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My basketball jones My college didn’t have a basketball team.

Well, it did: The Loyola New Orleans men’s squad of 1946-46 actually won the national

by Brian Clarey championship, back when the NAIA was king, and took a run through the NCAA championships three times during the 1950s.

And it would: Loyola had no teams when I started, but a couple years after, a club program blossomed into an NAIA team that played its games in a regular gymnasium, without the benefit of bleachers or concessions, or even, really, fans.

Across Freret Street, the Tulane Green Wave men’s team was sitting out a fiveyear suspension for a 1985 point-shaving scandal — they’d been making cash payouts to players, too, which didn’t bother me then and doesn’t bother me now. Back then I had a work-study job at the college, for which I got a nice little monthly check. I didn’t see why athletes shouldn’t enjoy the same allowance.

So, I learned sports journalism by covering the Tulane football team. My professor showed me how to keep my own stats, organize my notes, type away at the game write-up during regulation play so I could add a lede and a kicker, drop in a couple quotes from the press conference and be at the bar 30 minutes after the last whistle blew. And he taught me a fundamental sports-writing rule: No cheering in the press box.

This led to a position as sports editor at my college newspaper (I sucked at it) and then to the only job I could land in the

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New York metro area in the summer of 1993: stat clerk at SportsTicker. Remember those red scoreboard runners that used to hang in bars? That.

I’d answer phones, drop scoring updates into the database and read newspapers — using none of the skills I had already learned — for $7 an hour. I was making five times that tending bar.

College basketball came back into my life when I moved to Greensboro and was advised I’d have to pick a side in the great ACC debate between Duke and Carolina.

I chose neither, pledging my ACC loyalty to Wake Forest which, I figured, was the only Triad school in the conference.

And then I started writing about it.

North Carolina is a basketball fan’s paradise, with top-notch teams across the entire state running compelling regularseason schedules, an ACC playoff tradition that has become embedded in the culture, and then much love when it came time to schedule the early rounds of the Final Four tournament — some might say this is because it gives those two, blue-clad NC basketball stalwarts a home-court advantage, but it works for me.

I’ve been able to cover high-stakes college basketball in the Greensboro Coliseum, the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum and the PNC Arena, perhaps not loving every single minute of it but certainly enjoying the novelty of sitting on Press Row. I always started with the worst seat in the press section — behind out-of-town, daily newspaper reporters covering their teams; radio guys doing lone spots on single mics; crews of TV reporters — rarely the on-air

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CITY LIFE Mar. 12-15, 2020

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Tournament Town Watch Party @ Steven Tanger Center of Performing Arts (GSO) 11:30 am Swing by this Thursday to watch the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament. The day’s games include Duke, Virginia, Louisville and No. 1-seed Florida State playing the previous day’s winners.

The gathering will feature music with DJ MikeWawa, interactive games as well as food and non-alcoholic drinks. Bring your own chairs as there will be limited seating.

Check out the event on Facebook for more information.

A Capella Fest @ Cone Ballroom (GSO) 7 p.m.

Hosted by UNCG’s Spartones, this concert will showcase the talents of different a capella groups from the university and Greensboro. The a capella groups that will be performing are the Sapphires, Seraphim, Note Control, Chariots, as well as Venom and Sting from Western Guilford High School, and the East Carolina University Magnolia Belles. Find the event on Facebook.

Clay Howard & Silver Alerts with Gooseberry Jam @ the Crown at the Carolina (GSO) 7:30 p.m.

The Art of Kokedama @ Guilford Garden Center (GSO) Noon Japanese terrariums, also known as kokedama, are living works of art that can be used for decorations in a home or an office. In this workshop, guests will be able to learn how to make their own kokedama plant art. All materials will be provided, and additional supplies can be purchased as well. Check out the event on Facebook for more information.

Georgia on My Mind: Celebrating the Music of Ray Charles @ High Point Theatre (HP) 7:30 p.m.

Enjoy a night filled with soul music, featuring Emmy Award winner Clint Holmes, along with 10-time Grammy winner & Gospel Music Hall of Famers Take 6, as well as award-winning singer Nnenna Freelon. The act will include Charles’ hits such as “Hit the Road Jack,” “What I Say,” “I got a Woman,” “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” “Georgia on my Mind” and many more. Find the event on Facebook for more information.

FRIDAY Mar. 13

Into the Woods @ RJ Reynolds Auditorium (W-S) 7 p.m.

Drive down to this high school to see students perform this Broadway musical that has been adapted into a cinematic film by Walt Disney. The program, “Arts for Academics” focuses on creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and communication. See the tales of “Rapunzel,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Cinderella and “Jack and the Beanstalk” be brought to life on stage. Find the event on Facebook for more information.

Based in North Carolina, this band was formed by Clay Howard back in 2015.

Their hit song “Send me an Angel” became so popular that it was voted No. 1 on WMEL radio in Melbourne, Fla. Howard himself has described his classic-rock group as similar to Cheap Trick. Performing alongside them is the country-rock band Gooseberry Jam, who have described their music as a “Southernfried taste of soul with a backdrop of raw rock and roll.” See them live this Friday night. For more information, check out Facebook.

SATURDAY Mar. 14

St. Patrick’s Day at the Tasting Room @ Foothills Brewery (W-S0) Noon It’s not St. Paddy’s Day without booze, right? This alehouse will be celebrating March’s Irish-American holiday by providing traditional Irish food like Big Mouff Cheese Sticks or Wild Willie’s Wiener Wagon. There will also be music and, of course, there will be drinks. Find the event on Facebook.

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St. Paddy’s Day Party + Concert @ Joymongers Brewing Company (GSO) Noon

The Spirit of Harriet Tubman @ High Point Museum (HP) Noon

To commemorate this weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day, this bar will be celebrating the Irish-American holiday with live music, food and beer. Food will be provided by the Lobster Dogs and Medley food truck with live music from Molly McGinn and Drew Foust. Enjoy this year’s Irish celebration by heading down here to spend a night with friends. Find the event on Facebook for more information.

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SUNDAY Mar. 15

Piedmont Young Birders: Learn Bird Calls and Songs @ Greensboro Arboretum (GSO) 2 p.m.

This event invites middle- and highschoolers to learn how to identify birds and their different calls and songs. Students will gain more knowledge on these bird calls by guided outdoor walks. For more information, go to Facebook.

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Year of the Woman Film Series @ High Point Museum (HP) 2 p.m.

This historical gallery will be celebrating women throughout history by screening the 2019 film Harriet, starring Cynthia Erivo as the title character, Leslie Odom, Janelle Monáe and Gideon Alwyn. In honor of women’s history month, each film embraces women of different cultures that depict strength, determination, and courage while facing adversity. Harriet will be the first film in this series to be shown.

Check out this free movie screening this Saturday. Find the event on Facebook.

Battle of Guilford Courthouse Weekend @ Guilford Courthouse National Military Park (GSO) 9:30 a.m.

Join the park rangers and the Living History interpreters this weekend for the 239th anniversary of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. The battle that was fought on March 15, 1781 was a pivotal moment for America. During the American Revolutionary War, 1,900 British soldiers, that were under the command of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis — defeated Major General Nathanael Greene’s 4,500 Americans. However, more than 25 percent of Cornwallis’s men were killed, wounded or captured during the battle that raged on for two hours. Enjoy a day spent with family recreating this historical event in American history. Find the event on Facebook.

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This weekend Diane Faison — a retired teacher, actress, visual artist, speaker and writer — will be performing this onewoman show, that is centered around one of the most famous African American abolitionists from the 1800s. Faison wrote the play and stars in her interpretation of Tubman’s journey and the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses that were established in the US during the mid-19th Century. Find the event on Facebook for more information.

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’80s Murder Mystery in the Barn @ Old Homeplace Vineyard (W-S) 7 pm.

Polly Abdool is hosting a totally tubular album release for a friend of hers, Debbie Gribson, a top international pop idol.

Guests will play a role in this ’80s murder mystery, where they will solve clues and uncover the identity of the killer. This interactive event was created by Mystery Men Productions, who put together teambuilding events, private parties as well as wine and beer events. The event will be providing a variety of food and drinks for guests. Find the event on Facebook.

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And then, after the passage of HB 2 in 2016, North Carolina went dark as far as college basketball was concerned. talent, who stayed by the sidelines or lurked in the media The “Bathroom Bill,” as it was known, instigated an NCAA lounge eating all the popsicles, but staffers who had to actuboycott and the rounds of the men’s tournament scheduled ally watch the games; PR crews from competing universities for Greensboro got relocated to Greenville, SC; then our breaking the cardinal rule of the press section; and, always, beloved ACC, after plundering some of the Northeast some local media who got credentialed just so they could teams from the Big East, relocated the tournament to, of watch the games. all places, Brooklyn, NY, where they don’t even know the But I liked to go longform, chronicling the entire tournadifference between Greensboro and Greenville. ment through every game, my seats in the press section I’ve been out of the sports-writing game myself, aside getting better with each round as teams got knocked out. from a few short features and a profile or two in the six years By the end, I’d always be sitting up front. And then I’d hole since Triad City Beat has hit the scene. up for a couple days and drop five or six thousand words on But now… it’s all coming back. the whole experience. I did one whole story about rooting We’ve had the women’s ACC Tournament running all against Duke and Carolina throughout the ACC tournaweekend. Another Wolfpack — this one NC State — won ment. I spent the 2012 NCAA Tournament scouring the for the first time in 29 years. And Greensboro Coliseum for a true Cinstarting this week, we’ve got the ACC derella story, and I found one in Lehigh, Enter the Ray Self Storage/TCB Tournament in Greensboro, with games a 15-seed who beat 2-seed Duke that Basketball Jones contest here: running from Tuesday through Saturday 75-70. I still remember the looks of Bit.ly/TCBbasketballjones day night — the bracket literally just the Duke fans in the crowd, scowling, came out while I’m writing this piece. arms crossed across their chests. And I And then we’ve got a couple rounds of remember how, after the game, the national media flooded the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament later in Duke’s locker room to find out what went wrong, while I March. That’s the big dance. went to the Lehigh locker room to find out what went right.

And I just can’t help myself.

There I met the player of the game, CJ McCollum, who I’ve got credentials for both men’s tournaments, along scored 30 points that day and went on to play in the NBA — with photographer Todd Turner. We’ve pledged to cover he’s currently a shooting guard for the Portland Trailblazers the hell out of these games, dropping photo galleries and a — and point guard Mackey McKnight, who put up 11 points, column every night of gameplay.

3 steals, 2 rebounds and 3 assists. McKnight, who would go We’ll post everything on the website every night, and on to play professionally in a European league, was a New send it out in an e-blast to the people who like that sort of Orleans native. He told me his mother went to Loyola. thing.

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Pitt bested Wake Forest 81 to 72 in the first round of the tournament on Tuesday.

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To add to the fun, we’ll be running a Final Four bracket pool — free! This is not gambling! — with a $500 prize awarded to our First Place Finisher.

Maybe it seems like overkill to build a whole promotion around one man’s basketball jones. But that’s what we’re doing.

So, don’t try to call me this week; most texts and emails will be ignored. You can find me near the hardcourt in the Greensboro Coliseum, or in the media lounge trying to wrangle some of the popsicles away from the ESPN crew, perhaps in your inbox after I’ve filed my dispatches, and definitely every night of tournament play at triad-city-beat. com.

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Despite the attention paid to the black vote propelling Biden’s comeback, it was energized white voters in the suburbs who helped the former vice president dominate Forsyth County.

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early, who were truly undecided, their No. 1 issue is they wanted someone who could beat Trump,” Spencer said.

Less than a week before the primary, Sanders had promised during a campaign appearance at Winston-Salem State University: “The reason we’re gonna win here in North Carolina is because we have the strongest grassroots movement of any campaign in modern American history.” And as he had at one campaign stop after another, Sanders declared, “We are the strongest campaign to beat Donald Trump because we have the energy and we have the excitement.

We have been bringing working-class people — black and white, Latino, Native American, Asian Americans — into the political process. We are going to get young people out to vote in a way this country has never seen before.”

Many of the 15 Forsyth County precincts where Democratic voting dropped from 2016 look like the working-class, multiracial coalition envisioned by Sanders. The precincts for Mineral Springs Elementary on Winston-Salem’s north side, Konnoak Hills Methodist Church on the south end and Sprague Street Rec Center in the southeast are among the few in Forsyth County where Latinx people exceed 10 percent of registered voters.

All three locations, along with the precinct for Trinity Moravian Church on the Southside — one of the few that tipped for Sanders — are also among the most diverse, with Asian, American Indian, multiracial and other voters who don’t self-identify as either black or white, making up more than 18 percent of the electorate.

Where were the young voters who were supposed to turn out for Sanders?

“I would say a lot of them have been beaten down by Trump,” Spencer said.

“They can’t take it anymore. They’re going to focus on the general election.

They’re exhausted. The economy has gotten worse, and they don’t have as much time.”

One person Spencer met while canvassing, although an older man, exemplified the malaise.

“He said he was too tired to go vote,” Spencer recalled. “He had just gotten off work, and he was exhausted.”

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than 35 percent, Biden doubled or even tripled Sanders’ vote.

Compared to the 2016 primary, when he trailed Hillary Clinton with 17,087 votes in Forsyth County, Sanders finished this year’s primary with only 14,087 votes — a dynamic that has played out in state after state.

Sanders’ distant second-place finish with 25.5 percent of the vote to Biden’s 42.7 percent in Forsyth County almost perfectly mirrored the result across the state. Benjamin Spencer, a lead organizer for the Sanders campaign in Forsyth County, said the outcome was particularly disappointing because “from what I understand we had the most doorknocks of anyone in the state.”

Sanders volunteers were canvassing in Forsyth County before Sanders’ national campaign organization even set up in Winston-Salem.

“It was really shocking to see how well” Biden performed, Spencer said.

“We weren’t thinking it was going to be anywhere close to that. I thought we were at least going to win Forsyth.”

Besse said he knew people who were canvassing door to door for Pete Buttigieg, who wound up dropping out before the North Carolina primary and endorsing Biden.

He received calls and texts from people canvassing for Sanders and Bloomberg, along with Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, but not one from someone working to get out the vote for Biden.

Spencer cited a multitude of reasons why the Sanders campaign floundered in North Carolina, including low turnout among young voters, compounded by an inability to get voters to the polls during early voting while there was still a large field of candidates that could potentially split the moderate vote. In speaking to voters, Spencer also said the “late deciders” were “heavily influenced by the recent result in South Carolina.”

Spencer said Sanders volunteers ran into a few voters who were genuinely torn between Sanders and Biden, most of whom tipped toward Biden based on the perception of electability.

“Most of them we ran into, especially

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White, suburban voters were the most energized segment of the electorate in the Democratic March 3 primary in Forsyth County, when former Vice President Joe Biden cemented his frontrunner status after his stunning rebound in South Carolina.

A Triad City Beat analysis of electionday returns in Forsyth County, the fifth-most populous in the state, found that among the 14 precincts where the number of Democratic votes from the 2016 primary increased by 35 percent or more, nine were in suburbs like Clemmons, Kernersville and Pfafftown. All but three are precincts where more than 75 percent of registered voters are white.

The cohort of energized precincts also includes wealthy areas on the west side of Winston-Salem, like Precinct 803, serving the Buena Vista neighborhood, where the Democratic vote soared by 42.0 percent.

Among Forsyth County’s 101 precincts, the 15 that saw the Democratic vote decline from 2016 were almost uniformly Democratic strongholds on the east side, with the exception of a few rural, white and Republican-leaning precincts. A dozen of them are precincts where African Americans make up a majority of the electorate. And in nine, including the precinct that serves Winston-Salem State University, African Americans comprise more than 75 percent of registered voters.

The decisive turn towards Biden has been attributed to black voters in South Carolina favoring the former vice president, but turnout numbers in Forsyth County indicate that it was also powered by many white voters. The split between supporters of Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders appears to have fallen more along lines of generation than race: Early-voting numbers in Forsyth County and across the state showed a surge in turnout among voters 70 and older, and a softening of participation among those 18 to 55, particularly African Americans.

Dan Besse, a Winston-Salem City Council member who is running for state House in a Republican-leaning district in Forsyth County’s western suburbs, said

Biden’s appeal can be chalked up to a sense of realism among older voters.

“The older voters who are suspicious of sweeping promises and people… who don’t have a personal history of having proved to them that they walk the walk, these are voters that are far more willing to forgive past transgressions, like the things that Biden said in the 1970s,” Besse said. “They say, ‘We believe in the power of redemption. We believe him today because he spent eight years as President Obama’s loyal wingman doing everything he could to help him succeed.’ That counts for a lot.”

Besse faces Republican Jeff Zenger in the general election for the District 74 seat being vacated by Republican Rep. Debra Conrad. The Democratic-aligned volunteer group Flip NC has named District 74 one of three “pivotal districts.”

Considering that the Republican-leaning district is rated the sixth most competitive in the state by Flip NC, a win by Besse would likely usher in Democratic control of the House.

While Besse did not have a primary opponent, the robust Democratic turnout in his district is good news for him in the November general election.

The new District 74 includes Precinct 55 in the southwestern outskirts of WinstonSalem, which saw the number of Democratic votes soar from 281, when Sanders and Hillary Clinton duked it out in 2016, to 447, when Biden dominated the field during this year’s primary. Similarly, Democratic vote totals increased by 42.2 percent in Precinct 52, a Republican stronghold in Clemmons. Heavily Republican Precinct 72, whose polling place is Southwest Elementary, likewise saw the Democratic vote total leap from 375 to 514.

Biden’s dominant performance in North Carolina is all the more remarkable because he didn’t make any appearances or stand up a campaign infrastructure in the state as Sanders did, or spend money on advertising as the short-lived campaign of former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg did.

In many of the 14 precincts that saw Democratic vote totals increase by more

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Guilford school board asks commissioners for a $1.6 billion bond to fix schools

by Sayaka Matsuoka The Guilford County school board passed a resolution on Tuesday evening to request county commissioners to put a $1.6 billion bond referendum on the November ballot to help fix and rebuild schools across the county.

On Tuesday evening, the Guilford County school board took the first step needed to issue funds to help rebuild and repair several schools within the county.

The resolution, which was voted on during the school board meeting, passed 7 to 2 and requests that a school bond referendum for $1.6 billion be put on the November ballot for voters to consider during the general election. Linda Welborn and Anita Sharpe were the two “no” votes. According to the presentation delivered at the school board meeting, the proposed $1.6 billion would include money for acquiring land for seven sites, rebuilding, replacing or fully renovating 38 schools, building three new schools and conducting two priority repairs. To prioritize the projects, the school board took into account the facilities study conducted by an independent contractor last year which found that many of the schools in the county were in poor conditions and ill-equipped to properly educate student. Using criteria like building condition, site condition, educational suitability and technological readiness, the study found that of the 126 schools in the system — 34 of them, or 27 percent — received a combined score of less than 60, placing them in the “unsatisfactory” category. The study found that overall, the county had a $2 billion need to fix or rebuild all necessary facilities. According to the school board’s report, all 34 of the schools that got an unsatisfactory score will be improved in some way using the proposed $1.6 billion bond referendum if it is accepted by the county commissioners and is passed by voters in November.

“When your basic needs aren’t met, how can you learn?” asked Dania Ermentraut, a parent who who has three children in Guilford County schools, after the county commission meeting on March 5. Her son Asher, who attended the county commission meeting with her, described some of the conditions at his school, Lincoln Academy which received a combined score of 66 and is slated for a full renovation according to the school board’s prioritization document.

“The bathrooms are insane,” said Asher. “I wouldn’t go in there unless I really had to. The doors are like two feet

tall and they don’t close.”

Marty Lawing, the county manager Asher also described how the heat said on Tuesday afternoon that the doesn’t work reliably and one time process of even deciding on an amount last year, his hands got so cold that he for a bond could take some time despite couldn’t hold his pencil. the fact that the school board passed the “I can’t focus on learning,” he said. resolution on Tuesday evening.

Several concerned parents and teach“We have to get all the commissioners ers attended the county commission on the same page,” Lawing said. “Then meeting last week as well as the school we’ll evaluate the request and we’ll board meeting on Tuesday. come up with a recommendation for our Riley Driver, a teacher at Jamestown board to formalize and send a recomMiddle School said during the school mendation to the Local Government board meeting’s public comments period Commission.” that she considered herself lucky to be After the county commission submits teaching at a newer school in the county. an application to the Local Government “I have a classroom, it has windows, it Commission, the board must set a public has a clean floor,” said Driver, who was hearing on the bond amount for the one of the more than 20 individuals who public to voice their opinions. After the spoke in favor of the resolution on Tueshearing, the commission can either conday. “I am not in a closet like some of tinue with the same amount or change my peers. I have heat in the winter, and it, but cannot amend it to be higher than we have air conditioning in the summer. the original without establishing a new My biggest complaint is that sometimes proceeding for the new amount. it’s too cold, so I’m not complaining.”

Despite the amount requested by the Comments and descriptions like these school board on Tuesday, most of the were not uncommon during conversation amongst the both meetings. Parents and county commissioners for A $1.6 billion bond teachers and sometimes a bond has been capped at students, repeatedly brought would help renovate $1 billion. Skip Alston, who up examples of leaking roofs, or rebuild the county’s recently won reelection to failing HVAC systems and the board in the March 3 worst schools and molding ceilings during the primary, said that he is in build 3 new schools. public comments. Others favor of the largest amount expressed concerns about considered by the board — overcrowding in schools like Ragsdale. $1 billion — or maybe more. He said On Tuesday afternoon, Deena Hayesthat whether he supports more than $1 Green, the chair of the school board, billion will be determined by whether said in a phone interview that the resoluor not the county commission considers tion passed during the school board a ½ cent sales tax increase as an option meeting was just the first step in getting to pay for the bond debt. According to the funds needed to fix the county’s a report created by First Tryon Advisors many problems. for the county to consider, four scenarios “What we’re looking at is trying to are being considered by the county combegin somewhere because we know that missioners, with bond amounts ranging this is a process,” Hayes-Green said. from $700 million to $1 billion. All of “This is what makes sense to us based the scenarios included in the report on the need, based on the recommenconsider either a ¼ cent or ½ sales tax dations, based on the schools and the increase or the possibility of a property patterns.” tax increase.

Now that the school board has passed Alston said that he is in favor of the their resolution, the county commis½ cent sales tax increase and when the sioners must either accept the amount county undergoes its tax reevaluation in requested by the school board or come 2022, to keep the county property tax up with their own proposal which they rate the same, rather than decreasing the have to outline in an application to the rate, which has been common in previLocal Government Commission, an ofous reevaluations. This would create fice within the state treasury department. additional revenue for the county which According to a schedule put forth by the could be used to pay for the bond debt county in mid January, the latest date and for future bonds needed to address that the county commission can wait to the full $2 billion need, said Alston. submit an application to the Local GovCurrently, the county has to wait for ernment Commission is early August. the general assembly to pass a bill that

allows for counties across the state to use a ½ sales tax increase to pay for bond debt. House Bill 667, otherwise known as the “Local Option Sales Tax Flexibility,” passed the state house in May 2019 but has stalled in the state Senate. The bill would allow for counties to put a ½ cent sales tax increase on the November ballot and specify that it would be used for public education funds. Lawing also said that the county is considering a local bill that would apply just to Guilford County.

Angie Henry, the chief financial officer for Guilford County schools also clarified during Tuesday’s meeting that the county commissioners are not required to move forward with the bond even if voters approve it in November.

“There’s a lot of flexibility,” Henry said.

For example, if the bond referendum is approved but the sales tax increase is not, county commissioners have the authority to reconsider the bond.

Jill Wilson, the attorney for the school board also reminded the members of the separate roles that the school board the county commissioners play.

“Your job as the board of education is to present the need to the commissioners,” Wilson said. “Their job is to fund it.

Bonding is one way to fund it but not the only way…They could fund it anyway they want but, it’s your job to present the need.”

Lawing admitted that even with the school board’s passing of the request for $1.6 billion to fix school facilities, there are still many steps to getting the funds needed.

“The more time we have, the more time there is for schools and the county to educate the public on which projects are proposed,” he said.

However, parents, students and teachers are anxious to see change soon.

“In the last 20 years, we’ve flatlined or underinvested [funding] in schools,” said Todd Warren, the president of the Guilford County Association of Educators and a former Spanish teacher at Guilford Elementary school in an interview.

“I would like to see the county commissioners at least match the request. They should be championing this because the need is so great. They know the level of need down to the buildings. A lot of people forget that we’re a massive entity; the funding should reflect that…We can’t just keep nickeling and diming the stuff.”

Witness recants testimony from murder trial of Chris Paul’s grandfather

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It was a crime that shocked Winstonyou, them anybody — all that shit’s not true,” Black continued. “I Salem. said what I said because I was scared half to death I was getting Nathaniel Jones, a 61-year-old Africancharged with wrongful death. I was so scared I was going to jail.

American gas-owner, beloved among his And nothing that I said was right. And they weren’t satisfied until I Southside neighbors, was beaten, tied up, gave them the answer they wanted, and that’s what I did.” robbed and left for dead in his garage on Black drove a 1986 Mercury Cougar. At the time of Jones’ Nov. 15, 2002. murder, she had known the five boys for about two months. They Making the loss more poignant, Jones’ smoked weed in Belview Park, near Jones’ house on Moravia

by Jordan Green grandson, Chris Paul, scored 61 points in Street. After school on Nov. 15, 2002, she drove around the neighhonor of his grandfather days after the murder as a member of the borhood, knowing she was likely to find her friends walking down West Forsyth High School basketball team. By the time the trial the street. She picked up the boys, Black said under deposition, rolled around in 2004, Paul was a rising talent on the Wake Forest and they drove to Creekside Bowling Lane, where they got kicked University basketball team, where he helped the Demon Deacons out for being too loud, and then moved on to Hanes Mall. They’ve achieve their first number-one ranking. Now well into the 14th year drove back to the neighborhood and we’re cruising a block where of NBA career, Paul has played for the New Orleans Hornets, Los they knew someone they could buy weed from, Black said, when Angeles Clippers, Houston Rockets, and since a July 2019 trade, they noticed the area was swarming with SUVs and police cars. with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Black said she let the boys out, and then drove to visit her friend, Five African-American boys, all 14 or 15 years old who lived Elizabeth Fowler, in Welcome, before going home. in the neighborhood, were convicted in connection with Jones’ Winston-Salem police Detective Mark Griffin, the lead detecdeath. Nathaniel Cauthen and Rayshawn Banner were convicted tive in the case, interviewed Fowler in November 2003. of murder and are serving life with parole. Christopher Bryant Citing Fowler’s report, Bridenstein told commissioners: “She said and Jermal Tolliver completed their sentences for second-degree in the report that Jessicah Black told her that the defendants had murder and common-law robbery in 2017, and were released. Dorkilled a man in Winston-Salem. She stated that she thought this rell Brayboy completed his sentence for second-degree murder in conversation happened the Saturday after the man was killed.”

2018. He died in a stabbing in Winston-Salem in Fowler’s statement to Bridenstein during her August 2019.

Jan. 8, 2020 deposition is markedly different from All five men filed claims of innocence with the what is represented in Griffin’s report.

‘I said what I said NC Innocence Inquiry Commission. Since North “She said she did not remember discussing Carolina law requires that a claim of innocence anyone being killed with Jessicah Black,” Bridenbecause I was be made by a living person, the commission is no stein told the commissioners. “She was able to scared half to longer investigating Brayboy’s claim. review Detective Griffin’s report with us, and she The commission is holding hearings this week said she did not remember any of that and did death...I was so in Raleigh to consider Cauthen, Banner, Brynot remember talking to the police. She said she ant and Tolliver’s claims. A finding by five out of did remember Jessicah Black would hang out with scared I was goeight commissioners of factual innocence would kids.” ing to jail...nothing black result in a referral to a three-judge panel, which in Bridenstein also interviewed Tamara Black, who turn could dismiss charges and free Cauthen and is the mother of Jessicah Black. that I said was Banner.

Bridenstein told commissioners that Tamara right.’

The commission submitted numerous samples Black said under deposition: “She reported that – Jessicah Black for DNA testing and none of the DNA profiles of the day after Jessicah Black was interviewed by the defendants were found on the samples, Julie the police Jessicah told her that she was scared Bridenstein, a staff attorney, told the commission and that she told them what they wanted to hear. on Monday.

Tamara Black also reported that she had a recent conversation with Jessicah Black, a 16-year-old white girl from Davidson County, Jessicah where Jessicah said that what she said at the trial was not had been hanging out with Cauthen, Banner, Bryant, Tolliver and the truth.”

Brayboy on the day of Jones’ murder. Prosecutors told the jury Her false testimony eats at her conscience, Black told Bridenthat Black was an accomplice who drove the defendants to the stein. crime scene and then drove them away after the murder.

“Because it’s pretty much I said what I said to save my ass, to Black “was the only eyewitness who claimed to see the defenkeep me from going to jail,” she said. “Not realizing at 16, that’s dants commit the crime,” Bridenstein told the commissioners. prison their whole lives. Because at the end of the day, even if you “I didn’t even know — because I thought as a young’un, you had get out of prison, it’s hard to find a job. Hell, it’s hard to find people to have an adult present — I didn’t know that was only if you were who will rent to you.” arrested and stuff,” Black told Bridenstein during her deposition Even in death, Black observed, a false conviction sticks with you. in October 2019. “Just like I didn’t know that at any point in time I When Brayboy died, Black noted, the headline in the Winstoncould have gotten up and left out of that place, and they couldn’t Salem Journal mentioned that he had been “convicted as a teen of ask me any more questions…. It was like eight, nine hours or somekilling Chris Paul’s grandfather.” thing they had me in there. There was some decent detectives, but “That should not be the headline,” Black said. “That should not that one, he hollered so much, it made me feel crazy. be the what’s known as when you’re reporting his death.”

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In Guilford, repressing the student vote

The Rhino Times broke the news of by the way, completely ignoring the Guilford County students being bused Southern Strategy, the Dixiecrats and to the polls during Early Voting so they Blue Dog Democrats, the Civil Rights could exercise their newly gained ConAct of 1964 and many other events of stitutional rights. Google News places recent history. it as a month ago, on Feb. 11, but it also They can do this with a straight face, labels the Rhino as a satire site, leaving because today’s GOP has exorcised the questions of veracity all over the place. concept of hypocrisy from its playbook.

But the Rhino actually sounds like Unless, of course, they’re leveling the satire in the second half of the piece, charge at a Democrat, who might even the part that begins after the quoted possibly deserve it. material from the press release: “[S]ome It all hinges on misdirection: These area conservatives have been privately unnamed “area conservatives” in the expressing some anxiety about the original piece could be elected officials; effort…. that the League of Women they could be party operatives; they Voters, while officially noncould be three morons in partisan, un-officially has a MAGA hats standing on Today’s GOP liberal bent.” a street corner; it does not No names were attached has exorcised elaborate. And the “anxiety” to this strange pivot towards pegged to a concern: the concept of is“[I]tfirstmay fake evenhandedness, that be difficult for the bastion of conservative news hypocrisy from schools to be certain that outlets that allows them — the program is implemented perhaps even requires them its playbook fairly and equitably across all — to entertain even the schools.” most ludicrous positions and suggestions But anyone who has visited more than merely because a Republican said the three Guilford County schools knows words. Or, in this case, were willing to be that our commission as a whole is not vaguely paraphrased. extremely concerned with parity.

It utilizes another sleazy tactic too: And so, they use the figurative arguAccuse others of the wrongdoing that ment of fairness to effectively quash a you, yourself are committing — or would passel of votes that most likely would commit, if given the chance. not go their way.

This is why you can find Republicans But disenfranchising voters has all over the country who believe the become such a strong aspect of the ReDemocrat Party is the one that’s racist, publican platform these last 10 years in despite the fact that every racist group North Carolina, perhaps they don’t even in the country loves Donald Trump. notice they’re doing it anymore.

They say it’s because of Lincoln,

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ell now, take down your fishing sing along. The participation helps impole,” Karon Click and Diana merse the organization’s audiences, many Tuffin sing, “and meet me at of which are in Title I schools. Aside from the fishing hole.” the performances, the group sends curAs Tuffin and Click sing the Andy riculum to the teachers prior to the conGriffith song “Fishing Hole,” the room cert. Long describes it as a mix between becomes electric with clapping and the social studies and music, teaching kids the occasional stomp to the beat. A few genres along with the time periods they members of the crowd sing along to the became popular in. Long believes seeing words they know, as the tune continues. legends that come from North Carolina The performance opens a special help kids to be confident that they could Friday-night version of Carolina Live, a also pursue successful artistic careers. multimedia show from Carolina Music “I just have never seen this level of Ways. The set, filled with songs from talent, passion,” Long says, “and the way North Carolina artists, tells the story of students respond to it.” the state’s musical history. Usually, the Another North Carolina legend that band visits elementary and sometimes Carolina Live highlights is Nina Simone. middle schools in Forsyth and the surTuffin approaches the mic and belts out rounding counties. But, to fund-raise, “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be the band found its way to the auditoFree,” a song originally written by Billy rium of the Southeastern Center for Taylor, also a North Carolina resident.

Contemporary Art. Simone popularized the tune with her “Everybody walks away learning own 1967 rendition. The audience claps, something,” Music Director Matt Kenas the jazz rings out in the auditorium, drick says.Kendrick works with a team Tuffin’s voice filling the space with the of mostly volunteers, as they antholopower of the civil rights anthem. gize the music of North Carolina’s past.

“Well, I wish I could be like a bird in the Carolina Music Ways then writes a script sky,” Tuffin sings. “How sweet it would be, for the show, and Kendrick joins in to set if I found I could fly.” the soundtrack, hand-selecting pieces As the night closes, Carolina Live pays from internationally known musicians, tribute to Winston-Salem’s “5” Royales. with North Carolinian roots.

Attention is called to trumpet-player Joe The set continues with a brief history Robinson, who reminiscences onstage of old-time American folk music, before about being a close friend of the son of settling on the music of Tommy Jarrell, one of the members. an Appalachian singer with skill in banjo “I was a kid,” Robinson laughs. “I didn’t and fiddle who hailed from the Mt. Airy know they were famous; I just knew region and rose to prominence in the every time they’d come home, there was 1960s. The band turns its focus to banjo going to be a party.” and fiddle Debbie Gitlin, who takes a The band begins to play “Dedicated to moment before the song to tell her own the One I Love,” guitarist Wiley Porter story of Jarrell. stepping towards the front of the stage “I came from Ohio just to meet this to show how Lowman Pauling would man,” Gitlin said. “Before then, I was play. He lowers his body slightly, the a classical viola guitar dropping a player.” little closer to his As the singers knees. He extends To learn more about Carolina lead a call-andthe invitation to Music Ways, and Carolina Live, response in “Sail anyone who’d like Away Ladies,” Gitto try, opening visit carolinamusicways.org. lin stomps her feet up an air guitar to the beat of her competition. fiddling. Her arm An elderly man moves the bow so quickly it looks like a steps onstage, as does a young woman. blur. Click takes her microphone from Then, two young children run onstage, the stand and runs into the crowd, holdunsure where to go. The musicians usher ing it up to random audience members the kids to the front. to sing the next lines.

As Porter continues to play on, the Barbara Long, a co-chair of Carolina elementary-aged kids look up at him, tryMusic Ways, sees that when they take ing to mimic his movements, like Porter the program into schools, many kids will tries to do with Pauling’s.

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he sound of voices filled the air, followed by the scraping of shoes shuffling on the cement floor.

Three old women entered the historical art gallery still immersed in their conversation. One of them, who wore a black coat with buttons on the side, raised her hand to reposition the glasses resting on the bridge of her nose. As she and her friends entered the establishment, they came across one of the first objects on display in the room.

A long denim jacket hung on a rack facing the entrance, decorated with rainbow patches sewn all along the different sides of the piece. Shifting around the cloak, the viewers caught a glimpse of the inscription on the back of it that had been woven into it with yarn.

“Dreaming a future/ singing soul/ becoming radically engaged/healing/ searching for wonder/ nurturing creativity.”

The Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum displays artifacts donated

by Jewish residents of Greensboro and opened at the Greensboro Project Space at the end of February. The objects that

are on display aren’t all that uncommon, but rare in the sense of the sentimentality imbued within them.

“My objects would have been two mismatched candlesticks,” said Judith Rosenstock Hyman, the 85-year-old woman wearing the black coat. “Because, my grandmother and her sister somehow got separated, and one took a tall candlestick and the other took a short one. We celebrate shabbat every Friday night, with challah, you know the twisted bread and wine and light the candles.”

Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem is an interdisciplinary artist, Torah scribe and educator. She’s also the founding artist of the Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum.

“It’s very unlikely there would ever be a contemporary Jewish museum [in Greensboro],” Kedem said in an interview. “There is a Jewish identity museum in Atlanta and there’s one in Mississippi. This project gives the Greensboro Jewish community the cultural agency to create their own Jewish museum without a fundraising campaign or a board of directors to tell them what to do.

It provides a unique way for the community to reflect upon what it means to be Jewish in contemporary Greensboro.

“And for me,” she continued, “What was really important was that the creation of this with Dr. Blair Wisco at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro museum happened through WHAT YOU’LL DO: WE’RE EXAMINING: the people that live here.”

•Interviews and questionnaires emotional and physical reactions Rather than collecting (3 hour visit) to memories of stressful or historical artifacts that get RACHEL Artist Karen, age 66 crafted this denim jacket that embodies Judaism traumatic experiences. displayed behind bulletproof SPINELLA through it’s connection to the story Joseph and the Technicolor cloak.

•Monitor your bodily reactions glass, the exhibit honors and while you think of past YOU MUST BE: “For me, I put an object in there and it’s a space stamp colhighlights everyday objects experiences (2 hour visit) •Age 18 or older lection that I inherited from my dad,” said Carlin. “And so, for that those within the Jewish community find to •Able to read and write in English me, my connection to Judaism isn’t really anything biblical but be significant to them and their Jewish identity.

•Wear a cardiac monitor and sentimental value.”

“This show is very much about contempoanswer questions on a tablet THE BASICS: Carlin stated that his father is a big Star Trek fan and his inrary Judaism,” said Adam Carlin, director of the computer on 3 days •5 visits to our lab within 2 weeks (30 min set-up per day) terest in the series led him to collect Greensboro Project •$150 total compensation stamps connected to outer space for Space, an off-campus years. contemporary art cenThe Contemporary Jewish Museum is Near the technicolor jean jacket ter funded by UNCG. and a wooden seat with the words “It’s like people’s own on display from Feb. 20-March 19. For “Mensch Bench” carved into it, sat connections to it. And more information check out the proja hot pink hexagonal table made for some people it is ect’s website at greensborocjm.org entirely out of wood, its shape that history, you know, You will be asked to complete screening resembling the six-pointed Star of like Joseph and the questions online and over the phone.

David. technicolor coat, and Email or call us to get more information Ellen Haskell, the Director of Jewfor other people that and be directed to the online survey. ish studies and a professor at UNCG, said that while the exmight be connected to a mug or a Tupperware hibit primarily centers around Judaism and the Jewish commucontainer.”

Or, scan the QR code to take you straight there. nity, non-Jews are also encouraged to attend the exhibition.

One of many objects on display, was an open “I think mostly I want people to come away with new book that lay on a shelf to one side of the room. broader ideas with what the Greensboro Jewish community Inside were small, flat, intricate square-shaped Dr. Blair Wisco - UNCG is,” Haskell said. “I want people to think about what defines pieces of paper that depict colorful illustrations copelab@uncg.edu them and what’s important to them.” of outer space.

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categories ranging from natural moustaches to goatees to In all, Burnham says her beard probably took her about 20 full beards to sideburns and whalers. A panel of three judges hours to complete. scores each contestant on things like styling, color of the Others like Eddie Kimmerling have been cultivating their beard and overall appearance. facial hair for years. He walks around the club in a top hat and “At first it was guys getting together to give a better view a jacket with a fur-lined lapel and a cane in his right hand. Still, towards facial hair,” says Craig Grant, the president of the the most eye-catching part of the macaroni man is probably Greensboro chapter of the Beard and Moustache Club of the 14-inch moustache that sits upon his upper lip. Specifically North Carolina. “Ten or 15 years ago, having a beard was like known as an English-style moustache, Kimmerling’s rendition having tattoos. Like if you had a beard you were a biker or grows straight out from his face and ends in two points that something. So, we just wanted to show like, No, we’re not like curve ever so slightly upwards. Tonight, he’ll win first place in that. We’re just trying to give a posithe styled moustache category, an tive outlook.” honor he’s received more than once.

Grant says that the Greensboro The Long Islander has even traveled Learn more about the Beard and chapter, founded 13 years ago, is one overseas to compete in international of the oldest in the country, second tournaments. Last year, he placed Moustache Club of North Carolina’s only to one in Alaska. It and other second in the English Moustache Greensboro chapter on Facebook at chapters in the state host competicategory. To keep up appearances, facebook.com/BMCofNC.gso. tions throughout the year as a way Kimmerling says he keeps his mousto keep the community alive and to tache waxed all week and washes raise money for charity. Even people once a week with Pantene. without beards are encouraged to participate.

He says he started growing his moustache in 2014 after he Adrienne Burnham from Charlotte has competed in the met another guy who had one. Since then, he’s become kind of competition for the last two years. This year, she’ll win the famous for his facial hair.

Whiskerina creatives category for the first time.

“Sometimes people recognize me from social media,” Kim“I thought it was really amazing that they have two categomerling says. “Random people will stop me on the street.” ries for women,” she says.

Kimmerling expresses how many in attendance feel about Burnham, who also ends up placing second in Best in Show, their beards and moustaches. He explains that it’s not just a created this year’s beard out of intricately rolled-up pieces of form of style, but a proud piece of who they are. colorful paper made out of a technique called quilling. The “It’s become a part of me,” Kimmerling says. “It’s given me a bright strips become spirals in her fixture and create an oceannew identity.” themed scene with starfish, matching her fish-themed skirt.

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ebecca Adams’ beard keeps poking her brother in the eye.

The 13-year-old sits perched on top of one of the barstools inside the dimness of the Limelight night club in downtown Greensboro on a recent Saturday night, and the grass tendrils in her beard keep making their way into her brother Riley’s left eye as she talks.

“Ow, my eye!” Riley exclaims as he caresses the intrusion.

Rebecca ignores him and keeps describing her outfit. She’s got a bright-red ladybug shell — complete with large black dots — affixed to her back, a pair of thick, black antenna on her head and a beard made out of a variety of fake flowers upon which a handful of little ladybugs sit. As she talks, her beard moves slightly, following the movement of her mouth which is completely hidden under her new facial accoutrement.

Around the two kids stand hordes of bearded men, some with long, bushy beards while others wear wispy moustaches and whiskers. They’ve all gathered to compete in the 9th annual Carolina Beard and Moustache competition in which hundreds of people from all over the country, and sometimes beyond, coalesce to be judged on their facial hair for charity.

This year’s competition will mark the third time the brother and sister have competed in the event. While most of the categories focus on men with beards and moustaches, categories exist for kids and women to participate, too.

Riley’s beard is more two-dimensional compared to his sister’s.

Made up of thin Styrofoam sheets, the 10-year-old’s accessory depicts a hearty slice of pizza, complete with pepperoni, sausage, green onion and extra cheese.

To top it off, he wears a full pizza onesie covered in pepperonis.

Their mother, Linda, walks in wearing a black hoodie and eyeliner to match.

Her beard, which she’ll show off in the Whiskerina natural category — one of two categories for women — comes down past her belly button. At more than two feet long, her beard looks like it could rival many of the men’s real ones in the room.

“Everything is glued to my face,” Linda explains.

By the end of the night, the whole family will end up taking home three second place awards.

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