Rhino Times Dec. 8, 2011

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Vol. XXI No. 49 © Copyright 2011 The Rhinoceros Times Greensboro, North Carolina www.rhinotimes.com Thursday, December 8, 2011

County Gov’t Could Grow

Hand-Holding Council Seated With Harmony

School Land Deal Gets County OK

by Scott D. yoStcounty eDitor

A couple of weeks ago, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners held a work session at which they talked about the possibility of creating a Guilford County fire department that would oversee fire protection services for the entire county – except for the Cities of Greensboro and High Point.

At a Thursday, Dec. 1, Board of Commissioners work session, the board had a similar conversation about Guilford County’s parks: The commissioners discussed the possibility of creating a Guilford County parks and recreation department to manage all seven of the county’s parks.

If the commissioners decide to create the new department, it would bring in house, and under one roof, all the park maintenance

Photo by John Hammer

This is by no means the official photograph, but the new Greensboro City Council got together for a group shot after its first meeting Tuesday night. They are, (from left) Councilmembers

Zack Matheny, Trudy Wade, Marikay Abuzuaiter, Dianne Bellamy-Small, Mayor Robbie Perkins, Councilmembers Yvonne Johnson, Jim Kee, Nancy Vaughan and Nancy Hoffmann.

by john hammereDitor

The newly sworn in Greensboro City Council led by Mayor Robbie Perkins didn’t sing “Kumbaya,” but they did hold hands as Rev. Arnetta Beverly blessed them at the end of their first meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 6.

Inside this issueHigh Point News ........... 6 Entertainment Guide ....11Uncle Orson Reviews .. 12Puzzles ............. 12,13,15Yost Column ............... 14Scott’s Night Out ......... 16Rhino Real Estate ....... 19Comics ........................ 26Letters to the Editor .... 31Editorial Cartoon ......... 46under the hammer ...... 47

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Rumors Congratulations to walter Hines Page High school and northern Guilford High school for winning the state football championships in their divisions. northern won the 3-AA division for the second year in a row. And Page won the 4-AA title for the first time since 1985 when Page was coached by the legendary Marion Kirby.

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by paul c. clarkStaff Writer

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners handed the Guilford County Board of education an unexpected win on Thursday, Dec. 1, voting 7 to 4 to approve spending $86,500 an acre for up to 125 acres in the Triad Business Park in Kernersville for a proposed high school and middle school.

Commissioners Bill Bencini, Paul Gibson, Kay Cashion and Billy Yow cast the votes against approving the purchase.

According to Kernersville estimates, if the school board buys the land, Guilford County will lose $664,000 in annual property taxes, and Kernersville will lose $432,000 a year in property taxes

The meeting began with a moment of silence, just as council meetings had prior to former Mayor Bill Knight taking over.

Perkins made a point of starting with a moment of silence, in the same way that Knight had made a point, a few minutes earlier, of

starting his last meeting with a prayer.

The last meeting of the previous City Council had been unusually short. At most of those final meetings there is time set aside for people to speak about



Photo by Sandy Groover

South Elm Street was packed with folks on Friday night for the Festival of Lights, which gets bigger and better every year. The weather was perfect, with enough chill that it felt like Christmas but it wasn’t cold.

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Knight Enjoyed His Two Years Of Service

by john hammereDitor

A few days after former Mayor Bill Knight was elected in november 2009 I was standing in a bookstore in Lisbon, Portugal, and my phone rang. It was Knight just calling to “catch up.”

I had gone to Portugal to get away for a few days, but with modern technology you’re never really away.

Knight may not have been accessible to all of the media, but he was certainly accessible to The Rhino Times. He dropped by the office frequently to let us know what was happening.

I think Knight may have been the only person in Greensboro who wasn’t surprised when he defeated incumbent Mayor Yvonne Johnson in 2009, and Knight may have been the only one in Greensboro who was surprised when he was defeated by Mayor Robbie Perkins in 2011.

Knight’s only other run for office was as an at-large candidate for the City Council in 2007, and he was such a novice that he played golf on primary day rather than work a poll or have anyone else work a poll for him.

on Tuesday night, Dec. 6, Councilmember Trudy wade warned the new councilmembers that serving on the council was not going to be exactly what they expected, and you could certainly say that for Knight in 2009 when he surprised everyone else in the city by winning.

For people who have been on the council for years, moving over into the mayor’s seat is daunting, and in the rare instances when the mayor pro tem has had to run a meeting, they usually needed a lot of help from the staff and fellow councilmembers.

There is a lot to juggle up there in the center seat, and Knight, who had never been on the dais except as mayor, struggled.

This week Knight talked for a while about his experience being mayor. He said, “It had its ups and downs, but overall it’s been a positive experience. I’m glad I was able to serve for two years.”

He noted that it was especially fun to go to schools “as the mayor,” because just having the mayor there was so exciting to the kids.

Knight said he enjoyed getting to know the other mayors in the area, particularly Becky smothers in High Point and Allen Joines in winston-salem.

Knight said, “I have no plans to run for office in the future.” He said, “I hoped to have two terms, but two years from now I’ll be 74, and at some point you have to realize you’re better off on the golf course than at meetings.”

when asked if he had any regrets, anything he would do differently, Knight said, “I don’t like to second-guess, but the big elephant in the room was the landfill, and that was handed to us by the prior council. Yvonne Johnson started that. we tried to do the best we could. we might have done it differently, I don’t know.”

Knight said that after hearing some of the previous councilmembers, like Mike Barber, talk about how much money could be saved by using the landfill, he decided to look into it himself. Knight is a retired certified public accountant, so delving into exactly how much it was costing the city to ship its garbage 70 miles to Montgomery



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High Point ReStore Is Moving Uptowne


California-based MV Transportation, which on sept. 13 gave Guilford County 60-days notice that it was pulling out of its contract to provide transportation to the county’s elderly, disabled and poor, has done the same to High Point.

At the Monday, Dec. 5 meeting of the High Point City Council’s Finance Committee, High Point Transit Manager Buddy Cox told the councilmembers that MV Transportation had given notice that it would cancel its transportation services contract with High Point.

High Point has been providing transportation to the handicapped and elderly since 1977, but three years ago it contracted MV Transportation to handle any transportation calls beyond those the city’s in-house service could provide.

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners on nov. 3 voted unanimously to give the $5 million in business that had gone to MV Transportation to the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART) under an intergovernmental agreement. County officials said the suddenness of the contract cancellation left them no time to do anything else.

Cox said that High Point has decided to take another tack, providing the extra rides

as part of the existing city service.MV Transportation handled 30 percent

to 40 percent of High Point’s transportation calls – everything above the 150 to 160 rides High Point provided with its own lift-enabled vans. High Point hired MV Transportation to provide three buses to High Point – at a time when it was providing 40 vehicles to Guilford County.

“we were able to get an incremental cost,” Cox said. “we got a good deal, is what we got.”

Cox said it would cost in the neighborhood of $20 a ride if High Point put its extra-ride services out for bid – but that Hi-tran, High Point’s bus service, thought it could do the same job for $18 a trip.

High Point, like Guilford County, doesn’t have time to go through the state-mandated bidding process without an interruption in services – and that interruption could cost the city its federal funding for Hi-tran. The federal government provides the majority of the money to run the bus system, including paying for 80 percent of the cost of its vehicles.

Cox said MV Transportation will end its service on Feb. 15, and it would take two to three months to put another contract for the service out for bid.

He said that High Point was paying MV

Transportation $12 a trip, but only because High Point provided all the necessary supervision and dispatching in house.

Councilmember Latimer Alexander said High Point’s service to the elderly, poor and disabled was much better than that provided by MV Transportation. He said High Point gives callers service “as a

friend or cherished relative would.”Cox said the city could provide the

additional service that had been provided by MV Transportation by filling an empty supervisor position, hiring a dispatcher-coordinator and buying three new lift-equipped vans – 80 percent of the cost of which the feds would pick up.


The High Point City Council on Monday, Dec. 5 voted unanimously to allow Habitat for Humanity to move its Restore used-goods store to the building vacated two years ago by the Cloverleaf supermarket at 133 Montlieu Ave.

The Cloverleaf building, which is now empty, is owned by First Presbyterian Church, around the corner from it at 918 n. Main st. Church officials said they had been unable to rent out the 22,000-square-foot building.

In approving a text amendment to the High Point zoning ordinance to allow Restore to move into the Cloverleaf building, the City Council cleared the way for a downtown business likely to draw many people to north Main street, the neighborhood around which is the first the City Council is trying to renovate. The vote also slapped down the board of directors of the High Point City Project, a group of business representatives that, on nov. 10, tried to kill the nonprofit store’s move.

The City Project board voted 7 to 2 to try to keep Restore out of the north Main street neighborhood by recommending to city planners to kill a similar proposed text amendment.

The zoning change voted down by the City Project board would have altered the zoning restrictions in the Main street District created by the City Council in March 2008. In February 2011, the City Council amended the Main street District zoning restrictions to allow used-merchandise stores – a category that did not distinguish between pawn shops and antique shops – as long as they were smaller than 5,000 square feet.

The text amendment that Habitat for Humanity originally proposed would have left the restriction on used-merchandise stores at 5,000 square feet, but would have allowed that to be exceeded in the Main street District in buildings with a single storefront and a single occupant – an effort to limit the number of buildings that could be used to sell used merchandise. That was the proposed amendment the City Project board voted against.

High Point Development services Administrator Bob Robbins said that city

planners worried that the originally proposed language wouldn’t have restricted by much the number of buildings that could be used to sell used goods, and recommended either lifting the 5,000-square-foot cap entirely or not amending the ordinance at all.

After the City Project vote, the High Point Planning and Zoning Commission came up with a compromise amendment that would leave the 5,000-square-foot cap in place for buildings facing Main street, and increase it to 25,000 square feet for buildings facing side streets. The Cloverleaf building faces Montlieu Avenue.

Robbins said there are few buildings over 25,000 square feet in the Main street district that would be eligible for the exception.

susan wood, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of High Point, said the group built 80 homes in High Point in the last 10 years, adding $1 million to the city’s property tax base. she said Habitat Restores are different things to different communities – an attempt to fend off complaints about the appearance of Greensboro’s Restore on High Point Road, a converted big-box store.

wood said, “excuse me about talking bad about my neighbor to the north, but sometimes it can look a little trashy.”

wood said the High Point store is different from most because of High Point’s status as the nation’s furniture capital. she said that, after the last High Point furniture market, the store got donations from 20 furniture companies.

she said, “To call us purely a used-item store is a little misleading, because we do get showroom samples.”

Doyle early, representing the church, said the church has exhausted its attempts to find another tenant for the building, and, in any case, looked on Habitat for Humanity as an ideal tenant.

early said that in the future, when the church has paid off the mortgage on the property, it would like to use the Cloverleaf building for outreach programs. He said the church has been paying property taxes on the Cloverleaf building, even since it has been closed, rather than attempting to use First Presbyterian’s tax exemption.

early said, “The bottom line is that, for First Presbyterian, this is a win-win.”


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There’s an old saying that you should never get into a war with someone who buys ink by the barrel, and the same could be said of picking a fight with someone who buys video cameras by the cartload: the county’s local Tea Party group, Conservatives for Guilford County (C4gc).

when it comes to the question of allowing citizens to play videos at Guilford County Board of Commissioners meetings, for instance, the Democratic majority of that board might have thought they had settled the matter and stopped the conservative group in its tracks. However, it’s becoming apparent that nothing could be further from the truth.

not only has the issue of videos at commissioners meetings not gone away, now the Board of Commissioners has been forced by circumstances to ask county staff to prepare new policy guidelines that will provide criteria for which videos and other multimedia presentations can be played as part of the business of commissioners meetings. The board has kept in place its ban on videos from speakers from the floor, but after a new move by C4gc, the board is now having to create an official policy for which videos can and cannot be placed on the agenda and played as part of the meetings.

The controversy began when C4gc leader Jodi Riddleberger showed a video

during the speakers from the floor portion of the county commissioners Thursday, oct. 20 meeting. The video, which Riddleberger narrated, endorsed conservative values and, at the end, endorsed by name some conservative candidates running in the race for Greensboro City Council, including then Mayor Bill Knight running for reelection.

Democratic county commissioners were so upset by the playing of Riddleberger’s video at the commissioners televised meeting, they immediately called for a work session, and, before the next commissioners meeting took place, the majority of Democratic commissioners met and voted to ban speakers from the floor from showing any videos or using any other type of electronic media such as PowerPoint presentations or audio recordings.

The board took the vote to ban videos during an untelevised and poorly publicized work session on Thursday, nov. 3, just before the Thursday, nov. 3 regular meeting – even though it’s highly unusual for the board to take an official vote on anything at a work session.

The vote at that work session was taken over the strong objections of Republican Commissioner Billy Yow and Democratic Commissioner Kirk Perkins who both argued that, if the board wanted to make such a controversial move, it should at least have the courage to do so in front of

the public. However, at the behest of Chairman

of the Board of Commissioners skip Alston – the board went ahead and took the vote anyway in the remote fourth-floor conference room of the old Guilford County Court House.

Though there were no television cameras at the work session, Riddleberger was there with her daughter and her 14-year-old son. Riddleberger’s son had a video camera and he videotaped the entire meeting, and now that video, with Alston’s words caught on tape, are coming back to haunt Alston and the other liberal commissioners who are doing all they can to fight against C4gc’s influence.

At the work session in which the commissioners voted to ban videos brought by speakers, several commissioners pointed out that there are groups and organizations – such as local library supporters and animal rights advocates – who often use videos and PowerPoint presentations to make their points; and that’s when Alston made the remark that Riddleberger and C4gc advocates are now pointing to and crying foul.

Riddleberger later distributed DVDs of the work session to the media and posted online the part of the meeting where Alston makes the following statement.

“If the library comes to us and say they want to be put on the agenda because they

want to do a presentation,” Alston said, “then we can put them on the agenda and they can play their video.”

At another point on the video recording of the work session, Commissioner Bruce Davis is seen saying that some of the effectiveness of presentations from community organizations might be lost if videos aren’t allowed.

Alston responded: “If someone wants to do that, Bruce, then they can contact us and get on the agenda and we can have a presentation by that organization.”

Those statements made the ears of local conservatives perk up, because that seemed to indicate that the conservatives, like other groups, would be allowed to be placed on the meeting agenda to show their videos.

Last month, after the controversy began, Jeff Hyde, a co-founder of C4gc, when asked if the group planned to fight the video ban, joked, “no, we like it the new way.”

He didn’t elaborate, but he was hinting that, if Alston and the board were going to allow groups to play videos as a regular part of the county’s meetings, then that was fine with the conservatives as long as C4gc and its members were given the same rights as other groups like the salvation Army, the public libraries and the animal rights advocates.

At the Thursday, nov. 17 meeting,


Price May Deliver Miracle Land To HP


For Guilford County Board of education member ed Price, it was half of a miracle.

Price is the prime mover behind the construction of the High Point Athletic Complex (adjacent to A.J. simeon stadium) and the Miracle Field, a baseball field for Miracle League games for handicapped and special-needs children. And on Tuesday, Dec. 6, Price got the ball rolling in an effort to get the school board to sell High Point 9.8 acres abutting the High Point Athletic Complex, which contains those fields.

Getting land away from the school board is almost as difficult as finding land for the school board to buy to build schools on – but Price, after a moving, late-night presentation to the school board, won an 8-to-0 vote from the school board to instruct Guilford County schools administrators to study the possibility of selling nine acres next to the complex to High Point for badly needed parking for the complex, as well as a shelter for children with respiratory problems, and a new soccer field.

The school board once planned to build a middle school on the land, something that now seems unlikely because of extra seats

at welborn Middle school, and because the school system plans to build a new high school and middle school somewhere in the industrial heartland of Guilford County – the latest site under consideration being 115 acres in the Triad Business Park in Kernersville, although Kernersville opposes that location.

Price has said for a long time that the 9.8 acres would be better used to expand the Miracle Field/athletic complex – and on Tuesday night, it sounded as if Guilford County schools Chief operations officer Andy LaRowe agreed.

LaRowe said the school system has no plans to build a middle school on the land or use it in any other way. The land is at the southwest corner of shadybrook Road and school Park Road.

LaRowe said, “It is, at this point in time, simply a vacant property.”

The ownership history of simeon stadium, the athletic complex and the school system land is complex. The City of High Point built simeon stadium in the 1970s, but later traded it to the High Point school system for the Leonard street school, which


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Film directors and party planners know it’s a good idea to save the best for last, so that everything builds up to a big finish – but, apparently, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners isn’t familiar with that concept. At the board’s Thursday, Dec. 1 meeting, the Board of Commissioners held the night’s most important event – the election of a new chairman and vice chairman – as the very first order of business.

The reason the board holds the elections at the beginning of meetings each year is so the newly elected chairman can be the one who runs the meeting that night. However, since the board now simply repeatedly elects Chairman of the Board skip Alston to that seat year after year, it no longer really matters during which part of the meeting they hold the election.

There are 11 Guilford County commissioners but, apparently, there’s only one, Alston, whom the majority of other commissioners consider worthy of being chairman.

The election of Alston as chairman, and of Commissioner Kirk Perkins as vice chairman, at the Dec. 1 meeting, involved virtually no discussion. It only took a few minutes for Alston to win his seat back on an 8-to-3 vote, and for Perkins to win the vice chairman’s seat – replacing outgoing Vice Chairman Linda shaw – on a 9-to-2 vote.

The three commissioners who voted against Alston were Commissioners Billy Yow, Bill Bencini and Paul Gibson.

when it came time to vote for Perkins as vice chairman, Bencini and Yow were the two no votes, and Gibson clearly had a hard time deciding which way to vote. However, in the end, Gibson did vote for Perkins.

A few minutes before the meeting began, when Gibson was asked whether he was going to vote for Perkins as vice chairman, he said he wasn’t sure.

“I honestly haven’t made up my mind yet,” Gibson said.

Then, after the rest of the board had voted, but no tally had shown up on the display in the meeting room, the clerk to the board notified Gibson that he still hadn’t voted.

Gibson lifted his head up from the electronic buttons in front of him and called out, “Don’t rush me.”

other than that moment – a lone commissioner trying to decide on a yes or no vote in a vice chairman’s race that was already determined – there wasn’t any drama at all over who would be chairman and vice chairman of the board for the upcoming year.

It’s hard now to remember that there was a time before Alston was chairman, but there was: In 2008, Perkins was the chairman of the board. since then, Alston has been the only commissioner to occupy the center seat at commissioners meetings.

Though there was no drama over the election of Alston, there was some dissent among county citizens and county commissioners, and, when the motion was made by Commissioner Bruce Davis nominating Alston for chairman, the commissioners all seemed ready to go ahead and vote, so Yow had to remind everyone that commissioners have a right to speak on a motion – even if it’s known how the vote is going to turn out. And before the vote Yow said he had something to say.

Yow began: “I will not be supporting you tonight.”

Alston jumped in.“I’m totally surprised,” a sarcastic Alston

responded.Alston and Yow have been bitter political

adversaries ever since Yow got on the board 11 years ago.

Alston was first elected chairman of the board in December 2003 and, at that time, he became the first black chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.

Yow said that, after Alston’s first term as chairman years ago, Alston gave a very noble speech from the dais and, in that speech, Alston spoke in glowing terms of what he had learned as chairman. Yow said that, at that time, Alston said adamantly that every Democratic commissioner should get a chance at being chairman because of what they would learn from serving.

“You said the whole board should get to fill that seat,” Yow said.

now, however, Yow said, Alston had a completely different view – Alston clearly didn’t want anyone other than skip Alston to be chairman ever again.

“Mr. Chairman, this will be your fourth time,” Yow protested.

Alston corrected Yow, reminding him that it would be his fourth time in a row, but his fifth time overall.

Yow said Alston had become permanently attached to the seat and the power that comes with it.

“You refuse to give it up,” Yow said.Yow wasn’t the only one displeased

about Alston continuing as chairman for yet another year. news had spread quickly that Thursday morning and afternoon that Alston was going to be the chairman again, so the backlash started even before the vote at the meeting. All day, area conservatives, especially, were voicing their discontent about yet another year with Alston as chairman.

And, during speakers from the floor at the Dec. 1 meeting, which was right before the vote for the chairman, Jeff Hyde, a founder of a local conservative Tea Party group – Conservatives for Guilford County (C4c), launched a scathing criticism of the election of Alston that was about to take place.

Hyde said that, apparently, according to the board’s way of thinking, there was only one county commissioner suitable to be




Vengeance, Messiah and Wonderful LifeBY oRson sCoTT CARD

Uncle Orson Reviews Everything

The New York Times Hyper-Sudoku

Sue Grafton has been publishing her Kinsey Millhone “Alphabet” mysteries since 1982, starting with A Is for Alibi. It takes a long time to work your way through the alphabet, but we’re finally at V – specifically, V Is for Vengeance.

I have to say, I’m along for the ride. so Grafton could probably slip up a few times and I’d still buy the next book.

But she doesn’t slip up. ever.For a while I was also following Janet

evanovich’s stephanie Plum series, but it became clear that nothing was ever going to change, the character was never going to grow and evanovich had reduced herself to repeating essentially the same gags, novel after novel. so I’ve stopped buying them, and don’t miss them.

But with sue Grafton, it doesn’t feel repetitive. each mystery is new and fresh.

And Kinsey Millhone is growing up. not that she was a child to start with – but she was often unwise. now she’s wiser.

This is actually a hard thing for an author to bring off – to make a character wiser. But where Millhone used to do impulsive things, where she used to pride herself on bending the rules, where she once assumed she could do practically anything, now she’s

more careful, knows her limits, gives other people much better advice, swallows hard and puts up with things that used to make her crazy.

All without the first-person narrator ever pointing them out, because, of course, these are the kinds of things people rarely notice in themselves.

I worried for a while that Grafton was going to sidetrack us into Kinsey’s personal life, her new-found relatives, the kind of thing that can cause a mystery series writer to lose track of the fact that everything depends on each individual mystery being able to stand alone.

Grafton never pushed that storyline too far or too hard. In this book it’s hardly mentioned. But it’s still there, like all the rest of Millhone’s past – still alive, still part of her.

V Is for Vengeance is a thready novel. That is, there are several seemingly unrelated or barely related storylines, and we move back and forth among them without seeing the connection.

At times, this can even test a reader’s patience. what does this story of friendship between two middle-aged rich women have to do with the story of Millhone’s burglar friend whose ring she redeemed from a

pawn shop? And what do either of them have to do with the recent college grad who was murdered in Las Vegas? And how do they tie in to the whole shoplifting incident and the woman who tried to run Millhone down with a car?

All I can say is: stick with the book. Trust Grafton. It all comes together, and when it does, the connections are sometimes breathtaking.

Do I accept all the outcomes? would one particular character really forgive the misdeeds of another? Maybe not – but Grafton is a good enough writer that even if I don’t endorse the decision, I accept that this character might make the choice.

nor does Millhone “solve” the mystery in the classic sense. Rather her probing sets things in motion in a way that causes other people to bring things to a resolution; it’s not even a flaw in the book that at the moment of climax, Millhone is on the floor, gasping, recovering from a blow to the face that maybe saved her life. (I gave nothing away – this is mentioned in the first paragraph of the book!)

even if you’ve never read any of the alphabet mysteries, V Is for Vengeance is a perfectly good place to start. It has a bit of rough language, a bit of sex; not a good Christmas gift for your pastor, unless you are really good friends. But you could not do a mystery-loving friend a better favor than getting him or her started on the Kinsey Millhone series this Christmas.

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Christmas is a busy time. Gifts to buy, wrap, mail. Christmas cards to send (which reminds me; I haven’t even begun to think about our family Christmas letter yet). Parties. new oscar-bait and money-sucking movies to watch – or stay away from.

But that’s why this is one of the most exciting times of the year. so I don’t feel even a tiny bit guilty about setting two more things on your plate as possible Things To Do during the next few days.

Let’s start with tonight. Thursday. The day this paper hits the stands. If you didn’t turn straight to my column and read down this far, you already missed it. That’ll teach you!

Because tonight (Dec. 8) is the Oratorio Society’s annual live performance of Handel’s Messiah. It starts at 7 p.m. at war Memorial Auditorium, and it’s free, though a donation is appreciated. (The soloists and orchestra are paid a little; the choir actually pays for the privilege of taking part, so you’re merely chipping in to help them pay for the performance!)

You have a little more time to arrange your schedule to see the remarkably good production of It’s a Wonderful Life at weaver Academy for the Performing and Visual Arts at 300 south spring st.

no, my daughter isn’t in this one. she’s helping with costumes. I’m not biased.

In fact, I was skeptical. It’s a Wonderful Life was a movie, a classic, and it starred Jimmy stewart and Donna Reed and Frank


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Queen of Hearts: Now then, are you ready for your sentence? Alice: But there has to be a verdict first. Queen of Hearts: Sentence first! Verdict afterwards. Alice: But that just isn’t the way. Queen of Hearts: [shouting] All ways are ...! Alice: ... your ways, your Majesty.

– From the classic walt Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland

no one ever believes me when I say this, but I can tell you with a clear conscience that it is the absolute truth: I do not go around looking for trouble; it seeks me out.

Trouble is in fact very, very good at finding me no matter where I try to hide from it, and I guess that is just one of its impressive talents.

Case in point. Last wednesday, I had finished all my writing for that week and I had a couple of hours to kill before we wrote headlines and finished the paper.

And I knew that my friend, wFMY weatherman eric Chilton, was doing a live remote from the downtown ice skating rink because one of the Disney on Ice princesses was going to be there.

It was a Disney PR event held so that all the little girls in town could meet one of the beautiful and magical princesses, and get their picture taken with her in front of this big Disney backdrop. exactly which princess would show up was being kept a secret beforehand – but I had been tipped off that it was, in fact, Cinderella.

so I get there, and it’s really cold, and there are TV vans, and moms and dads with their children – mostly daughters of course – and everyone is very bundled up because it’s pretty cold.

so, anyway, talk about not looking for trouble: There I was, with an hour or two to kill, and I didn’t go to the bar next door to The Rhinoceros Times office, stumble stilskins, and start downing shots of Jager and insulting police officers who passed by on the sidewalk – you know, I wasn’t looking for trouble. I was just going to a wholesome family event. I thought I would take some random pictures that we might or might not end up using in the paper the following week.

The press release from Disney said the event would run from 5 to 6 p.m. and I was standing there talking to eric among the mass of eager young people waiting to see the wonderful princess. I saw elaine Hammer, who is our copy editor and sometimes photographer – oh, and she’s also the wife of our editor/publisher, so she’s pretty much the ultimate authority at The Rhinoceros Times.

Anyway, I was talking to elaine, and it was really cold, and it was now after 5:30, and everyone there was like, “Hey, where’s the princess? It’s cold and they said it would be 5 p.m.”

I asked elaine why she was there, and she said she had just heard about the event at the last minute, and she wanted to get some pictures of the princess with adorable children for our Rumors photo – which is the picture we have at the bottom of the front page every week.

she said she didn’t know it was going to take so long for the princess to arrive, and she told me that she had a lot of other last-minute things she had to do to finish up at the paper. I had my good, big camera with me, and she asked if I would mind taking a bunch of pictures of the princess with cute, adorable children, and rush them back to the office; and I said I would be happy to. so elaine went back to the office to finish her work, and I waited for the princess to show.

After several loudspeaker announcements that the princess would be there soon, finally, to much fanfare and with quite the entourage, Cinderella arrived in her sparkling tiara and her glorious blue dress with the long train.

From the moment she arrived in all her grandeur, camera flashes began going off left and right as everyone attempted to get shots of the princess – because, hey, how often do you meet a real live Disney princess.

The hundreds of excited kids had already lined up along the benches next to the outdoor skating rink and, in no time, Cinderella was in front of the magical Disney backdrop, and kids – depending on what the family wanted – were being quickly hustled up for pictures one or two or three at a time. sometimes the parents jumped in the shot as well. Anyway, it was just a total explosion of camera flashes.

when the kids came up, Cinderella would lean down and hug them and then pose with them for the parents to take pictures. TV cameras were rolling for the local news and so it was quite the photo op Disney had hoped for.

And, in the middle of all this, there I am happily snapping away, taking pictures of Cinderella with the kids – especially when the children were extra adorable looking.


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Local Movie ScheduleFriday, December 9 - Thursday, December 15

a/perture cinema311 West Fourth St., W-S • (336) 722-8148The Descendants (R) F 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30. Sa 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00. Su 12:00, 2:30, 5:00. M 3:00, 5:30. Tu-Th 3:00, 5:30, 8:00The Parking Lot Movie (Unrated) M 8:00.Take Shelter (R) F 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45. Sa 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15. Su 12:15, 2:50, 5:20. M-Th 3:30, 6:00, 8:30.

Brassfield Cinema 102101 New Garden Road, Greensboro • (800) 326-3264, ext. 1204Arthur Christmas (PG) F-Su 4:35, 9:30 M-Th 4:35 Arthur Christmas (3D) (PG) F-Su 2:00, 7:05 M-Th 7:05.Happy Feet Two (PG) F-Su 4:30, 9:40 M-Th 4:30 Happy Feet Two (3D) (PG) F-Su 2:05, 7:10 M-Th 7:10 Immortals (R) F-Su 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 M-Th 5:05, 7:40 Jack & Jill (PG) F-Su 12:00, 2:20, 4:55, 7:15, 9:45 M-Th 4:55, 7:15 The Muppets (PG) F-Su 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 M-Th 4:25, 7:00 New Year’s Eve (PG13) F-Su 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 M-Th 4:45, 7:30 Puss in Boots (G) F 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Sa 9:50 Su 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 M 4:50, 7:20 W-Th 4:50, 7:20 The Sitter (R) F-Su 1:15, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55 M-Th 3:25, 5:35, 7:45 Tower Heist (PG13) F-Su 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 M-Th 5:00, 7:35 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (PG13) F-Su 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 M-Th 4:40, 7:25

Carmike 184822 Koger Blvd., Greensboro • (336) 851-0094A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (R) F-Th 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45Arthur Christmas (PG) F-Th 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00.Arthur Christmas (3D) (PG) F-Th 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 8:00.Happy Feet Two (PG) F-Th 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:30.Hugo (PG) F-Th 3:15, 9:15.Hugo (3D) (PG) F-Th 12:15, 6:15.Immortals (R) F-Th 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:35.In Time (PG13) F-Th 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:15.J Edgar (R) F-Th 1:15, 4:30, 7:45.Jack & Jill (PG) F-Th 1:10, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15.Moneyball (PG13) F-Th 12:00, 3:05, 6:20, 9:35.The Muppets (PG) F-Th 1:15, 4:00,6:35, 9:15.New Year’s Eve (PG13) F-Th 12:45, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45.Puss in Boots (G) F-Th 1:45, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45.Real Steel (PG13) F-Th 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:35.The Sitter (R) F-Th 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:30.Tower Heist (PG13) F-Th 1:15, 4:05, 7:15, 9:50.Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (PG13) F-Th 12:00, 1:00, 3:05, 4:05, 6:15, 7:15, 9:00, 10:00.

Carmike 827:05, N. Main St., High Point • (336) 887-0:101Abduction (PG13) F-Su 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 9:30. M 7:10, 9:30. Tu 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 9:30. W-Th 7:10, 9:30.

Contagion (PG13) F-Su 1::30, 4:05, 6:55, 9:20. M 6:55, 9:20. Tu 1:30, 4:05, 6:55, 920. W-Th 6:55, 9:20.Dolphin Tale (PG) F-Su 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15. M 6:45, 915. Tu 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15. W-Th 6:45, 9:15.Drive (R) F-Su 1:25, 3:55, 6:50, 9:10. M 6:50, 9:10. Tu 1:25, 3:55, 6:50, 9:10. W-Th 6:50, 9:10.The Help (PG13) F-Su 1:35, 4:45, 8:05. M 8:05. Tu 1:35, 4:45, 8:05. W-Th 8:05.Paranormal Activity 3 (R) F-Su 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:05, 9:05. M 7:05, 9:05. Tu 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:05, 9:05. W-Th 7:05, 9:05.Smurfs (PG) F-Su 1:15, 3:45, 6:40, 9:00. M 6:40, 9:00. Tu 1:15, 3:45, 6:40, 9:00. W-Th 6:40, 9:00.Three Musketeers (PG13) F-Su 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:25. M 7:00, 9:25. Tu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:25. W-Th 7:00, 9:25.

Carolina Theatre310 South Greene St., Greensboro • (336) 333-2605A Christmas Story (PG) Th 7:30.It’s A Wonderful Life (Unrated) W 7:30.The Santa Clause (PG) Sa 10 a.m.White Christmas (Unrated) Tu 7:30.

Carousel Cinema1305 Battleground Ave., Greensboro • (336) 230-1620A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (R) F-Sa 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00. Su-Tu 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00. W 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 10:00. Th 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00.Blackthorn (R) F-Th 2:25, 7:15.The Descendants (R) F-Sa 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 11:40. Su-Th 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20.Hugo (PG) F-Sa 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45, 11:15. Su-Th 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45Hugo (3D) (PG) F-Th 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00.Ides of March (R) F-Sa 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30 11:35. Su-Tu 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30. W 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30. Th 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30.Into the Abyss (PG13) F-Sa 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 11:40. Su-Th 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30.J Edgar (R) F-Th 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40.Jack & Jill (PG) F-Sa 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 12:00. Su-Th 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00.Like Crazy (PG13) F-Sa 1:30, 3:25, 5:20, 7:15, 9:10 11:05. Su-Th 1:30, 3:25, 5:20, 7:15, 9:10.Love Crime (Unrated) F-Sa 12:10, 2:15, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 11:30. Su-Th 12:10, 2:15, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35.Main Street (PG) F-Th 12:05, 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30.Margin Call (R) F-Sa 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00 , 9:15 11:30. Su-M 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00 , 9:15. Tu 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 9:15. W-Th 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00 , 9:15.Melancholia (R) F-Sa 12:30, 3:10, 5:50, 8:30 11:10. Su-Th 12:30, 3:10, 5:50, 8:30.

Mozart’s Sister (Unrated) F-Sa 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 12:00. Su-Th 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45.Rum Diary (The) (R) F-Th 12:00, 4:50, 9:40.Shock (Unrated) F-Sa 12:00.Sitter (The) (R) F-Sa 12:10, 1:55, 3:40, 5:25, 7:05, 9:50 11:35. Su-Th 12:10, 1:55, 3:40, 5:25, 7:05, 9:50.Skin I Live In (The) (R) F-Sa 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 11:50. Su-Th 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30.The Room (R) F-Sa 12:00.

Carousel Alamance Crossing1090 Piper Lane, Burlington • (336) 538-9900Arthur Christmas (PG) F-Th 11:50, 1:55, 4:00, 6:05, 8:10, 10:15Arthur Christmas (3D) (PG) F-Sa 12:55, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35, 11:45 PM. Su-Th 12:55, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35Happy Feet Two (PG) F-Th 1:15, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10Happy Feet Two (3D) (PG) F-Sa 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:15, 11:25 PM. Su-Th 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:15Hugo (3D) (PG) F-Sa 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Su-Th 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50Immortals (R) F-Sa 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30, 11:50 Su-Th 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30J Edgar (R) F-Th 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50Jack & Jill (PG) F-Sa 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:05, 9:05, 11:05 PM. Su-Th 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:05, 9:05Muppets (The) (PG) F-Th 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00New Year’s Eve (PG13) F-Sa 11:50, 1:05, 2:20, 3:35, 4:50, 6:05, 7:20, 8:35, 9:50, 11:05 Su-Th 11:50, 1:05, 2:20, 3:35, 4:50, 6:05, 7:20, 8:35, 9:50 Puss in Boots (G) F-Sa 11:50, 1:50, 3:50, 5:50, 7:50, 9:50, 11:50 PM. Su-Th 11:50, 1:50, 3:50, 5:50, 7:50, 9:50The Sitter (R) F-Sa 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00, 11:00 Su-Th 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00Tower Heist (PG13) F-Sa 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30, 11:45 PM. Su-Th 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (PG13) F-Sa 12:00, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5:00, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:00, 11:15 Su-Th 12:00, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5:00, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:00

Countryside Cinema631 N Main St., Kernersville • (336) 993-8200Happy Feet Two (PG) F 5:00. Sa-Su 2:00, 4:00. M-Th 5:30.Jack & Jill (PG) F-Su 7:00, 9:00. M-Th 7:30.The Muppets (PG) F 4:30, 6:45. Sa-Su 1:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00. M-Th 5:30, 7:30.New Year’s Eve (PG13) F 4:30, 6:45, 9:00. Sa-Su 1:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00. M-Th 5:15, 7:30.Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (PG13) F 4:30, 6:45, 9:00. Sa-Su 1:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00. M-Th 5:15, 7:30.

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Scott’s Night OutWhat follows has been transcribed from the answering machine tape on our comment line 273-0898. 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 273-0898 and start talking at The Sound of the Beep.


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This message is for all the Democrats that still believe obama is a fine man and a real good businessman. He knows where you can invest some money in some solar energy. And you people that’s going to try to vote him back in, and there’s a lot of them that read this paper that will, you need to get in touch with him, and find out where you need to invest it. They’ll give you the address. Thank you very much. I certainly hope you print this.

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season’s greetings, Rhino. The white House Christmas tree transportation from California to DC, some 2,500 miles, must have cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Given the white House will say all costs and fees were donated, any donated costs could have been used for the unemployed, housing, tornado victims. During this depression, my wife has been laid off three times. This economy screams for financial restraint, and we get west Coast Christmas trees with stops in north Carolina. no thank you, Mr. obama. Give us jobs, not extensive public relations. Thank you.

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Yes, Karen, thank Paul Clark for that excellent coverage he gives us out of High Point. It’s the only place we get any kind of truth. And ask him if he could, please, remind old nido Qubein over at High Point University that he does not own the town, and he shouldn’t be trying to make all these decisions. All he’s done is take away from the tax base buying all the houses around the university, buying oak Hollow Mall, and making all the rest of us pay higher taxes over here. And him coming out and he giving his opinion and tells some others and them what to do about this evergreen situation is ridiculous. so, if Paul could, please, remind old nido Qubein he doesn’t own this town, and we wish he would go away. Have a good day.

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Ventilating, Karen. This is your favorite local whistleblower. I would like you to draw everyone’s attention to a mail fraud scheme where a company sends out these checks that they claim will pay insurance fees and processing fees, and they want you to deposit it in your bank so that they can get the checking account number. The man’s name is Jason. They send out what says on the check front is a certified check. But – and they want you to deposit it through the automated system. But if you do that, they are going to get your number. I took mine inside to my bank, wells Fargo. They confiscated it. They’re investigating them. They’re turning it over to the postmaster general, because this is …

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Continuing. Because of the holidays, and because these people are targeting elderly people, and I know that a lot of people read your publication, and will get the word out on this company. Thank you for this help in giving us a way to get information to people. And anyone who can help us get this group busted, we would thank them very much. oK. Thanks again, Karen.

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Katherine Puryear is Miss Teen North Carolina (above) and Katherine, like everyone else in the Greensboro Christmas parade – including the Santa dancers blowing kisses below – looked great this year in all their Christmas regalia. Katherine Puryear has a perfect last name for Miss Teen NC if you think about it, because we always have one Miss Teen Per-year. Get it? Meerrrrrry Christmas everyone.

– Scott D. Yost


I was taking picture after picture from several different angles and distances.

And so, to recap, rather than use my spare time to seek out trouble – there I was at a nice wholesome Disney event doing extra work for my job after I had already finished all my duties for the week.

Anyway, so I’m there, quickly taking one picture after another in all the excitement and chaos, when a man, in a black event shirt – clearly with event security – said, “sir, would you come with me, please.”

I was obviously busy and had no idea what he wanted so I just looked at him not knowing what to say.

He said it again, more sternly: “sir, would you please step over here with me.”

I intentionally didn’t put a question mark on that sentence right there because it clearly was not a question. I realized he wasn’t asking me; he was telling me.

so I kind of huffed and stepped out of the commotion, and I said, confused, and a little irritated, but not much, “Yes, what is it?”

“sir,” he said. “Are you with the media?”

“Yes, I’m with the media,” I said.“who are you with?” he asked.“I’m with The Rhinoceros Times;

oK? – now, I need to get back to taking pictures.”

“where are your press credentials?” he said.

“I don’t have them with me.”“But you say you’re with The Rhino

Times?” “Yes,” I said, now really starting to get

irritated. “I’m with The Rhino Times.”“well, we’ve worked with The

Rhinoceros Times before and they always have press credentials,” he said.

so, meanwhile, the princess is in the background posing, and I’m beginning to realize the utter absurdity of the conversation that’s keeping me from her. I said, “Look, let’s say I’m not with The Rhino Times – let’s say I’m not with the media at all. Is there some law against taking pictures in a public park at a public event, orchestrated by Disney specifically so that people can come out and take pictures? Because, if there is …” I said, motioning over to the hundreds of people, many happily snapping away at the princess and the kids, “well, if there is, then I think you have quite a security breach on your hands.”

“sir, Disney on Ice security noticed that you were taking pictures of the princess with every child,” he said.

“Yes,” I said. “we’re going to press in two hours, and we want a good picture for our front page, so I’m trying to take a lot to make sure we have some good ones to chose from.”

“But yet you say you have no media credentials,” he said, very incriminatingly.

In the meantime, I could sense more Disney on Ice security personnel edging closer to where we were standing, because

Yost(Continued from page 14) clearly our conversation was taking a long

time, and clearly I was getting more and more agitated.

I figured the security guy was on the verge of, at any second, pulling out a walkie-talkie and yelling, “swarm! swarm!” and then the Disney Police would wrestle me to the ground and begin pepper spraying me as hundreds of children began screaming and fleeing while other Disney on Ice Police surrounded the princess and whisked her away back to the safety of the hidden castle or wherever.

eric Chilton and some other wFMY people were nearby, and I said to the guy, “Look, ask eric Chilton; he can tell you I’m with The Rhino – ask anybody.”

As soon as I suggested that, I wanted to take it back, because eric is a very funny guy, and, if the Disney Police had gone to him and asked him if he knew me, and asked him if I was actually with the media, eric would have looked at me, figured out what was going on, and said, “That guy? no, I don’t know him. I saw him walking around earlier – he seems kind of suspicious if you ask me.”

But it didn’t matter, because the security guy refused to ask eric.

I’m usually out of business cards, but it hit me that I might have one or two on me. I didn’t want to say I had a card and then not be able to produce one, but I was running out of options; and I said, “Look, I might be out, but I could have a business card on me; let me check.”

He watched me closely, seemingly to make sure it was a wallet I was reaching for and not some sort of concealed weapon.

As I reached slowly for my wallet, I was now the focus of the Disney on Ice security team – both seen and, no doubt, unseen – and I took my wallet out of my pocket and, luckily, I had one card. I pulled it out and gave it to him. It had my name on it and a graphic of a Rhinoceros head and it said across the top: “The Rhinoceros Times”

He looked at it for a moment and read my name, mispronouncing my last name, “scott Yosst” he said to himself, rhyming Yost with “cost,” which is exactly the wrong way to say it.

“It’s Yost,” I said pronouncing it like it should be said, like it rhymed with “most.”

“Yost,” he said again questioningly, this time at least saying it correctly.

now, at this point, I’m really starting to get irritated because I had just been doing my job and I was doing nothing wrong, and I don’t even know what the Disney Police suspected me of doing, but, at least, I figured, my business card will convince this guy who I am and then I can get back to doing what I had a perfect right as a free American in a public park to do in the first place – whether I was with the media or not.

“There’s no photo on this card,” he told me.

“of course there’s no photo on it,” I said, “It’s a business card.”

“so, do you have a photo ID, like a driver’s license?”

“Yes, I have one.” I looked through my wallet again, and

finally found my driver’s license, and I gave it to him, and he held it up next to the business card checking to see that the names matched. He scrutinized my license like a bar bouncer triple-checking some underage girl’s fake ID.

He looked at me. He looked at the ID.He looked back at me.“I’ve seen your name in the paper; I

guess it’s oK,” he said, handing both cards back and waving off other security and letting me know that I was free to go – so I went back to taking pictures.

But the whole encounter really just astonished me and, looking back, I had all sorts of questions. Like: What if I hadn’t been able to produce any ID and they had tried to stop me from taking pictures. I would not have stopped – then what would happen?

Because, after thinking about it, if I had it to do all over again, the very first time he asked if I was with the media, I would have said, nonchalantly: “The media? oh no – I’m not with the media. Could you please step aside: You’re blocking my view of the princess.”

Because that’s the really interesting scenario: what would have happened then? with all the TV cameras there, it probably would have been on the national news that

night: “Good evening, I’m Brian williams. Pandemonium broke out in Greensboro, north Carolina, today when witnesses say this man, scott Dayvault Yost, was acting suspiciously around Cinderella at what was supposed to be an enjoyable family photo op at a local outdoor ice skating rink. It’s unclear what Yost’s intentions were, but instead of a joyful family event, due to Yost’s actions, hundreds of children ran screaming from the scene as Disney Police subdued Yost using pepper spray and Tasers. The princess is reported to be unharmed, however, she is said to be recovering emotionally from what Disney officials described as a “terrifying and traumatic event.” Disney officials said the princess is still experiencing fainting spells but is expected to recover fully.”

And then I would have woken up in a haze, chained to the wall in some stone, windowless room, saying, “Call my attorney, seth Cohen – his card is in my pocket.”

And the evil guard would have laughed and said: “You are chained up in a dungeon in a hidden castle. There are no attorneys or judges here.” He would chuckle – “only royal decrees, and the penalty for upsetting the princess is 100 years!”

You know, something like that. But it also hit me that, at the event, if I’d

had to, I had a card in my hand to play as well. If they had gone too far, I could have


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said: “Look, I don’t want to get ugly here, but you know what: I could just expose this whole little scam to all these little girls right now. You know, I could simply shout out the truth to them: She’s not really a princess.”

I could have told them all that she’s not really Cinderella and she didn’t really eat a poisoned apple and sleep for a hundred years. In fact, she’s not even a princess at all. And, probably – while she looks all princessy and magical right now in her perfect flowing blue gown and golden tiara-adorned hair while she’s lovingly hugging the children – 30 minutes ago,

when she was in the makeup chair having her makeup done, she was probably sitting there in her ripped jeans and her “sex has no calories” T-shirt, chain-smoking Marlboros complaining angrily, “I don’t give a (deleted) what my contract says. I’m not freezing my (deleted) off one second longer than 15 minutes in that mob scene in this (deleted)-hole town – I don’t care how many of those little snot-nosed brats there are out there.”

so Disney better be careful, because, when it comes right down to it, they might be able to take me away, but I could reveal all their secrets if I wanted to. so, if you ask me, they’re the ones skating on thin ice.

Yost(Continued from page 17)

Capra directed it and why would it ever need to be put on the stage?

Here’s why: Because it makes a great play. Because the original cast isn’t the only possible way it could be cast, and the way they said the lines isn’t the only possible way the lines could be said.

That’s why it’s good to see more than one production of the great plays – one Romeo & Juliet is not identical to any other. And weaver’s production is quite wonderful in its own right.

For instance, the opening. In the movie, we hear the prayers of disembodied voices, praying for George Bailey. But on stage, we see people, some in front of the scrim, some behind it. But we see them kneeling, or praying where they stand. It’s more real. It’s better than the movie, in this moment.

The endearing angel Clarence odbody from the movie gets a very different spin from the Doogie Howser-like actor smith McLean, who isn’t playing cute – but gets his laughs anyway.

Donna Reed was lovely, but Leigha Sinnott as George’s wife, Mary, is, in a word, better. ouch, it hurts even to say that – but I think it’s true. she’s so lovely, deep and real.

Bert and ernie were great in the movie. They’re a very different team in the play, with Phillip wells and noah Gray in the parts – but they’re just as delightful, and just as unforgettable.

who has the chutzpah, though, to step into the shoes of James stewart? Isaac Powell, that’s who – the same kid who did such a brilliant job in the part of Pippin last year.

To my great pleasure, Isaac Powell has matured in the past year, and (more to the point) plays maturity very well, so that he can handle the part of George Bailey as an adult, a married man, a responsible man, with complete believability. High school kids aren’t supposed to be able to do that.

I’m hoping that between the rehearsal I saw and the performance you see, some of the actors will have slowed down their line deliveries – old coots like me need to have a chance to hear! even those of us who have

Uncle Orson(Continued from page 12) practically memorized the movie want to

hear the lines spoken in their entirety. But director Keith Taylor is on top of it – they’ll come through.

which brings me to the key point: The script.

It follows the movie. Maybe sometimes too faithfully – there are sequences which could not be performed on stage, and so we get a quick recounting of some incidents that in the movie we actually saw.

But remember that the movie, too, is narrated. we don’t see George Bailey’s brother save a troopship from sinking – we’re told about it. so is it so wrong also to be told about how George saved his brother from falling through the ice and drowning as a kid?

what matters is that it’s the story we already love, movingly told in a brisk, well-acted performance. The script does the job it’s supposed to do.

And the set? The theatrical vision here is wonderful. A massive turntable in the middle of the stage spins to be the bridge George almost jumps from, the stairs in Mary’s house, the stairs in George’s house, and every other thing that it needs to be. Lighting does the rest.

what matters to me, though, is that this play delivers an immediacy that movies just can’t create. This fresh retelling of a classic comes to life. even in a rehearsal with a week to go before the opening, these kids’ performances moved me. I laughed, I cried. It’s Christmas – what more can you ask for?

But I warn you – if you bring your kids to see It’s a Wonderful Life, it’ll make them want to get into weaver Academy themselves when they get old enough for high school. of course, it’s one of the top high schools in the whole country, so maybe that wouldn’t break your heart ...

The show starts tonight – but you’ll be at the Messiah, so what a relief that it also runs Friday, Dec. 9 and saturday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m., and sunday, Dec. 11 at 2 p.m. students get in for $6; adults are admitted for $8. (Cash only – they aren’t equipped for credit cards.)



Letters to the EditorGreen energy costs

Dear Editor,why does Duke energy need a 17

percent increase? In 2008 our legislature passed a law

where 12.5 percent of electricity sold in the state has to be from renewable resources. Based on International energy Agency averages, if you had a $100 electricity bill from coal derived electricity, if sourced exclusively from natural gas it would be $148, nuclear $84, wind $240, hydro $160 and solar $600. In addition Duke energy has made some questionable investments in wind farms, must purchase “green credits” from facilities that put in solar heating or secondary electricity generating equipment and countless other items that otherwise would never generate a customer, much less a profit. This does not include the huge incentives, subsidies and tax shelters given by local, state or federal agencies, else the cost of renewables would be much higher. I would like an option in everyone’s electricity bill where a customer could opt in or out for including the cost of renewable in their bill’s calculation. How many supporters of green energy would step forward to pay for what they claim to support?Terry Wyrick

Editor’s Note: That’s a great idea. I’ve always been a fan of nuclear power, so my electric bill should go down.

Congressional responsibilityDear Editor,

The congressional “super Committee” gang of 12 should never have been formed in the first place as its relegated authority violated the Constitution. still I was certain that this latest deficit reduction attempt would have the same failed results as the simpson-Bowles Commission, Domenici-Rivlin Task Force and Gang of six proposals because Congress has knowingly been “kicking the can” to the next generation for 28 years.

Folks younger than age 40 are likely not aware that in 1982, President Reagan selected prominent new York City industrialist J. Peter Grace to preside over roughly 2,000 business and community leaders directed to recommend methods of cutting government waste and inefficiency. The Grace Commission was constantly on my mind, as when I moved to new York City in 1983 it was Peter Grace’s daughter and her husband who welcomed me to the big city. The finalized Grace Commission report, submitted to Congress in January 1984, detailed how trillions of dollars could be saved by the year 2000. when the hard diligence by the committee was brushed aside, Mr. Grace justifiably issued very harsh words for all members of legislative branch.

Republicans and Democrats must adhere to their constitutional responsibility

by making the required tough decisions to reduce the size of our federal government and put America back on a path to prosperity for the sake of our younger generation, our national security and our freedom.Mark Mortensen

Police problems persistDear Editor,

I write this as a grieving mother. My son, John Christopher shaw Hewett, was murdered on Feb. 5, 2011. He was shot to death by a convicted felon who was loose on our streets despite his violent history. I also write as a resident of Greensboro who is frustrated with the way the Greensboro Police Department has handled – or mishandled – that fatal shooting.

Less than 48 hours after my son was gunned down, a Greensboro police detective came to my house and nonchalantly told me it was a simple case of self defense, that no charges would be filed because, he said, the shooting occurred while my son was engaging in a robbery. In effect, he said, the case was closed

My family found that appalling. The more questions I asked, the more frustrating the situation became. It was as if I was entitled to no explanation and the police didn’t care about me as the mother of the victim.

with no willingness to cooperate from

the police, I began my own investigation. what I shockingly learned once I obtained the autopsy report was that my son was shot four times in the back: once in the rear side and three more times directly in the back. The autopsy further shows the shots were fired in a downward trajectory, suggesting the fatal bullets were fired when my son was on his knees with his back turned to the shooter. The police never once even hinted that to me and, when questioned, still have offered no plausible explanation.

I have repeatedly asked verbally and in writing a series of questions in search of facts and fairness. The more I ask, the more belligerent and defensive the police become.

It is as if the police have their minds made up despite not knowing all the facts. The shooter is a convicted felon from gun and drug charges. He happens to have the same last name – Hinson – as the policeman with the checkered past involving ties to drug dealers and prostitutes. This is the policeman who was a focus in the newspaper series of stories about distrust and possible corruption within the Greensboro Police Department. Is the shooter, Thomas Hinson, kin to policeman James Hinson? The police chief told me he knew the answer, but wasn’t going to tell me. A simple no would have sufficed if the answer was no.



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became the High Point Police Department headquarters – not a smart transaction on the city’s part, and High Point now has plans to build a new police headquarters.

The City of High Point has lobbied unsuccessfully for years to get the stadium back.

Then the High Point, Greensboro and Guilford County school systems merged in 1992, giving the merged system ownership of the stadium.

High Point owns the rest of the athletic complex, and there is a complicated shared-use agreement under which Guilford County schools gets to use the athletic complex free of cost. The school system uses the stadium for High Point Central and Andrews high schools games and leases it to the city for events.

when the school board reached the land-sale item on the agenda, after its latest nearly interminable consideration of potential attendance zone boundaries for the Ronald e. Mcnair elementary school, now under construction, Price leapt from his seat and made a beeline for the floor lectern normally used only by speakers during the public comment section of school board meetings.

“Can I use the podium?” Price asked the startled school board members.

school board Chairman Alan Duncan said, “well, that’s unusual, but if you want to, I think you can.”

Price used the lectern to make an

Price(Continued from page 8) impassioned plea for the land, citing the

shortage of parking at the athletic complex on Friday nights and saturdays, the need for the shelter and plans to build another soccer field to teach young special-needs children soccer.

Price also hopes to build wheelchair-accessible “splash pads” – picture a mammoth slip ‘n slide for handicapped children for whom swimming is not safe.

Then he cued up the movie.Price had already distributed to the

school board members newspaper clippings about the history of Miracle Field and the athletic complex – the same clippings that were his only campaign documents when he ran for school board in 2010 – but the movie clinched the deal.

The movie was a touching history of the Miracle League, the High Point Miracle Field and children who have played there, including one handicapped boy who took his first steps on the field. The movie was accompanied by a teary, swelling soundtrack and punctuated by periodic comments from Price, who described the athletic complex as “landlocked.”

Price said, “The school has options and we don’t.”

If there was a dry eye in the house, there shouldn’t have been.

After ending the movie, Price called on the school board members to support him, returned to his seat at the dais, where he closed his eyes and rested his chin on his clasped hands, to all appearances locked in prayer.

The entire presentation was pure Price. Anyone who knows Price, the passionate advocate for children, could see that his emotion was obviously real. But anyone who knows Price, the owner of the largest real estate business in High Point, also knows a masterly sell when they see one.

The debate on researching the land sale was brief. Duncan had to recuse himself, as did Price, in part because of his longstanding involvement in the field. (“not financial, but involvement,” Duncan said.) And also because Price is a current member of the High Point Parks and Recreation Commission – something paid-by-the-hour school board attorney Jill wilson didn’t know until midway through the discussion. she asked Price if he was on the commission.

Price said, “I can quit the Parks and Recreation Commission right now.” He would have, too.

wilson said that, nevertheless, there was a conflict. she said, “If you were not an active, seated member, that might be different.”

school board member Amos Quick was the first school board member to come out from under the ether after the presentation. He said the school board may have gotten into something it shouldn’t by being persuaded by a member of the High Point Parks and Recreation Commission who happened to be on the school board.

school board member Paul Daniels asked whether there should be a determination as

to whether the school board would have a use for the property. Duncan said that would be part of the upcoming staff study and that anyway, “As I read the reports, there is no immediate plan for the property.”

school board member nancy Routh brought the school board members down to earth by pointing out that, if the school board decided to sell High Point the land, it would have to go through the same process state law requires for school boards to sell any land – declaring the land surplus property, then offering the Guilford County Board of Commissioners first refusal of it.

That didn’t work very well for the school board recently, when it went through that process for the large parking lot between the Bryan Family YMCA, the school board’s washington street administration building and the weaver education Center. The school board tried to sell the property to the YMCA for $2 million, only to have the commissioners snap it up for a yet-undetermined price.

Getting approval from the county commissioners would be the other half of Price’s miracle.

Despite the few stated doubts, the motion to have staff study a possible sale passed 8 to 0, with Duncan and Price abstaining and school board member Deena Hayes absent.

After the vote, Price leapt from his seat again – to leave the building, smoke a cigarette and hide his emotions. He returned to the school board room smiling.

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I was, in fact, told by an assistant city manager if I kept asking if there were any connections between shooter Hinson and cop Hinson my actions may well “come around and bite me in the butt.” Is that a professional answer for a victim’s mother who is only seeking a truthful yes or no answer?

once I independently learned of the criminal record of the shooter, I asked detectives why they hadn’t alerted federal authorities about the shooter’s likely violation of federal gun laws. I was told that was of no concern to police. I did find one police officer that works with federal authorities who contacted federal firearms officials at my request. The result is that shooter Hinson has now been indicted on three federal gun violations and is incarcerated. except for my independent actions, shooter Hinson may well be back on the streets ready to kill again.

I realize I don’t have all the facts in this case and am not objective. But my son is dead and I have had to dig out more on my own than I have been able to obtain from local police. All I ask is answers. The lack of common courtesies and seeming indifference to my legitimate concerns are extremely bothersome. I can only hope that all citizens are not treated with the lack of professionalism and disrespect that I have received. My son is dead and the police seem disinterested in determining all the

Letters(Continued from page 31) facts. Based on my case, it is evident that

the problems in the local Police Department have not gone away and makes the past news stories about local police even more believable. I deserve better. All citizens deserve better. Ann K. Shaw

Master of deceptionDear Editor,

Fool me once – shame on you. Fool me twice – shame on me.

In the upcoming election, we cannot wait until the last days in order to get the message out that this man in the white House is a master of deceptions.

now is the time to hammer away at this in as many sources of communication tools that are available to us. For if we the people of this great country allow such acts of deceiving us to be hidden, then when the piper plays his song, how many will follow? The seed of truth must not be held back. now is the time to inform and let’s not get fooled again.Anonymous

New debacle on horizonDear Editor,

And so it begins. The drumbeats, faint as they are, can already be heard. I see from the front page article in the daily

worker that our new mayor and council, even before being sworn in, are touring and getting info on the osborne waste treatment plant. since they were allowed to close the award-winning white street Landfill, it was only a matter of time.

The African-American elite who, with their white toadies, so firmly control Greensboro, are starting the process of closing the waste treatment plant. The excuses will be many, but the reason is simply that it is located in a predominately black area of town and they have the political will to get it done.

It will be interesting to see if Greensboro survives another $100 million or so debacle.Anonymous

chairman. However, Hyde said, the truth is the exact opposite.

“There seem to be 10 better candidates than the current chairman,” Hyde said.

He said it was clear from Alston’s actions as chairman in the last few years that Alston puts his own self-interest ahead of the interest of the county. Hyde said that, in the recent past, Alston had been involved with the XMG online scandal that led to that internet design company being paid tens of thousands of dollars with nothing for the county to show in return.

Alston(Continued from page 10) Also, Hyde said Alston, a real estate

broker, had worked hard to secure special federal stimulus loan funding for a downtown hotel project on which Alston stood to gain a huge commission. Hyde said that Alston’s potential commission on that deal “was rumored to be over $400,000,” and Hyde added that Alston had used his position to protect County Manager Brenda Jones Fox after Fox signed a secret and potentially highly lucrative deal with a High Point real estate broker to perform duties Guilford County already had a whole department to handle.

Hyde quoted a recent newspaper editorial that said, “Racial division is Alston’s stock and trade.”

He also criticized the commissioners who were about to elect Alston chairman again as well as the citizens who continue to let Alston run Guilford County.

“shame on us,” Hyde said.Despite the rancor over the reelection

of Alston, there was a lot of Christmas spirit on the first night of December in the commissioners meeting room on the second floor of the old Guilford County Court House in downtown Greensboro. The room, like the rest of the old courthouse, now has its traditional Christmas floral arrangements and other seasonal decorations on display.

After Hyde and Yow’s remarks, things became less contentious and more festive. The board’s relatively light agenda helped put an end to any potential acrimony as well.

At the Dec. 1 meeting, the board voted to move forward with renovations at the county’s edgeworth building in downtown Greensboro to prepare it for court services workers as well as for “future county space needs,” even though the county has lots of extra office space that would seem to be more than enough for years to come – especially since the county has been losing employees over the last two years and since next year it’s expected to lose another 180 employees.

still, the board has decided to keep the county’s edgeworth building, which had been up for sale for about two years, and had also been damaged by an electrical fire. At the meeting the board voted to spend

$551,000 to upfit the building for its planned new uses.

At the meeting, the commissioners also held a public hearing on $15 million in financing for Greensboro College and that took literally about three minutes.

Greensboro College is receiving $15 million in tax exempt financing and the Internal Revenue service Code requires approval before the loan can me made. The money is coming from the Public Finance Authority of wisconsin, and the proceeds will be used by Greensboro College to refinance existing debt as well as to make some capital improvements.

Guilford County Finance Director Reid Baker briefly described the item, and no one spoke either for or against the move. The commissioners voted unanimously, with no discussion, to approve the highly non-controversial item.

Before the vote, Alston emphasized that in no way was Guilford County responsible for any part of the money – nor did the county bear any risk whatsoever for the move.

“Guilford County will not be liable in any way for the financing,” Alston said. “neither would the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the county be obligated in any way for the payment of the debt.”

The Dec. 1 meeting was the first true holiday meeting of the Christmas season and had its lighter moments to go with the serious business. For instance, county officials often give gifts publicly to one another – often gag gifts.

This year, Guilford County sheriff BJ Barnes was the first county official to come to a meeting bearing gifts – though, in Barnes’ case, it was a matter of public relations and advertising as much as anything else.

Barnes brought jars of a brand new item – Jailhouse Jelly – made from grapes grown at the county’s Prison Farm near Gibsonville.

Barnes uses the farm to teach inmates various skills and trades. About a year and a half ago, the inmates began growing grapes, a new product from the farm.

Barnes announced at the meeting that the jelly is on sale for $6.50 a jar at the Prison Farm store. (The jelly is also available for


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on the label, there’s a colorful picture of a smiling inmate in a black and white striped prison uniform holding a vine full of grapes. Barnes gave each commissioner a jar of jelly and asked them to tell their friends about it.

“we have another hundred cases,” Barnes said.

Barnes said the inmates had also made some very tasty honey at the farm – Jailhouse Honey – that Barnes was planning to bring the commissioners, but that, the sheriff said, was already all gone.

“The honey sold out almost immediately,” Barnes told the board.

shaw, who’s known for making delicious jelly herself, said she knew that $6.50 was a very good price, since she was aware of all that went into making quality jelly.

Alston asked Barnes if the jelly was available in county grocery stores and Barnes said it was not, but he added that he’s always exploring his options.

shaw also said that, since there are now grapes being grown out at the Prison Farm, the sheriff might look into making wine out there.

Barnes said that wouldn’t be happening as long as he was sheriff.

Adding to the festive and holiday nature of the meeting, Joanne Lapple, a Greensboro resident and C4gc member who often

comes to meetings but has never spoken at one, brought a poem to read during speakers from the floor.

It was a county conservative’s version of the famous “Twas the night Before Christmas,” and her extended poem, which was quite clever, had Alston laughing at times even though he was to a large extent the object of attack of some of the poem’s lines.

“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the county, taxpayers were worried, ‘How are you spending our money?’” the poem began.

Another line spoke of the county’s recent efforts to help an ailing Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART): “Honda got incentives, PART was bailed out, conservative ideas were totally scrubbed out.”

several of the references in the poem addressed Alston’s attempts over the last year to squash the conservative’s voices at county meetings as well as his efforts to prevent them from showing videos at meetings.

As santa departed, according to Lapple’s version of the poem, “I heard him excitedly, as he drove out the gate, ‘Freedom of speech will keep America great!’”

Lapple then wished the board a merry Christmas.

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to meet next on Thursday, Dec. 15, for what is expected to be their last meeting of the year.

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you to another. After all, what if you decide you like the other guy’s writing better than mine?

Then again, I don’t get paid for this column, so it’s not like you’d be depriving me of my livelihood. so let me just tell you about Eric Snider. He’s a terrific movie reviewer – though I don’t always agree with him. And he’s also a wonderfully humorous commentator on life in general.

The reason I thought of telling you about him is because of his most recent “Snide Remarks” column, in which he points out that sometimes there is simply no difference between one company’s product and another’s. There – that’s his premise. And it’s obviously true.

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snide/indistinguishable-thats-what-you-are/Meanwhile, I have to wonder. A guy

named snider – not the more common snyder spelling – is he doomed to be a writer of funny-snide comments? surely there are other sniders who are, like, dentists and plumbers. But are they also snide in their attitude toward life?

I mean, people named Brown aren’t necessarily Brown, and ditto with Black, white and other color names. How many black people are named white and how many white people are named Black? Lots, I can say for a fact. And how many people named Redd are actually red of hair or skin? And of all the Greens I know, none of them are green.

Maybe we just notice when a last name is particularly appropriate – or inappropriate. After all, my name is Card, and I’m definitely not thin and flat; nor do I belong in a suit, except on sunday.

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and recreation services that Guilford County now contracts out to various towns and cities, which means Guilford County would add about 30 full-time employees and 20 part-time employees to the county’s payroll – workers who are now employed by the cities and towns contracted to manage the parks for the county.

Currently, Guilford County has two employees who oversee the park contracts among their many other duties. However, the county doesn’t have any staff to manage and operate its parks, so it is outsourcing that work as it has been for decades.

one factor behind the Dec. 1 work session on parks and recreation is that two of the county’s park management contracts –

one with the City of Greensboro to maintain and run Hagan-stone Park, and one with the Town of Gibsonville to run southwest Park – expire June 30, 2012, and the commissioners have to decide soon whether they wish to continue contracting out those services, or whether they want to take over the maintenance of those two parks and create a parks and recreation department.

A new department would roll those two parks into county government, as well as eventually take in the county’s other five parks and then oversee, maintain and run, on a day to day basis, all the parks for Guilford County.

In addition to Hagan-stone Park and southwest Park, Guilford County owns Bur-Mil Park, Gibson Park, Guilford-Mackintosh Park and northeast Park. Guilford County also jointly owns Triad Park with Forsyth County; Triad Park is now maintained and managed by Forsyth County.

At the Dec. 1 work session, held in the Blue Room of the old Guilford County Court House, Guilford County Property Management Director sandy woodard, who’s heading up a staff task force looking into these issues, led the presentation.

Guilford County Manager Brenda Jones Fox, Assistant County Manager sharisse Fuller and Guilford County Attorney Mark Payne were at the meeting, along with Commissioners Paul Gibson, Mike winstead, John Parks, Bill Bencini, Linda shaw, Kay Cashion, Kirk Perkins and

Chairman of the Board of Commissioners skip Alston.

During the presentation, woodard said that, at a september commissioners’ work session, she and her task force had been asked to explore ways the county could reduce the cost of park maintenance and operations and come back to the board with options for creating efficiencies and saving money.

According to woodard, in the current fiscal year, 2011-2012, Guilford County is paying roughly $2.3 million to maintain and operate the county’s parks. That number, woodard said, is down about $250,000 from the amount the county paid to operate parks in fiscal 2010-2011.

with the exception of Triad Park, Guilford County pays a 10 percent management fee over and above the other costs to all of the cities and towns that run the parks for the county.

“The 10 percent management fee is compensation for indirect costs of the parks,” woodard said.

The administration of maintenance workers, and other park employees, she said, creates additional demands on the human resources departments, legal departments and purchasing departments of the cities and towns that manage the parks.

woodard said Guilford County is already set up to handle human resources and payroll administration of the employees as well as




other functions associated with maintaining and overseeing those workers who mow the park grounds and serve as lifeguards at park pools, and the county would, right off the top, save that 10 percent management fee it has been paying every year.

“This year we’ll pay almost a quarter of a million in management fees,” woodard told the board.

of course that would mean more administrative work for the county.

The county has let go of hundreds of workers over the last three years and it is about to lose roughly 180 mental health workers in 2012, and, woodard said at the meeting, no additional county human resources workers or payroll workers would be required to manage park staff if the county takes over those duties. while managing people is not free, county officials apparently feel that the county has enough free administrative capacity to take on new park workers without adding additional oversight staff.

while the contracts for Hagan-stone Park and southwest Park expire next year, and those are the two contracts driving the current discussion, Guilford County can get out of all of its contracts with the other park service vendors in a matter of months. so, woodard said, if the commissioners decide to form a county parks and recreation department, it could bring all of the county’s park operations under one administrative

umbrella quickly. Currently, the county’s contract with

Jamestown to run Gibson Park is set to expire in 2029, which is also when the county’s contract with Gibsonville to run northeast Park expires. Guilford County’s contract with Burlington to run Guilford Mackintosh Park expires in 2017, and the contract with the City of Greensboro to run Bur-Mil Park has no expiration date.

woodard said county staff had determined that the county has six plausible options when it comes to handling the parks.

option 1, she said, was to maintain the status quo.

“You could leave things as they are,” woodard said.

The second option was for the county to only take over major maintenance duties for the parks, but not the day-to-day park operations and minor maintenance and repairs. That option, she said, would mean Guilford County would need to hire two “facilities-type” employees.

A third option would be for Guilford County to take over the management of Hagan-stone Park and southwest Park when those two contracts expire next June, but leave the other contracts in place for now. woodard said, under this scenario, the county would need to hire about six full-time park employees and six part-time employees.

A fourth option, she said, would be for Guilford County to assume the day-to-day

management of Hagan-stone Park and southwest Park, as well as take over the large maintenance duties at all the parks.

options 5 and 6, woodard said, both involve the county taking over all of park operations and maintenance.

woodard said that option 5 would be for the county to take over the day-to-day management of all the county’s parks except for Triad and Guilford-Mackintosh. (Those two would be excluded because Triad Park is a partnership with Forsyth County, and Guilford County doesn’t pay a management fee; instead, it pays 50 percent of the cost of operation. And Guilford-Mackintosh Park is on property owned mainly by the City of Burlington, which also operates that park.)

Under this fifth scenario, Guilford County would take on the employees currently working at the parks and take over the job of administering those employees.

The final option, woodard said, would be for Guilford County to find a single outside contractor that would run and maintain all of the parks for the county. she said that, like option 5, this would allow Guilford County to save money.

“we recommend option 5 or 6,” woodard told the commissioners. “Both allow for economies of scale.”

she said both those options would mean more sharing of equipment and better coordination of the maintenance efforts for the various parks.

In addition, she said, whether the county

took over management of the parks or unified them under one contactor, Guilford County would be able to stop spending the 10 percent management fee that it now pays the cities and towns that run the parks.

some commissioners questioned the wisdom of the county taking over all of the duties related to the county’s parks.

Perkins said he had no doubt that the numbers looked good on paper, but he questioned if the moves would actually translate into real savings for the county once all the intangibles were factored in.

“It’s not as simple as this,” Perkins said at the work session.

Perkins said the county’s parks were located in every corner of Guilford County and, he said that while it might sound good to, for instance, have one lawn mower used at several parks, it costs money to haul that mower around the county. He said that, if a lawn mower is being used twice as much, it doesn’t necessarily save any money.

“It just wears out twice as fast,” Perkins said.

Gibson said the cost of park maintenance could be surprising, and, if the county tried to do all of the work at all of the parks, it might find itself quickly in over its head.

Gibson said that, back in the ’80s, he served on the board of a youth soccer association that reached an agreement with Bryan Park for the association to maintain a soccer field at the park. Gibson said



a speaker from the floor asked to show a video. At the request of Yow, Alston allowed that video, which supported the salvation Army, to be shown under the commissioners new business section of that meeting.

Riddleberger then attempted to go through the so-called open channels to get her video on the agenda and played as part of the next commissioners meeting.

on Monday, nov. 21, Riddleberger sent the following email to Guilford County Clerk to the Board effie Varitimidis: “Good Morning effie, I would like to be a part of the Commissioners December 1st agenda. I have a video to show of their decision to ban Multi-media from speakers from the floor portion of the meetings. I would like them to revisit the issue and consider reversing their vote for censorship, at their next regularly scheduled meeting.”

Riddleberger’s request had the interesting twist that the video Riddleberger wanted to show at the meeting was a video that helped make the case for lifting the ban on videos.

The following day, on Tuesday, nov. 22, Riddleberger received a response from Deputy Clerk to the Board Crystal Maurer.

“Mrs. Riddleberger,” the email stated, “The staff meeting this morning with the Chairman considered your request to add your video presentation to the agenda. At this time he has decided against the request to add the presentation to the Dec. 1st meeting. He suggested you could bring forward your request to revisit the issue at the speakers from the Floor portion of the meeting if you still wish to pursue it. Thank you.”

Riddleberger likely expected her request to be turned down, and that may have been part of the conservatives’ plan. Before Alston rejected Riddleberger’s request to show her video at the meeting, several C4gc members, including Hyde, acknowledged that they thought Alston would deny the conservative group the right to put a video on the meeting’s agenda. They said that, given his track record, he would no doubt only allow videos from groups that he agreed with politically.

The point conservatives are now making is that, while the ban of all videos and electronic media from the speakers from the floor part of the meeting was, on the surface, merely what attorneys call a “time and manner” restriction – and not a restriction of “content” – the fact that the board will allow videos as part of their meetings raises again the issue of discrimination based on content.

Guilford County Attorney Mark Payne said in the nov. 3 work session, the meeting Riddleberger’s son videotaped, that the commissioners needed to be very careful when they started talking about regulating content but, he told the board, he thought an outright ban on all videos during speakers from the floor was legally defensible because there is a much lower bar for restrictions on time and manner than there is for content restrictions. one part of Payne’s job is to legally defend the

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of course, as the C4gc people are now pointing out, at that work session, it was very clear that content was actually the issue under discussion, because, while the majority of Democratic commissioners were supposedly banning all videos, the commissioners – both Democratic and Republican – pointed out that some groups (ones they welcome, though they did not say that) sometimes come and show videos as speakers from the floor at commissioners meetings.

That’s when Alston made his remarks that those videos could now simply be put on the agenda as a regular part of the business of the meeting – not during speakers from the floor. so, Alston assured those commissioners concerned, those groups that have traditionally shown videos would still have the right to show their videos – those videos would simply now be put on the agenda and shown as part of the meeting’s business.

At that nov. 3 work session where the board banned videos by speakers from the floor, Yow pointed out strongly that meant the board still had a content issue problem because, Yow said, someone would still have to make a determination as to which videos got placed on the agenda and which ones did not.

Yow said the issue would come back to haunt the commissioners, and, especially given Riddleberger’s son’s videotaping of that entire work session’s conversation, it’s becoming crystal clear that the ban didn’t resolve the issue.

The lack of resolution was the reason videos became a major topic of discussion last week at the Board of Commissioners Thursday, Dec. 1 meeting.

At the start of the meeting, Riddleberger took the speaker’s podium and informed the board of her correspondence with the county, and her attempt to have a four-minute video shown as part of the regular business, and she spoke of Alston’s rejection of her request.

Addressing the commissioners, Riddleberger said, “I found this very interesting, considering the fact that, at your nov. 3 work session, the chairman assured you, not once, but twice, that anyone who wanted to show a video on county business just needed to contact the county and they would be added to the agenda.”

Riddleberger had a DVD with her at the podium.

“I have the videotape proof right here,” she told the board at the Dec. 1 meeting.

she said that led her to several questions.

“so I’m here to ask, ‘why am I being discriminated against?’” she said. “why am I not allowed on the agenda, when the library folks and the puppy mill folks are more than welcome. That’s what my video shows.”

Riddleberger said Guilford County citizens have a right to know – and to see the evidence – when their elected officials are saying one thing and doing another.

Later, during the unfinished business portion of the Dec. 1 meeting,

Commissioner Bill Bencini made a motion to revisit the ban on videos from speakers from the floor, but that failed. even though the motion failed, the board ended up having the discussion anyway, because Commissioner Paul Gibson made another motion: that Riddleberger be allowed to show her video at the meeting.

The commissioners had allowed a salvation Army video (which, interestingly, Riddleberger narrated and which had Knight being interviewed), but now they were saying her video couldn’t be put on the agenda as part of the meeting’s business.

At the Dec. 1 meeting, Yow said it was clear what was happening.

“It’s not what we’re allowing, but who we’re allowing,” he said.

Yow said it was “discriminatory” action by the board, and said that, as a Board of Commissioners, the board wouldn’t be able to just arbitrarily “pick and choose” which videos were played and which ones were not.

“everyone has the same rights,” Yow said at the meeting.

He also said that all this discussion on the matter had done nothing but make the problem worse.

“The more you say ‘You can’t,’ the more they will want to try,” Yow added.

Yow was no doubt right on that point and, if the board had had no reaction to Riddleberger’s first campaign video, the issue would likely have gone away once the election took place.

However, now the commissioners have fallen into a legal morass, and, by the end of it all, they could find themselves in a lawsuit. From Alston’s actions and the actions of the majority of Democratic commissioners so far, they’re not making a very convincing case that they aren’t attempting to restrict the content of some but not of others – which is exactly what the playing of the salvation Army video and the subsequent rejection of Riddleberger’s request demonstrates.

Yow ended his speech with an impassioned plea: “we work for them and we are them and we need to hear them.”

Payne spoke on the rules, and he said that if the board moved from a total video ban to discussing “content restrictions” then they needed to tread very carefully.

“If it’s anything other than videos are oK or not, then you are going to have to have a very serious discussion,” Payne said.

In the end, the commissioners voted unanimously to have Payne look into the issue and come up with guidelines that can be used to determine which videos are placed on meeting agendas and which ones are not.

Payne will come back to the board with a presentation on the matter on Tuesday, Jan. 10, when the commissioners hold their annual retreat – an all-day meeting at which the board sets its priorities for the new year and deals with various loose ends, such as this one, that need to be tied up.

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that just meant keeping the field mowed, keeping chalk lines on the grass and maintaining the nets; and he said that, at the time, he remembers being very surprised at the expense of just those few simple obligations.

“I agree with Mr. Perkins on that,” Gibson said of the possibility that the county might be getting in over its head.

Gibson also said he thought there were other issues besides cost that needed to be considered by the board. For instance, he said, the contracts to run the parks had helped Guilford County create good working relationships with the towns and cities – “even Greensboro,” he said.

“I think cooperation is a good thing,” Gibson added.

Bencini voiced concerns about the fact that the county seemed to have no history or any real experience when it came to running parks. when Bencini asked Fox about the

county’s experience, Fox said she didn’t really know the details of the county’s past park experience, but, she said, she knew of one case where the county had managed a park for a brief period.

“so we did one park for a short period of time,” Bencini said.

Alston reminded everyone that no decision had to be made at that work session, but he said commissioners needed to consider the options because the county’s decision would determine whether or not the two contracts that were about to expire would be renewed.

Fox said she wanted to emphasize that the current employees working at the county’s parks should not worry about their jobs in the potential transition. Fox said that, the way she envisions it, if the county takes over the parks, it would keep the existing employees. “I don’t want to create anxiety for those employees,“ Fox said, “because there are some really good employees.”


outgoing members of the council. Two years ago a crowd spoke about outgoing Mayor and current Mayor Pro Tem Yvonne Johnson.

In what was truly fitting, considering all of the controversy about the way he handled speakers from the floor during his two years as mayor, Knight said there would be a time for people to speak about outgoing members of the council, but he never made it clear when that time was. so although there were people prepared to say some nice things about Knight and Councilmembers Mary Rakestraw and Danny Thompson, who were all defeated in november, people never got a chance.

In fact, it appeared as if no one was going to say anything about the three members of council, but Councilmember Zack Matheny stepped up and said a few words about each one, and then Councilmember Jim Kee said that he didn’t always agree with them, but he added, “I don’t always agree with Jim Kee either.” And he said he hoped they had reconciled their differences.

It certainly would have been fitting for Perkins to say a few words. Certainly he could think of something nice to say about Knight, whom he defeated, but that was not to be the case.

other than the fact that the last meeting was unusually brief, even for a brief meeting, the big news at the last meeting of

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new council was what didn’t happen. The old council didn’t make any last minute motions to spend $7 million, like the outgoing council did two years ago to build the Greensboro Aquatic Center, and the new council didn’t have any acrimonious discussions or make any motions other than those absolutely necessary.

Johnson said she wanted to make a motion, but Perkins asked her not to, so she announced she was going to wait for the next meeting to make a motion to move speakers from the floor to the beginning of the meeting.

Last week the council was in a bit of an uproar about where everyone was going to sit. Councilmember Trudy wade, who has seniority and by tradition should get to stay in her old seat, was being moved over one seat by Perkins, and wade didn’t like it one bit. she had said she was going to stay in her seat until the council voted to move her.

There is no doubt that a majority of the council can determine where councilmembers sit, but it was established two years ago that the mayor on his own does not have that authority. And there was little doubt that Perkins could get the votes to move wade’s seat to the Antarctic if he so chose, but last week Perkins said he planned to get it all worked out before the first meeting, and he did.

Matheny was the mediator and Kee provided the key when he agreed to move. so the seating arrangement on Tuesday was slightly different than the one announced last week. The current seating arrangement, starting on the left if you are facing the council, has Councilmembers Dianne Bellamy-small, Marikay Abuzuaiter, wade, Matheny, Mayor Perkins, and Councilmembers Johnson, nancy Vaughan, Kee and nancy Hoffmann.

wade also got a promise that setting a policy for council seating would be discussed at the council retreat, and got the date of the council retreat changed to Tuesday, Jan. 24

so unlike two years ago, when the new council started out with two controversies – one, the question about whether to honor the last minute vote of the previous council to borrow an additional $7 million for the Aquatic Center, and two, the fact that half the council didn’t like where they were seated – this council is getting off to a much better beginning than Knight’s council did.

However, there are some real similarities. Two years ago, when the people of Greensboro elected a Republican mayor and conservative majority for the first time ever, it was seen by some councilmembers as a mandate from the people.

on Tuesday, Perkins certainly talked a lot about how this new council represented Greensboro, as if the prior council had not. The council elected in 2009 was elected by the same process as the current council, and it also represented Greensboro because Greensboro is a diverse city.

Before Perkins and his much larger crop of Perkinettes get too hepped up about the mandate they have from the voters of Greensboro, they might want to take another look at the election returns. Perkins certainly received a mandate from east Greensboro, which is predominantly black, but he lost all but four or five precincts in predominately white northwest Greensboro.

Abuzuaiter beat her closest opponent, Chris Lawyer, by almost 1,000 votes. But she didn’t win a single precinct, and Lawyer won 30.

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unemployment and got a tremendous amount of job openings in the oil and gas field. It’s a boom out there. They create money and revenue for the Us government. And he don’t seem to go get any money that way. He wants to take from the rich, or he wants us to buy the oil and gas from his Muslim friends. If it’s ever been a country that put the wrong man in as president, we’re it.

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so, when is Greensboro finally going to get its act together on the economy, uh, bringing in jobs? And these companies, when are they going to start bringing in jobs? what’s going on with HondaJet? Are they finally getting their act together? They were supposed to create all these jobs. where are they? Greensboro is going to

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what I would really like to know is when is the City of Greensboro going to start picking up leaves? I was out riding yesterday, which was sunday, and as I can see there has been no leaves picked up anywhere unless it’s over in the richest sections. And I’m sure they’ve had their leaves probably picked up twice. They tell you to rake your leaves out to the road, and you rake them out there, and let the wind blow four or five different times, and, then, they’re back up in your yard again. I don’t guess they’re going to make a run till next year. Thanks a lot, City of Greensboro.

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The self proclaimed Inca of the Almighty Latin King and Queen nation of north Carolina Jorge Cornell ran for City Council in District 5 and lost to Councilmember Trudy wade, which turned out to be fortuitous. If Cornell had won, he wouldn’t have been able to attend his own swearing-in ceremony, since he was in federal custody on Tuesday night. Cornell and 12 other members of the Almighty Latin King and Queen nation were arrested Tuesday and charged with a long list of federal racketeering offenses, including armed robbery, kidnapping and assault. Cornell ran for an at-large seat on the City Council in 2009 but was defeated in the primary.

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The Festival of Lights on Friday evening brought a big crowd downtown. There was music on every block, but those that didn’t make it all the way to the final barricade on south elm missed hearing some excellent jazz.

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Two years ago some of the family and friends of some city councilmembers didn’t get in the council chambers for the swearing-in ceremony because it was too crowded. This year much of that problem was solved by letting families and friends in and keeping city staff out. no business was taking place, so the staff wasn’t needed, and it was just one less meeting for them to attend. ,Interim City Manager Denise Turner Roth did apologize for their absence. It was a simple and sensible solution.

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The Animal shelter is holding a “Home of the Holidays” event to get 20 dogs in foster homes from Dec. 21 and Dec. 27. These dogs have been in the shelter for a long time and would like a Christmas break. For those who are interested, there will be an informational meeting on wednesday, Dec. 14 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at Best Friends Bed & Biscuit at 6980 spencer Dixon Road. For more information, call Roberta wall at 215-4537.

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everyone’s invited to the Greenway at Fisher Park groundbreaking ceremony, wednesday, Dec. 14 at 11:30 a.m. at the intersection of Battleground Avenue and wharton street.

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splurges will hold a trunk show featuring vintage glass jewelry by Liquid Time and Co. Thursday, Dec. 15 through sunday, Dec. 18 at 1564-B Highwood Blvd. A portion of sales will go to lung cancer research. For information, visit www.splurgesboutique.com.

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This year, His Laboring Few and Cross Roads ministries prepared and delivered Thanksgiving meals for sick, shut-in, elderly, homeless and needy area individuals, and will do the same at Christmas but needs community help. The cost is $5 per meal. To share in this ministry, call 812-3175. Contributions are tax deductible and can be sent to His Laboring Few, 1220 n. Main st., High Point, 27262.

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The Carolina Theatre at 310 s. Greene st.

has installed a new state-of-the-art 40-foot superglo movie screen, just in time for its Christmas movie series. For this week’s schedule, see page 15.

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santa will visit the natural science Center on saturday, Dec. 10 from 8 to 11 a.m. during the santa safari. The event includes a pancake breakfast, crafts, games, an omnisphere show, animal enrichment activities and photo ops with santa. Tickets are $10 for members and $15 for non-members. For information, call 288-3769 or visit www.natsci.org.

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First Baptist Church at 405 north Main st. in High Point is hosting a lunchtime advent concert on wednesday, Dec. 14 with The Market street Brass. A lunch of homemade soup, a sandwich, cookie and beverage is served in the dining room at

12:30 p.m. for $6.

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Hayworth Cancer Center at High Point Regional hospital will hold the 23rd annual LoveLine tree-lighting on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at 302 westwood Ave. in High Point.

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The north Carolina shakespeare Festival will perform A Christmas Carol at High Point Theatre through Dec. 20. Tickets are available at the theater’s box office at 220 e. Commerce Ave. in downtown High Point and online at www.highpointtheatre.com . For the performance on Friday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m., audience members who bring one new toy will receive one free seat in the theater balcony. Toys will be donated to the salvation Army family shelter in High Point.

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Greensboro in the mayor’s race and the at-large race and the predominately black precincts voted one way and the predominately white precincts voted another.

Greensboro is no less divided along racial lines than it was two years ago. The difference in this election and the 2009 election is that in 2011 the political leaders in east Greensboro did a much better job of getting out the vote than the political leaders in northwest Greensboro. Two years ago it was the opposite.

In local elections with voter turnout around 20 percent, the key to winning is getting people out to vote. The George C. simkins Political Action Committee, which is the most powerful political voice in east Greensboro, did a great job of getting people to the polls. In an election, it doesn’t matter how many supporters a candidate has. what matters is how many people take the time to go to the polls and vote.

The final meeting of the old City Council began with each outgoing member receiving the photograph that had been on the wall outside the council chambers and a framed city seal.

Interim City Manager Denise Turner Roth made the presentations. It was noted that this was Roth’s first meeting as interim manager, but in what was one of the oversights of the evening, when everyone was being thanked by old and new councilmembers, no one thanked City Manager Rashad Young. Young’s last day of work was Friday, Dec. 2, but he is technically a city employee until Dec. 12. How soon they forget.

In an interview on Tuesday afternoon, Knight went on at length about how much he appreciated all the work that Young had done for the city and about how much he enjoyed working with Young and getting to know him, but during the official meeting there was no praise or thanks for Young.

each outgoing councilmember said a few words.

Thompson said, “I’ve always been an advocate of term limits, and now it can be said that I practice what I preach.”

Council(Continued from page 38) He noted that in two years the council

had lowered property taxes and not raised utility rates, and had been able to fund the Children’s Museum, which hadn’t been funded in the past. He said, “It has truly been an honor to serve.”

Rakestraw served one term as an at-large councilmember and one term as the District 4 councilmember. It seems like a long time ago, but early in her first term Rakestraw made a motion to fire former City Manager Mitch Johnson, which didn’t pass. However, more than a year later Rakestraw made the same motion and it did pass. she also cast one of the votes to hire Young.

Rakestraw thanked her husband Frank, whom she calls her “sweet Baboo,” and said that in politics spouses are the “unsung heroes and the wind beneath our wings.”

Rakestraw also said, “I’ve worked hard at constituent services and I do believe in constituent services.” she said she would continue to work to help people. Rakestraw has really learned how the city works and was one of the few councilmembers who could actually get something done.

In usual Rakestraw fashion, she ended her short speech by saying that people had been asking her what she was going to do. she then put on red Mickey Mouse ears and said, “Me and my sweet Baboo, well, we’re headed for Disney.”

Knight said, “It’s really been an honor for me. I came out of retirement and I will return to retirement.”

He thanked the staff, in particular the staff in the clerk’s office with whom he had worked every day.

He said, “I’d like to thank the citizens, particularly those who take the time to come to council meetings. It’s good. It’s democracy. You are to be commended for being a participant.”

He ended his short remarks by saying: “Do good, everybody. Merry Christmas to all and we’ll be seeing each other. Thank you a lot.”

Finally he asked Bellamy-small if she wanted to speak and she declined, but made the motion to adjourn.

Perkins opened the second meeting with

words that people who have attended City Council meetings for years have heard countless times, calling for a moment of silence and asking those in the chambers and at home to “be mindful of the important responsibilities and decisions that this council will be involved in tonight.”

After the Pledge of Allegiance, Perkins said, “As you can see we are all properly seated at this time.” And he introduced all the councilmembers.

Perkins was then sworn into office with his campaign manager and friend Ross Harris holding the Bible.

Perkins had already settled into the mayor’s seat like he had been there for years, and when he returned to the dais he started fumbling around and said, “when you get this age you’ve got to find your glasses before you do anything and I’ve lost mine. while I find them I’d like to introduce state sen. Don Vaughan.”

It was a good indication of how Perkins is going to run meetings: calm, matter of fact and with humor.

Don Vaughan swore in the other eight members of the council at the same time. There were about 40 people standing in the area in front of the dais, but it all seemed to work out and it was so much faster than doing each councilmember separately.

To no one’s surprise, Johnson, who came in first in the at-large race, was unanimously elected mayor pro tem and took that oath with just her grand children around her.

each councilmember said a few words; most thanked the people who helped them get elected.

Bellamy-small talked about sankofa, which is symbolized by a bird looking back, and said, “Let this council understand the past as we move forward.”

Kee managed to thank just about everyone in the room in one group or another, since he finally included all the citizens of Greensboro.

Matheny, who followed Kee, noted that there was no one left to thank but thanked his family, his wife, Lauran, and sons, Cam and william. He said that during the moment of silence he thanks God for

the opportunity to serve the citizens of Greensboro by representing District 3.

Hoffmann quoted management guru Peter Drucker on the importance of thinking we instead of I.

wade said she had written down two pages of challenges facing this council including hiring a city manager and a city attorney. she warned the new councilmembers that “it’s not going to be exactly like you thought.” she added, “You’d be amazed at how much one person can do.”

Before introducing Abuzuaiter, Perkins said, “Mrs. Marikay Abuzuaiter, it’s been a long time coming. enjoy this moment.” Abuzuaiter had run twice before and lost. Abuzuaiter sang the praises of the Citizens Academy, conducted by the city to teach citizens about what it actually does. she noted that she was the first graduate of the Citizens Academy to win a seat on the City Council.

nancy Vaughan said that she and Hoffmann were going to have to work out “the nancy thing.”

she added that earlier in the year, “I didn’t know that I wanted to be here tonight.” she had announced that she was not running for reelection before changing her mind and deciding to run.

Johnson said, “First I want to thank God for allowing me to serve the people of this city, the city where I was born and the city that I love.”

Perkins made the final comments of the evening, noting, “what a wonderful City Council Greensboro has given us.”

He said, “The skill set sitting at this podium can do anything if we work together.” He noted that with the economy in the shape that it’s in and unemployment over 10 percent, the council didn’t have time for distractions but had to get down to work on “key priorities.”

The key priorities set by Perkins are jobs and economic development, public safety and infrastructure, and he said to the citizens of Greensboro, “For you to give us this opportunity is something very, very special for us to take advantage of. This opportunity is our obligation and responsibility. Thank you for this gift.”

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– forever – because the industrial facility the land is intended for could not be built, and schools are untaxable.

The vote surprised even school board members. In an email circulated to administrators throughout the Guilford County schools’ north eugene street headquarters, school board member Kris Cooke wrote, “when the vote was tabulated and it passed 7-4, I was in shock!”

The vote sets the school board up for a confrontation with the Kernersville Board of Aldermen, who the night before the commissioners’ vote approved a resolution opposing the sale of the land, the use of the land for a school or any change in the zoning for the land.

The land is owned by TDo Land Holding LLC, a partnership of developers Arthur samet of samet Corp. of Greensboro, David Griffin of D.H. Griffin Construction of Greensboro and Grover shugart Jr. of shugart enterprises of winston-salem, who are all contractors. The school board on nov. 10, 2011 paid $20,000 for an option to buy the property that lasts until May 15, 2012. If the sale goes through, the $20,000 will be applied to the purchase price.

“It’s a very surprising decision,” said Kernersville Mayor Dawn Morgan. “I think it’s very irresponsible to locate a school in an industrial park, with inexperienced drivers and heavy truck traffic every day.”

Kernersville officials have, in meetings

Land(Continued from page 1) with the school board, leaned heavily on

the fact that TDo Land Holding and the Town of Kernersville have gone to great expense and considerable effort to create a business park that will be an economic driver for Guilford County once the economy recovers. They cited as exhibit A the 400,000-square-foot Fedex Ground hub, which began full operation on sept. 18.

After the vote, Morgan maintained her support for keeping the business park industrially zoned, but also emphasized the safety issue, especially the potential danger of mixing Fedex trucks with student drivers.

“I think this is a tragedy waiting to happen,” Morgan said. “The Guilford County commissioners have agreed to pay an amount of money far in excess of what the bond anticipated that will force our precious students to face hazards they should not have to face in the course of trying to get an education.”

Morgan provided an Aug. 26, 2011 letter from Fedex Ground senior Vice President John Payne to the Board of Aldermen in which Payne wrote that 700 workers would arrive at the Fedex hub daily, most in individual vehicles, and that the hub’s daily operation would involve 150 delivery vans and 250 long-haul trailers.

It’s hard to calculate how dangerous, if at all, the mixture of industrial and high school traffic would be, because, if the

school board purchase goes through, roads through the business park would be altered. new roads would run to the high school, and Bending Road, an existing road that runs through what would be the middle of the school’s property, would be moved to the southern border.

The central point of contention over the proposed site remains zoning and money – that is, Kernersville’s desire to keep the business park zoned industrial so the remainder of it can be used for a tax-and-job generating industrial use.

It’s not the first time the school board has faced opposition on that count. Its first choice as a site for the airport area high school was remarkably similar. It was on Boylston Road south of I-40, between the High Point city limits and the interstate, just east of Bunker Hill Road. The new site abuts Bunker Hill Road north of I-40.

The Boylston Road site was a collection of properties owned by 350 south Land Holding LLC. That corporation, chartered in 2007, has listed as its agent D.H. Griffin sr. of D.H. Griffin Construction.

High Point Mayor Becky smothers and City Manager strib Boynton opposed the first site because it was on land that High Point will eventually annex and plans to use for industrial development. High Point refused to guarantee water and sewer for the site, trying to push the school board to look for land north of I-40.

Ironically, if the school board buys

the site in the Triad Business Park, High Point will provide sewer service to the new schools under a May 2007 memorandum of understanding modifying the annexation agreement between Kernersville and High Point. water for the site would be provided by the winston-salem/Forsyth City-County Utilities Commission.

The improvements already made to the business park may have been one of the clinchers that won approval from the commissioners.

“My thinking was the fact that, number one, it’s already developed, with water and sewer,” said Chairman of the Guilford County Commissioners skip Alston. “The school board looked at 70 sites. They said this site was the best of them. And the sellers have rights too. You can’t hold someone’s land hostage. They should be able to do what they want. They have a willing buyer and a willing seller, why should government stand in the way?”

Before the commissioners’ meeting, school board member ed Price, the only real estate agent on the board, offered to speak to the commissioners to explain the high, $86,500-per-acre cost of the land. According to Price, the school board didn’t take him up on his offer.

At the meeting, Commissioner Bruce Davis gave Price the chance he needed anyway, calling on Price to address the issue.



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Price argued, essentially, that the school board would be buying not merely 115 to 125 acres of land – but that land plus $2.5 million in improvements it would otherwise have to pay for. The new high school will be in Price’s district, and he said he wished there was another, better site – but that the improvements TDo Landholding and Kernersville have made to the property swayed him.

Price said, later, “If this property had just been raw land out there, didn’t have water and sewer, I would have no more voted for it than a house cat.”

Cooke attributed the win to Price’s efforts in her email.

“[school Board Chairman] Alan [Duncan], as always, did a great job representing our board,” she wrote. “However, I felt that it was not going to pass after hearing questions and comments from the commissioners. Bruce Davis asked ed Price to discuss the high price of the

Land(Continued from page 41) property and ed displayed his knowledge

on buying and selling commercial property. He did an outstanding job of presenting the challenges for finding that much property in that area for a lesser price.”

Alston, for one, bought Price’s argument.

“If they had bought it for $60,000, there would have been no problem with it,” Alston said. “But you’ve got $30,000 per acre to develop it, so you’ve got that $86,000 expense anyway. obviously it’s a good site, because Kernersville wants to keep it.”

And, oh, does Kernersville wants to keep it. At an August 31, 2011 meeting of the Board of Alderman, the aldermen seemed opposed to rezoning the land, or at least seemed to have mixed feelings about it. But in the november election for Board of Aldermen seats, the proposed school became a major campaign issue, and Morgan now says the board is unanimous, or nearly so, in opposing the school.

Morgan said the school board can’t build a school on the site without having it rezoned, which she said Kernersville won’t do. she especially objected to Alston’s property owner-rights argument.

“This property is part of the town of Kernersville because the developer asked for it to be,” she said. “The developer asked for voluntary annexation. The developer asked for the town’s help to bring water and sewer to the property. They even asked for help paying for the infrastructure. There’s been considerable expense.”

At a meeting of the Kernersville Board of Aldermen in June, Kernersville’s attorney John wolfe told the aldermen that the town’s development agreement with the holding company requires the town to pay some of the cost of running utilities to the business park. TDo Land Holding had proposed de-annexing the property.

“The Town has been offered through legal correspondence a reduction in the amount the Town is to reimburse TDo, in

the amount of $1,175,000,” the minutes of the meeting state. “The Town would have to agree to allow them to sell this property to the Guilford County school Board and to de-annex the property for the reduction to occur.”

In that one paragraph you have the seeds of potential legal action from either side of the Kernersville/TDo Land Holding agreement. The aldermen have committed the town to paying for improvements for which they expect a substantial payback in future property taxes, and TDo Land Holding likely needs to break that agreement to sell the land to reduce its carrying costs, such as interest, on the property.

The Board of Aldermen’s Dec. 1 resolution reads like a list of claims that could be used in a court case.

After a few preliminaries, the aldermen’s resolution states, “The Town of Kernersville negotiated in good faith with TDo to arrive at the current contractual


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relationship between the Town and TDo providing for reimbursement of certain infrastructural costs based on future ad valorem tax revenues received by the Town as the property in question is industrially developed.”

Morgan, and the resolution, estimated the annual opportunity cost of lost property tax revenues to Kernersville at $432,000. Morgan also said there would be a cost to Guilford County if the site was used for a school rather than for industry.

she said, “If it was built out as an 85-acre facility, which is reasonable, it could provide 700 jobs, and property-tax revenues

Land(Continued from page 44) of $664,000 to Guilford County.”

so why would Guilford County schools seek, and receive, approval from the commissioners to buy a property that Kernersville officials say they won’t rezone for a school? Possibly because Duncan thinks the school board members can sway the aldermen, although he claims to never count votes before making an argument before a board.

“That question always presupposes that I count votes beforehand,” Duncan said when asked to judge the strength of the aldermen’s opposition. “I think you know me well enough to know I don’t do that.”

True enough, which explains the

school board’s three-time failure to get the commissioners to approve the purchase of a McLeansville property for a planned southeast Guilford County elementary school. But this time, winging it and sticking to his guns paid off for Duncan.

If the Kernersville aldermen refuse to rezone the property, the school board, and TDo Land Holding, have their own legal and legislative options to try to go around the aldermen. The property owner or the school board could attempt to get the legislature to forcibly de-annex the property – in retrospect, that effort looks like an attempt to get around Kernersville’s zoning restrictions if the commissioners

approved the purchase – or TDo Land Holding or the school board could appeal the zoning case, or the TDo-Kernersville agreement, in court.

Duncan declined to speculate on such tactics, saying neither he nor the school board would want to use them. But Duncan said that, although he is not a land-use specialist, he thinks there are legal ways to get around the aldermen’s position on zoning,

“none of that would be your most desirable course ...” Duncan said. “In terms of court action or legal action, that would be something we would have to talk about with our board.”

County is just his cup of tea. Knight said he came up with “the big number” of about $7 million a year. He said, “about what the consultant came up with a year ago.”

But he said the information the council got about using the white street Landfill wasn’t very good. “In hindsight, if some of that information had been a little more accurate, we could have done better. we kind of got blindsided late in the game.”

But, he added, “I have no sour grapes about it. It is what it is.” He said hopefully the new City Council can find

Knight(Continued from page 4) a remedy for that extra $7 million a year

the city is spending.Knight said, “something else that I

had some hopes about that never got off the ground was to restructure the council meetings to make it a little more functional, a little more efficient. I wanted to have standing committees.”

He said, “It would have been nice if our lengthy meetings had been long because we had a lot of rezoning going on.”

He named the rezonings that took place during his two years: the north elm street and Cornwallis Drive property for townhomes, the old newman Machine

plant for student housing, and a day care center on Horse Pen Creek Road.

He admitted that he may have missed a couple small ones, but it is amazing that someone can name just about all the rezoning requests during a two-year period.

Knight noted that with the growth in the aviation sector out at the airport, and the publicity that the Greensboro Aquatic Center is attracting, Greensboro has a lot of other communities looking at it.

He said Greensboro right now is in an enviable position because of those factors, plus higher education and the transportation system.

About the actual day-to-day work of being mayor, Knight said, “I really, really enjoyed working with [City Manager] Rashad Young.”

Knight said he figured that Greensboro might have Young for as long as five years, that it would more likely be three, but he was surprised when it was only two.

Knight said Young told him he was a city manager-wonk and that in the world of city managers there were some jobs that you didn’t pass up. Alexandria, Virginia, was one of those opportunities that for someone really into being a city


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manager was too good not to try.Knight said, “Rashad was an absolute

pleasure to work with and all of the crap about micromanaging it totally never happened. He did his job and he was excellent. I just stayed out of his way.”

He added, “I just happened to be very fortunate to be mayor when he was there.”

on the downside, Knight said, “It’s not pleasant having to listen to some of the things from people that came to council sometimes, but they certainly have a right to speak.”

He said that when talking to mayors

Knight(Continued from page 45) from other cities, he would be asked why

Greensboro couldn’t get past its racial problems. He said that other mayors told him they had similar problems but they dealt with them and moved on.

I suggested that those other cities didn’t have Rev. nelson Johnson keeping things stirred up for 40 years. Knight chose not to comment.

Knight noted that he got off on the wrong foot with some people in the community just because he had defeated the first African-American mayor.

Knight said he was touched at a local neighborhood watch meeting when a

woman came up and begged him not to raise taxes.

He said he spent a lot of time on economic development and would love to see the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce take a more active role in economic development and with existing businesses like it does in other communities.

He said he was surprised to see how little the chamber knows about some segments of business in Greensboro.

He said, “it was a pretty quick two years but I’m proud of the fact that I feel that even with our slim conservative group we were able to demonstrate that the city could

continue to operate and offer full services without a tax increase.”

“we’ve proven that this can be done. It’s modest but it certainly sets the tone.”

Knight said, “overall it’s been a really interesting experience. It had a lot of surprises for me going in. It’s one thing to sit around a table with a bunch of guys talking about this is what you should do, but when you get there you find it’s a whole different ball game. You realize that the impact of your decisions are multiplied by 270,000 times. The seriousness of it really comes home to you.”

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This is advice to those who won’t do something for someone who has wronged them. Take the high road. Forgive those who have wronged you. Life is too short to go through it hating. Teach your children to forgive. They will live a much happier life. You cannot live in the past or future. The only time you have is now. so, be a forgiving, loving person.

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Yes, I see where another woman’s making

Beep(Continued from page 39) accusations against Herman Cain. I was

just wondering how much President obama and his administration is paying these people that falsely accuse Herman Cain so that he can’t get elected. obama is really running scared. He’s afraid of Herman Cain, I believe. He’s afraid of all of the Republicans. I wish they would get him voted out of there. Bye.

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when is obama and his campaign for presidency 2012 going to mention that he got obamacare passed? I’m waiting for him. He hadn’t mentioned it.


By John HammerA recent article in the Weekly Standard quoted the Gingrich campaign staff as allowing “newt to be newt.” That is excellent if they want Gingrich to be the next president.

Four years ago about this time in the presidential campaign season sen. John McCain was running around the country being John McCain, who is a genuinely likable character. The man spent five-and-a-half years in a north Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. He is an American hero. But once he won the nomination and started campaigning against President Barack Hussein obama, the campaign put the real John McCain in a trunk somewhere and rolled out the new and improved John McCain, designed by some campaign dolts who clearly had no earthly idea how to win a presidential campaign.

McCain may have lost if he had run as John McCain, and sarah Palin may have been a drag on the campaign if she had been allowed to be sarah Palin, but wouldn’t it have been an interesting campaign? The McCain campaign attempted to transform Palin into something different overnight, and when that didn’t work they tried to hide her in out of the way places when she was drawing bigger crowds than McCain.

Hopefully Gingrich is too smart and his ego is too big to fall for that level of bureaucratic malfeasance, but you never know. Running for president does weird things to people. Look at sen. Bob Dole, another war hero who was known as one of the funniest men in the senate. During his presidential campaign, not only did he not allow his quick wit to be seen, he barely smiled, and read speeches so boring you wondered if even he was awake by the end. Again, maybe Dole would have lost, but wouldn’t it have been a lot more fun if he had been Dole and cracked some really wry one-liners at President william Jefferson Blythe Clinton’s expense.

Gingrich should have been around long enough to know that he has to run as newt Gingrich with all of his wrinkles and warts, and he can’t possibly win running as anybody else.

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If you are on the fence about Gingrich, here is a local reason to support him. Gingrich knows Greensboro. Gingrich’s daughter Kathy Lubbers and her husband lived in Greensboro, and Kathy owned the now closed coffee shop, the Carolina Coffee Roasting Co., on the corner of state street and Golden Gate Drive. Gingrich had several book signings there and the rumor is that he helped out serving coffee on the weekends, before he was speaker.

Kathy and her husband moved to Florida, but I feel certain Gingrich has spent more time in Greensboro than any other candidate, and he said he enjoyed it.

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Both Parade and The New York Times sunday magazines had Mitt Romney as their cover story last sunday. Romney agreed to be interviewed by Parade, and even his wife was interviewed, but neither he nor his wife would agree to be interviewed by The New York Times.

According to The New York Times article, the campaign tries to keep Romney away from ordinary people when he doesn’t have a script. He is described as socially awkward. so, of course, the campaign wants to protect him from situations where that social awkwardness will be front and center.

A candidate who has to be protected from the people and the press is a real problem. The reason he has to be protected is that the campaign cannot trust him to say the right thing. now maybe the campaign staff is being overly cautious and there is no reason that Romney should not sit down and shoot the breeze with regular folks and reporters, but it does make you wonder why he has to be so protected, and it might explain why he can’t get any traction. Romney has his supporters, which make up about 20 to 25 percent of the people being polled, but he doesn’t gain much when other candidates drop like rocks, like Gov. Rick Perry and Herman Cain have done.

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It seems like every Republican presidential candidate has had his day in the sun, except Rick santorum and Jon Huntsman. But, really, what in the world is someone like Huntsman, who earlier in the year was working for obama, doing running for the Republican nomination?

santorum is a good conservative who won two terms in the Us senate from Pennsylvania, but on the graph of all the Republican candidates and their success in the polls, santorum is consistently between 1 percent and 2 percent, and his high is 3 percent.

It appears too late for anyone else to break out of the pack and challenge Romney, who is stuck between 20 percent and 25 percent. But if anyone were going to do it, santorum and Huntsman are the only ones left. But even Republicans, who after all are members of the stupid party, are not stupid enough to nominate Huntsman; they might as well nominate obama himself.

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oK, who other than the president of the United states gets 17 days off at Christmas? The answer would be college professors.

It is incredible. I know that President George walker Bush spent time at his ranch in Texas, and Ronald wilson Reagan spent time at his ranch in California, but, really, a 17 day vacation to Hawaii seems like a bit much. For one thing, the country is still at war in Afghanistan, and things aren’t going too well over there right now with our big

ally in the region, Pakistan, really mad at us. There is also this small problem with the economy, which some folks are worried about. But maybe obama is right. He doesn’t need to hang around washington because he isn’t really sure what’s going on in Afghanistan or what role he is actually supposed to play. He also doesn’t seem to be doing anything about the state of the economy, so maybe being on vacation for 17 days is just the thing to do.

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The Us Postal service is promising to get worse. Isn’t that wonderful?

I subscribe to Human Events, a weekly conservative publication. The post office has taken to delivering two at a time. evidently it is not worth the trouble to put one at a time in my mailbox. somewhere along the line they wait until they have two. so I guess now that the post office is promising slower service I’ll start getting three at a time, or maybe I will just get one delivery of four every month.

I thought the service was already bad. But not only is it going to get worse they are going to start charging more for slower delivery. It makes it sound like you could pay less for faster delivery. what the post office should do is recognize reality and cut out saturday delivery. I used to watch the mailman come downtown and deliver to one office across the street on saturday. now even that office is gone. we don’t get mail in our office on saturday, but the mail truck comes to bring junk mail to the residences on the block.

Really, in today’s world, information that must be sent quickly is sent by email or fax. If necessary a hard copy is sent by mail. we mainly use the mail to send bills and receive checks. But in a couple of years, 90 percent of that will be done by some form of email and ebanking.

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The Transportation security Administration (TsA) has recently forced three grandmothers in their 80s, who are not in good health, to strip so they could be

searched. How many 80-something women in ill health have been accused of trying to hijack a plane since all this mess started? The answer is none. If I had been on one of those planes, would I feel safer knowing that an 80-something woman had been strip-searched? no, I would not.

The defense by the Department of Homeland security is that they followed procedure or protocol. That is no kind of answer. If the procedure for dealing with elderly women in ill health is to humiliate them and make them miss their planes, then the procedure or protocol needs to be changed.

If one of the TsA agents had said, “we were in fear for our lives that a 100 pound woman with the walker looked like a bomb toting terrorist to us. we were so relieved to find that she was unarmed.” If someone says that, then maybe there is more to the story than it seems, and they might have had good reason to search the elderly woman. But if they are searching elderly women just because the protocol is to search people with health problems, then they need to rewrite their protocols and add in a bit about common sense.

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It’s astounding what facing 15 years in prison will do for a person’s memory. Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has, through his attorneys, admitted wrongdoing. This is the same man who denied he did anything wrong when he had been recorded on the phone trying to sell President obama’s senate seat to the highest bidder.

obama used to brag about running Blagojevich’s campaign, but today it seems he barely knew the man. Blagojevich and Tony Rezko are both going to be doing serious time for corruption, and both were good friends of obama. Rezko made it possible for him to buy his house, and obama used to claim credit for getting Blagojevich elected. Politics makes strange bedfellows, but it doesn’t appear that Blagojevich has any redeeming qualities.


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