http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/articles.sec-235-1-dirt.html THE city of Greensboro has spent about $1 million to istration, at $90,151. Those costs do not include compensation to date in payments to outside legal counsel to defend city staff, including employees of the legal department and city lawsuits against the police department stemming from manager’s office.]]> The International Civil Rights Center & Museum and its supporters celebrated two years of operation and the 52nd anniversary of the beginning of the Greensboro sit-ins at a $100-per-head gala last week.]]> Though the auditorium will continue to be used until events can no longer be booked or until it is unsafe or unsanitary, Coliseum Director Matt Brown and others agree it’s time to build a new performing arts center from scratch. Yet the two primary questions remain: How much will it cost, and where should it be located?.]]> It’s the kind of problem Mayor Allen Joines likes to have. He said the drive to revise the ordinance comes out of a recognition that sidewalk dining is a full-on reality and a desire to relieve residents whose sleep is disturbed by the clanking of bottles getting dumped into recycling bins outside restaurants and bars in the middle of the night.]]> Lovett’s next-door neighbor, Cynthia Davis, was watching the television drama “CSI” as the intruders completed their work undetected by nearby residents, making off with a flat-screen TV, a computer monitor, a digital camera, a cell phone, jewelry, a checkbook, old coins and a topaz 1975 Ragsdale High School class ring.]]> The list of keynote speakers at UNCG’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration is long and impressive, with names like Ralph Abernathy, Michael Eric Dyson, Myrlie Evers-Williams and Manning Marable, as well as the more recent ones like Franklin McCain, Angela Davis, Julian Bond and Al Sharpton. This year was no exception, as Elaine Brown, former chair and defense minister of the Black Panther Party, took the stage at Aycock Auditorium on Jan. 17.]]> The Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity have increased pressure on Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill to disavow a Nov. 14 letter sent by the NC Con- ference of District Attorneys to NC Sen. Phil Berger urging state legislators to support Senate Bill 9, which critics say amounts to a repeal of the Racial Justice Act.]]> Welcome to the county,” said Mayor Robbie Perkins as he reached for the door of the Old County Courthouse after walking across Governmental Plaza from the Melvin Municipal Building with Councilwoman Nancy Vaughan and interim Water Resources Director Kenney McDowell.]]> Before the leaves changed and the temperature dropped, before most people began thinking about their Halloween costumes and before midterms, the Greensboro Fire Department began burning down houses owned by UNCG to make way for the school’s expansion into the Glenwood neighborhood.]]> At the outset of Monday’s meeting of the Public Safety Committee, Mayor Pro Tem Vivian Burke announced to the audience — and specifically to the members of Occupy Winston-Salem in attendance —that the issue of potential changes to the city’s open-air meetings ordinance would not be resolved that night.]]> As one of its final decisions, Greensboro’s outgoing city council extended the city’s municipal solid waste management contract with Republic Services until June 30. The current council will take up the issue during its Feb. 28 budget meeting, city spokesman Donnie Turlington said, but some preparations and discussions are already underway.]]> After a 90-minute discussion of the first portion of Besse’s proposal, which would limit the time for open-air public meetings from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., the Occupy members took a vote. A number of members crossed their arms to form an “X” indicating a block, which is essentially a veto, and ended all further discussion of the proposal.]]> If we are to take Emerson’s words to heart, 2011 represents a fascinating chapter in the biographies of scores of newsmakers in the Piedmont Triad.]]> Greensboro`s new city council practically operated on consensus in its first business meeting Dec. 13, with most decisions passing 9-0. The new composition of council contributed to the change, but so did planning ahead.]]> Thom Tillis, the NC Speaker of the House, said the new Republican majority in the NC General Assembly had to make some tough decisions during the 2011 legislative sessions, but he felt certain “most of those decisions were the right ones.]]> The verdict took several minutes to read as the clerk outlined guilty verdicts on 59 counts of willful failure to pay federal payroll taxes for 14 different companies over 12 quarterly periods, one count of corrupt endeavor to obstruct and impede internal revenue laws, and three counts of willful failure to pay individual income taxes.]]> Dozens of FBI agents and officers with the Greensboro Police Department and Guilford County Sheriff’s Office swarmed over a house at the corner of Florida and Lexington avenues in Glenwood on Dec. 6 to arrest Jorge Cornell, AKA King Jay, and Charles Moore, both members of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, on racketeering charges.]]>