboro: The city is poised to pilot an alternative ID program.

Beloved Community Center board chair Pat Priest and community organizer Joseph Frierson asked for participation the entire night of April 4, and they got more than they might have expected when Mayor Pro Tem Yvonne Johnson said she believed the...

The three-story Forsyth County Courthouse stands as a remnant of a more parochial past in the heart of downtown Winston-Salem, a couple blocks up from the brutalist-style Hall of Justice and in the shadow of the Winston Towers, RJ Reynolds Tobacco headquarters and One West Fourth buildings.

It’s been more than 40 years in the making, but the future of Greensboro’s Florida Street extension project is tenuous at best. The half-mile road would run through the edge of NC A&T University’s farm from Lee Street to McConnell road — if, that is, the school’s board of trustees decides the project should move forward.

Fervent proclamations about gun rights and violence haven’t waned since the Newtown, Conn. massacre, and last week advocates held dueling events in Greensboro to advance their agendas.

Garrity said in an interview that he wants the city council vote to publicly release the document, which is ordinarily a protected, private personnel record, under a state law that allows for the release of personnel information to restore and maintain public confidence in government.