Councilman James Taylor Jr., who represents the Southeast Ward, wants Winston-Salem City Council to pass a resolution in support of state legislation that would allow undocumented students to receive in-state tuition at North Carolina universities and community colleges.

With North Carolina Democrats exiled from both houses of the state legislature and its recently elected state chairman facing allegations of misusing party funds and stacking the executive committee with cronies to insulate himself from accountability, they might be looking for a figure unscathed by recent partisan battles.

Woodie Anderson, Ian Bredice, Mike Duggins, Millicent Greason, Peter Spivak, Laurie Russell, Cindy Taplin, Dave Urena, Nicole Uzzell, Clark Whittington and Ed Young exhibit at the Community Arts Café in downtown Winston-Salem on Thursday from 5:30 to 7 p.

Only three people spoke to the Forsyth County Board of Equalization and Review on Monday during a special meeting set aside for public comment, but their pointed questions about how revaluations were conducted in a band of predominantly black neighborhoods where residents saw deep markdowns in values put the tax office on the defensive.

Members of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee union and supporters from across the street picketed outside Reynolds American’s corporate headquarters in downtown Winston-Salem last week in an effort to pressure the tobacco giant into signing an agreement to guarantee collective bargaining rights for farmworkers.

After five years shepherding the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem through significant transition, Curator Steven Matijcio is leaving to accept a job at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, another mid-sized city attempting to reinvent itself for a post-industrial future.

Author Emily Herring Wilson gives a presentation entitled “Which Way to the City of the Arts?” at Hanesbrands Theatre at 11:15 a.m. Penelope Niven presents “60Plus Creativity: Why, Why, How” at 1:30 p.m. Then, at 2:30 p.m., publisher Mike Simpson and storytellers Lew Garnett and Tony Lindsay talk about what publishers want.

Wake Forest University has agreed to retain the name “Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial” on the coliseum, the city of Winston-Salem announced in a press release that went out just before the close of business on Friday, May 10.

The 2103 Spring Into Creative Career Strategies and Solutions symposium, hosted by the Guilford County JobLink Career Center, takes place at the Sears Applied Technology Center on the main campus of GTCC in Jamestown on May 21 from 8 a.m. to noon. Joyce Richman, a writer who focuses on career development, is the guest speaker.

“Lawrence Joel was a military hero of the first magnitude,” Mayor Wayne Corpening said during the opening of the coliseum named in honor of him and all US military veterans in 1989. “His valor has been equaled by few soldiers throughout the history of the United States of America, and exceeded by none.