April 21, 2016 by Rhino Times

Vol. IV No. 16

Greensboro, North Carolina

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Clandestine City Council Bond Plot Scott D. Yost

Sheriff Asks County To Put Him In Jail plus Under The Hammer, Uncle Orson Reviews Everything AND MORE

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THE WEEKLY Hammer

You Are Only As Old As You Identify by John Hammer Editor Judging from the decision made by the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, the courts want people treated by the government according to the gender they identify with rather than their biological gender. The case the three-judge panel ruled on Tuesday, April 19 is one where a high school student, who is biologically a female but identifies as a male, has been denied the right to use the men’s restroom at school. The court ruled that providing

a single-occupancy restroom was not adequate, and until the case is decided the school must allow the student to use the restroom of the gender with which the student identifies. The courts seem to rule that when Congress stated sex in the law, it meant gender. But accepting that ruling as what the federal courts are going to eventually decide is the law of the land – that people have to be treated in accordance with the gender with which they identify – it seems that a

lot of issues will be raised. In this case, the court was dealing with schools and Title IX, the federal law that says you can’t discriminate in schools based on sex. It now must be read “the gender with which you identify,” and the facilities and programs offered for one gender have to be offered for both. So what does the school do with someone who is biologically a male but now identifies as a female and wants to be on the girls’ basketball team, track team or swimming team? Does the school have to allow males that say they identify as females to participate in athletics for women? And if this is how the government is going to deal with people, it raises a whole host of questions. Greensboro City Council spends more time discussing the Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise (MWBE) program than anything else – far more time than they spend on the budget. But what about someone who is biologically a male but now identifies as a woman and owns a construction company? Does that person receive all of the benefits of a woman contractor in city contracts? It is well known that a lot of men put their companies in their wives’ name to receive the benefits from being a woman-owned company. The city for sudoku_521A years had employees whose job was to search forRitmeester/Presented these people and deny Created by Peter by Will Shortz them the right to bid on contracts as 3 8 women-owned companies unless the woman owner actually worked at the 5 2 company. If men 1 are 7 willing 8 to lie 6 to get this benefit in government contracts, is 3 it so farfetched to think that a man 9 wouldn’t put on a dress and go to a meeting if wearing3that dress meant getting 6 a million dollar contract? 3 Who is going to determine whether 9 says that they5identify 4 as a someone woman for monetary gain or because 6 if they 2 do mean1it they really do?3 And

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and actually do identify as a woman, is that enough? Going one step further, Rachel Dolezal, who was the head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, is biologically white but she says that she identifies as black. If she had a company, should she receive the preferential treatment that black contractors receive in awarding government contracts? Can the city or state count her as a minority contractor in their minority contractor goal because she identifies as a minority? If the government is going to treat people according to how they identify themselves, it seems that would be fair. They say that you are only as old as you feel. So if you are actually 61 but identify as a 67-year-old, do you qualify for full Social Security benefits? If you’re 16 but identify as 21, can you buy beer, enter into contracts and join the Army? Throughout history people have been treated differently based on their biological identity, if the government is going to throw out that standard what standard is going to be used? More on HB2 I continue to read in the media that the right of an employee to sue their employer in state court for discrimination was taken away by House Bill 2, and continue to read from employment lawyers that this isn’t the case. I don’t know why I suspect that lawyers might know more about what the law does than journalists, but I do. The state law also doesn’t take away the rights of gay and transgender people from suing for discrimination based on their sexual orientation because they didn’t have that right prior to HB 2.

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HINOSHORTS

by John Hammer Editor

The April Showers Rhino Times Schmoozefest will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday April 28 at Bender’s Tavern 4517 W. Market St. Business professionals who sign in and wear a nametag receive free beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres. I believe it’s a first. The front page above the fold article in the News & Record on Tuesday was not written by a News & Record reporter or the reporter for any news agency, but by an employee of FairWarning, a nonprofit advocacy group. This group also promotes the theory that childhood vaccines cause autism, (continued on page 6)

Photo by Elaine Hammer Guilford County school board member Darlene Garrett, Jeanine Meagher of Lincoln Financial Group who was a guest teacher, and Greensboro City Councilmember Marikay Abuzuaiter (in back from left) with Miss Brittany Baldwin’s second grade class at Bessemer Elementary School on Wednesday. Junior Achievement provided 179 volunteers to teach 3,000 kids in kindergarten through fifth grade about managing money.

Secret Council Bond Plotting by John Hammer

The Greensboro City Council has been meeting in secret to discuss a $100 million to $200 million bond referendum and raising property taxes by 4.75 cents to pay for it. Greensboro currently has the highest property tax rate of comparable cities in North Carolina, and at the City Council retreat in February, City Manager Jim Westmoreland was instructed to produce a budget that did not include a tax increase. A bond referendum was also discussed briefly at that day-long meeting, with councilmembers asking about putting a bond on the ballot in November that would not require a tax increase. Since then the meetings have gone underground and out of the public view. The idea of a bond referendum that wouldn’t result in a tax increase has been left far behind and the discussion now is of a $101.7 million bond, a $149.2 million bond or a $195.2 million bond. The way it is planned to be presented to the public is nothing if not clever. The councilmembers and staff come up with the projects, and on May 13 the Parks and Recreation Commission is scheduled to present the City Council’s bond projects back to them. The voters of Greensboro have historically approved parks and recreation bonds, which is why the money for the Greensboro Aquatic Center was sold to the public as a parks and rec bond for a community pool. The Aquatic Center is run by the Greensboro Coliseum staff and has nothing to do with parks and recreation. It was dishonest but not illegal. The way the City Council has kept the current bond proposal secret from the public is by meeting in small groups. If a majority of the City Council gathers, except at a purely social function, it is an official meeting and must be open to the public. These secret bond meetings were held with all councilmembers but never a majority at one meeting. This method of meeting violates the spirit of the North Carolina open meetings law, and some legal experts also say it violates the law, since the only purpose of the small group meetings is to conduct city business in secret. Certainly putting over $100 million worth of bonds on the ballot in November and raising property taxes by 4.75 cents is the public’s business. And if the

City Council believed this would be met with widespread support it would have been discussed repeatedly at televised meetings. But it has never been discussed at a televised meeting; all the meetings to discuss the bond referendum have been in unannounced secret meetings behind closed doors. The public wasn’t even told these meetings were taking place, much less what was being discussed. Greensboro has not held a bond referendum since 2009 and the main reason is that the city still has $60 million in bonds from previous referendums that has not been spent. In fact, some of the bond money from 2006 has not been spent, and after 10 years the right to sell bonds expires, so there has been concern expressed at council meetings about losing that borrowing power. City staff has assured the council that the bonds will be sold before the deadline. Most of the bond discussion at the February retreat centered around having one bond on the ballot – instead of having a transportation bond, a parks and recreation bond, a housing bond and so forth as has been done in the past. One name for this all-in-one bond was “One City One Bond,” but a more popular one suggested by City Manager Jim Westmoreland was “James Bond.” The downside of one bond for voters, regardless of the name, is that the only restrictions on how bond money can be spent are state law and the language that appears on the ballot. If a $100 million bond for infrastructure and capital improvements were passed by the voters, the council could vote to spend the money on any infrastructure and capital improvements they wished, regardless of how they told the voters the money would be spent. The list of potential bond projects given to city councilmembers totals $195.2 million. Of that, $101.7 million is listed for critical needs, $47.5 million for mid-range needs and $46 million for long-range needs. Among the Critical Needs under the heading Housing are: Workforce Housing Initiative $8 million, Code Compliance Repair Initiative $6 million, Revolving Loan Funds $6 million and Handicapped Accessibility and House for Special Populations $5 million. Under Redevelopment: South Elm Redevelopment (Union Square) $5 million, Martin Luther King Dr. North (continued on page 9)

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a theory that has been fully discredited by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences among others. The author of the initial report that established the link was not only discredited, his license to practice medicine in Great Britain was revoked. The big breaking news in the article by this left-wing advocacy group is the death of a worker at a recycling plant in Georgia in 2011, and the 2012 death of a worker at a Reidsville recycling plant. Is there something about Rockingham County in 2012 that I’m missing? The News & Record on Sunday finished up an exhaustive eight-part series on a double murder in Rockingham County in 2012, and they followed up two days later with an article from an advocacy group about an accidental death in Rockingham County in 2012. Perhaps next month this daily newspaper based in Greensboro will start reporting on Rockingham County

events in 2013, and by the end of the summer the newspaper will be reporting Rockingham County events that actually happened this year. Of course, when you have a newspaper with no editor and no publisher, what can you expect? Condolences to former Mayor Robbie Perkins on his 40-year-old Duke record in the 10,000 meters being broken. It’s incredible that any record in a track event could survive 40 years, but it did. But the record Perkins set in 1975 for Duke in the 5,000 meters still stands, as does the record for the 4 x 1500 meter relay set in 1976. Having the second best time in the past 40 years in the 10,000 meters is nothing to be ashamed of. If you’re looking for a good summer read, the St. Francis 58th Book Sale is next weekend, Thursday, April 28 through Saturday, April 30 at 3506 Lawndale Drive.

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CONTENTS

WEEKLY HAMMER

13 UNCLE ORSON

SECRET COUNCIL BOND PLOTTING

15 REAL ESTATE

BY JOHN HAMMER

BY ORSON SCOTT CARD

BY JOHN HAMMER

24 YOST COLUMN BY SCOTT D. YOST

SHERIFF CALLS FOR COUNTY TO BULLDOZE OFFICE, PUT HIM IN JAIL

35 UNDER THE HAMMER BY JOHN HAMMER

BY SCOTT D. YOST

SPEAKERS SET COUNCIL AGENDA

PUZZLE ANSWERS

RHINO SHORTS

CHILDREN’S SCHEDULE

BY SCOTT D. YOST

SUDOKU

11 NC LEGISLATORS

NYT CROSSWORD

BY JOHN HAMMER

THE SOUND OF THE BEEP

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

EDITORIAL CARTOON

BY JOHN HAMMER

10 NO MUTTS UP FOR ANIMAL BOARD

GET RANKED

12 SCHOOLS DON’T

ASK FOR THE MOON, JUST A LOW ORBITING SATELLITE BY SCOTT D. YOST

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Sheriff Calls For County To Bulldoze Office, Put Him In Jail

by Scott D. Yost

Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes said this week that he wants to tear down the Otto Zenke building, where his office is, turn that land into a parking lot and move the Sheriff’s Department’s administrative operations into the old county jail at 401 W. Sycamore St. in downtown Greensboro. If the Guilford County Board of Commissioners goes along with Barnes’ wishes, it would save the county millions over other plans, Barnes said. He said county staff had presented him with three options, including one that would mean tearing down the old jail and putting a new one-story office building on that spot, as well as another option that would spread his administrative offices across various existing spaces currently owned by Guilford County.

If Barnes gets his way, his own office would be on the Sycamore Street side of the old jail – the same place where former Guilford County Sheriff Walter “Sticky” Burch had his office, as well as other sheriffs before him. Barnes said his own office has never been in the old jail. Barnes, whose first office as sheriff was at 201 S. Greene St., moved into the Otto Zenke building at 400 W. Washington St. about 20 years ago, soon after he was elected sheriff for the first time. That building was previously the home and showroom for Zenke – one of North Carolina’s most famous interior designers. Despite that, Barnes said, it needs to be torn down. “It’s not historic,” Barnes said, of the building. “It was built in 1967.” There have been rumors through the years that the building is haunted,

Mommy Makeover by Virgil V. Willard II, MD

THE “MOMMY MAKEOVER” is a term that has been coined to describe the surgeries woman have requested after they have delivered the last baby. Our children, God help us we love them, but the changes pregnancy causes are not always kind. Let’s go over these procedures.

breast may become and stay larger. The resultant neck, back, and shoulder pain, often makes breast reductions an insurance reimbursable procedure when the others here are not. Breast reductions give you a lift too. This is another wonderful operation.

FIRST THE BREASTS. Different moms have different changes. Usually, after the breast milk stops being produced, some of the ﬁrm breast tissue will wilt away. This leaves the breast smaller and now has some droop that was not there before. Sometimes the breast will stay larger than before the pregnancy. If stretch marks have come, I’m sorry to say we don’t have anything to reverse them. Some lasers can make them smaller if you treat them while they are red. Do not suntan them while they are red or they will stay dark instead of fading to white. If you have lost some volume, a breast augmentation will help restore that volume. If droopiness has become the problem, then a mastopexy (breast lift) is the right operation. I have been in practice for 25 years now, and of all the procedures we will talk about today, the number of mastopexies has increased the most! Like the rest of the procedures here, the ﬁnal result makes for very happy patients. The last change is the

SECONDLY, FAT POCKETS SEEM TO OCCUR AND STAY AFTER PREGNANCIES. These are typically amenable to liposuction. These areas can be under the chin, the arms, the abdomen, the hips, the thighs, and the knees. Liposuction is a great operation. As long as the skin has enough elasticity to contract and hold a smaller volume, it works great. THIRDLY, LET’S TALK ABOUT THAT ABDOMEN. If the skin and muscles have not stretched too far, then liposuction will be sufﬁcient. If your muscles are stretched apart, and/or the skin is just too excessive, then an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) is what you need.

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but that doesn’t seem to be a factor in Barnes’ decision to tear down the 49-year-old structure that has many serious problems, including lingering water damage from a massive 2009 flood and a second-floor balcony that’s blocked off for fear it could collapse. Barnes said that, under his plan, the basement, first floor and the top floor of the old jail would be used for Sheriff’s Department operations – while the middle floors, now full of abandoned jail cells, would be used for storage. That would also help make elevator use more efficient, he said, since nearly all of the trips would be too and from the top floor. “It would save money rather than destroy everything and then end up with a building out of place,” the sheriff said. He added that the storage space

This surgery pulls your muscles back together. It also removes lower abdominal skin and the fat beneath it. The incision winds up low in the bikini line. This is an awesome operation. It is also the biggest one we are talking about today. But, if you need it, you need it. If you try a shortcut like just doing liposuction when there is too much skin, you will wind up with ugly, wrinkly skin. Most patients are uncomfortable driving the ﬁrst two weeks, and most patients return to computer-type work in three weeks. Some can sooner, some it takes longer. A lot of patients worry about the pain too. We use numbing medicine that lasts for three days! Incredible. The worst of the pain is over in several days, so this gets you past the worst of it. Do not let pain keep you from having this operation. We have it covered! LASTLY, LET’S TALK ABOUT THE FACE. I don’t know if it’s part of the ageing process, or maybe it’s those sleepless nights with a new baby, but changes in the face after a pregnancy are not uncommon at all. It’s unlikely this age group is going to need a face-lift, but the skin of the face can lose elasticity. To

is really needed, not only for his department’s records, but also for county records from other departments. He said cell space could be turned into good storage space without much effort other than removing the cell doors. “Those records would be secure,” Barnes said. “It’s hard for concrete to burn.” Barnes added that parking in the area was badly needed and he wants the public to have easy access to his department’s services. His current headquarters has a small parking lot in front that’s used largely for sheriff’s staff, but citizen’s attempting to access services in the old jail have virtually no parking right now. Barnes said it’s possible that the land where the Zenke building now sits could be a parking lot in the immediate future,

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help with this, a skin tightening laser procedure like the YAG, or ultrasound treatments with Ultherapy®, create nice changes. The “mask of pregnancy,” the dark discoloration of the cheek, happens sometimes. This will very successfully be treated with either a laser or one of the chemical peels. Once in a while, excess skin becomes a cosmetic problem of the upper or lower eyelids. For this, a blepharoplasty (eyelid lifts) is a wonderful operation to get rid of that skin. Most patients having a “mommy makeover” have more than one procedure. We very commonly do a breast and an abdominal procedure at the same time. It saves the patient money and requires just one recovery instead of two. We are skilled and trained to safely accomplish multiple procedures. And let’s face it, there may be young children at home. Let’s try and keep Mom “out of commission” as little as possible. Dads appreciate that. Call for a consult and we’ll see what procedures might correct what the Little Darlings did!

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Speakers Set Council Agenda by John Hammer Speakers from the floor, not members of the City Council, brought up the most interesting items at the City Council meeting on Tuesday, April 19 in the City Council Chambers. The council didn’t discuss much on their own, and every motion made passed unanimously – which was 7 to 0 since Councilmembers Jamal Fox and Nancy Hoffmann were absent. But whether a motion passes 7 to 0 or 9 to 0 doesn’t make any difference, so you can’t say they were missed. Lewis Pitts, who has been trying to get the City Council to change its policy on police body-worn-camera videos – from classifying them as personnel records to classifying them as public records – came with a somewhat different request. Pitts asked that the City Council release the video of the shooting of Chieu-di Thi Vo by a Greensboro police officer in 2014 who said she was coming at him with a knife. Vo died in the hospital two days later. Pitts said that for all he knew the video would show that the officer’s actions were proper, but there had been so many questions about the shooting that the public had a right to see the video. Councilmember Yvonne Johnson made a motion for the City Council to view the video in closed session and it passed unanimously. Mayor Nancy Vaughan said that she had wanted the City Council to view the video several months ago but couldn’t get five votes. After viewing the video in closed session the City Council will make a decision on whether to release it to the public or not. If the City Council decides that it is necessary to restore public confidence, they can legally release portions of an employee’s personnel file, including this video, which according to city policy is a part of the officer’s personnel file. The City Council voted several times to release portions of former Police Chief David Wray’s personnel file, even though Wray resigned as police chief and was never officially reprimanded or charged with any crime. Many of the accusations against Wray – such as that he had officers secretly tape-recording black political leaders – turned out to be false.

Two speakers from the floor questioned why the Downtown Greenway, which was started in 2001, still had less than a mile completed. Vaughan said that funding for the Greenway was on the list for the bond referendum the City Council is planning to put on the ballot in November. She said, “It is something that is long overdue. I can assure you that it is very high on my list. It will be incumbent on the city to vote for the bond.” The City Council turned to Assistant City Manager David Parrish for an answer on why completing the Greenway was taking so long, and Parrish said that the city planned to have three of the four sections under construction this year, which is not an answer to the question. No one had any explanation for why, in 15 years, the city had built less than a mile of the Greenway despite the fact that the City Council listed it as a top priority. The city has already spent $10 million on the Greenway, and with the assistance of Action Greensboro another $10 million in private dollars has been spent. It seems like a really good question. How has the city spent $20 million over a 15-year period and built less than a mile of a four-mile paved loop around the downtown? The answer from the City Council, if anyone had bothered to answer the question, would have been – we have no idea why it hasn’t been built. It is unfortunate, but City Council meetings are devolving into shout-fests. For at least the past 25 years speakers at City Council meetings have been required to state their name and address before speaking. Under Mayor Vaughan that is no longer required. Vaughan calls out a list of names of people who have signed up to speak and they simply come up to the podium and start talking. Some state their names, some don’t. Vaughan is often busy doing something else and doesn’t seem to be concerned whether all the other people in the room and all the people watching on television without a list of speakers in front of them know who is speaking or not. It wasn’t too long ago that a speaker was removed from the chambers for (continued on page 29)

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Initiative of Ole Asheboro $2 million and Single Family Lot Initiative of Ole Asheboro $500,000. All of those proposed bonds are in the same neighborhood with Southside at the corner of Arlington Street and Gate City Boulevard just a block from Martin Luther King Drive. Under Critical Needs Parks and Recreation: East Gate City Boulevard Parkland Completion $4 million, Gateway Garden’s Visitor Center $500,000, Community Tennis and Neighborhood Park Improvements $6.5 million and Community Recreation Center Improvements $12.2 million. Most of the $60 million the city has in unallocated bond money is in transportation bonds but the proposed bond package lists $21 million in critical needs for street improvements that evidently can’t be met with the $60 million in hand. They include: Resurfacing $10 million, Sidewalk Projects $5 million, Downtown Greenway Phase 4 (including Ole Asheboro connector) $6 million. For Critical Needs Downtown Street Improvements there is only one item: Streetscape and Streetlight Improvements $20 million. Items under Critical Needs Public

Transportation include: GTA Bus Replacements $2.1 million, HEAT Bus Replacements $1.8 million, Transit Facility Improvements and Bus Shelters $1.1 million. Greensboro opened a new $18 million public transportation operations and maintenance facility in 2012, so one would hope the building doesn’t already need extensive repairs and most of that money will be used for bus shelters. The $47.5 million for Mid-Range Needs under Housing includes Multifamily Affordable Housing Development $5 million, Homeowner Rehabilitation and Emergency Repair $4 million, Target Area Housing Initiatives $2 million and Immigrant/Refugee Housing Center $1 million. The Mid-Range list under Redevelopment includes: East Greensboro Focus Area Implementation $4.5 million, Fresh Food Access in Food Deserts $2 million, Small Infill Development Program $1.5 million. Parks and Recreation Mid-Range needs include: Battleground Parks District Initial Development $10 million and Bryan Park North Development $500,000. Bryan Park North is not a city park; it is owned by Guilford County. So if this money were allocated

www.rhinotimes.com | Thursday, April 21, 2016 | RHINO TIMES for Bryan Park North, city residents would pay for the development of that park twice, once through their Guilford County taxes and once through their Greensboro city taxes. The rest of the residents of Guilford County including those in Brown Summit who live closest to the park would only pay once. Mid-Range Street Improvements include the A&Y Greenway $7 million. This is a project that City Councilmember Mike Barber said on Tuesday would be turned over to developer Marty Kotis to build. Barber said it would be faster and less expensive for Kotis, who plans a $50 million development along the Greenway in an area he calls Midtown, to complete the project. Also in this category is Pedestrian/ Bicycle Enhancements and Intersection Improvements $10 million. Long Range Needs total $46 million. Under Housing is Land Acquisition for Housing Development $6 million. Under Redevelopment is Land Acquisition, Blighted Property Demolition, Site Preparation and Infrastructure $7 million. Under Parks and Recreation is combining the Windsor Recreation Center and the Vance Chavis Library $8.5 million and Hester Park Phase II Development $9.5 million. Under Street Improvements the LongRange Needs include only Gate City Boulevard Phase 2 (Chapman Street to

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Eugene Street) $15 million. So that $195.2 million is all the City Council feels a need to spend at the moment, but you can expect items to be added to the list. The bond material lists a 4.75 cent tax increase for the critical needs of $101.7 million, but according to the material provided to councilmembers, the addition of nearly $100 million in bonds would not require an additional tax increase. That is apparently assuming that interest rates don’t rise significantly in the next 10 years, because some of the current debt will be paid off by the time these bonds are projected to be issued in 10 years. Politics is what is pushing a $100 million or $200 million bond referendum in 2016. Bonds have a much better chance of passing in Greensboro when college students vote. The 2016 presidential election looks to be one that will attract a big college student turn out, therefore the chance of the bonds passing increases significantly. Since few college students own property, the effect on the property tax rate is not a concern for them. Property owners already paying the highest property tax rate of any comparable city in the state might have a different idea of an additional 4.75 cents on the tax rate that doesn’t hire a single additional police officer, fire fighter or loose-leaf collector.

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No Mutts Up For Animal Board by Scott D. Yost

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners intends to name the new members of the much-awaited Guilford County Animal Services Advisory Board at the Thursday, April 21 commissioners’ meeting, when commissioners are expected to stick closely to the list of proposed board members county staff has recommended. The Animal Services Advisory Board is being established to oversee the county’s operations of the shelter at 4525 W. Wendover Ave. in Greensboro after a huge scandal last August when state animal welfare investigators found more than 60 cases of animal neglect and cruelty at the shelter, revoked the license of the United Animal Collation (UAC) – the group that ran it at the time – and hit the UAC with $300,000 in fines. The competition for the new board was strong, with a lot of applications from citizens active in the county’s animal welfare community. In fact, one of the applicants who didn’t make it onto the list of recommended members is

Greensboro attorney Don Vaughan, who served for two terms in the NC Senate, is the husband of Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan and was the author of Susie’s Law – named after a dog that was severely burned and left for dead seven years ago. That 2010 legislation heightened penalties for animal cruelty in North Carolina. Also applying but not being recommended by county staff were Frankie Heath, who founded People & Paws 4 Hope, and Laura Gonzo, who runs a well-known rescue organization for pit bulls and other dog breeds that are generally considered dangerous. Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Jeff Phillips said the staff did a good job vetting the proposed board members and that, although there could be a “slight variation” when the commissioners make the appointments, he for one intended to support the list of names provided by staff. The names being submitted by county staff are Carl Ashby, Brenda Frizzell, Tammy Graves, Donna

Lawrence, Bev Levine, Olga Perkins, Crystal Roberts and Linda Stanton. The selections represent six of the eight districts in the county, with the exceptions being District 1, represented by Commissioner Carlvena Foster, and District 5, represented by Phillips. Ashby, the president of gift shop management company Ann Crittenden Inc., has served as chairman of Other Voices – a diversity based leadership program – as well as treasurer of the Greensboro-based Carolina Kennel Club. Ashby, who has an MBA, served on an advisory committee that helped create commercial breeder ordinances and worked with others to help develop and pass Guilford County’s anti-tethering ordinance. Ashby has also served on the board of directors of a national foundation that promotes canine health, one that he stated in his application has contributed over $50 million to canine health research. Ashby wrote that he believes education is the key to reducing the county’s population of stray animals.

He also pointed out that pit bulls make up the largest percentage of dogs taken in by Guilford County’s shelter and that reaching out to the owners of those animals is critical to keeping the number of animals at the shelter down. Frizzell owns four rescued dogs and works as a registered nurse for a plastic and reconstructive surgery practice in Greensboro. She’s been a volunteer at the Guilford County Animal Shelter since last September, and she currently serves as the second vice president of the Greater Greensboro Republican Women’s Club. In her application for the animal advisory board, she stressed the need to attract more volunteers to the shelter. She also wrote about the importance of using social media to create a greater awareness of what animals are available for adoption at the shelter. Frizzell also stressed the need for stronger connections between the animal shelter and the community as a whole. Graves, a retired vet tech and dog trainer, is the founder and president of (continued on next page)

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by John Hammer The Guilford delegation to the North Carolina General Assembly can claim both the top ranking in effectiveness in the state Senate and lowest rating in effectiveness in the state House. The rankings are done by the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research for each session. President Pro Tem of the state Senate Phil Berger, a Republican from Eden, whose district includes a big chunk of Guilford County, is ranked No. 1 in the Senate. Since Berger is often referred to as the most powerful elected official in state government, this is no surprise. State Sen. Trudy Wade, a Republican from Greensboro in her second term, moved up from 31 in 2013 to 17 last session, past a number of senators with more seniority. State Sen. Gladys Robinson, a High Point Democrat, didn’t do so well in the rankings. Out of 50 state senators, she ranked 47. But that’s up from 48 in 2013 and 49 in 2011. So at least Robinson is moving in the right direction. State Rep. Cecil Brockman, a High Point Democrat, has the dubious distinction of being ranked as the least

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Schools Don’t Ask for the Moon, Just a Low Orbiting Satellite by Scott D. Yost The good Lord makes a promise: Ask and you shall receive. However, unfortunately for the Guilford County Schools, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners makes no such promise. Guilford County Schools Co-interim Superintendents Nora Carr and Terrence Young have announced their request for $8.5 million in additional county funds for operations of the school system in fiscal year 20162017. That would raise the schools’ requested funding for county dollars for operations to $192 million, which is about 43 percent of the county budget. That request was presented to the Guilford County Board of Education earlier this month and the school board may or may not tweak it before the request heads to the Guilford County

Board of Commissioners, but it gives the commissioners a very good idea of what will ultimately be asked of them. The commissioners may or may not give the schools everything they’re asking for, but they already like one thing about the school’s latest request for operating funds: It isn’t so ridiculously huge that they were laughing the request off the table the second they heard it. That’s what happened last year when the schools asked for an additional $26 million in school funding for operations a year ago around this time, as well as $7 million more for maintenance and repairs for a total of about $33 million in additional funds. At that time, Guilford County Commissioner Alan Branson commented, “Reach for the stars, baby,” and said the school officials

apparently thought the commissioners had a “money tree” somewhere. Commissioner Hank Henning, who was chairman of the Board of Commissioners at that time, said the request made him wonder if there were any purpose to the commissioners meeting with the school board each spring, since the request that came out of those meetings was so fantastically unrealistic. The school board always talks about the request in terms of the increase over the previous year, but it’s important to keep in mind that, in their recommended 2016-2017 school budget, Carr and Young proposed asking the Board of County Commissioners for a total of $191.9 million for operating funds. In addition to the operating request, the superintendents recommended that the school board request $11 million for the school’s capital outlay fund for maintenance and repairs. In the current budget that the county approved last year, the county allocated $5 million for that purpose. So that’s another $6 million in additional county funds Young and Carr are asking for. This week Branson called the request for $8.5 million in additional operating funds “somewhat more reasonable” than last year’s giant ask. And Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Jeff Phillips said, “My first impression was that at least it is within the realm of the reasonable.” Phillips added that this was a starting point for a discussion about school funding – unlike last year when the jaw-dropping request was simply out of the question. The schools always ask for more money each year, citing growing class sizes, increasing utility costs and what they say is inadequate funding by the state. Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Education Alan Duncan said this week that the school board may make some adjustments to the request from Carr and Young before it goes to the commissioners. But he added that the school board generally sticks fairly close to the staff recommendation in this matter. Duncan said it’s always challenging to create a budget before state

funding for the schools is finalized, and he added that much of the money in the $8.5 million increase was to help match an anticipated teacher pay hike for teachers paid by state funds. The school board chairman said that about 20 percent of the school system’s teachers are paid with county funds and that when the state increases pay for the other 80 percent – as is expected to happen this year – the schools need the extra money for county-paid salaries to keep up. Duncan said the reason the school system budget requested the large increase in additional funds last year had to do with an attempt by former Superintendent of Guilford County Schools Mo Green to shrink class size. Duncan said that, while smaller class sizes are still a desire, this budget doesn’t include funds to accomplish that goal. “That’s the difference in the numbers,” Duncan said. Roughly $3.5 million of the increase being requested would go to pay for salary and benefit increases for those teachers paid by Guilford County; $1.4 million would go to the “recruitment, retention and performance incentives for teachers”; $180,000 would be used for other recruitment and retention efforts; and $485,000 would go to “absorbing personnel costs previously covered by grants and private donations.” Also, $492,000 would go to fund Twilight West in High Point – a nontraditional program that holds classes in the late afternoon and early evening and is meant to help improve graduation rates among those who don’t fare well in the traditional schools, and $67,000 would be spent to help start a health technologies career program at Northeast High School. Other money from the $8.5 million increase would also be used to bear the expense of what the schools say are increasing student populations and a loss of funding to charter schools. One concern the commissioners often state is that, once the county hands money over to the school system for operations, it has little say on how those funds are spent. In the past, commissioners have felt burned because they gave the schools money

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Evolution Fresh, The Ten Covenants

by Orson Scott Card People who stop in at Starbucks are probably familiar with water-bottlesized Evolution cold-pressed juices. But since, as a noncoffee drinker who doesn’t even like the smell of the stuff, I don’t visit Starbucks, unless I’m meeting somebody for a conversation in Los Angeles. For me, therefore, my first exposure to Evolution Fresh juices came at Earth Fare on Battleground

Avenue, where, right beside the Noble tangerine juice that I buy regularly, I saw a bottle of Evolution Fresh Cold Pressed Orange Juice. “Cold pressed” is a term regularly employed in the olive oil trade, as part of a claim that the oil was not extracted through heavy industrial processes. I had never realized that when it came to orange juice, the term might still have meaning. I know that when a restaurant uses a juicer that reams the juice out of the

58 skin too deeply, a lot of bitter rind gets into the juice, making it taste wretched. To my relief, Green Valley Grill has stopped doing that, so their freshsqueezed orange juice is once again reliably delicious. But what would “cold pressed” mean? Well, one thing it meant was that Evolution juices are apparently not homogenized – both the orange juice and the apple juice had separated completely. But separation is neither a good nor a bad thing. I first tasted peanut butter as a 20-year-old in Brazil, where all the peanut butter separated and had to be stirred up before it could be spread on bread. Cottage cheese often separates, so you have to stir dry curds into the yellowy whey. They both taste just fine after a little work, and the separation reminds you, “This is the real thing, it hasn’t been processed into complete obedience.” “Cold pressed” might refer to the fact that they don’t pasteurize their juices – though they achieve the same

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effect by putting them under such enormous pressure that it kills any microbes living in the juice. I brought both the orange and apple juices home and put them in our colder-than-usual fridge. A few hours later, I took out the Evolution Fresh Cold Pressed Orange Juice, poured myself a glass, and ... Best commercial orange juice ever. It truly did taste fresh-squeezed. It kept tasting that way right to the end of the bottle, and ditto with the next jar I bought. Compulsively drinkable juice. I wish I could say the same for the apple juice. I’m not much of an apple juice drinker, except that there was one apple juice we had in Tokyo that would make a true believer of me ... if we could get it in the United States. So it was up to my wife to decide if the Evolution Cold Pressed Apple Juice was as good as their orange juice. Not. It’s grainy in your mouth. Not a pleasant texture. And the flavor is only OK. When you go to the Evolution Fresh website (www.evolutionfresh.com)

all they talk about are the individualsized juices, which I did not see at Earth Fare. They have the drinks you’d expect them to have, in order to compete with Naked and Odwalla. Maybe their Green Grove or Green Devotion or Organic Ruby Roots juices are brilliant. I will never know, because there are some colors that should not come into my mouth as a chilled drink. (Or a room-temperature drink. Don’t bother quibbling, my mind is made up.) I might try the pineapple coconut water, and I’ll be looking for the Evolution Fresh Tangerine. But Smooth Greens and Kale? I’m 65 years old. If I don’t want to drink it, I don’t have to drink it. According to their store locator, Evolution Fresh juices are available in Greensboro at Target, Harris Teeter, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Deep Roots Market and Earth Fare. Since I believe in rewarding the outlet that first brought me a new product that I value, I’ll keep buying mine at Earth Fare.

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Many plaques listing the Ten Commandments place them in a frame that suggests the traditional view of the stone tablets (“tables,” in the King James Version) that Moses brought down from the mountain, engraved by the finger of God. This is a charming, and fairly harmless, misconception – until somebody starts complaining about God’s unfairness. “He comes down the mountain, the Israelites are worshiping a “graven image” of “another god,” and Moses has a whole bunch of them slaughtered. What kind of justice is it, to punish people for breaking commandments they haven’t even received yet?” The answer is pretty simple, if you just read the book of Exodus. When Moses is preparing to go up into the mountain to talk to the Lord, he gathers the people together and gives them the Ten Commandments and requires them to swear to obey them. Before he climbs the mountain. In fact, they are not “commandments” at all. Commandments would sound like this, in English: “Have no other gods before me. Kill not. Steal not.” Those are commands, in imperative voice. But instead, except for “Honor thy father and thy mother,” all the

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statements are in future tense (at least in English translation): “Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal.” That’s because, instead of being commandments, they are covenants. The people swore to live by these laws. They took a binding oath. Nowhere in Exodus are we told that what God wrote on the stone tablets was the same list of covenants that the people had already sworn to. They might have been written there, but it might have been something else entirely. We only think we know what God wrote, because we have the image in our minds of God zapping the stones while Charlton Heston cowers, as the voice of God recites the Ten Commandments. Don’t get your doctrine from Hollywood, kids. Cecil B. DeMille knew how God should have staged things, and filmed accordingly. But God doesn’t follow Hollywood’s script. In Exodus, when Moses broke the tablets in his rage at seeing that the people had already broken those solemn covenants, who knows what gifts and messages from the Lord were shattered that day? Perhaps when Moses remade the tablets, they contained exactly the same writing (continued on page 27)

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BY SANDY GROOVER The finishing touches are being put on a crop of new homes for the Greensboro Builders Association’s (GBA) Spring Parade of Homes. This free event is a great opportunity to see the latest in new home construction, as well as meet the builders responsible for the work. Admission is free, and the

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The Parade of Homes returns, from 1 to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, April 23-24 and April 30-May 1. The free tour highlights the best in new construction with over 50 entries throughout Guilford County. A map of the homes is on page 16 of this issue. Parade magazines can be found at area Harris Teeter and Lowe’s Home Improvement stores and at GreensboroBuilders.org.

homes are open from 1 to 5 p.m., Saturday, April 23 and Sunday, April 24, as well as Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1. Thirty-one builders in Guilford County are opening the doors to 53 newly constructed homes – 21 within the Greensboro city limits, 10 in Oak Ridge, 10 in

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1413 Asher Downs Drive 147 Cobblestone Walk Drive 2109 Berkshire Lane 7804 Gatsby Place 7807 Gatsby Place 4341 Griffin’s Gate Lane 1804 Griffin’s Knoll Court 4209 A Henderson Road 8105 Joseph Weston Court 501 Margaret Hiatt Court 103 Kellam’s Creek Court 105 Kellam’s Creek Court 108 Kellam’s Creek Court 7899 West Gander Court 7706 Northern Estates Point 7709 Northern Estates Point 7714 Northern Estates Point 15 Notting Hill Court 596 Tillie Scott Court 706 Stoneway Court 340 Air Harbor Road 6202 Bedstone Drive

Arch Building Corporation Gunter Custom Homes and Design, LLC DH Sutphin Builders, Inc. Walraven Signature Homes, LLC Precept Construction, LLC Walraven Signature Homes, LLC Windsor Homes Southern Evergreen, LLC R.S. Parker Homes, LLC Allen Hyatt Builders, Inc. Windsor Homes Windsor Homes Windsor Homes Laurel Homes R. Andrews Builders, Inc. Kickin’ Clouds, LLC Otey Construction, Inc. D. Stone Builders, Inc. Millican Construction Co. R. Andrews Builders, Inc. Otey Construction, Inc. DH Sutphin Builders, Inc.

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Hunters Mark Linville Ridge Mountain View Oakhurst Downs River Gate

5691 6636 7345 5703 6906

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Riverside Riverside Riverside Riverside Stafford Ridge

6841 Shields Drive 6843 Shields Drive 6861 Matzinger Court 6865 Matzinger Court 8446 Alice Player Drive

Builders MD, LLC Friddle and Company, Inc. Building Dimensions, Inc. R & K Custom Homes Gingerich Homes, Inc.

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$749,900 $659,000 $684,900 $679,900 $429,900

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Dawn Acres Dawn Acres Dawn Acres Dawn Acres Dawn Acres Dawn Acres Dawn Acres Northridge Northridge

7713 Front Nine Drive 7715 Front Nine Drive 7803 Front Nine Drive 7804 Front Nine Drive 7805 Front Nine Drive 7811 Front Nine Drive 7813 Front Nine Drive 7802 Green Pond Drive 7809 Green Pond Drive

Ray Bullins Construction Co., Inc. Precept Construction, LLC Walraven Signature Homes, LLC Johnson & Lee, LLC Naylor Custom Homes Don Mills Builders, Inc. R & K Custom Homes Disney Construction Company Brian Disney Homes, Inc.

15 10 13 12 21 14 22 17 19

$429,900 $409,900 $424,900 $414,900 $449,900 $429,900 $449,900 $434,900 $440,000

SUMMERFIELD

Birkhaven Birkhaven Birkhaven Birkhaven Birkhaven Birkhaven Carlson Ridge Strader Woods

7507 Shadow Creek Drive 7616 Braelands Drive 7711 Briardenn Drive 7712 Briardenn Drive 7713 Briardenn Drive 7714 Briardenn Drive 6007 Carlson Ridge Court 4102 Strader Court 7603 Whitaker Drive 8077 Witty Road

Disney Construction Company Don Mills Builders, Inc. Friddle and Company, Inc. R & K Custom Homes Brian Thompson Homes, LLC R & K Custom Homes Granville Homes, LLC Kevin Jones Design-Build Homes Built by Design, Inc. Brian Disney Homes, Inc.

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Whisper Creek at Waterbury

1910 B Whisper Lake Drive

Precept Construction, LLC

$369,900

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Auditions are being held for the musical Oliver! on Monday, May 2 and Tuesday, May 3 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Hyers Theater in the Cultural Center. Roles are available for both adults and children fourth grade and up. Everyone auditioning must bring a prepared song with sheet music or a background CD. There will also be cold readings from the script. Show dates are July 15 to July 17 and July 21 to July 24. For more information visit www.thedramacenter or call (336) 373-2728.

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plans of architect Bruce Conaway, owner of the Conaway Group, to life at 4209 A Henderson Road. Designed to blend into Greensboro’s established Hamilton Lakes neighborhood, Conaway took great pains to be sure that his 3,000-square-foot “modern urban” house looks as though it has always been part of its surroundings. The rooflines of Conaway’s house complement those of the neighboring houses, and the dark red brick is similar to that of older homes in Hamilton Lakes. Because preservation of the lot’s natural features was of paramount importance to Conaway, part of the house is built on piers to preserve the root structure of the existing trees. Conaway likens the construction of his house to “building a ship in a bottle.”

Garcia pointed out that because so much glass is used to allow light to flood the house, non-traditional structural components had to be engineered to allow the large windows to nearly meet at corner junctions. The family room’s huge windows bring the outside in and fill the room with natural light, as do the windows in the study, exercise room and upstairs bedrooms. White oak flooring throughout reflects the natural light streaming through those large windows. At the top of the stairway to the upper level, a picture window makes you feel as though you have entered a tree house. Then, when you step out onto the balcony off the master bedroom, you truly are among the trees. Another unique “modern” home is by Kevin Jones of Kevin Jones Design-

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Build. It’s a house he built for his own family. This 5,500-square-foot, fourbedroom, four-and-a-half bath home at 4102 Strader Court in Summerfield’s Strader Woods is listed as “European modern” in the Parade of Homes magazine. It shares similar features with the Conaway/Garcia house, such as its placement on the lot, large windows and deep overhangs, as well as varying rooflines. Open space and light are features that Jones said are of great importance to him. As an artist as well as a builder, the inside of this light-filled house will serve as his art gallery. High ceilings and broad expanses of wall are well suited for displaying the projects both he and his daughter have created. The inside of the house includes a media room, a sleek European designed kitchen and a unique lighted “wave” wall extending upwards along the floating stairway to the second floor. All the floors in the house are bleached white maple, adding to the brightness of the spaces. The living room, media room and kitchen wrap around the bamboo ceilinged screened porch that overlooks a small garden. Back-to-back linear fireplaces in the living room and porch highlight the two spaces. The master bedroom, in its own wing, also overlooks the garden. Outdoor living is important to the Jones family. In fact, Jones calls them “beach people.” Because they can’t get to the beach as often as they’d like, he has brought the beach to Summerfield. Soon there will be a swimming pool beside the already installed tiki bar, hidden behind an industrial-type roll-up metal door when not in use. The bar area has its own refrigerator, microwave, flat screen TV, bamboo cabinets, concrete countertop and two-tap Kegorator. Steps lead from the patio and fire pit up the slope behind the house to the Jones’ “beach” – a beach volleyball court. The court will be surrounded by Windmill and Pindo palm trees. Just east of Strader Woods on NC 150 at 7709 Northern Estates Point,

Kickin’ Clouds is showcasing its 4,532-square-foot home. Each house in this 16-lot development sits on approximately one acre. Kickin’ Clouds’ entry includes a gourmet kitchen, formal dining room, a linear fireplace in the great room and a wood-burning fireplace on the outdoor patio. Twelve-foot ceilings in the great room enhance the spacious feel of the home. The great room divides the house into an adult zone and a kids zone. The kitchen and master suite are on one side of the room and three bedrooms and a play area are on the other. Though the living spaces are on the main floor, there is a stairway that leads to a huge finished bonus area with its own bath. If you’d like to see several houses close enough to walk from one to the other, stop by Birkhaven in Summerfield or Dawn Acres in Stokesdale. Birkhaven will have six new homes by five custom builders: Disney Construction Company, Friddle and Company, Brian Thompson Homes LLC, R&K Custom Homes and Don Mills Builders. Dawn Acres will showcase the new construction of seven builders: Ray Bullins Construction, Precept Construction, Walraven Signature Homes, Johnson & Lee, Naylor Custom Homes, Don Mills Builders and R&K Custom Homes. Because the entries in these two communities are fairly close together, visiting them during the Parade is an easy way to see the work of a number of GBA members. For a map of the homes, see page 16 of this issue. In addition, Parade of Homes magazines with directions, renderings and floor plans are available at area Harris Teeter or Lowe’s Home Improvement stores and each tour house. An e-version is at www.GreensboroBuilders.org. You can also download the mobile app, MyHomeFound, to your smart phone or tablet to access information on Parade entries and map your tour route.

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What follows has been transcribed from the answering machine on our comment line. We edit out what is required by the laws of the state, of good taste and of good sense. The limit on phone calls is one minute and each caller may make up to two calls per week. If you have something to say, call our comment line at 763-0479 and start talking at The Sound of the Beep. I live in District 2. I was calling to commend you on your article about the budget vote today in our district for our area. And I just wanted to say, y’all were well on point with it. It was a farce. People did not get the info to bring in ideas, but they’re pretending like we did. And then they want us to vote on some inconsequential items for our neighborhood when we just had another murder to occur last night. Do they really think $100,000 is well spent on a chess table for $4,000? We need real resources in our community. And we need to get out there and be a part of the communities that we represent. I am so glad that you all take a different stance than most newspaper. And you are willing to go on the line and talk about the real issues. Please continue to do what you do.

%%% Good evening. This is the Blue-Eyed Devil. The saddest words I ever heard were get off, get off, get off my bulldozer.

%%% You’re telling the truth, and the regular mainstream society is not trying to hear that. Please stay informed about our community, and keep us on the frontline of this fight, because we’re in it to win it. We don’t need any more lives lost. That bathroom is not more important than our life. Thank you.

%%% Hello. I was calling in regards to the Scott Yost mental health column. What a lot of people don’t mention, and don’t realize, is that the Guilford and Randolph mental health centers were excellent until the Democrats started destroying the mental health center in 2001. The Republicans are blamed for a lot of problems, but it was really the Democrats that destroyed the mental health system.

%%% Yeah, please explain to me how the winner of the primaries was Amos Quick. Why wasn’t he appointed to fill out his term? And does the LGBT have that much power to put who they wanted to be in that position?

%%% Well, at least our governor is finally keeping his word, standing for the teachers. Also, he stands for justice. Men should be in men’s rooms. Women should be in women’s rooms. Thank goodness he’s trying to protect the children. The children don’t need to be worried about going to the bathroom and having perverts in the women’s room. It’s one thing when someone accidently walks in the wrong bathroom. It’s another thing when someone doesn’t need to be in the bathroom around most kids. If the kids had to worry about their own safety, they’ll go to the bathroom outdoors to be safe. Thank goodness we’ve got a governor that’s finally got one thing that’s sensible. At least he stands for our teachers, a raise for our teachers. Hip, hip, hooray for those that stand for justice.

%%% John Kerry vows to turn up the heat on ISIS. I guess that means he will take James Taylor over there and have a little sing-along with them. Que sera, sera. Now I see the government is sending the B52 bombers to the Middle East. Guess What? A day late and a dollar short. Trump and Cruz suggested it at the start of their campaign. I guess king Obama must be paying attention.

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Yost Suspends Column for Special Episode of Andy Griffith Show by Scott D. Yost Your very favorite show is back, and better than ever. The whole Mayberry gang returns for … The New Andy Griffith Show – Mayberry 2016. Opening scene: Interior of the Mayberry Courthouse, in the sheriff’s office, with the town’s lone jail cell visible in the background. Andy and many of the townspeople, with the notable exception of Barney, are celebrating the kickoff of the Mayberry Old Jubilee Festival with cake and ice cream when, suddenly, a mysterious visitor from Washington, DC, enters. Andy: Howdy, stranger! Well, judging from your dark suit and tie and the serious expression on your face, you must be that federal agent they told me was coming to town. Get yourself some punch and a piece of cake. I must say, we’ve had visitors from Raleigh before – but never from the federal government in Washington, DC. Agent: Yes, I’m federal agent Calvin Polrect. But enough niceties; we have some alarming reports in Washington of what’s been going on down here and that’s why they sent me. I’m here to tell you there’s a new sheriff in town, and I’m gonna right this ship. I’m here on some serious business, so let’s get straight to it. I’ve been empowered by the United States Department of Justice to take action on our multiple concerns about what has been going on in your town. Quite frankly, we’re extremely concerned about Mayberry’s consistent and wholesale failure to comply with the law, as well as the corruption that goes all the way up to you, sheriff. Andy: Now hold on there just a second! Failure to comply with the law? Corruption? I mean, sure we get a drunk or a speeder in town every now and then, but – Agent: For instance, we recently got a report that your town’s pharmacist conducted a sale of sugar pills that were fraudulently labeled as Schedule 2 prescription drugs. (Flipping through his notes). According to these reports, one Miss Ellie Walker, under false pretenses, did knowingly sell a substance purposely mislabeled as laboratorygrade pharmaceuticals to a Miss Emma Brand, and also that, you, Andrew Samuel Griffith, the duly sworn sheriff of this town, did knowingly and with forethought allow that transaction to take place! Andy: Now, I’m not sure exactly what you’re saying with all those high-falutin’ words, but I think what

you might be referring to is the fact that Ellie and me were recently trying to help Emma out. You see, ol’ Emma – well, she’s something of a hypochondriac, and she doesn’t really need any medicine, but Emma grew so despondent and threw such a fit when she couldn’t get her prescription refilled that Ellie finally sold her some sugar pills and just told her it was her prescription medicine. Agent: So, you admit to aiding and abetting that? Andy: Well, yeah, I mean, it was just sugar pills and it seemed to make everybody happy and it worked out the problem. Ol’ Emma perked right up when she got those pills that she thought was her medication. Agent: Good Lord, I am stunned – stunned – that you, a duly elected law enforcement officer who took an oath to uphold the law, not only let that transaction take place, but also participated in such a clear and blatant case of fraud. Both you and Miss Walker are going down for conspiracy to commit pharmaceutical fraud, practicing medicine without a license and tampering with a controlled substance. Not to mention that the fact that you two discussed Miss Brand’s privileged medical information is a violation of so many HIPAA regulations we’re going to need to convene a special panel of prosecutors just to sort those issues out alone. My goodness, what in the world is going on down here? Andy: Now you listen here –

Agent: (Looking at his notepad again) Let me see. I’m also looking for one Opie Taylor. Opie: That’s me! Agent: Young man, you’re under arrest. Andy: Now just hold on a second there! Opie: Under arrest!? Gee, Pa, what did I do? Agent: Well, would it ring any bells if I told you that our federal wildlife officials found the remains of your handiwork from the incident last Tuesday afternoon. Opie: You mean when I killed that bird with my slingshot? Agent: That “bird” you killed was a red-bellied speckled cotton warbler, high on the list of federally endangered species, and intentionally killing one carries serious jail time. And the fact that you flagrantly did and willfully kill one with a homemade weapon just adds to the severity of the crime. Opie: I’d just shown the kids at school my new slingshot and they said I should get some target practice by shooting at things. That’s all it was. I didn’t mean to kill that bird! Agent: Oh my. So, by your own admission, you took a potentially lethal weapon onto the grounds of an elementary educational facility with the intent to use it! That’s conspiracy to commit a terrorist act! We’re putting you under the jail, buddy! You’ll be an old man before you see the light of day again– if you ever do. Andy: Opie? A terrorist?? Agent: If I were you, I’d be worried about myself rather than little Opie. You’re in as much hot water as your clearly radicalized weapon-toting son. For instance, do you mind telling me what percentage of your law enforcement department is African American or some other minority? Well, it’s just Barney and me. And sometimes we’ve had to deputize Goober and Gomer. They’re standing right over there. Agent: I see – so your law enforcement agency

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completely excludes all minorities. Andy: Well, yeah, I guess you could say that, but it’s just because we’ve never had any minority apply. In fact, come to think of it, there are no minorities in Mayberry. I think the only black person in the whole town is Opie’s football coach, and he only spoke two lines one time and we never saw him again after that. Hmmm, that’s strange now that I think about it.

Ernest: I’m just asking her to go to the dance with me … You better get these cuffs off of me afore I whip your buttocks! Agent: You can add resisting arrest and threatening a federal agent to the list. (Jailhouse door swings open again and Barney enters with a man in handcuffs in tow.)

Agent: OK, you’re being charged with discriminatory hiring practices and systematic institutional racial bias in a law enforcement agency. But all this is just for starters. We also have a number of infraction concerns over PETA revelations about the way your department handled the situation of a goat that ate dynamite …

Barney: Andy, you won’t believe this. I caught this Peeping Tom hiding in the ladies’ bathroom down at the library. The Mayberry Women’s Historical Society was having their monthly meeting and a few of the ladies who had gone into the restroom came running out screaming and I nabbed this perpetrator in there.

(The jailhouse door swings open suddenly. Ernest T. Bass enters carrying a handful of handpicked wild flowers.)

Andy: All right. Good work, Barn! Lock him up.

Ernest: How. Do. You. Do. Mrs. Wiley? Uh, I mean, How. Do. You. Do, Charlene. Charlene: Ernest, you’re sweet but I told you I’m not interested. I am not gonna be your girl. Ernest: But Charlene, you are the love of my life. I’ve come a courtin’. Like I told you last night, I want you to go with me to the Old Jubilee Festival Dance this Saturday. Charlene: Now, Ernest T. Bass, you know I told you before, I don’t want to go with you. Ernest: But I loves you so much, Charlene! I can do 18 pull-ups, I got ya these cheer flowers and I wrote ya a courtin’ song. Here, I’ll sing it for you. (He takes her elbow and pulls her toward him.) Just give me one little kiss right cheer on my cheek first, sweetie, so I know that you return my affections. Agent: (whipping out handcuffs and, in one quick motion, cuffing Bass). All right, I’ve heard enough, Mister Bass, if that really is your name. I can discern from this situation that she has made it crystal clear that your advances are unwelcome and also that she has previously informed you of that fact. Despite that, you just accosted her in the presence of a federal agent. You’re under arrest for stalking, two counts of sexual harassment, intimidation of a female, assault on a female, attempted kidnapping, second-degree sexual assault, attempted rape and perpetrating substantial emotional distress on a female.

Angry townspeople: Yes, lock him up! Why, I never!

Throw the book at him! Agent: Wait a minute. What are you backwater townspeople doing? Excuse me, sir, I heard that you were in the women’s bathroom. Were you there because you are transgendered? Man: Uh, I don’t know. Is that good or bad? Agent: You know …transgendered. Is that why you felt a need to be in the women’s bathroom? If so, then you had every right to be there despite what these backwater hicks think. Man: Yes, that’s it – I’m transgentrified, or whatever that big 50-cent word you just said is. I wasn’t doing nothing wrong – I am just very transgentrified. Agent: All right, all you people are under arrest for false imprisonment, aiding and abetting federal hate crimes and gender preference discrimination and too many other things to list. (He pulls out his phone and dials it.) Yeah, Central, I need several prisoner transport vans at my location. (He hangs up.) All right, people, listen up! We’re arresting everyone in town, including you, sheriff, and you, deputy – with the exception of you, sir, the transgendered one. Sir, you’re free to go, and, speaking on behalf of myself and my agency, we’re very sorry these people attempted to take away your civil rights. Now, for the rest of you: Come on, everyone, line up out front! The federal paddy wagons are on the way!

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Public Library. At those meetings, Levine often gets impressive guests who are making news at the time. For instance, UAC Chairman Carolyn Cudd spoke at the meeting when the animal shelter scandal broke – even though the UAC was otherwise completely silent on the matter. Brenda Overman, the president and founder of the Society for the Prevention and Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) of the Triad spoke when the UAC turned its funds over to that organization, and Davidson County Assistant Manager Casey Smith spoke at a HOPE meeting when improvements at the Davidson County shelter were in the spotlight. Levine is a researcher at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She stated on her application that her primary goal is reducing euthanasia rates for healthy animals across the county. She also wrote that her background is in statistical research and she added that she has used that skill to help get approval for many medical research grants – and she could also help bring grant money to the animal shelter. Perkins, who has served on the board

of Greensboro Urban Ministries, is a former teacher who’s now constituent liaison to Congressman Mark Walker, Perkins wrote in her application that, “We have a reputation in the South for pitiful animal shelters,” and she added that, currently, Wake County has a topnotch shelter. She said she’d like to help Guilford County move closer to having the kind of model shelter Wake County now has. Perkins also wrote, “After the fiasco with the [Guilford County Animal Shelter], we should be striving for a shelter that is exemplary in how it is run.” Roberts is an animal welfare advocate who’s worked with Brother Wolf Animal Rescue in Asheville. In her application, she wrote, “I would like Animal Services to be more visible to the public through social media, organized events and fundraisers and special campaign drives for specific needs.” She said that the shelter should conduct a business sponsorship drive and hold a 5K run to raise funds for Kuranda beds, a type of elevated dog cot popular in some shelters. Roberts also stated she wants the

new advisory board to take a “long, hard look at the structure and staffing of the shelter.” She was one of the few applicants selected by staff who offered some specific criticism for the current shelter’s operations in her application. “I regularly greet front desk staff when I enter,” she wrote. “There can be four plus people at the front desk idly playing cell phone games or surfing the internet but only one to two people in back (who aren’t volunteers) washing and clearing kennels.” Stanton is the president of Touch Point Staffing. She wrote that she wants to make adopting animals more desirable for county residents than purchasing them. Stanton served as regional director of the US Equine Rescue League, as well as a certified cruelty investigator for that organization. She stated that she has a love for all animals but her main interest is horses. Guilford County Deputy County Manager Clarence Grier, who has the job of overseeing shelter operations, said the goal of the new advisory board is “to help us use best practices and give us outside guidance you normally wouldn’t get, in order to help us operate in the most efficient and effective manner.” He said it’s always helpful to get experienced and informed opinions from those with a varying perspectives. “They will help us when we fall down,” Grier said. He said the animal services board would also have input as the county

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gears up for a new animal shelter. “I think we desperately need a new shelter,” Grier said. “The current one is not meeting the needs.” The Board of Commissioners will also have to decide which commissioner will fill one spot on the board. That member will act as the commissioners’ liaison to the advisory board. Foster, a commissioner who doesn’t have an applicant listed from her district, said she had been speaking with a veterinarian she might be interested in putting on the board, but that she hadn’t made a decision yet. Phillips said staff members had done a very thorough job in their efforts to determine the best makeup of the board. He said that now that many people have applied and been vetted by staff, it’s late in the game for commissioners to be nominating anyone who hasn’t already applied. Phillips reiterated the importance of this brand new county board. He said it was less important in this case that it include a board member from every district and more important that the members be well informed and very engaged in the county’s animal affairs. “It’s critical to the county that we have people with experience and a professional background,” he said. “What’s gotten us into trouble in the past is that commissioners have put people on boards that we may know and respect but may not be qualified in that area. In this case, we have to make their qualifications a priority.”

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%%% I think that my lazy neighbor is waiting for Bernie Sanders to provide free government lawn service. Well, at least by the time of the election we’ll know we’re all the socialists live.

%%% Yes, if you remember the name John Podesta and his brother Tony Podesta, John works for Hillary Clinton as a major player in her campaign. It’s interesting that his name and his brother’s name have come up in the Panama Papers. And they indicate that they were working with Putin to repair damage of Sberbank. Ukraine declared this bank a financial terrorist. The question, what is the head of Hillary’s campaign doing working for Russia first? And then, helping to restore the reputation of a bank that has tried to help undermine a sovereign nation? It was also

mentioned that one or two incidents occurred in the banks in Ukraine. I believe they were bombing. These incidents allowed Putin to intervene in the Ukraine. I wonder why the leading Democratic candidate would have a staff member who would be part of an outfit helping Russia to undermine a sovereign nation?

%%% This might help solve the bathroom problem. You just have to add another bathroom. So, one will be like it has been. Say men. The other one will save women. And the other one on the door will say, whatever. That takes care of the confusion.

%%% Well, I saw where this past weekend the very sad news about the young black football player from the New Orleans Saints who was killed in a road rage accident. I thought for sure Black Lives Matter would (continued on next page)

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as the first time; perhaps not. Either way, the Bible does not tell us what was written there. In summary: God was not unjust when he had the people punished for breaking the commandments, because (a) they were covenants, not commandments, and (b) they had sworn to obey them before Moses went up into the mountain. In the eyes of a just God, ignorance of the law is an excuse. (Human judges have to take the opposite view, or every criminal would swear that he didn’t know his crime was against the law, and we can’t tell who’s lying. God can.) But the Israelites did not sin in ignorance. Anyway, I still say “Ten Commandments” like everybody else.

Because if I said “Ten Promises” or “Ten Covenants,” nobody would know what I was talking about. Yet I think it’s worth making the distinction clear, so that instead of regarding the list as a bunch of restrictions God has forced on us, we can join with the Israelites in making those covenants for ourselves, in our own lives, in our own homes. Then we’ll understand that we are each saying, “I will have no other gods before thee.” “I will not kill.” “I will not steal.” “I will not covet.” “I will not tell lies to defame my neighbor.” These are promises we make to God, and having taken those oaths, it is up to us to keep them, not out of fear, but out of honor.

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beep (continued from previous page) be out there protesting. But that’s right. It was another black guy that killed him. I’m sure this guy was a very nice guy, the one that was killed. Everybody said he was very well liked. But they’re not going to protest about that, only if it’s some thug that gets shot robbing somebody, or breaking the law, or trying to take a gun from a police officer, and that police officer happens to be white.

%%% I am 52 years old. I have lived in Greensboro all my life. And I can honestly say that in all the times I’ve used the public restroom I have never seen anyone’s crotch. So, please explain to me what this HB2 bill is supposed to do? Is it supposed to make us go into a restroom now and look at crotches? I really don’t understand this thing. Somebody explain to me why something that’s been going on for probably as long as I’ve been using a public restroom. Now all of a sudden, it’s a big problem.

%%% This is about Bruce Springsteen canceling his concerts. He didn’t want to come to Greensboro. If he wanted to come, he would have come. You know, when you don’t want to do something, any excuse will do. He certainly has his right to his opinion on HB2. But he could have come and made a

statement on the stage and said he wasn’t going to schedule any more concerts in North Carolina, etc. But I know how it is. If you don’t want to do something, any excuse will do. He didn’t care about little ol’ Greensboro.

%%% I read on the internet where three airports in the US have at least a dozen employees that have ties to terrorist groups. Geez. Why not just give them the keys to the cockpit? Or better yet, just make them pilots.

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%%% Yeah, Steely Dan Fan Man. Concerning this HB2 bill. You know, these local people, even they pass ordinances like no leaves in the street. And it continues. And then they have ordinances like no cars parked in the front yard. And it continues. And it’s all a waste of time. They waste all this time making these rules and laws that they’re not going to enforce anyway. By the way, they could be getting revenue from it. And so now we have this HB2 thing that it seems to me that, OK, if they want to waste their time and make this, go ahead and let them waste their time and make it. And we can just all ignore it just like we do the leaves, and the cars and everything. Just everybody continue as they have all along.

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and later be the site of a parking deck once funds for that purpose are found. County staff have calculated that using that land as a parking lot would add about 100 spaces. Barnes said that parking was now a huge problem for his staff, jail visitors and others with business in that part of downtown Greensboro. Barnes said a former Board of Commissioners made an extremely bad decision about five years ago when the board voted to sell the giant parking lot that serves the Bryan Family YMCA right across South Edgeworth Street from the new jail that opened three-and-a-half years ago as well as across from the old jail that opened in 1975. “They should never have sold that parking lot to the YMCA,” Barnes said. According to Barnes, the plan has to include a large exterior cleaning effort for the old jail. He said the building would have to be pressure washed from top to bottom. The sheriff said the old jail certainly does have a dingy appearance right now, but some exterior cleaning, he said, could make it a law enforcement center worthy of

Guilford County government. “I think it can be turned into something the county can be proud of,” Barnes said. He added that, rather than move into a brand new headquarters, he’d rather keep costs down and provide the public with easy access to his department’s services. Barnes said it makes more sense than tearing down the old jail down and putting a one-story building there. He also said renovating the old jail would cost a lot less than replacing it with something else. The estimates for just tearing down the old jail come in between $800,000 and $1 million. “Fixing up the old jail makes sense because you get more bang for the buck,” he said. Barnes said that moving into the old jail would provide enough room for future growth for the department. The sheriff also said he’s considering having temporary structures – “like the schools do with mobile classrooms” – on his front lawn of the Zenke building while the work is being done. He said that might not look great, but it would

provide workspace for his officers now in the old jail while renovations were being made to that facility. The problems with the Zenke building’s condition have been known to the Board of Commissioners for at least a year and a half. During the commissioners’ February 2015 retreat, Guilford County Facilities, Parks and Property Management Director Robert McNiece gave the board a presentation on the state of the Zenke building and, at that time, McNiece spoke on the possibility of tearing down both the Zenke building and the old jail and building a large new structure on the block to hold all law enforcement operations. Barnes plan would cost much less that that, but he needs the commissioners’ approval to move forward. Commissioner Ray Trapp said recently that Barnes “always gets what he wants” from the Board of Commissioners, but Barnes said that’s not really the case. It’s true that the county’s prominent Republican sheriff has a good working relationship with the Republican-majority board and he almost always gets what he asks for – but this is a major matter and at least one commissioner has concerns about the sheriff’s plan. Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Jeff Phillips

said something needs to be done to address the current state of the Zenke building and the old jail, and he said he’s looking forward to those discussions with the sheriff and fellow commissioners. Phillips said it’s important to address the problems – though, in the end, another option may be better than keeping the old jail as the sheriff wants to do. “We’re definitely going to consider the sheriff’s needs as we always do,” Phillips said. He also said the old jail is dilapidated and he has concerns whether the building is worth saving given its current state. Phillips said Guilford County may be better off “retooling existing facilities” and using those for sheriff’s operations instead of renovating the old jail. Phillips wouldn’t say where he wanted those operations to go, but Barnes said that the plan Phillips is referring to would separate his department’s operations and put some in the BB&T building where the Register of Deeds is located, and others in the Independence Center, home to the county’s Tax Department and other county operations. Barnes said that would be “another Band-Aid” and he summed up his view of that idea in a short email: “No parking. No easy access for the public. Makes NO sense to me.”

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TO THE EDITOR BORN TO RUN FROM NC DEAR EDITOR,

CONTEMPTIBLE BREASTFEEDING I hope the Rhino Times and the DEAR EDITOR,

City Council will take a look at the contract between Bruce Springsteen and the Coliseum and see under what conditions Springsteen could unilaterally cancel the contract to perform his music. Just because he does not like HB2 – the bathroom bill – seems to me to be an insufficient reason. Thus, the Greensboro and the Coliseum should sue him for lost profits, etc. This would be best handled by a good trial lawyer on a percentage fee of the recovery made. A responsible City Council would protect the economic interest of its citizens and not sit on its hands, afraid to act, scared to hurt the feelings of special interest groups and possibly lose a few votes.

H.D. Cole

In North Carolina it is legal for a woman to breastfeed in public or private. Apparently some judges don’t know about the law. Recently, in our state, a woman was legally breastfeeding in a courtroom when Judge Peter Knight told her to step outside and cover up. Would she have been jailed if she refused? Breastfeeding babies has been done since the human race started. No woman who is feeding her child should be told to step outside and cover up.

Chuck Mann

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refusing to state his name and address. Those days are long gone. Not only are people allowed to speak without identifying themselves, people are allowed to shout at the City Council from the podium and from their seats. Councilmember Tony Wilkins was attempting to ask City Attorney Tom Carruthers some questions about the ramifications of a video played by a speaker, and the man who never identified himself was allowed to shout answers from his seat in the audience to the questions Wilkins was trying to get answered by Carruthers. The unknown speaker was never told he was out of order, asked to stop shouting or told to come to the podium to speak. Two weeks ago Vaughan allowed a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists to shout down state Rep. John Blust when he was attempting to give a report on House Bill 2 to the City Council. Blust did identify himself and had been asked to speak by Vaughan, but she didn’t do him the courtesy of having the LGBT activists quiet down so he could speak. The LGBT group was also allowed to wave signs around in direct violation of one of the rules posted on the wall

outside the City Council Chambers. Vaughan is the president of the Guilford Green Foundation, which raises money for and supports LGBT causes, so it seemed that she was allowing the group more leeway because of her job, but maybe not. Later in the Tuesday meeting, a woman was allowed to come to the podium and shout at the City Council for three minutes. One of her loud complaints was that the City Council was allowing a white-owned business to move into a black neighborhood on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. That’s an outrageously racist comment, but no one on the City Council complained. Councilmember Mike Barber did point out that the business she was talking about, Family Dollar, is a publicly traded company and she could be one of the owners if she so desired. But perhaps the highlight of the meeting was when the City Council was approving a contract for loose-leaf collection and Councilmember Sharon Hightower asked, “Has loose-leaf collection ended.” Loose-leaf collection is in the fall, not the spring.

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She said, for instance, that Carr said this week that much of the stated that a pay increase last year That money, which was approved by a pleasant, understanding and money is needed to increase pay and primarily benefited teachers who were county voters for school construction welcoming school bus driver can cover higher staff benefit costs to hold just starting out in the profession. and repairs, is still available for the be the difference between whether onto highly qualified employees. She What those numbers don’t say is schools when school officials are or not a child comes to school in the also said she and staff have tried to be that Guilford County teachers, who ready to use it. morning or skips. very cost conscious when coming up Branson’s said the commissioners School officials say it’s been seven receive a sizable supplement, do much with the new budget and the request better than North Carolina teachers would be discussing the request in the years since the bus drivers have had that she hopes the school board will as a whole. Guilford County pay for coming weeks. a significant raise. approve for presentation to the county teachers consistently ranks near the “That’s pocket change,” he said of Carr said the school system is still commissioners. Carr said there was a top when compared to other counties the additional $8.5 million in operating recovering from the great recession real effort to keep this year’s request to in the state. funds “The last two years they’ve asked of 2008 and that the wages for all the essentials. School officials say that the school for quite a bit, so this is somewhat staff have fallen behind what other “Dr. Young and I met with the team and really took a hard look at the basics employers are offering. She said system is already feeling employee more reasonable this go around than it pay increases haven’t been large dissatisfaction and seeing higher has been in the past.” and top priorities,” she said. Branson said his wife, Rhonda, is She said it’s possible for educators to in the past eight years and that the turnover rates among teachers get by without some tools that would be employees can often make more and extended periods with unfilled a teacher, so he’s seen both sides of the issue. He said the teachers are a nice to have, or to hold off on making money elsewhere. She added that vacancies. “Fewer students studying to be valuable asset to the county and their improvements to a facility that could some teachers work a second or third teachers means fewer qualified work is certainly a labor of love. He said use some work, but the thing that’s an job to pay the bills. She said that, in the coming teachers to choose from,” Carr said. he’s seen teachers spend money out of absolute necessity for a well-functioning school system, she said, is an ability to years, the school system is expected “We need to be more competitive, not their own pockets for school supplies, attract and retain quality teachers and to lose teachers to retirement just with salary, but with more respect but he added that he doesn’t buy into and to competing employment and improved working conditions. the notion that teachers are a highly other staff. “Education is a people business,” opportunities, while enrollment in That’s the only way we’ll be able downtrodden bunch with a thankless Carr said. “At the end of the day, what teacher preparation programs in local to attract and keep these talented job that offers no advantages. “You have spring break, Christmas you absolutely have to have is good public universities has fallen about 20 teachers.” In addition to the operating and Includes installation, pad, moving furniture, take-up and disposal! 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served on the Board of Education. “It’s sometimes frustrating but I think the bulk of the money should go to the schools, not the top-level purposes,” such as hiring more administrators. She said the schools are facing so

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the green jacket to the winner, but he had to realize himself, he just fell apart on hole number 12. Anyway, I hope big Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers was watching, because there was a show of class right there with Jordon Spieth. He showed a lot of class, and Cam could take some really good examples from that instead of being a crybaby like he was after the big Super Bowl ...

I watched the golf tournament down there at Augusta over the weekend. And Jordon Spieth, they interviewed him after the match was over. And, anyway, he not only had to present

Hello. My name is Charlie and I’m an Australian shepherd. Please do not use the D word. I’m calling today on behalf of all persons of fur to protest

%%% If gun laws do not stop criminals from getting and using guns, why do you think a bathroom bill is going to stop a pervert from going into the bathroom to spy on people? I’m just using the conservative Republican logic. If you can find any in that. So, if we don’t need gun laws, then we don’t need a bathroom law. Got it?

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the outright bigotry and prejudice of HB2. I may have been born as an Australian shepherd, but I self-identify as, um, er, a poodle. Yes, that’s it. A poodle. I reject any attempt to oppose bourgeois capitalistic stereotypes for I have a dog-given right to enter the poodle’s bathroom. It’s a four-legged thing you wouldn’t understand. So, we will organize loud self-righteous protests wherein we assail those who engage in shameless discrimination against our kind merely because of our abundance of hair. And always remember this: Canine lives matter. Just sign me off as An Independent Poodle Fancier.

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baseball games if they’re sponsored by the school. If the school is going to take them, the school can pay for it. If I want to take my grandsons to a ballgame, I’ll take them. They’re in school to learn. This is part of the problem of why people graduate from high school and they can’t spell their name, because they’re at ballgames during the day. And I don’t see any need for it. I went to school. We didn’t go to ballgames. We stayed in school and learned. And we learned cursive, and we learned fractions, and we learned decimals and everything else under the sun except baseball. It’s ridiculous.

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There’s two kinds of people. Those has drunk the Kool-Aid and them that ain’t.

Hello. Walking past Wesley Long Hospital, and I noticed they took the gorgeous rock sign they had built a few years back and just tore it down so they can put up another sign, I guess. So, all this money in the healthcare business is being spent on marketing. That’s really where we need those dollars to go. Thanks.

%%% Yeah, Steely Dan Fan Man. I was just wondering, what’s the deal with all the children going to baseball games during the middle of the school day. Personally, I wouldn’t pay to have my grandsons go to

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Yes, here comes the class warfare campaign again. I guess people never learned the lesson when Jimmy Carter did that against Ford. We ended up with 17 percent interest rates, gas lines, the worst economy since before 1940. And then we had Obama, who now has jacked up $9 trillion in debt. OK? And, then, now we’re going to fall for this same argument with Hillary Clinton, and she’s going to do nothing more than add more taxes to the pot: $1.4 trillion. I think there was an article in The New York Times about it. So how many times do the American people have to get burned before they realize that class warfare argument is strictly a progressive socialist argument?

%%% Please tell me which is more important – for defendants to be tried in court for their alleged crimes or for local agencies to save or make money? The Pretrial Services and the jail retention committees try their best to keep people out of jail. And even if a person is locked up under bond, if that person misses court then the bondsman has to pay the bond in full. And even if bondsmen picked up their defendants that miss court after a certain date, they can’t get their

money back. This kills the incentive for them to pick the guys up and to make sure they are tried. There’s something wrong with this system.

%%% I just wanted to put this out there. It’s a Democratic mindset on the economic standards that they have such a low esteem for. I saw Nancy Hoffmann downtown on Elm Street, and I was speaking to her about our city budget, and the deficit involved in running some of the specialty bus services, and I mentioned that our national debt at the time was $17 trillion. And she said, literally, quote, that is not too much debt for our country, end quote. So, in sharing this with some people, I had a senior citizen to tell me she once heard President Eisenhower say, one dollar is too much debt.

%%% I think that it’s very shameful when our military soldiers have to salvage parts to keep their own planes flying. You do realize, Obama, that the military hates you just as much as I hate you. And for now, the first time in my life, I’m ashamed to be an American. I cannot wait to see you fly out of here.

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reduce government spending. The big difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that the Democrats increase spending at a faster rate than Republicans. Obama bailed out the big corporations in the 2008 recession, something that sounds really Republican. And Bush expanded Medicaid, something that sounds really Democratic. What the voters have decided is that you can’t trust either party. If Trump can manage to get enough votes from the people to overcome the Republican establishment and get into the race in November, a whole bunch of Democrats who hate Hillary Clinton and are sick of both parties will cast their votes for Trump. Obama is sending an additional 200 troops to Iraq and, according to his statement, this is going to make the difference in taking Mosul with a population of over 1 million back from ISIS. Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq and was taken by ISIS in 2014. Since that time ISIS has been fortifying and booby-trapping the city.

It is extremely difficult to imagine how 200 troops, that Obama says won’t be fighting but advising, will make a huge difference in the major battle it will require to retake Mosul. But then he is sending eight Apache helicopters also. What in the world is Obama doing? He promised no boots on the ground in Iraq, and with the additional 200 the official count is over 4,000. The actual count is no doubt higher. It would appear that all Obama is attempting to do at this point is not suffer any major defeats before he leaves office next January. He’s not going to do enough to win the war, but seems content to do barely enough not to completely lose it. The White House likes to talk about how many air missions have been flown, but not about how many US planes come back to the base not having dropped a bomb or fired a missile. Having planes flying around really doesn’t accomplish much except put American pilots in danger and cost the American taxpayers money. It wasn’t until Russia got involved that the ISIS oil production was

significantly damaged. Obama insisted that the oil wells not be bombed and trucks transporting oil not be destroyed unless the driver was warned and given the chance to run away. Obama is making a farewell tour of allies this week, and to no one’s surprise, except maybe his own, he will spend most of his time trying to mend fences. Obama seems to hate American allies more than America’s enemies. No doubt ISIS loves him because he gave them pretty much free reign in Iraq and Syria for a long time. He even refused to arm the Kurds with the heavy weapons they needed to fight ISIS on an even basis. ISIS had plenty of heavy weapons because the Iraqi army left them in the field when they ran away. So the US, through Iraq, supplied ISIS with heavy weapons but not our allies the Kurds. Obama not only refused to supply the Kurds with heavy weapons to put them on equal footing with ISIS, he blocked US allies from doing so. Cruz can’t beat Trump at the ballot box, which is where most elections are decided, but he can depend

on his Tea Party supporters to take over Republican county and state conventions and get his supporters elected as delegates to the national convention. It’s not illegal, but wouldn’t it be better for everyone is Cruz would do his best to beat Trump the oldfashioned way, by getting more votes, instead of concentrating his efforts on taking delegates from Trump. But going after Trump’s delegates is classic Cruz. It’s just like when he sent out the message that Dr. Ben Carson was dropping out of the race in Iowa. It wasn’t true. Cruz found out it wasn’t true but didn’t bother to correct his mistake until after the polls closed. It was convenient timing. The New York primary falls into the pattern that has been established all over the country. When people get to vote, the vast majority of the time Donald Trump wins. When you have caucuses – or in the case of Colorado where the party leaders decide who gets the delegates – then Cruz wins. Nobody doubts that the Republican establishment wants anybody but Trump. But somebody should think twice if they are considering giving the Republican nomination to someone other than the candidate who has won the most delegates.

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Donald Trump had a huge win on Tuesday in New York. He proved that with fewer candidates in the race he can get over 50 percent of the vote. In fact, he received over 60 percent of the votes cast, picked up nearly all the delegates and, if he continues his winning ways next week, the magic number of 1,237 is almost in his grasp. Sen. Ted Cruz was shut out in the nation’s third largest state with a little over 14 percent of the vote – a fact that Cruz supporters might want to note. Gov. John Kasich, who has only won one primary – his home state of Ohio – and has finished last in most of the primaries, beat Cruz handily with 25 percent. Cruz should be accustomed by now to losing to Trump, but to lose to Kasich is embarrassing. Trump won 48 delegates in Texas – Cruz’s home state – where Cruz won 104. But Trump finished second in Texas and Cruz a distant third in New York. This is incredible when you think about it: Kasich is still claiming he can win. Kasich won four delegates in New York, a few less than Donald Trump who won 89, but more than Sen. Ted Cruz who got zero, zilch, none. But Kasich, who is still out there campaigning every day, has fewer delegates than Sen. Marco Rubio, who dropped out of the race on March 15. So Rubio has been out of the race for a month, and in that

month Kasich has not been able to win enough delegates to pass him in the delegate count. Yet Kasich still talks about how he can win. It is mathematically impossible for Kasich to win the Republican nomination at this point, so his only hope is a brokered convention – if the Republican establishment decides to choose a candidate that the Republican voters have rejected in every state except his home state of Ohio. The Republican establishment at the convention could pick Kasich, but it would make far more sense to pick a candidate who wasn’t in the race and hasn’t already been rejected by the voters. Since the only reason for the Republican establishment to pick a candidate other than the one chosen by Republican voters would be to ensure the victory of Hillary Clinton, I suggest that if the Republican brain trust wants to make certain they will lose in November they nominate Bob Dole, who ran one of the worst presidential campaigns ever, back when he was a lot younger. If the Republican establishment insists on choosing a candidate who was in the primaries then there is no doubt that Jeb Bush should be their pick. Bush spent over $100 million, barely made it out of the starting gate. Jeb Bush couldn’t beat Hillary Clinton even if she is not only indicted, but convicted and running her campaign from a prison cell. It’s painful to believe that’s what the Republican establishment wants, and we’ll only find out if Trump can’t find a path to 1,237 delagates. It seems the pundits are in agreement

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that Trump doesn’t have to win 1,237 in the primaries because there will be a number – nobody seems certain how many, but a couple of hundred – unpledged delegates at the convention. What the political pundits don’t seem to understand or don’t want to admit is that a big chunk of the American public is fed up with politics as usual. They don’t see a hairsbreadth of difference between Kasich and Hillary Clinton. Sen. Bernie Sanders is in a category all his own. He’s talking about a revolution against a government he’s a part of. It’s probably why he’s so popular with college students. Ever since somebody invented college students they have loved revolutions, and here’s a funny acting old guy talking about a revolution. What’s not to like? Cruz takes a particular taste. He’s a mean narcissist, and disliked by nearly everyone who has to deal with him. The one thing Cruz has going for him at this point is that he’s not Donald Trump, and the idea of Trump taking over the Republican Party – where people in leadership have access to money and power – scares the Republican leadership to death. Sen. Lindsay Graham can’t stand Cruz and said so before he endorsed him. But if Cruz is the Republican nominee then the Republican Party returns to the status quo. In fact, the presidential election would be much like 2012 with Mitt Romney, where

Republicans were told to hold their noses and vote for the candidate because he was better than President Barack Hussein Obama. The amazing thing is that Romney could have won if he had run a good campaign and hadn’t fallen apart during the debates. Four years later Hillary Clinton is getting hit over the head with Benghazi in the rare instance when someone from the mainstream media bothers to ask her a question more difficult than please tell us how wonderful you are and what a great president you will be. Romney should have beaten Obama with the Benghazi stick every chance he got; but he didn’t. Everyone knew the administration lied about the attack being about a video. Romney backed off when the debate moderator stepped in to pull Obama out of the quicksand, and Romney should have told her to get back where she belonged. Then he should have doubled down on Benghazi. Instead he acted like he’d picked up what he thought was a stick that turned out to be a snake. But preserving the political establishment in Washington is the main goal of all those on the inside. President George W. Bush and the Republicans brought us the expanded Medicaid plan to cover drugs for seniors at a cost of about $5 billion a year. It’s a crazy increase in government spending by the very folks who keep pledging they want to (continued on page 33)

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