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Inside this issueHigh Point News ......... 10Entertainment Guide ... 13Uncle Orson Reviews .. 14Puzzles ............. 14,30,36Yost Column ............... 16 Scott’s Night Out ......... 18Rhino Real Estate ....... 19Letters to the Editor ...... 2Editorial Cartoon ......... 42under the hammer ...... 43

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by paul C. ClarkStaff Writer

Branson, Trapp, Phillips, Henning

Bluford School Spews Sewage

Barrage of Lies(Note: I’m writing this the day

before the final Obama-Romney debate, the one on foreign policy. I have no idea what will be said in that debate, or how it will be played in the media.)

Let’s be very clear about something. the word “lie” has a definite meaning, despite the loose way it is used in politics.

most false statements are not lies. if you declare something to be true, and it turns out not to be

true, the most likely explanation is that you believed it to be true, but you were simply wrong.

For it to be a lie, you have to know the statement you’re making is false, or that you’re leaving out significant information that would change the meaning of the story.Case 1: WMDs in Iraq

For instance, George w. Bush’s declaration that saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction was plausibly based on saddam’s own behavior (refusing

sewage came spewing out of a water fountain in a classroom annex at Bluford stem academy, an elementary school on tuscaloosa street in Greensboro, on wednesday, oct. 17, according to school board member amos Quick.

sewage also began pouring into the hallway of the classroom annex from a brass-lidded sewage cleanout on the floor.

Quick said that, in addition to the sewage spill, Bluford has water leaks in its classroom annex and in its basement. Bluford has cracks in its walls that have let water into the basement where brick walls meet the foundation of the main building, although those have been caulked.

Guilford County schools has been leery of potential environmental issues in schools

Commissioners Seek Anti-Fox

by SCott D. yoStCounty eDitor

the only publicly visible evidence of the search for a new Guilford County manager is that, on thursday, oct. 18, the county posted a survey on the front page of the county’s website so residents could offer input on the qualities, background and skills they would like to see in the next county manager.

while there might not be a

lot of public movement on the search, behind closed doors quite a bit of intriguing activity has been taking place. For one thing, the commissioners have been meeting with representatives of the richmond office of springsted inc., the search firm hired by the county to find the next manager.

the only clue so far that something is going on behind the


By orson sCott Card

Orson Scott Card’sCivilization Watch



Goulash, sponsored by the Greensboro Youth Council in downtown Greensboro on Monday, Oct. 22, gave kids a chance to try out their Halloween costumes a little early. If they had a contest for the cleanest kid we think we know who won.

The Natural Science Center held Pumpkin Palooza on Saturday, and one meerkat got a new home with a picture window out of the deal.

Guilford County government has been under democratic rule for all but two of the last 20 years, and it’s in shambles. the tax rate keeps going up, the county is over $1 billion in debt, the city manager has been

investigated by both the Federal Bureau of investigation and the internal revenue service, and long time agreements with other jurisdictions have been trampled by a Board of Commissioners that appears to have no regard for

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Forced Exodus of Farmers from Market

i spent some time last weekend showing some first-time visitors to Greensboro around and was asked where people worked. i said they used to work in textiles, furniture and tobacco, but all three legs of our stool had pretty much gone away. i suggested that moses Cone Hospital was a big employer and the universities, but i was really having trouble thinking of industries that employ a lot of people.

it turned out i was having problems for a reason. the Greensboro economic development alliance (Geda) once again proved that

you can’t trust its information. according to its list Cone Health is the top employer with 7,776 employees. But Guilford County schools has 10,394, which, according to my understanding of math, is more than 7,776. second on the Geda list is the Us postal service with 2,800 employees. this is also a problem because the City of Greensboro has over 3,100 employees and it isn’t on the list. the list has High point regional Health system third at 2,400 employees.

so first we have a big problem with our economic development team that is putting out inaccurate information about the area, and second we have what is obviously an unsustainable system. with real figures the government has five out of the top 10 employers. and two of the other 10 are Cone and High point regional health systems, which are nonprofits. so that leaves three for-profit companies in the top 10: Bank of america, american express and tyco electronics. and what is worse is those three are are all tied for seventh.

Five of the top seven are supported by tax dollars. somebody has to be making those tax dollars to support them. if we all work for the government then we are just passing money around and eventually it will run out.

sometimes it is better not to be right, but it turns out we were right about the old Greensboro Farmers’ Curb market on yanceyville street.

we had said that if the control of the farmers’ market was given to the group that was once called Friends of the market and is now Greensboro Farmers market inc. (GFm), that long-time farmers at the market who had tried to go a different route would be thrown out.

tuesday, oct. 23, Greensboro city councilmembers received an email from deputy City manager Jim westmoreland informing them that Gann Farms had received a letter from Greensboro Farmers market inc. “notifying them that their market privileges would be suspended november 1st, if they do not allow GFm to conduct a site visit by october 31.”

rodney Gann of Gann Farms confirmed that he had received a letter this week informing him that Gann Farms could not sell anything at the Greensboro Farmers market after nov. 1 because the Ganns would not schedule a visit for GFm to visit




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East Greensboro complaints draw summitGreensboro mayor robbie perkins

is holding an east Greensboro summit monday, oct. 29 in the dudley High school auditorium to address economic development in east Greensboro.

the format for the evening will involve a speech by perkins followed by an opportunity for audience members to ask questions.

district 1 Councilmember dianne Bellamy-small and district 2 Councilmember Jim Kee are also scheduled to make brief remarks.

according to perkins there will also

be a 15-minute presentation from real estate consultant michael tabb of red rock Global on the $90,000 Greensboro parity study he conducted at the urging of Bellamy-small. the parity study sought to show that east Greensboro could support retail.

according to assistant City manager andy scott, the push for the summit came from perkins, former Greensboro councilmember and chair of Citizens for economic and environmental Justice (CeeJ) Goldie wells and ralph Johnson of the Concerned Citizens of northeast Greensboro.

wells said that CeeJ requested the summit when perkins attended their august meeting, to give the mayor an opportunity to address residents about economic development in districts 1 and 2, although she said she hoped residents would come from around the city.

“we have a food desert over here,” wells said. “we have a lack of stores over here, a lack of restaurants over here, a lack of jobs over here.”

wells said she hoped to hear about development, including incentives to draw private businesses to east Greensboro.

“people think that we just want the city to hand out things to us, but we don’t. we need some assistance to help ourselves,” wells said. wells said she thought there were some projects the city had initiated for east Greensboro, and that the summit would be a good opportunity for a broad audience to hear about them.

wells also talked about how east Greensboro had been waiting 20 years for the construction of the nealtown connector, and there is a feeling that the proposed Greensboro performing arts center (paC) had taken over the conversation this year. “that kind of didn’t sit too well with us,” she said. during her four years on the City Council wells did not get the connector built.

Former mayor and at-large City Councilmember yvonne Johnson, who lives in district 2, said the summit would probably be a good thing. she said that east Greensboro had suffered, and that is probably why it was chosen as a focus.

at-large Greensboro City Councilmember nancy Vaughan said the residents of east Greensboro may feel pushed aside by the mayor’s enthusiasm for the proposed paC.

However, Vaughan said she felt that the idea that the mayor was neglecting east Greensboro was unfounded, and that she had seen him attend several meetings in east Greensboro, including a meeting of CeeJ.

district 5 Councilmember trudy wade took a more critical view of the summit. she said she feels perkins has been concentrating on certain areas of the city to the neglect of others.

wade pointed out that in the most recent capital expenditures report, expenditures were lowest in her district, at $57 million.

expenditures were highest in district 2, which receive $215 million, while district 3 came in second with $127 million and district 1 came in third at $93 million.

“i’d like for him to also be concerned with the south, west and north parts of Greensboro,” wade said. she said she felt the mayor had been concentrating too much on east Greensboro and downtown, particularly on the controversial paC.

wade also said that residents and business along High point road had been asking for assistance for years and very little had been

done. “i think we should address those problems; they’ve been waiting forever,” she said.

perkins denies the contention that he is paying too much attention to certain areas of the city. “it’s silly to posit as an ‘us and them’ issue when i don’t turn down too many speaking engagements,” he said.

perkins also said, “i do spend quite a bit of time talking in other areas of town.”

when asked why perkins was holding a summit for east Greensboro, district 3 Councilmember Zack matheny said, “well, because that’s the group that’s yelling at him.”

matheny brought up the possibility of organizing a district 3 summit himself. He also said that since the Greensboro neighborhood Congress had hosted a forum for at large councilmembers, he would consider pursuing a similar forum for the district members, but said, “i don’t know if anybody wants to hear from us.”

district 4 Councilmember nancy Hoffmann spoke positively of the summit and said she felt that it was an appropriate way for the mayor to engage with concerned citizens.

she said that there is a “need and responsibility” for councilmembers to respond to groups that request them to hear their concerns.

by alex jakubSenCounty eDitor

Civilization(Continued from page 1)

inspections, blustering that made no sense if he had no weapons to back it up), and, more importantly, on the firm declarations of the intelligence community.

when those weapons – whose existence was the official argument for United nations action against iraq – were not found, the Left accused Bush of lying, culminating in the widespread slogan, “Bush Lied, people died.”

not a lie at all. in fact, the bumper sticker “Bush lied, people died” is a lie. to accuse someone of lying when you know he did not lie is, in fact, a lie.Case 2: Iraq’s Alleged Involvement with 9/11

as president Bush originally made the case for active war against iraq domestically, his justification was not iraq’s alleged possession of wmds.

what he and his administration charged was that saddam was an active supporter of terrorism. that this statement was true was obvious at the time (for instance, he was paying a bounty to the families of suicide bombers in other countries).

and after the defeat of iraq’s government, documents were uncovered that verified not only saddam’s active support of the training and financing of various terrorist groups, including some linked to al Qaeda, but also his plans to involve iraq’s embassies abroad in future terrorist activities.

However, it was not true – and the Bush administration never alleged – that iraq

was involved in the 9/11 attacks before they happened.

yet the Left, and its media mouthpieces, constantly charged the Bush administration with deliberately misleading the american people to believe that iraq was involved with 9/11.

However, i watched closely at the time, and have not seen, either then or since, a shred of evidence of Bush, Cheney, rumsfeld or any official administration spokesman declaring that iraq was involved in the planning of the 9/11 attacks.

if such evidence had existed, you can be sure it would have been trumpeted in every news medium. instead, what the media were able to come up with was this chain of reasoning:

1. many americans believe that iraq was involved in planning 9/11.

2. this must be the result of the Bush administration constantly calling iraq a terrorist state.

3. Because this belief is widespread, it must have been the deliberate intention of the administration.

But anyone can see that this chain of reasoning breaks down at every point. if the american people have a false belief, yet the administration never said the false thing that they believe, but instead made a very different and completely accurate claim, it simply does not follow that the false belief was deliberately created.

one might as easily make the claim that it was the news media who did a



very bad job of communicating with the american people. after all, a presidential administration talks to the american people rarely, and then filtered through the media; the media, however, talk to the american people constantly and directly.

if the people have jumped to false conclusions, who is at fault?

nevertheless, a lot of people with the wit to know better, plus Vice president Biden, constantly made the claim that “Bush-Cheney” lied to the american people by stating that iraq was causally connected to the 9/11 attacks. (Biden even lied by claiming that he voted against the iraq and afghanistan wars, when in fact he voted for both. But he still gets away with calling other people liars.)

Case 3: Attacks in Cairo and Benghazi

these history lessons in lying and deception are very much to the point right now. the obama campaign and its supporters in the media accuse mitt romney of lying about practically everything, including his own programs.

when your opponent deliberately uses misleading “estimates” and assumptions to make your program look ridiculously expensive, you don’t have to accept their spin. denying that your program will cut a fictional five trillion dollars is not a lie – it’s a correction. But how was it covered?

more important, though, was when romney was accused of lying about

obama’s actions immediately after the attacks on our embassy in Cairo and our consulate in Benghazi, in which our ambassador to Libya and three others were murdered.

in the second presidential debate, we had the ludicrous spectacle of obama claiming that he had linked the attacks with “terror” on the very first day, and the “moderator” certifying that his false claim was true.

the truth, which we all lived through, was that for two weeks following the attacks, the entire administration, including obama himself, declared that the attacks were spontaneous demonstrations that got out of hand, provoked by an insulting video produced by an “israeli living in america” (as the filmmaker claimed; he later turned out to be a Coptic Christian).

as late as sept. 25, long after the administration had the facts, obama made a speech before the Un in which he explicitly blamed the youtube video for the attacks.

obama did say the word “terror” in a statement the day after the attacks, but he absolutely did not say that terrorists planned or carried out the attacks. the whole thrust of his remarks was to declare that the attacks were non-political criminal events provoked by the video.

obama continued to follow the line first declared by the Us embassy in Cairo on sept. 11: “the embassy of the United states in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of muslims – as we

condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.”

of course this is just silly – the Left deliberately offends Christians and Jews all the time, and nobody in the administration cares. the only reason anyone cares about offending muslims is that in several muslim countries, such offenses are used as an excuse to burn things and murder people.

when, the next day, mitt romney criticized this apologetic, blame-america response to the murder of our ambassador and the attack on our embassy and consulate, he became the story. the media supported the democrats in a pile-on that accused romney of breaking a tradition of non-partisan unity in the face of a foreign attack.

never mind that the very same democrats, again with the support of the media, savaged president Bush constantly during his entire administration for actions far less reprehensible than that absurd apology. By comparison, romney’s criticism of obama was a love pat. But there is no pretense of even-handedness in the media today.

so we had two solid weeks of the obama administration, including obama himself, putting forth the “narrative” (fancy word for “spin”) that the attacks were a spontaneous outburst in response to a provocative video made in america.

But when, in the debate, romney points out the huge discrepancy between the uniform public statements of the obama administration and the actual facts, which were known to them from the first day onward, obama – and the fawning media – accused Romney of lying.

all because the word “terror” occurred somewhere in one statement obama made. as if that single use of the word somehow erased two weeks of lies.

Comparison Lyingso let’s compare the Benghazi lies with

the behavior of the Bush administration

that the Left has called lies for a decade.Bush’s statements on wmds in iraq

were based on the universal judgment of our – and British – intelligence estimates, plus saddam’s own behavior. when he said iraq had wmds, Bush had every reason to believe his own statement, and no reason not to believe it.

yet, according to the Left, “Bush lied, people died.”

obama, by contrast, had full knowledge that the attack in Libya had nothing at all to do with any spontaneous demonstration, and that it was a well-planned terrorist attack intended to coincide with the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks of 2001, long before he lied to the Un about the cause of the event.

then there’s the fact that even though the Bush administration never said that saddam had supported the original 9/11 attacks in advance, they were accused of having “led” people to that false conclusion by stressing iraq’s undoubted support of terrorism.

By contrast, obama and his whole administration explicitly declared that the attacks in Cairo and Benghazi were caused by the youtube video that insulted islam, and that they were definitely not planned terrorist attacks. as a result, many americans got the false impression that the terrorist attacks were not terrorist attacks.

only when Fox news and the few other non-Leftist media exposed the true story – that there was no demonstration at the consulate in Benghazi, and that well-armed terrorists made an unprovoked nighttime assault – did the administration have to back down from its “misleading” story.

Here’s your bumper sticker – this time completely accurate:

“People Died, Obama Lied.”How does obama get away with it?on the Jon stewart show, when obama

adopted stewart’s term “not optimal” to (Continued on page 8)

their facility where they make ms. mary’s Chow Chow.

it’s really interesting that ms. mary’s Chow Chow is what has raised the ire of GFm because the chow chow – which has been sold at the farmers’ market for years, along with cakes and pies cooked by rodney Gann’s mother, mary Gann – is now being sold at Fresh markets all across the country.

it is a success story that you would think the GFm would celebrate, if they were interested in the success of their vendors. From a few jars a week mary Gann has increased production considerably, but if ms. mary’s Chow Chow operation is good enough to be approved by the Guilford County department of public Health and the state, you would think it would meet the standards of the GFm where it has been sold for years. But although it is good enough to sell at Fresh markets from coast to coast, it does not meet the far more rigorous standards of GFm.

the Ganns were the ring leaders in attempting to put together a coalition of farmers at the Greensboro Farmers’ Curb market to take over operation, and later backed the idea of the city continuing to run the market but moving it from management by the parks and recreation department to management by the Coliseum.

rodney Gann said they are not going to fight their expulsion, and after 25 years at the market they will be giving up their tables.

it is unfortunate but it appears GFm is retaliating against farmers who did not support its takeover of the market. mike Faucette of Faucette Farms has been visited by the employees of GFm so many times this year that he has hired an attorney who sent a letter to GFm about the visits.

it looked like GFm was going to just try to keep the market like it has been for years, but with the expulsion of the Ganns and the continued visits to Faucette’s Farm it seems the group is going to retaliate against those who opposed them.

Farmers(Continued from page 2)



if at first you don’t succeed, try and rezone again.

the Guilford County planning Board shot down a move by Guilford County manager Brenda Jones Fox to rezone the Guilford County prison Farm near Gibsonville for development. However, several sources said that, in the next two weeks, advocates for rezoning the prison Farm are going to initiate another attempt to create a corporate park on that land, and, unlike the first attempt, the new effort will follow proper channels and take matters one step at a time.

according to several Guilford County commissioners and other sources, this second attempt is expected to be much more thought out than the poorly conceived, out of the blue, rush job that failed earlier this month – a hasty rezoning request that the planning Board defeated on a 5-to-2 vote at the wednesday, oct. 10 meeting.

at that time the thinking was that all Fox had to do was appeal the vote to the Board of Commissioners because she almost has six votes on that board for whatever she wants.

at the oct. 10 meeting, planning Board members expressed concern that there was no development plan in place, no water or sewer, and no attempt by county officials to work with residents. planning Board members also said the land, and the ramifications of development, had not been studied to any extent, and they didn’t understand the rush to rezone. in addition some board members argued the request for a zoning of Conditional Use, Corporate park was inconsistent with the northeast area plan that applies to the 618 acres that would have been rezoned.

that first effort to rezone the prison Farm was driven largely by Chairman of the Board of Commissioners skip alston, Greensboro economic development alliance president dan Lynch and Fox, and it was assumed that one of those three would appeal the planning Board’s decision.

so it was something of a mystery last week when alston and Lynch began quietly informing interested parties that neither the

county nor area economic development officials would appeal the planning Board’s decision.

immediately after the planning Board voted down Fox’s rezoning request, Lynch and alston both said there would be an appeal.

Commissioner Billy yow led the opposition to the rezoning at the planning Board’s oct. 10 meeting, and yow said that Lynch told him right after that decision, “we’ll see you on nov. 15” – the earliest date an appeal could be heard by the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.

on the day after the meeting, alston also said an appeal would be filed.

However, that appeal never came. that was a relief to opponents of the

rezoning, but no one should think for a second that the lack of an appeal means alston, Fox, Lynch and other advocates of the plan have given up.

this week alston said the corporate park project will be right back on track soon.

“we will make a proposal in early november,” alston said. “i don’t want to say what that will be yet.”

yow said he knows exactly what the proposal will be: a feasibility study for developing the prison Farm followed by another rezoning attempt.

yow said the proposed study will, among other things, provide soil analysis, examine roads and traffic patterns and assess the water, sewer and other infrastructure needs.

yow said the advocates of developing the land are still going about it the wrong way because, before anything is done, there should be a public hearing to find out what county citizens want to do with the land.

Commissioner paul Gibson said he thinks those who favor a corporate park on the prison Farm land will push ahead, but this time, Gibson said, he expects the request will follow the legal chain of command and will be a more deliberate approach to a rezoning – starting with the comprehensive study of the area.

nearly all of the commissioners have said all along that they don’t object to developing the prison Farm land. However, many commissioners didn’t want to charge

ahead with a plan that was being shoved through quickly. even if the land had been rezoned immediately, it would have taken well over a year to get city water and sewer and other necessary infrastructure improvements in place, and even longer than that for road expansion.

Gibson said he has never understood the rush to develop the prison Farm and the sudden request by the manager in late september to have the land rezoned immediately.

in early september, Lynch informed the county commissioners that a company

was considering putting a $100 million food distribution center on the land. that project supposedly would have brought 500 to 600 jobs to the county but it would have also brought 500 to 700 trucks a day to the roads in that area. However, that company pulled out the day after Lynch first informed the board the company was interested in the prison Farm land.

the first attempt to rezone the farm came so fast, and with so little warning, the commissioners never even had a chance to discuss the best zoning category for the

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refer to the deaths of four americans, some in the media think that this namby-pamby term for an assault on americans is fully excused saying the phrase was used “in jest.” (John dickerson, “the 2012 Campaign decoder,” slate.com.)

they don’t get it: no president of the United states should be jesting about the deaths of four americans.

“Four americans died, mr. stewart,” he might have said, “and it happened on my watch, after my administration refused to increase our security forces in Libya. it is by far the worst thing that’s happened during my presidency. i deeply regret it, and it’s not a joking matter.”

that’s what a president of the United states would have said – if a president of the United states had such poor judgment as to appear on a comedy show and talk about the death of a Us ambassador with a comedian.

However, stewart’s use of the term “not optimal” was a perfect summation of the obama’s tone as he made his case that the whole Libya thing was basically trivial. sure, it shouldn’t have happened, the president was saying, and we wish it hadn’t, but it doesn’t change the wonderful track record of my administration.

so of course obama wasn’t offended. stewart wasn’t jesting. He was summarizing – accurately.

what we see is the tragicomic spectacle of the news media and democratic party

spinning the unspinnable – and expecting to get away with it.

and what is their strategy for getting away with lies? always, always the same: accuse their accusers of the very same crime. “i’m a liar? no, you’re the liar!”

Barrage of LiesLet me quote from a very famous

political liar, explaining how he learned the technique of slandering political opponents in order to silence them.

when this man was a jobless ne’er-do-well on the streets of Vienna before world war i, he keenly observed the three main political parties in austria. the one he hated most was the social democratic party – the radical Left at that time. Here’s what he says he learned:

“i understood the infamous spiritual terror which this movement exerts, particularly on the bourgeoisie, which is neither morally nor mentally equal to such attacks; at a given sign it unleashes a veritable barrage of lies and slanders against whatever adversary seems most dangerous, until the nerves of the attacked persons break down.” (adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, quoted in william L. shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 22.)

Hitler and stalin were constant users of this technique, and they did it because it worked. as Hitler went on to explain, “this is a tactic based on precise calculation of all human weaknesses, and its result will lead to success with almost mathematical certainty” (shirer, op. cit. p. 23).

in employing this “barrage of lies and

slanders,” the obama administration follows in the noble footsteps of the Clinton administration, which savaged everybody who attacked the beloved old goat, philanderin’ Bill.

even after the accusation that Clinton lied – er, “misled” the jury – was shown to be true, and was tacitly admitted to by Bill himself as he accepted a resolution of the whitewater civil case that included suspension of his law license and his paying $25,000 in legal fees, nobody on the Left apologized for the horrible and false things said about prosecutor Kenneth starr and whistle-blowing witness Linda tripp.

a “barrage of lies and slanders against whatever adversary seems most dangerous” is the automatic response of the Left these days. no special instructions are needed. there’s no conspiracy. everybody knows the script.

the obama administration gave the signal, and the media fell into line. the narrative was declared – “youtube video made in america provoked muslim violence; we’re so sorry that america is an insensitively free country” – and the media defended this narrative savagely when mitt romney criticized it.

even now, any accusation that the obama administration lied – even though they obviously lied for weeks, and we remember that they lied because we saw and heard them do it – is greeted with the accusation that the person calling them on their lies is ... a liar!

Cnn’s Candy Crowley, pretending to be a moderator, took obama’s “given sign” and ran with it, backing up his pretense of being offended at someone actually telling the truth about his lies.

republicans have learned that for them, when something goes wrong, cover-ups never work. instead, the best strategy for a republican caught in some kind of mistake or wrongdoing is to admit everything immediately and fulsomely, cover up nothing, lay their whole record bare.

Anything else will lead to endless accusations of lies and cover-ups. even when they don’t cover anything up, even when there’s nothing to cover, republicans are accused of lies and cover-ups. (see the response to Harry reid’s slander that romney paid no taxes.)

democrats don’t have to play by that rulebook. they can stonewall. Clinton can hide records from a congressional subpoena for a year. obama can do the same with Fast-and-Furious documents, releasing only a small dribble of them to Congress, while never being called to account by the media.

darrel issa of the House oversight Committee filed suit against obama’s attorney General eric Holder in mid-august of this year – just over two months ago – because he has not complied with congressional subpoenas.

if a republican administration withheld documents under an absurdly broad claim of “executive privilege” and had to be sued by a democratic Congress, it would be the biggest story of the year.

But with the shoe on the other foot, this obvious cover-up is “an old story” after only two months, and never gets

mentioned in the media during the run-up to this election.

democrats can openly try to steal an election, as they did in Florida in 2000, using a highly selective recount in order to get the few hundred votes they needed, meanwhile trying to block the counting of presumably pro-Bush votes of overseas military. But the Left routinely refers to it as if the Republicans tried to steal that election, and the news media go along.

Barney Frank and Bill Clinton can diddle interns and stay in office; republicans have to resign for doing far less, and nobody excuses them by saying, “everybody lies about sex.”

democrats can lie, lie, lie – a barrage of lies and slanders – and when they are caught, their toadies in the media make a few excuses and move on. “that’s an old story,” they say immediately.

republican errors and cover-ups are never an “old story.” the media never lets go. But democratic errors and cover-ups become an “old story” while the ink is still wet.

there are those who will complain about my explicitly linking obama, Clinton, the democratic party, the intellectual elite and the Leftist news media with Hitler. How dare i! what a monstrous thing to do!

true. Following Hitler’s script of “a barrage of lies and slanders” against “whatever adversary seems most dangerous” is a monstrous, outrageous thing to do. and for it to be done with the full collusion of supposedly free news media is even more monstrous and outrageous.

oh, wait. they meant I was doing something monstrous?

But ... Hitler really said this. and then carried out the script. Furthermore, he really did learn it from Leftists, and stalin continued it as a Leftist practice in the soviet Union. whenever you’re endangered, lash out against your most dangerous accusers with a barrage of lies and slanders.

the comparison with Hitler’s observations in Mein Kampf is exactly accurate. it’s a strategy designed to intimidate opponents into silence, and, as Hitler pointed out, it works “with almost mathematical certainty.” that’s why the Left keeps using it. if it didn’t work, they’d stop.

and if it weren’t extremely dangerous to the survival of a democracy, as a democracy, i wouldn’t mention the comparison.

remember that there’s an alternative. democrats in general and obama in particular could follow the only script open to republicans: admit your mistake at once, open up your records to show the full extent of the mistake, then apologize and don’t do it again.

still waiting for obama and other democrats to do that, ever, about anything. wrong again and again, caught again and again in cover-ups and deceptions and, yes, outright lies – but still no admission, no apology and no change.

do you really think anything will be different in a second obama term, if he continues the “barrage of lies and slanders” right up to the election, and is rewarded with victory?


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something amazing happened at the thursday, oct. 18 Guilford County Board of Commissioners meeting: the county held a public hearing on a change in the law regarding vicious dogs and no one showed up to speak on the issue.

in the modern era of Guilford County government, as a general rule, any motion related to dogs or other pets and animals, no matter how insubstantial, has generated a great deal of debate – and has almost without fail brought a lot of emotional people with views on both sides down to the commissioners meeting room on the second floor of the old Guilford County Court House. However, despite that, not a single person came to speak on either side of the issue at the oct. 18 public hearing.

at the meeting, the commissioners voted unanimously to revise the county’s laws pertaining to “dangerous or Vicious animals.” the new regulations allow for quicker euthanization of vicious animals in cases where there’s an “aggressive, severe attack.” the changes lift some other restrictions on dealing with those animals deemed to be vicious, put more obligations on the animals’ owners, and allow more flexibility in how the animal is caged by the county.

Guilford County attorney mark payne explained the changes. He said the revisions would make it easier for animal control officials to euthanize some dangerous animals and, he added, the revisions also remove some restrictions on the required enclosures in which the animals are held while a panel determines the animal’s fate.

a memo to the commissioners from payne and Guilford County animal Control manager scott Greene states, “presently, the enclosure required is very specific and expensive and may not be warranted for all animals deemed dangerous or vicious.”

the vote by the Board of Commissioners also added the following sentence to the law: “if an animal control officer or law enforcement officer seizes an animal, and no attempt is made by the owner(s) to recover or appeal the seizure, the animal will be deemed abandoned after six (6) working days and all owners’ rights shall be forfeited to Guilford County.”

this change is expected to aid animal control officials when there’s difficulty in finding the owner. the new law also requires that owners immediately notify animal control officials in writing if he or she changes addresses.

no one spoke for or against the changes, but payne gave a brief explanation why it was desirable for the county to loosen its restrictions on the process of taking custody of vicious animals, holding them and euthanizing them.

payne said the current law was too restrictive.

“the way it’s written just doesn’t give us all the options appropriate for

the circumstances,” payne told the commissioners.

payne said the revisions would allow greater flexibility for those who deal with dangerous animals after an attack, and he said the Guilford County animal advisory Committee had voted in favor of the changes, which now required approval by the Board of Commissioners before becoming law.

the commissioners didn’t discuss the matter before voting 9 to 0 to approve the changes.

there was a bittersweet moment at the board’s oct. 18 meeting. the commissioners passed a resolution honoring the life of the late Bob shaw – the former county commissioner and state senator, and the late husband of Commissioner Linda shaw. Bob shaw, who was 87, died on saturday, april 7 after a lengthy illness that began last year.

Chairman of the Board of Commissioners skip alston read the resolution that honored Bob shaw as Linda shaw listened.

Bob shaw was born in 1924 in erwin, north Carolina, and he served in the Us army air Corps from 1943 to 1946 before becoming the owner and operator of the Friendly road inn seafood restaurant in Greensboro. that local landmark was perhaps better known as “the Fish House,” and shaw ran the business for 56 years until closing it in 2006. the restaurant later burned down as the result of arson.

Bob shaw served on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners from 1969 to 1976 and, during that time, he was chairman and vice chairman of the board. in 1984, he was elected to the nC senate, where he served nine terms for a total of 18 years. He had a very distinguished political career in the state legislature. He served on numerous committees and rose to become the nC senate minority leader.

after listing shaw’s many accomplishments, alston read, “now, therefore, be it resolved by the Guilford County Board of Commissioners that it hereby expresses its appreciation and admiration for the life of robert G. ‘Bob’ shaw, and extends its sincere condolences to his family and friends.”

an emotional Linda shaw spoke lovingly of her husband and thanked her fellow commissioners for honoring him.

“we may fuss and fight on this board,” shaw said, “but when it comes right down to it, we’re family. i love all of you.”

she also spoke briefly about her husband.

“He loved his children and he adored his grandson,” she said.

shaw added that her husband always got a great deal of enjoyment from conversing with the patrons who frequented the Friendly road inn.

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Faux Sims Makes Grand Debate Entranceby paul C. Clark

Staff Writer

a High point mayoral debate on wed., oct. 17 at the pennybyrn at maryfield retirement home on penny road far outclassed the previous debate on oct. 4 at High point city hall in energy, specificity and the willingness of the candidates to tangle on issues.

three of the candidates didn’t show: tammy Holyfield, matthew Fowler and High point City Councilmember Bernita sims. Holyfield withdrew from the race before the debate, citing a serious health issue in her family that would prevent her from actively campaigning. Fowler’s campaign has never been anything but a $96 filing fee and a signature on a form at the Guilford County Board of elections. and sims, who is on the executive director selection committee of the national League of Cities, was out of town serving on the committee.

this left only Councilmember Chris whitley and developer and all-around business-group member Coy williard. sims’ absence, however, provided the most dramatic moment of the debate. not expecting her, the organizers of the debate put two comfy overstuffed chairs on the podium for whitley and williard, along with a lectern for the moderator.

while the moderator, new High Point Enterprise editor megan ward, was being introduced, the doors at the rear of the pennybyrn event room burst open, and sims’ campaign manager, Vicki alston, pranced down the center aisle, yoo-hooing, waving, talking a mile a minute and saying of sims, “i’ll be sitting in for her tonight.”

it was a great bit of political theater because it worked. Had Lynn Johnson, who provided the introduction for ward, or ward said, “you’re not running for anything. shoo,” the gambit would have been a political failure. But they didn’t. Johnson limited herself to calling it quite an entrance. she said, “you just surprised us.”

First score to sims, who was hundreds of miles away.

williard and whitley took it in good

grace, allowing alston a (non-comfy) chair on the podium. neither objected to her participation.

sims later said she notified pennybyrn that alston would be there. the message apparently didn’t get through. sims said she would have preferred to be there. she said, “i’m sure it would have been even livelier.”

dramatic entrance aside, alston’s presence didn’t make much of a difference. she quickly ran out of canned answers sims had given her and most of the questions went to whitley and williard.

williard gave his opening statement first. He said that High point is, he hopes, on the path to greatness, but it won’t be greatness in the labor-intensive furniture and textile industries.

williard said that, when he went into business in 1969, the High point job market was wholly different.

“we had no trouble getting employees,” he said. “the unemployment rate was probably 1.5 percent, in that range, at that time. if you could walk and chew gum,

you could get hired.”williard used that as a segue into

mentioning his position on the board of trustees of Guilford technical Community College, which he said has 45,000 students take at least one class yearly.

williard said that High point’s new jobs are going to be in the aircraft and biotech industries.

“we need to train people for the new workforce,” he said. “and the new workforce is not building furniture or making hosiery.”

williard said that High point’s public schools are in trouble – something he acknowledged the City Council can’t do much about – but said he would advocate for mentors and parents to work in schools.

williard also attacked the City Council, saying High point has more employees per 1,000 residents than any north Carolina city with a population of more than 100,000 except for Charlotte. He said, “we have to overcome what is now the highest property tax in north Carolina for a city of 100,000 or more.”

williard is president of williard-stewart inc. construction and marketplace management inc., and emphasized his business experience as a qualification for mayor.

whitley, in his introduction, said that the decision by High point mayor Becky smothers to run for an at-large City Council seat rather than for reelection as mayor leaves the City Council with an experience gap at the top. He said, “i think it’s important that experience and leadership remain in place.”

whitley, trying to counter williard’s reliance on his business experience, cited his own. whitley is president of rCw international inc., which deals with commodities and is a partner in s.e. whitley and son painting contractors. He said the businesses have done well.

But whitley leaned most heavily on his 19 years of experience on the City Council, especially his last three years as chairman of the City Council’s Finance Committee, when High point had no

Candidates Swamp Macedoniaby paul C. Clark

Staff Writer

a monday, oct. 22 “meet the Candidates open Forum” at the macedonia Family resource Center suffered somewhat from an excess of candidates.

according to moderator terrence thomas, the macedonia candidates’ forum was originally intended to be a mayoral debate, but the “open” part of the debate took on a life of its own, resulting in wall-to-wall candidates from most High point City Council races and one- and two-minute time limits on responses.

that’s what you get when you have 25 City Council candidates on the ballot and some fuzziness in the invitations, with candidates crashing the forum like college students crashing a keg party. High point has no primary for City Council races,

meaning anyone with $96 can get on the general election ballot.

thomas let candidates for mayor and for the two at-large seats on the City Council answer questions from the audience. He limited the candidates for ward seats to short statements.

despite the crush of candidates, the debate was interesting, if only because the time limits on answers prevented the second debate in a week from becoming just a mayoral-race retread. the forum was the first public appearance for some of the ward candidates.

City Councilmember Bernita sims, generally considered the leader in the mayoral race because she is expected to sweep wards 1 and 2, was present, along with Councilmember Chris whitley and

developer Coy williard. wards 1 and 2 are the two majority black wards. sims is a black democrat; whitley and williard are white republicans. sims would be High point’s first black mayor if elected.

sims said that, if elected mayor, she would continue the work of the High point City project to renovate blighted old High point neighborhoods. she touted her service on numerous boards and committees, including the boards of the north Carolina League of municipalities and the national League of Cities. Like other candidates, she said High point attracts businesses that don’t hire its residents.

sims said, “we’re talking about training people to get those jobs when they do come.”




anyone. one example is an agreement between

Guilford County and the City of Greensboro on library funding. Guilford County simply refused to pay the amount that was agreed to, and the excuse was that there was no written contract. the message to Greensboro was that Greensboro could no longer trust anything the Board of Commissioners said unless it was detailed in a lengthy, legally binding contract. some people believe that keeping their word is important, but not the Guilford County Board of Commissioners led by Chairman skip alston.

Fortunately the voters of Guilford County have a chance to do something about the mess that the democrats have made, and that is by electing three republicans and one democrate who are newcomers to county politics and cannot be blamed for the current state of Guilford County government.

that is why we are endorsing republican Jerry alan Branson in district 4, republican Jeff phillips in district 5, republican Hank Henning in district 6 and democrat ray trapp for district 8.

District 4Jerry Alan Branson is running

against democratic district 4 County Commissioner Kirk perkins, who has been in office since 2004. perkins tries to sound like a conservative when he runs for reelection because he knows how conservative the district is, but if you check his voting record, when Chairman alston has needed a vote during the past eight years perkins has provided it.

perkins made an extremely political motion to fire County manager Brenda Jones Fox, but it appears it was all for show. if perkins had been serious he would have made sure he had a second for his motion. as it was the motion came out of the blue and, before anyone could second the motion, alston gaveled the matter closed and the motion failed for lack of a second. so there was absolutely no discussion of it.

perkins should have known that all he had to do was mention that he was going to make that motion to one of several fellow commissioners who had been railing against Fox for months and he would have had a second. after the motion failed for lack of a second, perkins has never made the motion again. why is that, if he was serious?

the damage that Fox has done to Guilford County will take years to repair, yet, other than that one motion, perkins has sat up there and gone along with her ploys year after year. Before Fox, Greensboro and Guilford County had a good working relationship and cooperated in ways that saved the taxpayers money.

perkins lists as an accomplishment buying Hagan-stone park from Greensboro. the only thing gained by Guilford County in buying the park is that now Guilford County pays Greensboro to run the park, and when Greensboro owned the park, Greensboro paid to run it. it didn’t get a

lot of attention but even the Greensboro city councilmembers couldn’t believe that the county commissioners would be dumb enough to buy the park. But they did and now the county rather than the city pays the bill. perkins lists it as an accomplishment.

Branson has run a good campaign and has made huge progress as a public speaker during the campaign. He has also managed to let voters know where he and perkins differ on the issues. it’s not easy because perkins talks conservative but votes with alston.

But Branson talks about saving money by standardizing school construction, a method that is used in many other areas of the country. perkins claims he doesn’t know what that means.

Branson says we are going to have trouble creating jobs with one of the highest tax rates in the piedmont triad and will work to lower tax rates. perkins is one of the causes of that tax rate being so high.

Branson runs a family-owned trucking business that he said has 42 employees, so he knows what small businesses are going through in this economy. He also knows that the people of Guilford County don’t need higher taxes.

Both Branson and perkins agree that the county has not funded school building maintenance as well as it should be, but perkins is the one responsible for funding. if the schools aren’t getting enough it is the fault of the democratically controlled Board of Guilford Commissioners, and perkins is the vice chair.

perkins out on the campaign trial is evidently trying to style himself as the Vice president Joe Biden of Guilford County. two of the statements he makes are, “everybody’s kid out there is somebody’s kid,” and, “what’s good for everybody is good for everybody.”

Branson is being supported by Guilford County Commissioner Billy yow, Guilford County sheriff BJ Barnes and sixth district Congressman Howard Coble.

District 5democratic district 5 candidate and at-

large County Commissioner paul Gibson is easy to get along with. He has been elected three times to the Board of Commissioners at large and it’s simple to see why. Just about everybody that knows Gibson likes him, and everybody in Guilford County seems to know him. a lot of folks remember his father, sheriff paul Gibson. so Commissioner paul Gibson has two generations of name recognition working for him.

if you ever see an open seat next to Gibson at what you expect to be a long boring meeting, take it, because you will be entertained. Gibson is funny and he cares about people.

But Gibson doesn’t think you pay enough taxes. He believes the problems of Guilford County can be solved by taxing people more and having the county government spend more money. He talks about how he doesn’t want to raise property taxes, but in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 he voted

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Sherlock, Elementary, Quench EditionsBy orson sCott Card

Uncle Orson Reviews Everything

arthur Conan doyle tried to kill his creation sherlock Holmes, but the fans wouldn’t stand for it – he had to bring him back to life. now doyle himself is long dead (nobody brought him back; isn’t that a cheat?) and now other people keep reinventing sherlock.

the formula is oddly simple. really smart, eccentric, rude, but observant British fellow outsmarts the police by solving crimes that baffle them.

easy to imitate.and yet, if you name your character

“sherlock Holmes” and bring in a few details from the doyle oeuvre – a sidekick named watson, the violin, the cocaine habit – people have a special place in their heart for it.

or they hate it completely, because it’s “wrong.”

what kind of story do you tell? the mystery genre has evolved and fragmented since doyle was writing his sherlock Holmes stories. do you play it as “cozies” – domestic settings, the climactic scene where everything is revealed in the drawing room? or do you get into the same mystical conspiracy storyline that doyle himself loved? or do you turn it into a procedural?

in a way, the tV series House M.D. was

sherlock Holmes in a medical setting. really annoying “hero” with hints of inner tragedy and contradiction; sees things nobody else can see. the character was written to be so arrogant and rude that i found the series unpleasant to watch, though Hugh Laurie is such a fine actor, with such charm, that he made it a success.

But following the sherlock formula with a different name isn’t enough. pBs has carried episodes of the recent British update called Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. He has the combination of good looks, exuberance, and an intelligent-looking face that works to bring off a rather cheerful sherlock.

Cumberbatch’s sherlock isn’t so much rude as oblivious – he doesn’t mean to be nasty, he simply isn’t thinking about other people’s feelings. it’s a weird contradiction – after all, the whole point of sherlock Holmes is that he notices everything. so to have him zero in on one track, while blocking out other things – like the feelings of people he depends on – is oddly contradictory.

still, it works, in large part because of the utterly sweet martin Freeman as dr. watson. (Freeman, you’ll remember, played the naked stand-in in Love Actually.)

the weakness of Sherlock is that, try as they might, the Brits still don’t understand

how to do episodic television. they do great miniseries, but packing a feature’s worth of story into 44 minutes remains beyond them. so the Sherlock stories feel thin and stretched; there’s not much there.

in america, however, everybody doing detective television lives in the shadow of the incredibly packed storytelling of the Law & Order franchise, and it shows. the genius of the L&O series was and is that no scene ever does just one thing. the mystery plot advances while the character stories also unfold. not a line is wasted. the writing is so tight that most of the time you couldn’t drop a single line of dialogue.

and if you can’t do that, or at least come close, you really can’t compete in the hour-long (44-minute plus commercials) format.

so here’s the american take on sherlock Holmes, a new series on CBs called Elementary. (the title comes from Holmes’s penchant for explaining things to dr. watson with a condescending “it’s elementary, my dear watson.”

there are some departures from the familiar story that will either exhilarate or annoy diehard sherlock Holmes fans. For one thing, watson is now a woman. But since the woman is the ever-brilliant Lucy Liu at her deadpan-snotty best, it’s hard to resent the change. in Elementary, watson isn’t a stooge – watson has been hired by Holmes’s family to watch over him and keep him from relapsing into his drug habit.

in other words, she has authority – even

if he doesn’t recognize it – and in the back-and-forth she takes it and dishes it out as we’ve never seen a watson do before. the writing not only sounds smart, it is smart.

the other potentially annoying change is that the series takes place in modern new york City. yes, this choice was made for budgetary reasons – and to pander to the american audience. But they have a good backstory to explain it, and it’s just plain cool to have sherlock Holmes go head to head with insufficiently observant American cops. Certainly Brits will be glad that for once it isn’t scotland yard getting shown up week after week.

Jonny Lee miller is absolutely wonderful as sherlock. not many actors could hold their own on the screen with Lucy Liu, who doesn’t have charisma so much as command. their pas de deux is a wonder to behold.

and aidan Quinn, one of our best character actors, is wonderful as the american detective who brings Holmes in as a consultant and tries to keep him out of trouble (like robin tunney’s teresa Lisbon character in The Mentalist, minus the sexual tension).

it’s so nice that we live in an era when you can download episodes you missed. since Elementary hit the ground running, you can start at the beginning and get the full effect; or you can pick it up where it is.

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Express has been offering bundles of high quality ebook versions of classic literature that has entered the public domain.

it used to be that you’d buy their books on Cds – dozens or hundreds of books per disc.

no, you’ll never read all of them. that’s not the point. you’ll read some of them, and have the others “on the shelf” should you ever decide to go deeper into a dead writer’s works.

sometimes that’s wonderful – i think of anthony trollope and william makepeace thackeray. sometimes it’s useful simply to realize that, yes, George eliot really is the most tedious writer not named Hawthorne.

well, Cds are so passe; we buy our ebooks differently now. and samizdat has also changed by offering its Quench Editions: smaller libraries of good quality books at very good prices.

instead of buying a Cd of which you’ll

read only a few, now you can buy and download much more select groups: all six of trollope’s Barsetshire novels for three bucks; all six of his palliser series for another three. or four dollars for 26 books by thackeray.

i know – you can get versions of these books for free. But most of the time, the free versions aren’t optimized for ebook readers; often they’re no more than oCr versions with all kinds of annoying errors.

For samizdat, moving to the shopping cart model of online selling is quite a change, but i think they’d done a great job. i’ve already bought and used several of their collections. Best of all, because the libraries are intelligently grouped, you can browse, discovering writers you’ve never heard of along the way.

Give them a try at http://www.samizdat.com/quencheditions/ . it’s a great way to catch up on books you’ve always meant to read – in good, cheap editions.

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yes, i just drove through the westerwood neighborhood, the neighborhood is littered with signs that say vote against amendment one, and it’s also littered with signs that say vote for obama. Just makes me wonder about the direction of our country.

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First, i’d like to thank y’all for being the only publication that has enough nerve to print the truth. i’m calling in reference to the story that ran on the news this weekend showing the City of winston-salem being taxed by all our monies to install a fine plaque honoring a group like the Black panthers. seriously, if a black militant hate group, i mean – and they’re honoring them with taxpayer dollars to put placards and signs up? these are the same people that were so upset about a Civil war statue and having it moved, and now they’re spending money for a hate group.

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thank you, Rhino, for the sound of the Beep. this country is almost $17 trillion in a big hole. we continue to borrow. if obama is reelected, you risk, and i don’t think a lot of people realize how much trouble the Usa is in. if obama is reelected, those who receive lots of free stuff, food stamps, welfare, etc., will run the risk of losing their benefits. we’re

close to bankruptcy now. if reelected he’ll bankrupt the country in two years. Let me be blunt. the food stamp and welfare programs, etc., will take a huge hit. too many on the take, and not enough paying in. the Us money tree is dying.

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Having watched the classless, dishonest, undignified and completely unpresidential performance of mitt romney in the second debate last night, it baffles me that even one citizen of the United states would possibly believe that he is a good choice to be the leader of the greatest country on earth. in the same way that romney is clearly qualified to lead a third world banana republic, it is equally clear that he is not qualified to be president of the United states. i guess you can fool some of the people some of the time. Given the difficulty of debating someone who inexplicably and immaturely refuses to accept objective, well-established verified facts, or who is intellectually incapable of doing so, it is clear that president obama did a masterful job of exposing romney for what he truly is, a disingenuous poser who believes image is everything and that reality and truth are overrated or just plain unnecessary.

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i sincerely hope you will print this, because it is straight from my heart. Can someone out there in Rhinoceros Times readership explain to me how anyone who

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professors to be a follower of Christ can in good conscious vote for Barack obama. i recently drove through Fisher park on a sunday morning and saw many obama bumper stickers on cars around First presbyterian Church. Can someone out tell me why i can’t connect the dots here? Let me know.

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i am an avid rider of the Gta bus system. on sunday the city and Gta should have been on the same page and could have offered better bus service. i was trying to get to a destination by 3:30. i should have got on the bus at 3:29. they sent a


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Reporter: Was there any chance you were going to drop that ball?Jamison Crowder: There wasn’t a chance; there wasn’t a chance in this world that I

was gonna drop that ball. I was gonna hold onto it like it was my baby.

duke receiver Jamison Crowder, oct. 20, 2012, just moments after his game-winning catch in duke’s amazing 33-30 win over Carolina.

if anyone in this world is still unconvinced that the end of the world is near, then i confidently direct your attention to the nothing short of miraculous victory of duke over the UnC tar Heels on the night of saturday, oct. 20, in which duke’s Jamison Crowder caught – rather than dropped – the last-second, game-winning pass that vaulted duke into a bowl game, put the Blue devils in first place of the Coastal division of the aCC, and likewise put them in a hunt for the aCC title – not to mention that the win shocked the utter fabric of the known universe.

the fact that Jamison Crowder caught that ball and duke won that football game was as sure a sign that the ancient mayans were right, and the end of the world is fast upon us, as it would have been if the Four Horsemen themselves had shown up at my front door step and said, “yost, it’s time to go.”

interestingly, the last time duke beat Carolina in football was 724 years ago, and one has to go back even further, to the time of Charlemagne, to find the year in which duke has beaten Carolina at wallace wade stadium – which i believe at that time was called sir william wallace stadium.

on saturday night, as i watched Crowder come down with that ball – and there was no penalty, and no other bizarre reversal of fortune by the powers that be – i was glad duke had won. But it was of course also a bittersweet moment since it offered conclusive evidence that the end of the world is finally here.

so that’s depressing. still, it is nice to go out with a win in the last duke-Carolina football game of all time. i was really glad the man Upstairs managed to work that one in before the black hole – or whatever method of total destruction is set to befall us – gets here.

But let’s not harp on the end of the world when there are so many other things to talk about …

not long ago, in scott’s night out, i ran a picture of a woman and, later, at a restaurant, a guy i’d never met before came up to me and started talking to me about her.

He said he knew her. He said he thought she was a really nice person and thought the world of her. i agreed.

“oh yeah, she’s great,” i said. “How do you know her?“From aa,” he said.i did a double take and i was like, “Uh, i don’t think you’re supposed to say that.”

recently, Chick-fil-a got in the middle of a hot-button political fight because the owner of the company came out against gay marriage, though i think there must be a better way to phrase that than i just did.

and then, during the first presidential debate, mitt romney made it known he was solidly opposed to Big Bird – and, now, not surprisingly, Big Bird has started showing up at political rallies holding obama signs, and who can blame him? if romney had said at the debate, “well the first thing i’ll do as president is put scott yost out of a job,” i’d probably show up with signs at obama rallies as well.

then someone showed me the online video game called “obama romney Chicken Kickin.” the game’s description explains that “the 2012 election is in your hands! Choose your candidate and kick the chicken as far as you can to become president!”

then, last week, there was the “pigs, poultry & politics” event at Castle mcCulloch.does anyone other than me see a disturbing trend here? i just think poultry is

suddenly starting to play way too big a role in our political process. so that’s something we better keep an eye on: we all know very well what happens

when the camel gets its nose under the tent and don’t even get me started on camels – just trust me when i say that, the less poultry, or other farm animals in our politics, the better.

Just remember what happened in Animal Farm when the animals got involved in politics.

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For instance, when asked about the award-winning movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, siri responds: “it’s about an assistant HaL who tries to make contact with a higher intelligence. these two guys get in the way and mess it all up.”

also, in another nod to siri’s predecessor, Hal 9000, if you instruct siri, “open the pod bay doors,” siri says: “we intelligent agents will never live that down, apparently.”

there’s an interesting side note to the current Guilford County prison Farm debate over whether to leave the land as it is or try to build a giant corporate park out there.

it has become evident that there’s a great deal of confusion about how large the prison Farm actually is, as well as how much of it is in Guilford County, and how much is in alamance County.

i’ve been at The Rhino Times almost 10 years, and, during that time, just about every time i’ve asked about the acreage of the farm, i’ve gotten a different answer. i’ve heard 740, 800, 806, “almost 800,” and many other numbers.

one time i requested the information from the county and they responded that the prison Farm was 806 acres, with 740 acres of it in Guilford County and 112 acres in Forsyth County.

when i said i didn’t think that was right, they were like, “no, we checked carefully.”

one time, i found on the county website where it said it was 806 acres so i just stopped asking and i went with that 806 number for a while.

now with all the attention focused on that land lately, since they want to make it into a corporate park, it has become kind of important.

so i sent sheriff BJ Barnes an email – saying i wanted to hear it “straight from the horse’s mouth.” i asked him the exact acreage and he asked his staff. about a week later, on the phone, he tried to explain the answer to me but then he said, “i’ll just send you the email.”

so he sent a long email chain that’s quite fascinating, of county staff trying to get a handle on how many acres there are at the prison Farm, and how much is in each county.

it’s extremely complicated, but it starts off with there being 739.87 acres in Guilford County, and 111.5 acres in alamance County for a total of “+/-806.“

at one point, sheriff’s department major debbie montgomery writes: “Hey there! thanks for trying to help me with the acreage. i am confused. … i was told there was 806 acres out there … so what is the difference in your calculation and the one below? i want to compare before giving the sheriff the final answer. thanks.”

Finally, Guilford County mapping technician Curtis short, a map tech with the county’s Geographic information services, was consulted about the disparity.

in an email to the sheriff’s department, short wrote that a big part of the difference comes from which county line you use. Because alamance and Guilford have never agreed on the line.

“Guilford is using the line as proposed by the nC Geodetic survey,” short wrote, “which can be as much as 200 or so feet further east than the line alamance is using. Using our line we came up with +/- 104 acres [in alamance County].”

then he added: “alamance has the portion on their side of the line listed as 57 acres by deed but calculated at 111.51 acres as mapped.”

the email goes on to say, “it’s safe

to say the farm contains +/- 806 acres. to get a more accurate number would require a surveyor. to get a more accurate breakdown on how much is in alamance County would require the two boards of commissioners to adopt the same line.”

i’m still trying to figure out what all that means, but i think from now on i’m just going to say that the prison Farm is 806 acres and leave it at that, because that’s something everyone seems to finally agree on.

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short bus out at 2:40. picked us up. we did not get to the depot until 4:20 due to the uncontrollable circumstances with the city planning and Greensboro police department. Hopefully, next time there’s an event like this going on there would be better planning for transportation.

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if the Coliseum can use money from the hotel/motel tax to renovate the Coliseum, how come they can’t use some of the hotel/motel tax for the performing arts center? and, also, why didn’t the fools add a couple of dollars to ticket prices to use toward the performing arts center? i think somebody

doesn’t use their heads. But that would make more sense than taxing the taxpayer. and maybe get some private donations. But i think somebody has lost their mind if they can’t figure out a way to do it that way. i think it would make a lot more sense than taxing the taxpayers. we’re taxed to death now. and all of us don’t use the Coliseum facility. i don’t, and i don’t think i should have to pay extra.

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Editor’s Note: The City Council decided to spend the hotel/motel tax money on the Coliseum and can’t spend it on a music hall because you only get to spend money once.



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Letters to the EditorVote for Judge Burch

Dear Editor,please consider voting to reelect Guilford

County district Court Judge susan Burch in the nov. 6 general election.

sue has been on the bench for the past 12 years and is noted for her work with complex and difficult cases.

during her time on the bench, she helped establish Guilford County drug treatment Court programs and, in addition to her full-time duties as a sitting judge, also serves as program advisor for both the drug court and mental health court programs.

she was honored by Court watch with the 2006 district Court Judge award for excellence in child support collection in Guilford and davidson Counties.

sue is the type of judge we need in the courts.

For the 2012 general election, she has been endorsed by the north Carolina association of women attorneys, The Rhinoceros Times, the News & Record and the simkins paC.

Visit www.judgeburch.com for more information about her service on the bench and, again, please consider voting to reelect Judge susan Burch.Lisa Bouchey

More endorsement controversyDear Editor,

i served as a county commissioner representing district 5 from december 1996 to december 2000. while i appreciate being remembered after 12 years out of office, my reputation as a commissioner and human being is very important to me.

so, i was very shocked and upset to read in scott yost’s article last thursday about Congressman Howard Coble not endorsing candidates, that “Billy yow said that a similar controversy arose years ago when former Guilford County Commissioner phyllis Gibbs was running for office.”

“yow said that Gibbs said she had gotten Coble’s endorsement, but then she later had to walk that claim back.” i immediately called Billy about this and he denied having said it.

to set the record straight, i never said in person or in any of my campaign literature that Congressman Coble had endorsed me. i did use a photo with him and he was fully aware that i would use it in my mailers, but never did i state that he endorsed me. i was warned in the beginning that Congress Coble does not endorse candidates but that he would allow a photo of him with me to be used for my literature. at one time, i think during my campaign for reelection, Congressman Coble did give me permission to use a sentence from a letter from him to me that was complimentary, but there was never a statement by me that he had endorsed me. By the way, Howard and i are members of the same church and he does attend whenever he is in town.

i am extremely disappointed in scott yost. no professional journalist should print comments like he used without checking with the person whose reputation is being harmed, to verify the truth or falsehood of

such a statement. i am not hard to find – just visit the Gop headquarters at 3950 w. market st. and you might see me there.

scott, i expect an apology from you and The Rhino Times in the next issue with a retraction of the statement about me. i don’t understand why anyone would want to damage my reputation after all these years. i am no threat to anybody. i still have people asking me if i will run for another office; my reply is “no, absolutely never.” i am content to work for other republican candidates, especially this year. so, i beseech you to vote and work for Gov. mitt romney for president, pat mcCrory for governor, dan Forest for lieutenant governor, and the entire line-up of republican candidates. Let’s take our country back from the socialists and return our liberties to “we the people.” Phyllis P. Gibbs

Editor’s Note: In response to this letter, the rhinoceros times contacted Yow again and he stated that he did inform the rhino times of a similar controversy regarding a supposed endorsement from Howard Coble of Gibbs in 2000. Yow said that, when Gibbs contacted him over his statement in last week’s rhino times, he reminded her of that event. Yow said he did not state that Gibbs had “said” she had Coble’s endorsement, but instead that she had sent out a flyer that strongly implied she had Coble’s endorsement, – so much so that Coble felt a need to comment on it.

Yow said he wasn’t interested in attacking Gibbs in any way but his only point in telling the rhino times that was to demonstrate that Coble had always been highly particular about his endorsements and that Coble was not simply being particular about it in the case of Jeff Phillips case because Phillips has been a member of Conservatives for Guilford County (C4gc.)

Yost kant spelDear Editor,

this article is in reference a statement by mr. yost in your oct. 11 issue.

your readers would probably like to know how mr. yost’s superior journalistic intellect would spell some of the adopted words into our american english.

if according to yost “oktoberfest” should be spelled with a “c.” then how would he spell “bratwurst, kindergarten, blitzkrieg, schadenfreude, zeitgeist, verboten, doppelgaenger, angst,” to name a few?

the oktoberfest originated in Bavaria, Germany, and has been celebrated due to its popularity every year during the last week in september and the first week in october for more than 200 years in munich, Germany, and in many other countries. not wanting to change its meaning and originality it has retained the spelling “oktoberfest” worldwide. perhaps mr. yost would like to change the tradition and meaning by americanizing it to read octoberfestival.

i am sure the management of the

establishment was hurt and embarrassed by your wrongful criticism. as a journalist and a gentleman you should feel that a public apology in an easy to find section of your paper is due.Hans F. Husemeier

What really mattersDear Editor,

when you get right down to it, it really doesn’t matter if Howard Coble did or did not endorse Jeff phillips for the district 5 seat on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.

what does matter and what does have a huge impact on our quality of life here is the out-of-control spending and taxing that paul Gibson and the current Board of Commissioners have shamefully engaged in for the last eight years.

the current board has buried the hard-working taxpayers of Guilford County under a $1.1 billion dollar mountain of debt. next year, it will cost taxpayers $100 million dollars just to pay the interest and a small portion of the principal on that debt. one out of every six dollars of the county budget will go just to cover our county’s


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debt. at a time when so many families and businesses are struggling to make ends meet and tens of thousands of citizens can’t find jobs, that is beyond shameful – it’s a disgrace!

reelecting paul Gibson means more spending and higher taxes. we can and must do better. please join me in voting for a solid fiscal conservative for the county board – Jeff phillips.Larry Holmquist

Economy needs businessmanDear Editor,

i’ve examined the background of obama the community organizer and romney the successful businessman. i’ve watched debates and listened to wordsmiths obfuscate their opponents’ position and conceal their own bad choices. three things are clear.

1. our economy is broken. when our car doesn’t run right we don’t call a plumber. when our deck needs repair we don’t call the doctor. we can lambast obama/Bush on all the ways they failed, but the mistake was ours. we knew our economy was broken when we hired a Chicago law professor with no business experience. shame on us, we should’ve hired a businessman. romney is a very skilled businessman. His judgment is so good he earns $20 million a year. even millionaire

Barrack obama admits his own pension plan is less valuable than romney’s.

2. president obama has been clear on his desire to tax the rich more to provide benefits to those that don’t pay income taxes. He believes government should provide everything. our Constitution says government should protect our security, free speech and liberty. Gov. romney believes our government should protect and secure us as well as offer a safety net for the under privileged while they work to improve their circumstances. romney feels a greater duty to help his fellow americans than simply pay his taxes. that is why he gave $4 million to charities in 2010. Compare the charitable giving of the two democrats to the republicans and see who tries to help their fellow americans and who thinks it is the government’s job. Gov. romney has lead by example, helping many people restore their finances and self respect through his encouragement and motivation. wouldn’t it be great if many more of us made millions, paid our taxes and then gave 20 percent more to help those less fortunate?

3. Fifteen years ago, religious fanatic osama bin Laden began using his wealth to kill americans. when he killed thousands of americans in 2001, our president directed our military to bring him to justice. it took a dozen years, but they found him. they devised a plan to bring him to justice and dutifully submitted it for approval. mr. president, you did not kill Bin Laden.

in words you will understand, “you didn’t build that.” once our soldiers presented a plan to get him, you had no choice but to say “oK.” Had you declined you would have been impeached. the american military and intelligence service men and women killed Bin Laden. you just didn’t say “no.” odd how vanity and hubris can make a law professor take credit for the work of others. recently obama’s staff dismissed the same intelligence services’ recommendation for additional security for the consulate in Benghazi. the resulting catastrophe cost the lives of four more americans. now he throws the intelligence guys under the bus as a scapegoat for his staff’s failure. shame on you, obama. you are a fair weather friend, taking credit for their good work, blaming them for your failures. now you claim they support your plan to reduce our military strength. as their commander in chief, they are duty bound not to publicly disagree with you. privately they abhor what you plan to do to our nation’s first line of defense.

don’t follow the pied piper again. Let’s be sure we hire the right candidate for the job this time, the one with heart felt dedication to our country. we don’t need a wordsmith or fair weather friend. Vote for the candidate with a history of success in business and as an elected government leader.Keith Church

Cover-up needs explainingDear Editor,

the obama administration needs to come clean with the american people pertaining to what really happened in Benghazi. there is clearly a cover-up by somebody in the obama administration. it must be the reason the secretary of state flew to peru and then the real facts began to come out about what really transpired.

the families of the victims have a right to know the truth. they are the ones suffering here because this administration and those in the media want to play politics with this tragedy during an election year.

there is clearly a cover-up going on here. and those responsible for this cover-up thrive on issues like this for their own personal political benefit. perhaps their objectives are to boost ratings or sell newspapers, but all involved must be accountable for their actions and a full explanation is in order to those suffering families who are living this through media each day.

this goes to show you how cruel and ruthless are and some people will go to hide the truth. it is time to bring some dignity into the presidency of the United states and the media.Steven M. Shelton

Obama helped create deficitsDear Editor,

i’m sick of presiden obama whining about the huge deficits he inherited. He helped create them. in october 2008, as a Us senator, he conspired with Bush and mcCain to pass that monstrous $800 billion

tarp bill. obama could have pointed out that it was a bailout for the big banks and stopped it. instead, we have footage of Bilderberg Group-owned thugs like nancy pelosi and rahm emanuel praising obama for gathering sufficient democratic votes to ram it through.

the first tea party event i went to (march 2009) was an effort to get Congress to reduce the tarp bill by the unspent amount, which was at least $400 billion. it failed.Al Shumard

Moore for High PointDear Editor,

during his service on the City Council, Britt w. moore has responsibly made difficult decisions, and, given the reality of today’s economic circumstances, Britt has consistently worked in the best interests of the City of High point and its citizens.

it’s a simple thing for Britt’s opponents to advocate concepts everyone agrees on, such as “increasing our property values,” “good stewardship,” being “more competitive with other cities,” “economic development” and “investing in our geographic heart.” (i’ll add “world peace” since it just belongs on the list.)

while platitudes are sometimes inspirational, the problem is that it’s a bit more complicated than a bumper sticker when it comes to the details of reaching those goals while actually running the city. some of Britt’s opponents certainly have sublime dreams for High point, and dreamers certainly have their place in the world, but, as seems to be a widespread issue among challengers this year, the details are lacking.

i support Britt w. moore for City Council because, while he also “dreams things for High point that never were and says ‘why not?’” Britt has a solid record of governing prudently given the realities before him. Kevin Hill

Judges should be non-partisanDear Editor,

your article “Judicial endorsements” was slightly incomplete in explaining how our north Carolina judges went from partisan to non-partisan elections. it is probably correct that the democratic politicians in the state saw that partisan judicial elections was reducing the number of members of their party in the courthouses throughout the state. However, there were a significant number of judges, myself included, who believed (and still believe) that electing judges was the least satisfactory method of selecting qualified people to serve in that position. i, for one, felt that if we couldn’t have some other selection process, then having nonpartisan elections was a step in the right direction. therefore, when rep. Joni Bowie called me to ask my opinion on the issue, i told her that i favored the change. as rep. Bowie turned out to be the “swing” vote on the issue in the House committee where the bill was being considered, my conversation with

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her apparently was the determining factor in the ultimate passage of the bill. all of the foregoing notwithstanding, a person’s political registration in no better predictor of how he or she will perform on the bench, than is his or her race, sex or other objective factor. echoing your sentiment, a method of selecting judges other than popular election would be far better for our judicial system and our state. the return to partisan elections is not the answer, and i would hope that the politicians in raleigh would serve the people of this state by adopting a new procedure for choosing our judges, thereby taking politicians out of the courtrooms.William L. Daisy

Sometimes help hurtsDear Editor,

a little boy found a chrysalis in his explorations. He asked his mom if he could bring it home and watch until the butterfly emerged. thinking there was no harm in this, mom agreed. every few hours, the little boy checked for changes. He waited in expectation for the marvelous miracle.

one day a small split began to develop in the skin of the chrysalis. the boy watched for several hours as the creature struggled to force its way out. But then, after waiting so long, the butterfly seemed to stop making progress. it appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and could go no further. the

little boy felt so sorry. why, with such hard work and struggle, did it appear to come to a standstill? this seemed so unfair. the boy began to become agitated with the delay. Finally, he just couldn’t wait any longer. He decided to help.

the boy ran for a pair of scissors. He took them and snipped open the remaining bit of the chrysalis. the butterfly then emerged easily. But there was a problem. the butterfly had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. the boy continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would spread to become the beautiful, colorful and wide ones he longed to see. But, alas, the butterfly continued to hobbled about with a swollen body and misshapen wings. the butterfly would never have a normal life.

By not fully understanding the process, the little boy caused ruin when he was trying to create success. By allowing his personal feelings to overrule the wisdom of nature, a perfected process lay broken.

do we see this same thing happening in the world around us? are we intervening to “create outcomes” that nature will not support? we are all called to help our neighbors in their struggles. But each breakthrough must be of one’s own making. For, if we intervene and short-circuit the processes in a personal journey, we just may be robbing that person of his or her most beautiful expression of character and courage.Debra McCusker

Taxation doesn’t lead to prosperityDear Editor,

the obama administration thinks Congress can continue spending as usual and increasing taxes. our economy is held hostage by Harry reid of the senate, who will not negotiate and present a budget. He is the perfect example of why we need some kind of term limits. this website explains the degree of spending that Congress has engaged in: governmentgonewild.com.

to quote sir winston Churchill: “we contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

please vote for the candidate who knows the economy best – mitt romney.Leroy Seawell

Apology tour rememberedDear Editor,

i watched the third debate last night. romney mentioned obama’s “apology tour” and when obama responded, he said that was the biggest “whopper” that had been told so far. then, he began referring to some visits he’d made during his campaign tour before the election. i recall him making a mideast tour before the election, but didn’t he also make another tour after the election? that is when i recall him making those statements to a number of countries about america’s arrogant and aggressive foreign policies. did i miss

something? was i dreaming or imagining i saw and heard these speeches he made to these countries in the mideast?Ramon Bell

GOP damages stateDear Editor,

For the first time in over 100 years, republicans gained a majority in both houses of the north Carolina General assembly. what have the done with their new-found leadership and power? Here’s a partial list of their record:

Cut 1,700 classroom teachers and 2,300 teacher assistants and with these lay-offs and other cuts to our elementary, middle and high schools, north Carolina has fallen to 49th out 50 states in per pupil spending.

eliminated $414 million from education including need-based financial aid to our university system, which means that 9,300 fewer students will receive the assistance they need to stay in school.

Failed to fund a plan that would help small businesses hire veterans and unemployed north Carolinians.

Blocked funding for a statewide communications system that was to be used by first responders to share information vital to public safety during emergencies.

refused to fund project C.a.r.e. that would have provided financial assistance to family members with alzheimer’s or dementia.

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Cut $20 million for local mental health services.

refused to accept $4 million dollars in federal aid to run fair elections.

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Understand that this is not a complete list of the republican record in the north Carolina General assembly, but it is certainly sufficient to see the damage they have done to our state and its people.Bob Kollar

scenes was a moment that occurred at the thursday, oct. 4 Guilford County Board of Commissioners meeting. that night, after a closed session, when the commissioners returned to their seats at the dais in their meeting room in the old Guilford County Court House, County attorney mark payne told the commissioners they should take note of the envelopes marked “Confidential” that had been placed in their chairs.

payne added that the contents pertained to the manager search, but he gave no details and no one has ever said anything else about the mysterious, commissioners’-eyes-only documents since.

those envelopes contained the results of private interviews the search firm conducted with the commissioners.

the head-hunting firm had extensive conversations with the Guilford County commissioners, and, in those interviews, commissioners talked individually with search firm representatives about a wide-range of topics – including the salary of the next county manager, the process by which he or she would be chosen, and the desired training, education and character of the next county manager.

some concerns that commissioners brought up in the discussions seem to be a reaction to issues they have with current Guilford County manager Brenda Jones Fox, who’s retiring on Feb. 1, 2013.

the final decision on a new manager is likely to be made early next year by the smaller nine-member Board of Commissioners. newly elected members will be sworn in on monday, dec. 3.

the report from John a. anzivino, a senior vice president of the firm, included a compilation of the interviews with 10 of the 11 current commissioners. (Commissioner mike winstead wasn’t interviewed because he was out of town on business during the

two days those interviews took place.) the report, titled “County manager

selection process: profile development process,” contains the commissioners’ responses to an extensive set of questions. However, it doesn’t identify which commissioner gave which response.

one interesting revelation in the report is that the search firm already has some candidates in mind.

anzivino wrote, “i have spoken to several individuals who may have an interest in the manager’s position and will be attending the international City/County management association meeting beginning on saturday and will be identifying and speaking with potential candidates to gauge their general interest in serving the County.”

that four-day convention, held in phoenix, began on saturday, oct. 7 and drew over 3,000 attendees.

the report from the search firm stated that, based on the interviews with commissioners, the next Guilford County manager can expect a salary of between $150,000 and $180,000 a year. Fox currently makes $183,200 a year.

Greensboro City manager denise turner roth makes about $165,000 a year and she oversees more than 3,000 employees. Guilford County has about 2,300 employees but the manager only oversees about two-thirds of those. the rest work under elected officials such as the sheriff, the register or deeds, or the commissioners, or they work for a department run by a board, such as the Guilford County department of public Health.

also, unlike in Guilford County manager searches in the past, this time some handpicked area business and community leaders will likely play a role in the selection process.

the search report from springsted states: “we would suggest that the Board identify up to ten (10) business leaders whom we

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Last week we ran a faux front page, or a wrap, which is a four-page advertisement that wraps around the paper. the articles that were on the front page of the Howard Coble for Congress advertisement are

from sixth district Congressman Howard Coble’s website, and if you would like to read the rest of the stories they can be found on at www.cobleforcongress.com. they don’t actually continue in print anywhere. we apologize to all of you folks who were looking for page 81.

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Last week we had a mistake in the article about the recycling contract with reCommunity accepted by the Greensboro City Council. the article stated that waste management, which bid on but did not get the contract, had bid $8 a ton plus a share of the revenue. the correct figure is $26 a ton plus an 80 percent share of the revenue. we regret the error but would like to note that the City Council made its decision based on the correct figures not on our mistake.

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this is north Carolina a&t state University’s homecoming weekend, which means the Greensboro Farmers market will be held at the Greensboro Coliseum not at the Farmers market on yanceyville street. it also means that, unless you want to get tied up in traffic, staying as far away from the a&t campus as possible is a great idea. a&t homecoming is huge and will have traffic tied up around campus all weekend.

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would interview on a one-on-one basis to obtain information from, similar to that obtained from Board members. information obtained would be reported to the Board and folded into the profile as well.”

it is not clear whether editors of weekly newspapers qualify to be in the potential pool of business leaders.

the commissioners also expressed an interest in getting input from county employees and from the community at large, which is one reason the survey is now posted online. in the discussion with the search firm, commissioners asked that the survey be made available in some form to citizens who don’t have internet access. However, the clerk to the board’s office said the survey is only available online.

in addition to the survey, the report said one commissioner requested that “citizen participation should be obtained during the interview and selection of finalists through a public meeting with the candidates.” Usually, when that’s done, there’s a reception with refreshments held in a county building, and the citizens come out and meet the candidates and then convey their impressions to the commissioners.

not surprisingly, in the private interviews, many of the responses from commissioners indicated they would like to see a big change in the status quo of Guilford County management. the responses to the firm’s questions made it

clear that the last thing the commissioners want is another manager constantly embroiled in controversy, or one who’s likely to continue damaging the county’s relationships with local governments and businesses that have historically been excellent partners.

Fox has been the subject of ongoing and vast criticism for over two years, and she has also been the subject of two investigations – one by the Federal Bureau of investigation and another by the internal revenue service. Fox’s four-year reign as manager has also to a large extent wrecked relations with the City of Greensboro and led to the dissolution of, or to the near end of, several agreements with Greensboro and others that date back many years. Fox has also alienated many county employees as well as moses Cone Health system officials.

Because of all the scandals and contentiousness over the last two years, several commissioners have said it would be hard in the new search to find a worse county manager. three months ago, Commissioner paul Gibson said one could simply go into an airport and “pick the first 200 people” and all of those people would likely be a better county manager than Fox.

it’s evident in the search company’s interview that the commissioners want a manager drastically different than Fox. the board is specifically asking for a

manager who’ll work with the entire board openly and fairly, keep the commissioners fully informed and nurture the important relationships that Guilford County hopes to maintain.

one question asked in the interviews was, “what are the most important qualities (ethical, approachable, proactive, etc.) we should look for in Guilford County’s next manager?”

one commissioner answered “ethical and honest with a high level of integrity,” while others said the county needs someone who is “a strong relationship builder,” “a collaborator,” and a manager who is “open, candid and trustworthy.”

the commissioners also said they’re looking for someone who would be “compassionate in dealing with others,” as well as “an individual with a strong backbone who is thick-skinned and able to accept criticism gracefully.”

several county commissioners say it’s also important to find a manager who connects well with the community at large.

“as a leader” the report summarized, “they must demonstrate that they are comfortable with themselves and the job as a professional” and are “willing to engage the community.”

many board members said they want a manager who has private-sector job experience, and the report cited a strong preference for someone with “a

proven record in promoting economic development.”

Given the tremendous damage to many of Guilford County’s relationships during Fox’s rule, it’s no surprise the report states, “it was the consensus of the Board members that the new County manager also needed to be more visible and interactive with other municipalities in the County and that communications and partnerships needed to be enhanced, particularly with the Cities of Greensboro and High point.”

one summary passage in particular in springsted’s report seemed to point clearly to the fact that the manager the board is now looking for is the opposite of Fox.

it states, “it was recognized that the new manager needed to be more visible to staff and in a manner that continued to encourage performance at a high level, particularly in the face of budgeting challenges. it was the consensus of the Board members that the new County manager also needed to be more visible and interactive with other municipalities in the County and that communications and partnerships needed to be enhanced, particularly with the Cities of Greensboro and High point.”

“Finally,” the report continues, “it was recognized that the new County manager, while needing to be more visible in the community, needed to balance their efforts to be visible in a manner which complemented the responsibilities of the


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Democrat Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, hoping to avoid the air travel problems that have caused so much trouble for Democratic gov-

ernors Bev Perdue and Mike Easley, says he has no plans to go anywhere near an airplane during his campaign for governor.

“We will use and pay for buses, trains, cars, and vans, even ATVs and bicycles, but we are going to stay away from flying machines,” he told Carolina Journal. “I just see no upside to flying in this state.”

The lieutenant governor said he has some staff-ers who have urged him to continue the questionable airplane-usage policies of Easley and Perdue because he could probably get away with them.

“My staff says that since nobody in North Car-olina knows what I look like, I could easily cadge flights from rich contributors without anyone know-ing,” he said. “But that would be wrong, I told them.”

In 2009 the State Board of Elections issued a $100,000 fine to Easley’s campaign committee for his unreported use of private aircraft. Then an investiga-tion by a state prosecutor resulted in Easley pleading guilty to a felony related to an unreported flight. As a result of the felony, the North Carolina State Bar suspended Easley’s law license for two years.

In 2010 the elections board issued a $30,000 fine to Perdue’s campaign committee for unreported flights. Two campaign supporters have been indicted for felonies related to unreported flights, and one of them is scheduled for trial on June 11.

Dalton’s campaign finance reports already show he can win an election by staying on the

ground. He was the victor in the May Democratic Party primary election for governor without having ever left terra firma.

“If you don’t fly,” he said, “you don’t have to

get anyone to lend you planes, which has histori-cally been the cause of many problems for my fellow Democrats.”

Dalton’s plane phobia will not end if he is elected, the lieutenant governor says. “When I be-come governor I will use the state jet and helicopter for official business, but that’s about it, unless I buy a second home in New Bern or Southport,” he said. “Of course, then I would be entitled to fly at taxpayer expense provided I claim to be working, just like Ea-sley did.”

The travails of Perdue and Easley have caused concern in the aviation industry in North Carolina. Flight miles are down drastically, affecting pilots, fuel suppliers, mechanics, and general aviation pret-ty much stateside.

“Several representatives of the private flight in-dustry have already suggested to me that some relief must be provided for this ailing industry,” Dalton said. “These are hard times for everyone, especially owners of private jets who must pay expenses even when their planes sit on the tarmac.”

Dalton said he will work with Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan to obtain stimulus funds or some other business-stimulus grants from the federal gov-ernment.

“We can’t let such a formerly vibrant industry go into the dumper just because the media has made it difficult, if not impossible, for politicians to misuse airplanes,“ Dalton said.

In the meantime, Dalton says he has staffers researching a good locatioin where unused private jets can be mothballed, at least until everyone quits paying attention to how they’re used. CJ

Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, who has eschewed air travel for his gubernatorial campaign, heads out to a campaign event recently. (CJ spoof photo)

An Investment Plan For N.C.’s Economic RecoveryThe ongoing debate in Washington and the upcoming national

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for good or for ill.We invite you to read and share this plan for our state’s recovery

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Board and their role as elected officials; not getting out in front of the Board, but learning what the community needed and being identified as part of the Guilford ‘team.’”

in the interviews, commissioners were asked what they believe are the most important issues the next Guilford County manager will face in the next three to five years. those answers offered a mental snapshot of the commissioners’ priorities.

Key areas of concern for the commissioners – and therefore, hopefully, for the next county manager as well – were the upcoming county budgets, and finding new ways to address “the challenge of funding programs and new debt service with a minimum impact on the taxpayer.”

other priorities for commissioners were “developing a strong, more realistic Capital improvements plan [Cip]” and designing “a well-planned strategy to expand economic development and create jobs.”

the commissioners also wanted to know how the next manager would deal with the county’s prison Farm near Gibsonville, which many county officials hope to develop into a corporate park despite strong resistance from residents in the area.

in another category, Fox has received a lot of criticism behind the scenes from county employees – and the commissioners clearly want the next manager to have a better relationship with the county’s 2,300 workers.

to that end, the report suggests finding someone who will be successful at “examining the County’s current management structure and building a strong sense of teamwork among County departments” as well as “working with a new Board and learning the dynamics and focus of a new governing body getting to know and building relationships with the current and new Commissioners and those involved in Guilford’s governmental process, including representatives of the County’s municipalities.”

there seems to be a strong desire to eliminate “favoritism” for certain staff and commissioners and instead have the next manager be responsive to all commissioners and citizens.

over the last two years, much of Guilford County government has been run almost entirely by Fox and Chairman of

the Board of Commissioners skip alston – while other commissioners have constantly complained about being left out of the loop. one commissioner said they wanted the next manager to share information equally among all of the commissioners.

several commissioners expressed a desire for a manager “who brought no ‘baggage’ or ethical issues with them from their prior positions.”

the commissioners also said they would like a manager with “vision.”

Commissioner Carolyn Coleman frequently points to the fact that, in the ’70s, Guilford County was considered a role model for other counties in the state. many commissioners told the search firm that they would like to see Guilford County return to that elevated status.

“many Board members,” the report states, “were hopeful that the new County manager would be able to take the County to the ‘next level’ of management and that, as the third largest County in the state, the County would be looked to as a progressive well-managed county.”

as for educational requirements, the commissioners want the next manager to have at least a bachelor’s degree, with a master’s degree preferred, and the report states there’s a consensus for someone with “a strong educational emphasis in public administration, finance and economic development.”

in the county’s online survey for citizens, there are plenty of questions that allow for extended comments.

one question on the survey asks responders to rank their preferred types of candidates.

Choices include the “up and coming” manager, who has experience for the job but has never been a county manager before, the “non-traditional candidate,” and the “seasoned veteran who has been a successful County manager.”

other choices include a “well grounded” manager who is familiar with Guilford County and the key players in county government, and the “technician” who can “recite north Carolina state laws and regulations front and back and has a strong background in municipal operations.” that person, the survey states, “may lack warm and fuzzy qualities.“

Citizens who wish to take the survey have until midnight, thursday, oct. 25 to do so.

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that the conference room connected to the Board of Commissioners’ meeting room – the conference room the board uses for closed sessions – was to be named the Bob shaw Conference room.

in addition, two ceiling fans that for decades were in use at the Friendly road inn have been installed in the conference room. the fans were originally ceiling fans at the former o. Henry Hotel in downtown Greensboro before it was torn down. Linda and Bob shaw donated the

fans to the county when the Friendly road inn closed and, earlier this year, the fans were installed in the first floor hallway of the old Court House. now the fans are in the conference room.

the Board of Commissioners, at the oct. 18 meeting, also passed a resolution honoring former Guilford County emergency services director Charlie porter, a very well-known figure in the world of emergency services in Guilford County.

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director of emergency services in Guilford County.

porter was largely responsible for creating one of the first county fire prevention codes in the state, and he oversaw an expansion and improvement of the county’s 911 call system and also established a highly respected county paramedic training program, which made Guilford County one of the best counties to have a heart attack in or get shot in.

shaw, who read the resolution honoring porter, commented, “Guilford County is a better and safer place because of Charlie porter.”

Current emergency services director alan perdue also had some kind words for his predecessor and mentor.

“i was an 18-year-old when i got here – so he was like a second dad to me,” perdue said.

at the oct. 18 meeting, the commissioners heard from nC department of transportation division engineer mike mills who reported on just over $3 million in planned road improvements for Guilford County in the coming year. that total includes $747,000 to pave rural county roads and $2.3 million in general road improvements.

the improvements include widening and resurfacing parts of Huffine mill, Fleming, Lewiston and ellisboro roads, as well

as paving sections of Hemphill, whites, Bali, Canova and mersey roads and Union Grove road south.

at the end of the meeting, the board held an hour-and-45-minute closed session. in that session, the commissioners discussed the county’s potential purchase from Koury Corp. of two buildings for use by the sheriff’s department. the sheriff’s department currently rents one of the buildings in a corporate park just south of i-40. the second building under consideration for purchase is right next to it. no final decision was made in the closed session.

also in the closed session, the board discussed a personnel issue and heard from Loren Hill, the president of the High point economic development Corp., about a potential expansion of business or the location of a new business in the High point area. when the commissioners came out of the closed session, they scheduled a public hearing for the board’s thursday, nov. 15 meeting to hear an economic incentives request from the business. the commissioners were not told the name of the company, but based on the information they received several believe it is furniture company oFs Brands.

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for Guilford County budgets that included property tax increases. in 2009 and 2010 the budgets didn’t have tax increases and Gibson voted against those budgets. now he wants to raise the sales tax because he thinks county government needs more money.

Jeff Phillips says he believes that the county needs to spend the money it has more efficiently.

phillips is in favor of “limited government.” Gibson says that he doesn’t know what that means.

Gibson says that the schools need more money for maintenance. He has been on the Board of Commissioners for the past eight years; if he believes that then he should have voted for more money for school maintenance. But the idea that the schools need more money for maintenance is absurd. the schools have several hundred million dollars in bond money that can be spent on big maintenance projects like replacing roofs and putting in new heating and air-conditioning systems, but according to the school board the schools never have enough money.

Gibson says that people have “a God given right to good health care.” phillips says he believes that those who can afford to pay something should pay something for their health care, and that the eligibility requirements for free health care should be looked at carefully.

phillips says he is against raising taxes and wants to operate the government more efficiently. He has some good ideas about saving money in administrators and putting more money into employees like teachers who actually do the work.

phillips big problem in this campaign has been shooting himself in the foot. phillips has written that the property tax values in the 2012 revaluation were fixed so that the commissioners could get more money without raising taxes. as to who fixed them and how it was done, phillips doesn’t even speculate on, but he says he believes the property values in the new revaluation were artificially raised so the county would have more revenue without actually raising taxes.

phillips also misquoted Gibson when Gibson was asked at a forum how to handle illegal immigrants and Gibson said to put up a big sign that says “welcome everyone.” phillips got the meaning of the quote right, but if you put something in quote marks, not just the meaning but the words need to be right and they were not.

the phillips campaign reported that he was endorsed by sixth district Congressman Howard Coble and Coble did not endorse phillips. people who have been around politics for any length of time in Guilford County know that Coble is very precise and particular about who he supports and what level of support they receive.

in this case the phillips campaign sent a proposed statement about phillips for Coble to approve. Coble crossed out endorsed but accepted the major portion of the statement, and depending on which of the many stories from the phillips campaign you believe, somehow endorse was put in a headline over the statement by Coble on the phillips campaign website.

phillips took the word down as soon as the Coble campaign contacted him about the problem, but it is a great example of taking something that should have been helpful and turning it into controversy.

when phillips received the statement with endorses crossed out, that would have been enough to tell most people that Coble was not endorsing phillips, but it was not.

it also shows how big a man Coble is that he would allow phillips to use his name or photo because phillips ran against Coble in the republican primary in 2010.

phillips says that it is just a misunderstanding. But phillips is a member of Conservatives for Guilford County (C4gc), which seems to have more than its fair share of misunderstandings.

despite his mistakes i am endorsing phillips. the mistakes he has made i am writing off to inexperience, and if Gibson is elected and the democrats maintain control of the Board of Commissioners you can expect taxes to go up and for the government to be as inefficient and wasteful as it is now. if we can get some new blood in there, even if the new commissioners are not perfect, then perhaps we can stop the growth of Guilford County government, slow the wasteful spending and get local government back on some kind of

reasonable budget.phillips is right, every taxpayer in

Guilford County should be concerned about carrying over $1 billion in debt. But the democrats who got us there don’t see a problem with the borrowing or the budget. in fact, they want to raise and spend more money.

the Guilford County school board spent $3 million on not building an airport area high school. the county commissioners don’t have much control over school spending, but school spending has reached beyond ridiculous. How do you even spend $3 million on not building a school? someone has to put a stop to it and the democrats are not going to do it.

i know what limited government means and i’m all for it.

District 6republican, democrat or independent,

there should be no question about who to vote for in the district 6 Guilford County commissioner race. republican Hank Henning, a former marine and an iraq war veteran, has a well thought out, articulated plan for what he would like to do as a Guilford County commissioner. He also survived not one but two primaries to win the republican nomination.

democratic district 6 candidate Linda Kellerman didn’t want to be a county commissioner. she filed on the last day thinking, incorrectly, that no democrat had filed. when she found out dan miller had filed she tried to drop out of the primary, but it was too late and her name was still on the ballot. However, she announced she had dropped out and during the primary she was at the polls handing out campaign material for her opponent, miller, but despite all of that she won the primary. miller should be entered into a contest for the worst campaign of 2012. How do you lose to someone who announces they have dropped out of the race and then campaigns for you? it proves that democrats in Guilford County will vote for any candidate with a woman’s name on the ballot. you might see a lot of male candidates start to change their names to pat, Chris, Kelly or Leslie.

But Kellerman won the primary and decided to stay in the race. However, she doesn’t appear to have even done the basic research that you would expect of someone thinking about running. in short it appears she doesn’t know what a county commissioner does. at forums her answers are incredibly short. at the beginning of most forums candidates are given two minutes to introduce themselves and tell the audience why they are running. Kellerman doesn’t use a minute. at the League of woman Voters forum she said she was running because she was “very concerned about education.” that’s nice, but who isn’t? Henning wasn’t at that forum so she could have had had free reign, but she barely said more than Henning who wasn’t there.

she doesn’t want to rule out raising taxes and believes that illegal immigrants deserve all the same rights as citizens.

Henning has signed a no-tax-increase pledge and Kellerman said that he was eliminated options to deal with Guilford County’s debt. Kellerman, of course, is right, which is the whole idea of a no-tax-increase pledge. it encourages elected officials to cut spending rather than raise more revenue.

Henning is a fiscal conservative and says he believes that by cutting wasteful and unnecessary spending the county can get back on the right track fiscally.

District 8Finally, we wholeheartedly endorse

Ray Trapp for district 8 Guilford County commissioner. trapp is running unopposed for the seat held for the past 20 years by current Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners skip alston, who endorsed trapp, which probably has a lot to do with him being unopposed.

trapp was the youngest and the first black chairman of the Greensboro Zoning Commission, which means he was also the youngest black chairman, the youngest male chairman of the Zoning Commission, the youngest black male chairman of the Zoning Commission and so on.

But he did a good job on the Zoning Commission, serving two terms as chairman, and should do a great job as a Guilford County commissioner.

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only since obama has been president that the half of the americans who love this country and work hard and are good have had the fruits of their labors seized and handed over to the other half of the nation that is lazy, dependent and not good. never happened before obama. Here’s another thing for you. the republicans top 1 percent mantra, if they had success they built it. if they failed, the government ruined it for them. if they get a break, they deserve it. if you get a break, it’s a handout and entitlement. oh, one other thing Bush reelected 2004 unemployment was 5.4 percent. i guess when he left in January 2009 at 8.1 percent nobody had a problem with it?

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yes, i have some advice for robbie perkins, our mayor. pat mcCrory has been going on tV here lately talking about all the jobs and businesses that he brought to Charlotte while he was mayor there. you can call him up and ask him what he did. and maybe you could do it yourself. thank you.

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whitley said he hadn’t expected to run for mayor, but did so at the urging of business leaders and friends. He said his goal is to promote water, sewer and electric infrastructure to attract businesses and to improve police, fire and trash service. He said he would support more small local parks.

williard said his priorities are jobs, lower taxes and improved schools. He said, “Between jobs and schools and enriching our city, we can make it a better place to live and work.”

the forum gave candidates for the two at-large seats needed exposure.

this year, at-large Councilmember Latimer alexander did not run for reelection, opting instead to run in the republican primary for the state senate district 27 race, losing to Greensboro City Councilmember trudy wade, who won with 54 percent of the vote to alexander’s 10 percent, third-place finish.

that left at-large Councilmember Britt moore running to retain one of the two at-large seats, and High point mayor Becky smothers, who is running at large and not for reelection as mayor.

the other at-large candidates are elijah Lovejoy, a minister best known for arranging events such as party on the plank to draw people downtown; ed squires, the owner of the squires Group and director of a Child’s world day Care Center’s High point branch, and Cynthia davis, who did

not attend.Lovejoy cited his training as a pastor and

the company he runs that promotes events in High point, including the periodic downtown party on the plank and the international Festival. He said High point’s two main challenges are its high tax rate and its declining property values. He said, “if elected, i will vote ‘no’ on property tax increases for the next two years.”

Lovejoy also said he would ask High point City manager strib Boynton for a menu of 2 percent, 4 percent and 6 percent budget cuts.

moore said that High point has many positives as well as negatives, and that the City Council has done the best it could. He said the City Council reduced the budget twice before approving it. He said, “we’ve made very good progress in many areas in a very difficult economy.”

smothers, having been mayor for all but four years since 1992 and having been on the City Council since the 1970s, has the strongest name recognition of all the candidates – a fact she both bragged and joked about by saying she didn’t think she had to introduce herself much. she said, “my hair has been three different colors since i’ve been elected.”

smothers said she did not run again for mayor because there were new, eager councilmembers who wanted the job, but ran at large because the City Council will lose much of its collective experience on election day. she said, “do you all know that it’s very probable that a majority of the

City Council will be new faces or in new seats?”

smothers said the City Council has attracted 2,000 jobs in companies moving to High point or expanding there this year. “and they’ve been all over,” she said. “it hasn’t been concentrated in one part of town.”

smothers said she would push for safer neighborhoods and investments in communities. she called the macedonia neighborhood a poster child for community investment. High point has used federal grants to buy and fix up many houses in macedonia.

squires, contrary to smothers, joked about his lack of name recognition. “who is ed?” he asked rhetorically.

squires said he has a real estate license and that the squires Group employs more than 20 people. He said, “i may not have the public experience that ms. smothers and all the others on the council have, but i do have volunteer experience.”

in response to a question on whether High point has done enough to promote itself, whitley said the city needs to remember to promote what it has – renovated areas in the south end, washington drive, Uptowne and the palladium shopping Center. He said he is not opposed to the High point City project.

whitley said, “i am in favor of the City project becoming a self-supporting operation.”

sims said that much of the money that flows through High point during the twice-

yearly furniture market doesn’t stay there. she said High point needs to improve its appearance so that people will want to live there.

moore said High point is known worldwide, something he learned while studying abroad.

“the biggest room in my personal home is the room for improvement,” he said. “and i don’t think the city is any different.”

another question was on education and job training.

williard said, “you must have picked that for me.” williard is chairman of the board of trustees of Guilford technical Community College (GtCC). He said that GtCC is building a $1.5 million job-training program with a recently won grant, and that it also won a grant from the Bill & melinda Gates Foundation to keep students in college until they graduate.

Lovejoy called for a small business incubator like the nussbaum Center for entrepreneurship in Greensboro. He said more businesses and jobs would give High point’s young people a reason stay in High point once the grow up.

“what is there to stay here in High point for?” Lovejoy said. “Let’s give people something to get excited about.”

smothers said the City Council was “roundly criticized” for buying a building on idol drive that now holds the JobLink Career Center and the local branch of the nC employment security Commission.


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land – if, that is, it should be rezoned in the first place.

yow said he thinks he knows where the fire is.

“Brenda and skip want to pad their resumes,” yow said.

yow said that Fox and alston – who’ll both be gone from county government in a few months – want to see a giant corporate park on the land so that, in the future, they’ll be able to point to it and say, “Look what we did.”

Lynch said there’s a legitimate reason for the county to rezone the prison Farm property now – even without any infrastructure in place.

“Companies don’t want to have to worry about a rezoning battle,” Lynch said.

He said it’s true it would have taken a long time to get water and sewer to the site, however, Lynch added, having the land already rezoned is one less obstacle to attracting companies.

“they are looking for a reason not to come here,” he said of potential occupants of the proposed corporate park.

Lynch said one thing that caused Guilford County to be passed over for the large food distribution center was that the land wasn’t already rezoned. He acknowledged that other major factors, such as the lack of water and sewer, also played a role.

earlier this year, Lynch, in a closed session with the commissioners, requested the county pay half of the cost of a roughly $100,000 study of the prison Farm’s development potential. in that closed session, the board decided unanimously not to do so, but now the commissioners

are expected to take another look at funding such a study.

yow said advocates of a corporate park only dropped the first effort to rezone because appealing the planning Board decision would have resulted in a legal mess.

“it would have been a quasi-judicial hearing,” yow said of an appeal.

in some zoning cases, an appeal of a planning Board decision to the Board of Commissioners can be a quasi-judicial hearing, which carries all sorts of legal requirements – including the prohibition that participants must not have already made up their minds on the matter or made public statements about it.

Usually, those come in planning disputes with a special-use permits. However, yow said he believes a quasi-judicial hearing is what would be required in this case even though there is no special-use permit involved. He said the situation is so complex on so many levels that a quasi-judicial hearing would be the only fair way to proceed, and he said the commissioners couldn’t take part.

regardless of the specifics, one thing is certain: an appeal would have resulted in a giant legal quagmire whether it required a quasi-judicial hearing or not. yow points out that the county commissioners would be hearing a case on which each of the commissioner’s positions have been stated publicly as well as the fact that the county would be hearing an appeal of a planning Board decision regarding county-owned property, which he calls a clear conflict of interest. yow also said legal issues arise because the Board of Commissioners appoints the planning Board members.

the commissioners are already firmly on the record as to where they stand. at the thursday, oct. 4 Board of Commissioners meeting, the entire board discussed the issue at length and yow’s motion to kill Fox’s rezoning request failed on a 5-to-6 vote. and, at the oct. 10 planning Board meeting, alston and Commissioner Linda shaw spoke in favor of rezoning the prison Farm land, while yow and Commissioner Kirk perkins spoke against it.

therefore, according to yow’s theory, if a quasi-judicial hearing had been held to hear an appeal of the planning Board’s decision, none of the commissioners could legally participate.

since an appeal, according to yow, who isn’t an attorney, could likely not have gone to the Board of Commissioners, any appeal of the planning Board decision would have been heard in nC superior Court.

yow said that, when alston and Lynch thought the appeal would go to the Board of Commissioners, they were confident the commissioners would decide against the planning Board vote with the same six votes that killed yow’s attempt to stop Fox’s request at the oct. 4 Board of Commissioners meeting.

But now, yow said that, if the board had heard an appeal of the county’s rezoning request, he could guarantee it would have ended up in court.

“someone would file a lawsuit,” yow said, adding that they would have a strong case.

Guilford County attorney mark payne said that, at this point, he isn’t sure about whether a hearing of an appeal would have been quasi-judicial or not – nor, he said, is he sure about many other things related to this case.

“i’m still looking into it,” payne said.He said he had calls into four attorneys

who are well versed in rezoning law.the short answer to the question is that

payne is no doubt very pleased an appeal has not been filed in this case.

when richard ducker, an associate professor of public law and government with the UnC-Chapel Hill school of Government, was asked about the situation, he said he didn’t know the details of the Guilford County rezoning battle, but he said that in some cases the fact that commissioners have already weighed in on the issue before hearing an appeal on county property could be a legal concern.

“that would cause problems,” ducker said.

Complicating the matter, many complain, is that the rezoning request was made by

the county manager without authorization from the Board of Commissioners.

ducker said the decision to rezone county property falls in the domain of the county commissioners.

“that’s a legislative decision taken by elected officials,” he said.

He said any manager who moved to rezone county property without first consulting the Board of Commissioners would no doubt do so at his or her peril.

“that would probably be enough to get a manager canned,” ducker said.

Fox no doubt was in communication with alston – but all of the other commissioners seem to have found out in an email after the fact that Fox had filed the rezoning request.

over the last two years especially, Fox and alston have appeared to be running county government largely by themselves, and the two have often seemed annoyed that the laws of the state sometimes require them to have a vote of the Board of Commissioners to do some of the things that the pair wants to do.

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property tax increases. whitley gave up the chairmanship of the Finance Committee two years ago.

whitley praised the City Council’s financial leadership, including its at-times pay-as-you-go philosophy.

whitley said High point has a bond rating higher than those of many north Carolina cities. He said, “we have a triple-a bond rating, and that became a triple-a bond rating in the middle of a recession.”

whitley said that, if he became mayor, he would re-review the city’s budget for the current year, something he said would be unprecedented. He also cited large business expansions in High point in recent years, including ones by ralph Lauren Corp., solstas Lab partners and stanley Furniture Co., as well as high-tech firms High point has attracted.

whitley said, “i think it’s important for you to remember as you go through the night that experience does matter.”

alston did best with her stand-in introduction for sims, for which sims had obviously prepared her. she cited sims’ 10 years on the City Council, and, like whitley, said the City Council needs continuity.

“i’m plain spoken, and i’m going to say it like it is,” she said. “we have to have some remnants left on our City Council. we have to have people who know what they’re doing on the City Council – and i think Bernita sims is that person.”

alston said sims would create mayoral commissions on youth and families, bringing young people into the political process and arts and culture.

what followed was a series of questions from the audience, which was a mixture of pennybyrn residents, other voters, candidates for other offices and reporters.

one man asked whether, if whitley or sims lost, they would lose their City

Council seats.whitley explained that, yes, the mayoral

race is the end of the line if he or sims loses. He said that is why he wants to be mayor.

“you’re controlling the agenda,” whitley said of the mayor’s job. “at that point, there are things i’ve been wanting to do for years ... it takes five votes.”

ward called on alston, mistakenly calling her “ms. sims.”

alston said sims will advocate for four-year City Council terms. alston said that sims thinks that, once councilmembers are elected, it takes longer than two years to get up to speed and accomplish things.

High point, unlike all other north Carolina cities, has its City Council elections on even-numbered years – a change the City Council made several years ago in an effort to increase voter turnout . that has worked to some extent – but it has also left city councilmembers at the bottom of a long ballot, below national and state candidates. the City Council also eliminated primaries – an action that gave sims her best shot at the mayor’s seat, since williard and whitley are splitting the white and republican votes. sims is a black democrat.

in response to a question about High point’s election format, williard said he wants to return City Council elections to odd-numbered years and to reinstate primaries. He cited as a reason this year’s mayoral race, in which there will be five candidates on the ballot, but essentially only three running.

whitley, too, said he supports having City Council elections on odd-numbered years. He described the current system as “horrible.” He said, “we are last on the ballot, so people just forgot about us.”

whitley lists attendance at elon College and nC state University on his website. one audience member asked whether or

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not whitley had graduated.whitley replied that, no, he had not –

that he left nC state after three years to go into business, which he regrets. He said that is why he encourages his daughters to finish degrees.

someone in the audience asked why High point has no shopping center or downtown. High point’s downtown has been taken over by furniture showrooms.

one woman asked, “what about oak Hollow mall?”

“Have you been out there lately?” a man replied. “it’s a wasteland.”

High point University recently bought the mall, and rumors about what the university will do with it abound, although High point University executives seem to genuinely have no plan for the building.

that’s where alston began running out of answers from sims, and began answering for herself. she said oak Hollow mall is inaccessible to much of the city anyway, and she would like to have shopping close to her home, so she could quickly buy pantyhose.

whitley said oak Hollow mall never fulfilled its promise – that some stores never came to the mall and others arrived too late. He said, “malls are no longer going to exist.”

whitley said that smaller shopping centers – “nodes,” he called them – are the most likely shopping future. whitley

represents ward 5 in north High point and has championed the growth there. He said, “it turns out that the palladium area is the most viable shopping area we have in town.”

one of the heaviest debates in High point politics in recent years has been the flight of stores and restaurants to northeast High point, and the efforts of the High point City project, which the City Council created to try to renovate central High point neighborhoods, to bring commerce back into town. the City Council has only sporadically supported the effort, however, and whitley has been a critic of the City project.

whitley said that all he could say about the City project is that it is a work in progress. He said, “who is going to go down and actually shop in those areas?”

williard said that smothers opposed oak Hollow mall until the last second – which made smothers sound prescient – and argued against giving up on the mall.

“i think oak Hollow mall has a shot,” williard said. “i think there’s a chance to bring some kind of shopping back there.”

on the City project, williard retreated from his position at the oct. 4 debate, at which he said the eight Core City neighborhoods slated for redevelopment should all be attacked at once. that would be a monumental and expensive drive for redevelopment that recent City Councils haven’t dared. williard said on oct. 4. that, as a community, High point has to spend

money to get the job done.By the pennybyrn debate, williard had

retreated from that position to saying the City Council should focus on only three neighborhoods – Uptowne, the section of north main street between state and ray avenues; the upper part of downtown (might as well call it Lower Uptowne and be done with it) and the High point University area.

williard did not explain his change in position. williard is aligned with High point University president and Ceo nido Qubein. williard’s new plan would leave out all neighborhoods south of Lower Uptowne, which is not going to win him votes in south High point.

someone asked about High point University’s role in the city, and all the candidates said nice things about the university. no candidate wants to risk angering Qubein this close to election day.

someone else pushed for getting more young people involved in government – “everyone in here is almost as gray-headed as i am,” he said. all the candidates said nice things about young people. young people may or may not turn out to vote as they did in 2008, but there was no reason not to butter them up.

the candidates’ brief closing statements diverged wildly.

alston basically said, “Vote for Bernita sims.”

whitley cited his position as chairman of

the national League of Cities information technology & Communications Committee, saying High point will need to be as high-tech as it can be to continue to compete.

He also said that a woman who attends his church told him that the platforms of all the mayoral candidates, especially his and williard’s, seem similar. whitley said his 19 years on the City Council gave him seniority. He said, “i would say his looks a little more like mine.”

whitley said the mayoral race boils down to himself or sims. “For any of these other candidates, it’s a leap,” he said.

williard, for his closing statement, reached back four years to Hillary Clinton’s “3:00 a.m. phone call” ad against Barack obama during the 2008 primary season – switching the topic of the call from a national security crisis to a business wanting to settle in High point. He said he is better qualified to talk business to such a company, to discuss education with it, and to connect it with local business and human services groups.

“i have answered numerous questions tonight,” williard said. “now i ask you, who do you want to take that call?”

williard also said that the race boils down to his business experience compared to two candidates with 10 and 19 years of City Council experience, respectively. He said, “if you think that 19 years and 10 years are the most important thing out there, then you need to vote for one of them.”

Debate(Continued from previous page)

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Power Drilling 3300mAH cells 7.2V $32.95 9.6V $42.95 12.0v $47.95 15.6v $59.95 18.0v $67.95 24.0v $99.95

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(Selling it ALL . . . wall-to-wall!)The Clearance Depot306 Nelson St, KvilleThur., Oct 25, 1:pm

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Sat., Oct 27 • 10:am281 Country Club DriveDeep Springs Golf Club

Stoneville(only minutes away!)The Estate of the Late Joe & Virginia

Venable Selling the home & the adjoining vacant lot - both backing up to the #9 tee box. Also selling entire contents &

HIGH-END furnishings of this world-wide traveling couple.

AbSolute AuCtion

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Kernersville, NCSat., Nov 3, beginning @ 10:am Phenomenal Auction . . .

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2589 Plott Hound Trail. Sophia, NC

AUCTIONSABSOLUTE Real Estate Auction

261 Stewart Road SoutheastWinston-Salem, NC 27107

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Acreage Real Estate Tracts/LOADS of farm & construction tools

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Deceased Estate5539 Bunch Road

Oak Ridge, NC 27310Preview: Sundays Oct. 28 & Nov. 4 from 2:00-4:pm

Being sold to settle the Estate of the lateMary E Jessup

Selling brick rancher with full basement neatly nestled on nearly three acres in the highly sought after locale they call OAK RIDGE! Also selling the remaining furniture, household goods, appliances, furnishings, and collectibles. Details & photos at www.peggauction.com #5098 John C Pegg 336.996.4414

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since 2009, when the school system had to evacuate oak ridge elementary school students to two other Guilford County schools and oak ridge military academy for seven months because of moisture and mold problems.

the school system spent more than $1.5 million to relocate the students and to test and remediate oak ridge elementary, including $24,400 a month the school system paid oak ridge military academy for rent for seven months.

no one is saying that Bluford has a mold problem. But moisture and organic materials are the necessary conditions for mold.

Quick, who is angry about the extent to which Bluford has been allowed to deteriorate, said, “i don’t want to use

that term [mold] not knowing the exact condition, but i can tell you all the ingredients are there.”

Quick represents district 9, which includes Bluford.

the Guilford County schools maintenance department responded quickly to the oct. 17 water and sewage leaks. they stopped the leaks and, according to Guilford County schools maintenance director Gerald Greeson, brought in industrial hygienist dennis Forbis of s&me inc. to test for hydrogen sulfide, a trace element of sewage that indicates contamination.

Greeson said the school now tests clean for sewage, and that basement tests show 69 degrees and 48 percent relative humidity. He said the maintenance department does not like to see relative humidity higher

than 50 percent, which puts the Bluford basement at the high end of the acceptable range. Greeson said there is no mold in the basement.

those efforts are temporary responses that won’t solve the long-term problem.

the sewage that Quick said was coming out of the water fountain has been stopped, and the foundation leak in the main building has been patched, but the cracks in the cinderblock walls of the classroom annex are untouched, and the foundation cracks in the main building need a permanent fix.

on tuesday, oct. 23, a workroom in the annex still contained a waist-high fan workers used to dry the sewage in the hallway.

Greeson said the backup that caused the sewage spill was caused by teachers or students pouring milk down sinks in

classrooms.“we had a backup in the sewer,” he said.

“the best we could tell was it looked like we had poured milk down in the drain in the sinks. what that does if you don’t clean it up is it cultures and backs up the sink.”

Greeson said the sewer leak in the hallway isn’t unusual. He said, “that’s typical with all that pressure.”

Bluford has a large single-room basement that was used for student activities under the elementary school’s previous principals, and several basement rooms that had been used as classrooms.

Quick said the current principal, Gradesa Lockhart, who took over in July 2012, decided that the basement wasn’t safe for students to use – both because it was damp and because a central hallway in

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the basement is now a crowded storage area.

Greeson said, “we do have water intrusion in the wall in one classroom.”

watermarks are clearly visible on the ceiling and walls of that room.

Greeson said the school system stopped the school from using the basement because the hallway doesn’t meet code and might not allow students to escape fast enough during a fire.

“in 1992, that basement was redesigned to create in that front area a multipurpose room,” Greeson said. “those three back rooms were designated for storage space, not occupancy. i guess, from my perspective, it’s not designed to be classroom space.”

that doesn’t explain why the multipurpose room, which has exit doors to the outside, is no longer in use.

Until recently, students left the building through the basement so they could pick up materials for the aCes after-school program that were stored there. Quick said even that has stopped, and not just because of fire concerns.

Quick said, of the basement, “right now, it is not in use, because of some concerns about air quality.”

Greeson said that, during summer, when air in the basement is hot and humid, the

Bluford basement doesn’t have proper air exchange. He said the school system had a pre-bid meeting for installation of a new air-exchange unit for the school on the same day as the sewage leak. He said, “and that’s just an abundance of caution.”

Guilford County school superintendent mo Green has, in his two four-year strategic plans for the school system, a long-term goal of ensuring that all Guilford County public schools have at least an equal baseline of facilities, equipment and supplies – and recent examples, including Bluford and allen Jay elementary school in High point – are evidence as to why.

in august, allen Jay’s roof sprung leaks and the maintenance department had to hang up rube Goldberg water-collection devices to drain the water outside the building. employees fear that allen Jay, and now Bluford, show potential to be the next Guilford County schools environmental disasters. there are probably other schools that have been allowed to deteriorate similarly.

“please do not use my name because i would surely be fired,” an allen Jay employee wrote The Rhino Times in august. “But this is happening to many schools. we have carpets and computers being ruined, from terrible drippings off of the roof. nurses office, music room, and [the] kinder room … windows are rotted. termites are eating walls down, in [the] library, and classrooms.”

Quick said parents at schools in affluent communities get action because they have active ptas that scream bloody murder when a roof starts leaking or a water fountain drain starts spouting human excrement, but that the school board seems less driven to fix problems in schools with less active ptas.

Greeson denied that sewage was coming out of the water fountain. “that wouldn’t be possible,” he said.

Quick said that he doesn’t normally hear a lot from Bluford parents – but that the current environmental problems have brought them out.

“i have been bombarded, and Bluford is not one of these schools whose parents will bombard you,” he said. “But they have, relatively speaking, bombarded me on this situation.”

Quick is often a team player on the school board. But he’s an ardent supporter of schools in district 9. Quick was recently ordained as a minister and works at new Light missionary Baptist Church, across the street from Bluford. even before his ordination, he had a touch of old testament prophet about him, and never hesitated to pound the dais at school board meetings and bewail the neglect of district 9 schools. But he usually works with the school board, rather than attacking it.

the problems at Bluford have angered Quick to the extent that he is, as he said, willing to rattle some cages. He said

the relative responses at oak ridge and Bluford are telling.

Quick said, with some bitterness, “they’re willing to move heaven and earth when it comes to some places, but not for others.”

Greeson said there are two repairs that have to be made to solve the problem at Bluford: fixing the foundation leak in the main building and pulling out the annex wall down to the foundation and replacing it.

Greeson said the annex work will cost $60,000 and will be done in the summer of 2013.

He said the foundation leak in the main building will also be repaired next summer.

“that’s that leak that’s down in the basement there,” he said. “they had tried in the past to caulk that. we are going to pull that wall out and weatherproof that.”

the school board plans to hold two public hearings to determine whether it will build a $72 million high school in western Guilford County that no one seems to want, or use that money to repair and expand its current schools.

school board members are already getting emails requesting repairs and expansions at current schools, so it’s hard to imagine the school board voting to use the money to build what Quick, at a school board meeting, called “an imaginary high school.”

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Here’s the problem. portman is certainly wealthy, and he is a senator, but he is not a “wealthy senator.” He is kind of average by senate standards. portman doesn’t even make the list of the 50 wealthiest members of Congress. portman, according to Roll Call, is worth about $6.72 million.

the top of the list of the 50 wealthiest members of Congress is: rep. michael mcCaul (r-texas) $294 million, rep. darrell issa (r-California) $220 million, sen. John Kerry (d-massachusetts) $193 million, sen. Jay rockefeller (d-west Virginia) $82 million, sen. mark warner (d-Virginia) $76 million, rep. Jared polis (d-Colorado) $66 million, sen. Frank Lautenberg (d-new Jersey) $55 million,

sen. richard Blumenthal (d-Connecticut) $53 million, sen. dianne Feinstein (d-California) $45 million and rounding out the top ten rep. Vern Buchanan (r-Florida) $44 million.

so of the top 10 richest members of Congress, three are republicans and seven are democrats. and portman doesn’t make the top 50, yet The New York Times refers to him as a “wealthy senator.” How many times have you read – wealthy sen. dianne Feinstein, wealthy sen. John Kerry, or wealthy sen. Frank Lautenberg?

even our own wealthy sen. Kay Hagan (d-nC) beats out portman. she comes in at number 47 with $7 million.

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smother said studies have shown alarmingly low levels of education among High point high school graduates. she said, “High point has gotten shafted on education and the public schools, and you better believe it.”

members of the audience grilled the candidates for more details on how High point can improve education.

whitley said the City Council can promote parent and volunteer involvement in schools. “it has to start at the elementary level, and it’s not just sports,” he said. He also said he has the support of Guilford County Board of education member ed price.

sims said High point has the highest percentage of students in private schools in Guilford County. “that impacts our ability, sometimes, to deliver the services we need for our kids.”

moore said the City Council and private companies should lean on the school board.

“if i had a magic wand, i’d bring back the High point City schools,” he said. “i think, in the expansion, we’ve lost quite a bit.”

squires said High point schools should re-emphasize training for trades such as mechanic and electrician. He said, “everyone won’t go to college.”

most of the candidates said they want to make it easier to start businesses in High point. williard repeated an assertion that he gets building permits in dallas and atlanta faster than in High point.

smothers said that 13,000 new jobs have been announced in High point since 2006, and cited several companies that have moved here during her tenure as mayor.

thomas gave the ward candidates one minute apiece.

ward 6 candidate Jason ewing, a real estate broker, cited his business experience and said High point needs a more business-friendly image.

ward 1 candidate willie davis said he is all for economic development, but that High point has to be more careful before handing out economic incentives. He called for cleaning up neighborhoods and improving police protection.

“my main concern for High point is to move forward,” davis said. “we can’t stay where we are.”

ward 1 candidate Jeff Golden said he has started two nonprofits that help children, sits on the High point parks and recreation Commission and supports a small-business incubator. He, too, called for more training for trades in schools.

ward 4 candidate Jay wagner cited his experience on the High point planning and Zoning Commission, the City project and the Uptowne High point association. He said of the City project, “we’ve had great success through that organization that i hope we can continue as a city.”

ward 3 candidate and former High point mayor Judy mendenhall said High point needs public transportation to where jobs are, and criticized other candidates for making it sound as if they could change High point alone. she said the City Council is a team effort. “it doesn’t do any

good to be a maverick,” she said – a jab at her opponent, Councilmember mike pugh.

ward 1 candidate mary Lou Blakeney said she will advocate for senior citizens if elected.

“i’m very concerned about those,” she said. “seniors are living longer, needing more services, so we need to do something about that. you can go into the schools and volunteer, so don’t sit at home and complain about the schools.”

ward 1 candidate Larry diggs said High point has unrealized potential, and called for public transportation to the new commercial areas of northeast High point.

“people that don’t drive can’t get there,” he said. “Because we don’t have bus service out there.”

ward 3 incumbent pugh said he would convene a “blue-ribbon” panel of business experts already in High point to study how to attract businesses. He also said, “as a councilmember, you need to stay in touch with the people.”

ward 1 candidate orrick Quick said he would fight to end homelessness and hopelessness in ward 1.

“we’ve got to focus on our youth,” he said. “they will go down the drain if we don’t do something.”

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modern technology is wonderful. it amazes me that i can sit down and send a message to someone anywhere in the world for free and receive an answer immediately. Letters used to take weeks, months, sometimes years to cross oceans, but today the same information is transmitted instantaneously and free.

But technology has its downside as well, and president Barack Hussein obama is learning about the problems with electronic communication. the problem is that people can go back and find the records.

obama tried to blame the whole Benghazi confusion on the state department and the intelligence community. it simply was not believable that during and after the attack the state department and the intelligence community believed that the attack was the result of a spontaneous demonstration. Four people were killed in the attack but everyone else survived, plus there were the surveillance videos.

obama clearly was doing his best to push this entire controversy past nov. 6 because after nov. 6 it won’t matter whether he got an email from ambassador Chris stevens the day before the attack demanding more security, or a text message during the attack describing the well-organized planned attack that was taking place.

the truth is that obama knew that it was an organized planned attack, but it doesn’t fit in with the worldview that he is trying to sell to the american people that the Us has defeated al Qaeda and the world is a safer place because of president obama. the truth didn’t fit in with his message, so he changed the story that he told to the american people and now he has been caught. it may change someone’s vote to know that the president deliberately misled the american people to better his chance of getting reelected.

But that doesn’t seem nearly as bad as describing four deaths as “not optimal,” as obama did when he was interviewed by comedian Jon stewart on The Daily Show. in fact it might be a good rule to consider – not to discuss serious matters on a comedy show. stewart and obama may find a lot of humor in four americans being killed because the president refused to provide them with proper security, but most people in this country don’t find death humorous.

and it is cruel to the families of those who were murdered to show them so little respect that the president of the United states went on a comedy show and traded barbs about the deaths of Chris stevens, sean smith, tyrone woods and Glen doherty. they were men who died in the service of their country and died in the service of their president. a comedy show is not the place to talk about men who sacrificed their lives for this country.

But then this a president who sends form letters to the mothers of soldiers who were killed when he sent them into battle. president George walker Bush often handwrote notes to the families of those killed; obama sends them a form letter.

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most republicans seem to have wanted mitt romney to go after obama on the failure of Us policy in Libya and the resulting deaths of four americans. the first question of the debate about Libya seemed like a perfect opportunity, but romney didn’t take the bait.

romney could have also gone after obama when obama said that his most important job as president was to “keep the american people safe and that is what i have done.”

i wanted romney to say, “that didn’t work out too well for ambassador Chris stevens, sean smith, tyrone woods and Glen doherty in Libya. and according to one of the stories that you are telling about those events you didn’t even have any idea what happened to them for two weeks and it took you three weeks to get the FBi to the site to investigate. “

But the romney team figures they are ahead at this point. the public pollsters show romney in the lead nationally and in some of the key states. But when the books are written about the campaign, i think those first-hand accounts will reveal that the campaign polling clearly had romney out in front and pulling away at this point. the romney campaign is acting like it has more votes than it needs and it just has to make sure it doesn’t lose too much ground.

the polls that the public sees just aren’t that good. proof of that is that they still have north Carolina in the “leaning romney” category. Barring some last minute surprise that will cause even hardcore republicans to vote for obama there is no way that obama can win north Carolina. so any poll that doesn’t put north Carolina solidly in the romney camp, and i haven’t seen one that does, is automatically suspect.

if the romney team doesn’t see itself ahead at this point then his final debate performance doesn’t make much sense. But if he is ahead then it makes all the sense in the world, because if he is ahead then he just doesn’t want to mess anything up.

the idea was to go out and run time off the clock while making sure that the other team didn’t score. so romney was just playing defense. He wasn’t trying to score points and he didn’t care if obama gained some yards as long as he didn’t complete a long pass that would put him in scoring position. romney was perfectly content to let obama gain three or four yards running the ball up the middle and that is what he did.

Judging from the campaigns, not only does romney think he is ahead, obama is convinced that romney has won and is running around the country like a madman attacking romney, trying to make something happen.

and obama has to attack romney; he has no other viable campaign. obama can’t run on his record and he has a big problem if he presents a great plan to bring the country’s economy back around because then the question is, why aren’t you doing this now? why do you have to wait to get reelected?”

He is, however, for the first time presenting a plan for his next four years. so with two weeks to go in the presidential campaign the obama team has actually come up with something they are willing to write down on paper and give to people about what obama plans to do if reelected. of course, what he plans to do is exactly what he has been doing. Golf on sundays. nice vacations three or four times a year, and a lot of travel. oh, and blame everything on Bush and the republicans in Congress.

if obama could bring peace to the middle east why wouldn’t he do it now? why would he have to be reelected to do something worthwhile? the man has been president for four years and has accomplished little if anything. even obama, as arrogant as he is, doesn’t try to run on his own record. He just says that Bush left the country in more of a mess than he thought.

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one of the biggest lies of the debate was when obama talked about israel being “our greatest ally in the region.” obama refused to even meet with israeli prime minister Benjamin netanyahu when he was in the Us this fall. obama said it didn’t fit into his schedule, but during the same time he managed to find time for david Letterman and a lot of campaigning, which indicates his priorities.

also, the white House has refused to say that Jerusalem is the capital of israel. obama has been as rude to netanyahu as one head of state can be to another, and now he is trying to say that he believes israel is our closest ally. you simply don’t treat your friends the way obama has treated israel. as president he has never visited israel.

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it was also amazing that obama let romney keep talking about the Us economy in the debate that was supposed to be about foreign affairs. the president, any president, has a huge advantage in talking about foreign affairs.

For the past four years obama has been receiving detailed briefings daily on what is going on in the world. according to some reports obama tends to skip some of these briefings, but still he has far more information at his fingertips than anyone else in the world. it is an advantage that incumbents have over challengers and is magnified many times in the presidential race because it is what the president has been doing for four years. and even if he has skipped some briefings a lot of that information has to stick.

But in the debate it certainly didn’t appear that obama knew more about foreign affairs than romney. in fact, romney did what presidents often do and mentioned some obscure groups and movements that may be big news in national security briefings but haven’t made the daily newspapers. it made romney seem like he was more knowledgeable.

obama’s comment about horses and bayonets was just rude. it was a good idea, but the way he said it was rude and mean. no one doubts that romney knows all about aircraft carriers and submarines. But obama is a rude man. He is rude to our allies, rude to the people he should be working with in Congress, rude to his political opponents and rude to foreign heads of state who visit him in the white House.

romney once again didn’t take the bait.But romney’s big advantage in this race

is the economy. the question that people are going to be asking when they go into the polls is, “am i better off than i was four years ago?” and for the vast majority of americans the answer is no.

not only did obama allow romney to talk about the economy, he got sucked in and started talking about it himself.

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the liberal mainstream media are having a hissy fit right now. the liberal media have figured out that their candidate is not going to win and they are beside themselves. the attitude seems to be, how can the american people ignore all the horrible things they have written about romney and vote for him?

so they are really piling on, and one of the biggest complaints you hear from the left is that romney has changed his position. there is plenty of truth there, but what all of these pundits know is that presidential candidates run the same way in election after election.

the people who vote in primaries are more partisan that the general population. the democrats who vote in the democratic primary are farther left and the republicans who vote in the republican primary are farther right than those who vote in the general election. to win the primary a democrat has to run left and a republican has to run right. to win the general election the candidate, whether democrat or republican, has to appeal to voters in the middle. so both democrats and republicans run toward the middle in the general election.

it is as much in how they say things as what they say. there is a difference this year in that obama didn’t have a credible primary challenger, so he didn’t have to run left. However, obama is already so far left that there isn’t much more room on the field.

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The New York Times sunday magazine did a hit job on republican vice presidential candidate paul ryan this week. it is amazing what they manage to weave into an article like it belongs. But the reporter, mark Leibovich, seemed to dislike sen. rob portman even more than ryan.

Here’s one phrase about portman, which is really interesting if you have a few facts: “one mark against the wealthy senator was

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