With North Carolina Democrats exiled from both houses of the state legislature and its recently elected state chairman facing allegations of misusing party funds and stacking the executive committee with cronies to insulate himself from accountability, they might be looking for a figure unscathed by recent partisan battles.

Her husband Jade and I, old friends from college, sat with her at Taqueria el Azteca near Guilford College. It was dollar-taco night, which, I suppose, is what you get when two teachers’ salaries meet up with that of an editorial intern. Originally I had planned on getting someting more exotic.

Nothing is certain anymore: Jobs, relationships, you name it. Even the phrase “money in the bank” has lost it’s meaning. It used to be that when you used the expression, “Oh, it’s money in the bank,” that meant it was a sure thing.

Ever since the epilogue of “Arrested Development”’s 2006 finale, the deck has been stacked against the acclaimed sitcom. Once Ron Howard teased the idea of an “Arrested” movie, it became somewhat of a foregone conclusion, something fans expected and felt entitled to.

Wade’s bill has generated quite a bit of controversy. Opponents  — most notably Greensboro’s daily paper — say it is yet one more example of Raleigh interfering in local issues, especially considering the fact that there has not been a strong call here in Guilford County for changes to schoolboard elections.

I’m a big fan of public transit. It’s the bloodstream that sustains the pumping heart of a real city. Because a city is a place where people come together, where different activities coexist in a sometimes noisy symphony of mutual accommodation. Commerce, creativity and innovation take place when people can work, recreate and live in close proximity.

In retrospect, it seems disingenuous to worry about a boat during an unprecedented manhunt, but I needed escape. In that way, Tsarnaev and I shared an experience. The freedom from heinousness and gunfire led him to that boat and led me to watch baseball.

Because it’s less physically demanding than any other popular sport, it’s uniquely labeled as a game you can play for nearly your entire life. Despite its relaxed tempo, it’s also very challenging — improvement is a long, ceaseless process. Because you can play it competitively or leisurely, golf doubles as a sport and a hobby.

The Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County School Board has moved decisively to halt the march of “systems thinking” through the public schools with a split vote in February to terminate its relationship with the Society for Organizational Learning...

The fact that the CEO of Tupperware was my college graduation speaker will forever be a joke amongst my classmates from Guilford College, but as terrible as his military-infused speech at a Quaker institution was, the most memorable graduation speech I’ve ever heard was also the first.

In the late ’90s, I started watching more televised ball. I had long quit the sport, but I became so enraptured that I started little traditions: taking off of work to see the opening night of the NBA. Sitting alone in bars to see the Celtics-Lakers games.

There are hot, strong feelings about the proposed Florida Street Extension near the nanotech campus in east Greensboro. The decision ultimately rests with the board of trustees of NC A&T University, which is being asked give up some land on its research farm to accommodate the new roadway.

Even from the police chief’s vantage point, which holds that the department has turned a page and abides by the strictest standards of professionalism, Greensboro police are fraught with allegations of misconduct.

I very rarely argued with my father, mostly over politics. His arguments bordered between satire and willful ignorance — a cross between Jonathan Swift and Bill O’Reilly. When Elian Gonzales arrived in America in 2000, he was a 7-year-old illegal immigrant whose mother had died fleeing Cuba.

In 1993, Nike released a nowiconic advertisement which featured then-pro basketball player Charles Barkley declaring, “I am not a role model.” The ad is so relevant today that its tagline could probably replace the increasingly ambiguous “Just Do It” as Nike’s slogan.

We’ve dedicated a significant amount of space over the last several weeks to reporting about police surveillance of activists, the public response and the role of Councilwoman Marikay Abuzuaiter. After all that’s been written by us and other outlets, it seems necessary to address this from an editorial perspective as well.

Frampton, a law professor at UC- Berkeley, and Hooker, a senior fellow for community engagement at the University of Georgia, are both interested in restorative justice and whether the truth and reconciliation process achieved its goals.

Over time Green Ford has expanded onto a significant portion of the land off of Wendover Avenue in Greensboro, but the Terra Cotta Heritage Foundation hopes to preserve the community’s legacy and land through a small museum on Norwalk Street.

Southerners dominated the national political landscape at the time. Both the Democratic president and vice president hailed from below the Mason- Dixon. Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich was from Georgia. His counterpart in the Senate, Trent Lott, came from Mississippi.

It is true, as US Rep. John Lewis has said, that without King there would be no Obama. But let’s not make the mistake of reducing the breadth of King’s life work into the achievement of electing one man of African descent to the highest office in the land.