First the process: District 3 Councilman Zack Matheny was appointed by council to serve as redistricting liaison. He held two public input sessions in early March. Considering that redistricting is not constitutionally required, the consensus was that council should take no action.

The issue of Greensboros White Street Landfill endures. We have endorsed reopening the landfill on financial grounds the city currently spends $41 per ton to ship our municipal solid waste to a landfill in Montgomery County, and the savings in keeping our garbage solutions in-house are considerable.

But one might think that the upside to plummeting home value would be a corresponding dip in property taxes, which are assessed as a percentage of home values. If the tax value of a home goes down, it naturally follows that the tax burden would as well.

Forget for a moment that our state government voted to outlaw smoking in NC bars and restaurants because of fears for the safety of workers and patrons, because if you try to square the logic your head just might explode.

Strange things are afoot these days in North Carolina, where a 9.7 unemployment rate is now considered good news at least, relative to the last three years.

Here we are, just a few rotations into the news cycle that kicked off when the city legal department released a draft of the proposed Greensboro public entertainment permit ordinance, and already people are distancing themselves from it, sensing, perhaps, the stench of controversy coming off the document.

Drive into Winston-Salem from either the east or the west, and your first impression of the city, your first glimpse of the downtown skyline is going to be from Business 40. US Highway 52, on the other hand, funnels visitors in from points north.

It appeared as an item in Greensboro City Manager Rashad Youngs weekly IFYI e-mail, generally issued right around 5 p.m.

In 2009, the Greensboro Housing Coalition hosted its annual housing summit at FantaCity, the former site of Guilford Mills.

Construction of the next segment of Greensboros Downtown Greenway will proceed thanks to a $1 million contract approved by city council on Feb. 15. Voters approved a $134 million street improvement bond in 2008, which included a $7 million earmark for the greenway, and the council approved the sale of $40 million in bonds last September.

We are a nation that values its private industry, sometimes to the detriment of our other institutions private corporations these days seem to have even more rights than people do. And we will always have those who believe that privatization is the key to all our ails, because all government can do is get in the way of private industry.

Testimony from several of Coffmans former BOE employees alleged that Coffman instructed them to approve incomplete voter registration applications and Coffman had on several occasions tallied absentee ballots without members of the board being present.

So the Olympic-size rink has been thawed and drained. The hotel beds have been turned over and all that’s left to do is count up the $30 million or so of “economic impact” money that rained down on the city as our due for hosting the 2011 US Figure Skating Championships at the Greensboro Coliseum.

Glenn Beck has accused Van Jones of being a communist revolutionary. Thats not what I heard last week.

Theres an old saw about the weather stipulating that everybodys complains, but nobody does anything about it. But here in the North Carolina Piedmont Triad, we somehow manage to do both.

Gerald Witt broke the story in the Greensboro News & Record last week: Jospin Andre Milandu, the NC A&T University student who dropped dead during track tryouts, was apparently a victim of willful negligence on the part of trainer Roland Lovelace and the university itself.

In the state of North Carolina, our leaders and court system will continue to find evidence that many of our citizens have been wrongly imprisoned, resulting in massive settlement payouts. Its not so much we wanted to let them out [of jail], one unnamed official will say, its just that it was getting bad for business.

The issue of economic incentive packages has been a topic of significant controversy in recent years. Local opponents of government-subsidized economic incentives had the perfect "I told you so" moment in 2009 when Dell announced that it was closing its Winston- Salem desktop computer manufacturing facility.

The repeal of Dont Ask, Dont Tell, Bill Clintons concession to our countrys most intolerant citizens, was not met with the same sense of elation or repercussive violence as the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when the Senate made its historic 65-31 vote last week.

It was in a jolly Christmas sweater festooned with knitted Santas that Greensboro City Council District 5 Representative Trudy Wade characterized the citys Interactive Resource Center as a revolving door. She was talking about the frequency with which the IRC comes before council asking for operating funds, but Wade missed the point.