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.

Nearly six months before North Carolina voters go the polls to decide whether to amend the state constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman, several Guilford County residents have filed suit against the state asking it to...

We lost a lot of dangerous political nutjobs this year: Osama bin Laden, Moammar Khadafi, Steve Jobs. But here today we mourn Kim Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea because he made the rest of them look like pikers: a true, old-school dictator...

Nanoscience can be applied to almost any industry: healthcare, technology, clothing, sporting goods. The school will be undeniably good for the city. It will create jobs and spur industry in an area desperately in need of new ideas as our traditional economic drivers wither.

Just in time for the newest unemployment figures — the country is down, but we’re up to 9.7 percent in North Carolina, compared to 9.4 percent this time last year — the price of everything is going up, including one of the driving forces in our overall employment picture.

Duke Energy wants to cut its customers in North Carolina a break. That’s how they want you to feel, anyway. Months ago, the energy company, which has a monopoly on North Carolina residential customers and a near monopoly on commercial accounts, announced its intention of asking the NC Utilities Commission’s permission for a 18.

It’s good to be a giant, multi-national corporation these days. Loopholes in the tax code combined with offshore holdings make many big US corporations virtually immune to tax burden, resulting in a lot of cash on hand.

The problem was with the media — us and our nefarious ilk who conspired to unseat three incumbents by framing the election as a mandate on the White Street Landfill, over-scrutinizing the positions and affairs of the conservative bloc while granting...

The video is a political commercial, thinly sourced and short on specifics, endorsing a slate of conservative candidates for Greensboro City Council. But the content of the video is irrelevant. Speakers from the floor at any government meeting are allowed to say whatever they want.

In Greensboro municipal elections, we’re lucky to see 20 percent of registered voters come out to the polls, even though voting is easier today than it has ever been. Early voting stretches the election out over weeks instead of hours, allowing folks to vote at their own convenience.

An anonymous group characterizing Greensboro City Council candidates as being for a restaurant tax or “good for restaurants” is tiptoeing right up to the line of election law, if not crossing it.

By the time the dust from the election cleared, several storylines emerged: Jim Kee’s dominance in District 2, Yvonne Johnson’s masterstroke that captured two-thirds of the city and the strength of at-large candidate Marikay Abuzuaiter, who placed third in the votes.

Taking the microphone as the Healthy Homes bus trundled up East Lee Street last Thursday, CC Lamberths passion for east Greensboro was irrepressible.

October is upon us and with it comes the nitty-gritty of the campaign season.

Endorsements are a tricky business. Its not the same thing as picking winners in the election also a tricky business, particularly in this years Greensboro City Council election which means that theres a good chance youll eventually have to interview a council member who made it through without the benefit of your endorsement.

It happens. You look at a situation, a policy or a suggestion, you research it as best you can, exercise due diligence in finding out as much as you think you need to know to make an assessment, and then you come up with an editorial stance, distilling the opinion into a neat, 450word package.