On March 20, Dr. Joe Guarino made a post on his Guarino blog (guarino.typepad.com) which usually concerns itself with Greensboro municipal affairs, right-wing talking points and the history and culture of southern Italy about the conviction of Greensboro police officer AJ Blake on an assault charge that occurred at the Greensboro Police Club.

The homicide of a North Carolina AT senior will be featured on the website of the FOX television show Americas Most Wanted according to a March 16 press release issued by the Greensboro Police Department. The shooting death of Dennis Stewart Hayle, a 22-year-old AT senior from Hempstead, NY is still under investigation.

McClatchy to cut 1,600 jobs Citing declining revenues and debt worries, McClatchy Company, the parent company of the Raleigh News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer, announced that it plans to eliminate 15 percent of its work force or 1,600 jobs, according to a News & Observer report published March 9.

In August 2004, I left a high-stress, slightly dysfunctional community weekly in Espaola, NM for greener pastures in North Carolina. Opportunity knocked with a job interview for the nascent YES! Weekly.

The parent company of the Winston-Salem Journal, Media General Inc., is enacting a 10-day unpaid furlough for all employees, to be taken by the end of September. That adds up to two weeks of work without pay, or the loss of one paycheck.

Krispy Kreme, which has almost 4,000 employees 490 of them in the Triad, could suffer the same fate as other wellknown retail brands like Circuit City and Linens n Things, which both filed for bankruptcy in 2008, Newman said.

Or at least he was. We got quite a bit of a response, Owensby says. More of those were younger folks, but we typically get that in our industry. It tends to gravitate towards the younger grads. But we looked at everyone and anyone, and we feel we got a responsible person to fill that spot.

The story of Poor Ellen Smith and her convicted and hanged killer, Peter De- Graff, travels across the ages, from Randy Furches, a regional sales director, DeGraff descendent and songwriter, who added a verse to the traditional folk song and played it at the Garage.

Where were you when Barack Obama became president? At least a dozen citizens were hounding the website of local conservative blogger Dr. Joe Guarino (www.guarino.typepad.com). Staten Island native Guarino lit the firestorm with an 11:45 a.m.

Call me provincialist, but is the media overallocating resources and getting too worked up about the inauguration? Its historic, of course, that the first African-American president is about to be sworn in and that the US government is undergoing a seismic course change, but those facts are already known.

At a time when newspaper profits are down across the country, one North Carolina tabloid is making money through crime. The Slammer prints mug shots and rap sheets from recent arrests, including the names of alleged perpetrators and often with smarmy commentary.

Last week Gov. Mike Easley laid a pretty nice soundbite on the News & Record’s Mark Binker. “I try to keep my side of the window clean,” he said. “My job is to be nice to other people, and their job is to be nice to me. Just because they’re not doing theirs doesn’t mean I shouldn’t do mine. And that’s the way I feel about life.”

A dismal economy, a steady erosion of manufacturing jobs, a growing Latino population met by a rising tide of anti-immigrant resentment exploited by politicians looking for votes, and a scheme to bring in revenue by building new detention facilities.

I remember flying over what seemed like endless blocks of Detroit at night last Christmas after changing planes at the airport en route to my family gathering in Champaign, Ill. What is everybody up to in that urban expanse, I asked myself. The answer from LaBash either gives some sense of how much better things are here,.

A reader of popular sports blog Deadspin.com shared his thoughts on the interesting shape of the logo for the new name of the Winston-Salem minor league baseball franchise in an item posted to the website last week. After an elaborate ceremony at the Millennium Center Dec.

Web-only publications are now eligible for Pulitzer Prizes. The Paper Cuts blog lists more than 15,000 US newsroom jobs lost so far in 2008. And Arianna Huffington was voted Media Person of the Year by the website I Want Media. That is all. BC.

Progressives, on the other hand, worry that the charismatic former senator from Illinois represents a cosmetic change and a preservation of the status quo. After all, hes been talking about keeping Robert Gates on as defense secretary, and his economic team seems to be chiefly comprised of Clinton administration pro-deregulation retreads.

The latest and most dispiriting turn of events in the News Records troubles following substantial layoffs last year and an unsuccessful effort to court a buyer was the Nov. 7 announcement by Publisher Robin Saul of a new buyout program to reduce full-time positions by 8 to 10 percent.

I have great respect for award-winning author and fellow weekly columnist Orson Scott Card, and even though Ive never read Enders Game, I have faked it a few times.

Pernicious myths die hard, even, apparently, when retired General Colin Powell and Fox News do their part to correct the record.