The Greensboro City Council squabbled for 14 months over the role and powers of then City Manager Mitchell Johnson and an administrative matter related to the resignation of former police Chief David Wray an event that had little to no...

The meter started running in Greensboro on April 1, a bandwidth measuring system instigated by Time- Warner Cable which sets the stage for tiered pricing on its Greensboro customers in a pilot program that the company plans to impose nationwide as soon as is feasibly possible.

For anyone who doesnt believe change on an international scale is underway right now, consider the case of the Swiss: makers of ingenious army knives and cheese with holes, purveyors of the oldest secret banking system in the world and also admitted accomplices in schemes to defraud the US government.

It all begins with jobs, we like to say around here. We are of the opinion that what most people want is somewhere to go for eight hours or so a day, something useful to do with their time and, at the end of the week, to make enough money to feed, house and clothe themselves and their families.

Were still trying to sort out the process by which former City Manager Mitch Johnson lost his post at the March 3 Greensboro City Council meeting.

Colleges and universities have been cautioning students against spending spring break in Mexico, while a Feb. 20 US State Department travel advisory responsibly notes that most of the violence is concentrated near the border rather than the resorts to the south.

The Scott Sanders trial came to an end last week with tears and great sighs of relief from friends and family of the defendant, who was found not guilty of causing to be accessed a government computer willfully and without authorization. It was a good day for Sanders and his lawyer, Seth Cohen, and we believe it was a good day for justice as well.

It will likely take months for us to publicly recognize the minutiae of HR-1, the $789-billion stimulus bill approved by the House late last week 246-183, with the GOP voting in a bloc solidly against it and taking seven Democrats along for the ride. If you believe House Minority Leader Rep.

When President Obama last week made a move to cap CEO pay at $500,000, he ruffled many wellgroomed feathers in the worlds best-compensated job. Half a million dollars, to a corporate senior executive, is not a lot of money these days. CEOs of SP 500 companies made on average $14.

The GOP has already lost its credibility as the party of low spending, courtesy of our last president. Theyve already lost touch with those who see funding for arts and education, including planned parenthood, as contributory to a robust economy.

The vacant lot at 324 S. Elm St. in downtown Greensboro is a patch of scarred yellow grass bordered on two sides by parking lots, with a first-downs worth of sidewalk frontage and a two-story brick wall along the long northern border.

On Jan. 8 in Forsyth County Superior Court, Judge Richard Doughton listened to lawyers take the states case against Kalvin Michael Smith apart piece by piece in a quest to gain a new trial for the defendant. Smith, who was imprisoned in 1997 for the beating of Silk Plant Forest employee Jill Marker.

A state law enacted in 1923 enabled citizens of North Carolina to challenge zoning laws in their neighborhoods by way of a protest petition if 5 percent of affected neighbors signed on, the governing body would then need a 75-percent supermajority to approve the zoning change.

Odds are you felt pretty good about your 401(k) over the last 10 years or so, watching that monthly trickle swell into something fairly substantial through wise management by people who knew what they were doing when it came to making money grow.

The confluence of events that was 2008 - in war, in politics, in business, in the economy - will have a profound effect on the history of the world. But here in North Carolina, we may feel the changes more deeply than most. We are going to declare 2009 to be the Year of the Yankee in North Carolina.

It's going to be one of those Christmases. You know, that Charlie Brown kind where everything looks bleak and then some intellectual jerk who can't leave the house without his blanket decides to lecture us about the true meaningof Christmas. Peace on earth? Good will towards men? Give us a break.

Today in our editorial pages, among Jim Longworth's counterintuitivity, Ogi Overman's nostalgia, Alexander Cockburn's angry leftism and a shameless plug for Chuck Norris' cultural manifesto, we have some good news. Well, it's pretty good. Or maybe it's just not bad, which these days passes for red-letter tidings.

It would be depressing to total up all the bailout money the federal government is throwing around these days. It would also be somewhat trite, and likely premature, as we fear this voracious raid on the US Treasury has only just begun.

Wachovoia Corp. will hold what is likely to be its last shareholder's meeting on Dec. 23. And while the shareholders scream about the price of their stock - which cratered from about $55 two years ago to roughly $6 last week - and carp about Wells...

Gun sales in North Carolina last week jumped 60 percent, according to a report from WRAL TV in Raleigh, part of a nationwide trend that saw sales of firearms particularly assault-type weapons skyrocket.