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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Brief notes from today's WMC meeting...
Florence Gatten was unanimously elected as the Commission's first female Chair. MacArthur Davis was elected as Vice-Chair. Former Chairman Mike Bumpass was showered with deserved accolades for his WMC leadership role over the past year and his accomplishments in the promotion of our city. I ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Update Aug 26: The actual wording on the report states "21,515 hits on the porn category" and library staff (?) interpret the statistics at Roch's blog.
Two anonymous sources have confirmed that from July 23 to August 23 over 21,000 visits to pornographic websites occurred at the Greensboro PUBLIC library. Emphasis ...
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Saturday, August 21st, 2010
There is a lot of chatter at the Ed Cone and Joe Guarino blog about the issue of porn in the public libraries.
The report given to council stated there were 18 cases of porn viewers gettin' jiggy widdit in a six month period. Three per month.
The council has requested a ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
For around $30 you can get a disk from the GC BOE showing all registered voters in your district. That disk provides a lot of information but does not include e-mail addresses. The BOE does not collect e-mail addresses.
Campaign mailers are around $0.50 each. Let's say you wanted to send ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Thanks to David Ruden for his quick thinking and action during "the" altercation in downtown Greensboro recently.
Note the guy, who I call the "conservative bulldog", in the pink shirt coming in quickly from the right side of the screen. Ruden stops any further punches from Tabor's cheek to Spencer's fist ...
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Any divisive remnants caused by the recent primary elections have been quickly sewn together and the Guilford County Republican Party showed a strong unity after hearing a motivating speech by NC GOP Communications Director Jordan Shaw Monday night.
Conservative clubs, candidates, elected officials, and executive committee members ...
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
According to Mark Binker's blog Very Very Pricey Harrison might have forgotten she has an opponent in November. From Binker's blog:
"When Gov. Bev Perdue appointed Rep. Lucy Allen to the N.C. Utilities Commission, the lawmaker left the General Assembly and two key environmental posts behind. Greensboro ...
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
The N&R's Allen Johnson still can't believe that Sandy lost her council seat to Trudy Wade. Therapy may help the obsession and sleepless nights.
The biass (sic) against Wade continues on Allen's blog when he gives the glowing description of Gladys Robinson as "bright and well quailified" while nothing glows about Wade or ...
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
For those of you planning to attend the Guilford County GOP meeting Monday night at 7 PM please note it will be held in a new location.
The meeting will be held at the proposed site of our new location at 3950 West Market Street near United Street.
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
William Zackery Matheny.
Welcome to the world young man.
Getting any sleep Big Zack? And how about those poopy diapers?
Congrats.
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