John Hammer

On Thursday, Oct. 30, there were some signs that a judge may keep food and nutrition money going to recipients along with the Women, Infants and Children program (WIC), but even if that happens, the ongoing federal shutdown has a lot of implications for Guilford County government and county leaders have posted some information that they want residents to be aware of...

Guilford County is opening a new Primary Care Clinic in the middle of this month, and the Division of Public Health is celebrating with a public open house on Friday, Nov. 14.

Late this week Judge Jack McConnell issued a ruling in a US District Court in Rhode Island that ordered the Trump Administration to fully fund the government’s SNAP program that provides funds for low-income families, households and individuals to buy food. Guilford County leaders – who are trying to keep food on the table for poor county residents – may have been pleased with that order and breathed a sigh of relief; however, soon after, the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court for an emergency block on the order.

At a recent Guilford County Board of Commissioners meeting, a speaker from the floor suggested that commissioners pocket roughly $50,000 a year for their service. Several commissioners quickly pointed out that the number was off the mark.

A decade ago, High Point and Greensboro were still sniping at each other for jobs. Companies would fly in, meet in High Point and hear one set of population and wage numbers, then cross over to Greensboro and get an entirely different set. The two cities were competing against each other so often that they were sometimes the biggest obstacles to their own success.

I am watching the news as they are reporting on the shooting of the two NG troops in DC. While the situation is developing, various stories are flying.

The City of Greensboro has announced a slate of service changes and facility closures for Friday, April 3, as city offices shut down in observance of Good Friday and Spring Break. As is often the case with city holidays, the biggest impact for many residents will be changes to their trash and recycling pickup. No garbage, recycling, bulk trash, yard waste or appliance collections will take place on Friday, April 3. Instead, those Friday collections will move up a day to Thursday, April 2, while Thursday’s collections will be picked up even earlier, on Wednesday, April 1....

There was a large audience in the commissioners meeting room on the second floor of the Old Guilford County Court House at the board’s Thursday, April 2 meeting, and on this night it was raised voices and more than a few angry taxpayers that set the tone from the start.

The Greensboro Police Department has terminated a police academy cadet after his arrest on charges that he impersonated a law enforcement officer and falsely imprisoned a woman.

From Rhino Reader Alan Marshall I find it very interesting that teachers chose to all simultaneously request a “teacher’s work day”, aka a paid day off, across the state in order to march on Raleigh in protest. And that day just HAPPENED to be May first, May Day’ Now I’m going to point out something […]