The vote for the marriage amendment in North Carolina went down pretty much the way we thought it would last week, with support from the state’s rural counties overwhelming the desire of the residents in our bigger cities and college towns to quash it.

We know we’re missing the story, but we have our reasons. Still, we’re whores for fame like any other person who packs a notebook into a courtroom or council chamber, like any videographer eager to capture the zeitgeist and retail it to the masses.

That was the tone at last week’s Downtown Greensboro Inc. rally for the cause, a marketing campaign branded as “Talk it up!” which amounts to little more than an effort to manufacture “grassroots” support — not for the proposed $50 million project itself, but for the idea that the DPAC needs to be in downtown Greensboro.

And like all elections, they matter. A lot. Primary elections matter because, in a lot of cases in our gerrymandered state, the primary serves as the actual election. In an overly Republican district, like, for example, the 6th US Congressional District, where Rep.

The opponents of the noise ordinance certainly feel insulted, and it’s easy to understand why. These club owners, the target of the complaints, have built their own businesses, drawing countless people to downtown. They never asked for or received incentive money from the city, and this is their livelihood.

Seeking our endorsement for mayor of Greensboro last fall, Robbie Perkins reiterated his support for a north-south thoroughfare connecting the nanotech center on East Lee Street to the GTCC campus on East Wendover — a roadway that would lay the groundwork for economic development and knit the east side together much as Holden Road does on the west.

The US Supreme Court heard final arguments on the healthcare law last week. At issue is a key provision of the law that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance. The court is expected to make a ruling some time in June — though a decision could come at any time now.

“I would like for officers to be stationed in front of [Greene Street Club] and monitor the noise for the next few Sunday nights,” he wrote to Assistant City Manager Michael Speedling in November. “If the police department does not have noise monitors, I will be glad to donate monitors to the department so they can enforce the ordinance.

The principle at stake is the right of people who commit their lives to their communities to run for office and the right of voters to elect them, regardless of whether the candidate owns property.

Scoops don’t matter, of course, except to in the little corner of the information landscape occupied by the actual media. Still, we took some satisfaction as we unleashed the story to the world right around quitting time on Friday, surely causing someone in the newsroom at the Greensboro News & Record to utter the F word.

The foofaraw centered on state GOP policy and the funeral service of one of the party’s stalwarts, Rich Brenner, who passed in Greensboro last week while emceeing an American Red Cross Salute to heroes event, one of the many civic causes he supported.

It wasn’t so long ago that some of the Triad’s key industries and stable, working-class jobs required little formal education, but as the area struggles to recover from the absence of former industrial titans, people are quickly discovering a...

It was not a unanimous vote. District 1 Councilwoman Dianne Bellamy-Small declined to participate for reasons that remain her own, though by her presence in the room her voice was counted among the ayes.

It is a foregone conclusion that North Carolina is in play for the 2012 General election, and the Democrats augmented that reality by choosing to hold their national convention in Charlotte this year, from Sept. 3-6, well before the election scheduled for Nov.

When the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation pulled its funding from Planned Parenthood last week — an annual stipend of about $700,000 for breast-cancer screenings, which may sound like a lot to us non-corporate entities but is a pittance for both non-profits — we reacted with the kind of jaded insouciance common to those in our profession.

So essential is access to a decent grocery store to residents’ quality of life that both the current and former representatives of District 2 in northeast Greensboro launched their political careers attempting to court a new tenant after Winn-Dixie pulled out of the Bessemer Shopping Center nearly 15 years ago.

The relationship between the city and its arts-and-entertainment complex is a complicated one. The city — and by proxy, the taxpayers — own the coliseum, no question about that. In return for a portion of our money, about $1.

What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, a dysfunctional Greensboro City Council had recently wrapped up a resolution to the non-existent issue of pornography being viewed by city library patrons before beginning the new year with the...

In Lower Manhattan, where the Occupy Wall Street movement began on Sept. 17, 2011, the protestors have assimilated back into the citizenry, surfacing for flash-mob protests like the one at Grand Central Terminal on Jan. 3 against the new defense act..

After being tried as an adult for that one, he served seven years in the Maryland Correctional Training Center. Upon his release in June 2006, he failed to register as a sex offender, essentially falling off the Hartford County, Md. Sheriff’s Department’s radar, at which point he became Forsyth County’s problem.