Rhino Times Nov. 24, 2011

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Vol. XXI No. 47 © Copyright 2011 The Rhinoceros Times Greensboro, North Carolina www.rhinotimes.com Thursday, November 24, 2011

City Wants To Know Where Its Money Is

C4gc Video Star Not Dead Yet

All Cracked Up Over Concussion

by Scott D. yoStcounty eDitor

by paul c. clarkStaff Writer

by john hammereDitor

After Jodi Riddleberger, a leader of the group Conservatives for Guilford County (C4gc), showed a short video at the Thursday, Oct. 20 Guilford County Board of Commissioners meeting that promoted conservative candidates in the City of Greensboro elections, the county commissioners moved quickly to ban speakers from the floor from playing videos during their three minutes at the podium.

So there was a great deal

of bemusement at the board’s Nov. 17 meeting, when the commissioners found themselves watching yet another Riddleberger production that featured one of the conservative candidates she had endorsed in the first video: lame-duck Mayor Bill Knight.

This time, the video was played near the end of the meeting, and the topic of the video, on the surface anyway, was apolitical and non-controversial: It was a two-

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A state law enacted in June that attempts to protect high school football players from concussions is causing changes in the way Guilford County public schools and their sports teams operate.

The Gfeller-Waller Concussion Awareness Act was filed after the death of two North Carolina high school football players who sustained brain injuries during football games and practices.

The new law requires the creation of a statewide athletic concussion-training program for coaches, school nurses, school

athletic directors, student athletes and parents. The training program requires schools to distribute head-injury information sheets to school employees, first responders, students and parents, who must sign the sheets and return them to coaches before their children can compete in sports.

At a meeting of the Guilford County Board of Education’s Governance Committee, Guilford County Schools Athletics Director Leigh Hebbard said that the North Carolina High School Athletic Association has taken the lead in


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Rumors This is a weird week for us because, as I write this, my body and brain are telling me it is Wednesday but my computer says it is Tuesday. The Muse

says she’s pretty sure it’s Tuesday and my computer is always right, even though it feels a lot like Wednesday to me. But we are sure that Thursday is Thanksgiving and we’d like to wish everyone a safe and joyful Thanksgiving.

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More good news from the Greensboro Aquatic Center. A record, albeit an unofficial


How much money is in the joint city county water and sewer fund and where did the interest on the money go?

If you know, please call city hall because the city would really like to know.

City Manager Rashad Young said that despite the fact that Guilford County sent the city a five-inch thick stack of paperwork about the fund, as of Tuesday, Nov. 22, he still didn’t have the information he needed to determine how much was in the fund. And

the county won’t say, even though it is a joint fund and half of the money belongs to Greensboro.

When asked if he knew how much was in the joint fund, Young said, “No, I don’t.” He added, “We really don’t know what the amount is.” And he said that, so far, the city didn’t have the information it needed to figure it out.

At the meeting between city councilmembers, county commissioners and city and county staff in October, Young said, “I think [Councilmember] Trudy [Wade] asked [County Manager]

Brenda [Fox] and she said about $20 million.” He added, “I’d never heard $20 million.” Young said he had heard $14 million or $16 million but nothing as high as $20 million before that meeting.

What is incredible is how long this is taking. Following a unanimous vote of the City Council, the city sent a letter terminating the joint water and sewer contract in June 2010. So Guilford County has had 17 months to figure out how much is in the fund because the agreement


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minute video promoting the importance of supporting the Salvation Army at Christmastime.

A speaker from the floor at the Nov. 17 meeting said he knew the board wouldn’t allow the video to be played as part of speakers from the floor – so he requested the video be placed on the agenda that night. With the backing of Republican Commissioner Billy Yow, it was agreed the video would be shown during the “new business from county commissioners” portion of the meeting.

Riddleberger’s Oct. 20 video, which had caused a majority of Democratic commissioners – with no support from Republican commissioners – to vote to ban the use of videos and other electronic media by speakers from the floor, featured Riddleberger and her children.

The new video that played at the Nov. 17 meeting was narrated by Riddleberger and featured Knight talking about the good work of the Salvation Army and the importance of citizens volunteering as bell ringers this holiday season.

Most of the county commissioners and other county officials in the commissioners meeting room in the Old Guilford County Court House seemed to think there was a hidden message in the fact that Riddleberger’s video was played at the meeting – just two weeks after videos from speakers from the floor were banned – and, in fact, banned specifically because of a video Riddleberger had produced and shown.

That’s why there was so much bemusement at the Nov. 17 meeting when the pro-Salvation Army video played. However, there was no discussion about it afterward.

A content Yow, the most vocal backer of C4gc on the board, was smiling after the video played, but most county officials seemed unsure what to make of what had just taken place.

probably a good guess is that the airing of the video at the Nov. 17 meeting was something analogous to the conservatives firing a “shot across the bow” of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.

Video(Continued from page 1) After the meeting, some members of

C4gc said they felt their group was targeted last month by the Democratic commissioners who voted to ban videos. They also said Alston was the main culprit, and said he was simply attempting to restrict speech that he didn’t like.

After the Nov. 17 meeting, Alston said he knew, the moment Yow asked to have the video shown, that Yow and the conservative group were up to something.

Alston added that the video with Riddleberger and Knight wasn’t just some innocuous video about the good work of the Salvation Army.

“It was another campaign video,” Alston said after the Nov. 17 meeting.

Alston said that, two weeks earlier, at the board’s Thursday, Nov. 3 meeting, a speaker from the floor had brought that same video to play. However, that speaker was unable to show it due to the ban that had been passed only minutes earlier in a hastily called, poorly publicized work session held before the commissioners regular meeting.

“They wanted to play it before the election,” Alston said of the Salvation Army video.

He also said that, even though it was ostensibly about the Salvation Army, the real reason for it was that the conservative group wanted to use the free television time to get Knight’s face out in front of the public as much as possible before the election.

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners does still occasionally take some time to deal with other things besides videos by local conservatives, and, at the Nov. 17 meeting, the two big events of the evening were two public hearings to consider extending City of Greensboro water and sewer service to both Forest Oaks Estates and the Lynwood Lakes area.

From the speakers at the hearing, signed petitions, and other evidence, it became clear quickly that residents of Forest Oaks Estates want city water and sewer service as soon as possible – while, when it comes to the Lynwood Lakes subdivision, the residents are more divided.

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The Taxman Cometh And May Get Lessby Scott D. yoStcounty eDitor

Even before the start of January 2011, the Guilford County Tax Department began ramping up a major county project that’s been going on behind the scenes this year, and – while practically no one outside of the Tax Department is focused on the grand project now underway – the results will have major implications for property owners next year, and there are two important months in 2012 for everyone who pays property taxes in Guilford County: March and June.

In March 2012, Guilford County Tax Director Ben Chavis will go before the Guilford County Board of Commissioners and unveil the new assessed property values for every piece of property in the county. And, in June, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners will determine how to factor in those new values when the board establishes the county’s property tax rate for fiscal 2012-2013.

In 2011, Guilford County’s Tax Department has been conducting a reevaluation of every home, building and parcel of property in the county – something it does by law at least once every eight years. The last time Guilford County conducted a revaluation was in 2004.

Currently, Guilford County has 208,000 parcels of land – 44,000 of those are commercial properties and 164,000 are residential.

Chavis said the 2012 revaluation has

been going well, but he said it’s too early to know with any certainty what the final numbers will look like. One big question this year – which has never been a question in the modern era – is whether, after the final figures are in, the total value of property in Guilford County will be lower than it was eight years ago.

In the recent past, it’s always been a given that property values would increase over any eight year period. However, these are unusual times; and two years ago Chavis warned the commissioners that the county’s collective property values might very well be lower in 2012 than they were in 2004.

That would mean that, next year, the county commissioners would have to raise the county’s tax rate just to collect the same amount of revenue from property taxes the county collected in fiscal 2011-2012. The current Guilford County tax rate is 78.24 cents for every $100 in value. However, that’s the property tax rate for property in unincorporated Guilford County. property owners in Greensboro, High point and Summerfield or any other municipality in Guilford County also pay property taxes for those municipalities.

At the commissioners’ Thursday, Nov. 17 meeting, the board adopted a proposed “schedule of values” – which contains the methods, standards, procedures and algorithms the county will use for conducting Guilford County’s 2012 property revaluation

and for calculating the value of individual pieces of property.

As to the question of whether all the property in Guilford County will be worth more or less than it was eight years ago, Chavis said he won’t have his answer until March.

However, there are some clues that the total value of property in Guilford County will be close to what it was in 2004, and Chavis admits as much. He said that, whether values are higher or lower, he’s not expecting too much variation from the 2004 mark.

While Chavis is keeping his views pretty much to himself, one indicator calculated annually by the state offers some insight. Each year, the State of North Carolina takes a sample of property sales in every county in the state and compares the actual sale price of houses, buildings and tracts of land with the assessed value that’s being carried on the books.

The “sales ratio” is determined by dividing the assessed value by the sales prices and then multiplying that by 100. It’s the ratio between a property’s assessed value and the price the property actually sold for. So, if a piece of property had an assessed value of $80,000, and it sold on the market for $100,000, then its sales ratio would be 80 percent.

Based on the ratio of sale price to assessed value, the sales ratio for Guilford

County right now is 103 percent, and, by that measure, houses and other pieces of property are on average selling for about 3 percent less than their value. In other words, it indicates that, in general, the appraisal values of houses and other property in Guilford County are slightly higher than their actual market value.

Commissioner Mike Winstead, who’s a builder and property management developer, said it will be interesting to see how things turn out in the end, because it’s been such an atypical past eight years – with a solid run in real estate prices followed by a big market decline.

“I think during 2005 through 2008 we saw higher actual value as compared to tax value,” Winstead said.

“From 2009 to the present,” Winstead added, “I think we’re seeing actual values falling to a point where they’re probably back closer to equal to assessed values in a majority of cases.”

He said that, when you put that all together, his guess is that the last eight years have been a wash for county property values.

“My opinion is that at reassessment next year we will probably not see a dramatic decrease in current assessed values,” Winstead said.

If property values come in the same, or even less, than the 2004 values, then


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High point Mayor Becky Smothers and a probable majority of the High point City Council are rushing to block the development of a mental health facility for criminals at 206 Greensboro Road. The Guilford County Board of Commissioners voted to sell the land to GEO Care, a subsidiary of a private prison company based in Florida.

Smothers said she told GEO Care representatives that she would welcome one of their facilities to High point, “But not in that location, because I don’t feel it is the highest and best use of that land. It’s that simple. I think the highest and best use is mixed use.”

The most likely explanation for the City Council’s lightning-fast effort to block the development through rezoning is opposition from the developers who own a large piece of property across the street, at 201 Greensboro Road, as well as from High point University president Nido Qubein.

The mechanism Smothers and other opponents of the mental health facility are using to block it is an acceleration by the High point planning and Development Department of the Core City plan land-use plan amendments for eight High point neighborhoods – just in time to allow rezoning of two properties bordering I-74/US 311, one of which the Guilford County commissioners

have voted to sell to GEO Care.The land-use changes came before the

City Council on Nov. 7, a little more than two weeks after the Board of Commissioners voted to sell the 21.8-acre property at 206 Greensboro Road for $3.1 million. Guilford County, from 1992 until recently, leased the property to The Evergreens Inc. for use as the Evergreens Senior Healthcare retirement home.

The county-owned Evergreens property lies south of Greensboro Road, the High point end of what is High point Road in Greensboro. To the north, across Greensboro Road, lies the 18.4-acre property at 201 Greensboro Road containing the former presbyterian Homes retirement facility. presbyterian Homes Inc. sold it in April 2011 to Community Housing of High point LLC.

That company is essentially developer David Couch of Blue Ridge Companies Inc. and according to High point city councilmembers, D.H. Griffin, although he is not mentioned in the company’s articles of incorporation. Councilmembers said the developers want to tear down the main presbyterian Homes building fronting Greensboro Road and build a commercial development.

The Nov. 7 rollout by High point planning and Development Director Lee Burnette of the “Core City Land Use plan Amendment

Recommendations” would, if followed by rezoning, prevent GEO Care from turning the Evergreens into a mental health center to treat and assess criminals and criminal suspects.

The Core City plan is a long-term plan by the City Council and the High point City project, a public-private urban renewal board created by the City Council. It is designed to improve 11 of High point’s traditional mixed-use neighborhoods. So far, the plan has only been applied in small ways to the newly named Uptowne stretch of North Main Street and, to a lesser degree, Washington Street, High point’s traditional pre-integration black business district. Five points is way down the list of the City project’s priorities, and it’s unlikely that the City Council would have proposed rezoning parts of the neighborhood this quickly in the absence of the GEO Care proposal.

The recommendations presented to the City Council by Burnette include land-use changes for eight neighborhoods: Oak Hill, West End, Southside, Macedonia, East Central, Washington Street, Washington Terrace and Five points. If the City Council adopts the land-use plan amendments, it would also have to rezone the land if the Core City plan recommendations are going to have any teeth.

Both the Evergreens and presbyterian

Homes properties are now zoned public institutional. The City Council plans to rezone them to Residential Multifamily-8 (RM-8), a blocking maneuver that will prevent development on the properties until developers come forward with specific proposals. No one is going to use high-value land at an interstate interchange for single-family houses.

There is evidence in the recommendations of some recent activity – the recommendations were presented to the High point Neighborhood Leaders Council at the Macedonia Family Resource Center on August 22, 2011 – so the recommendations may not have been entirely dusted off and thrown out to block the mental health facility. Also, the planning and Zoning Commission recently approved the Core City plan recommendations.

What is certain is the proposed zoning changes that would implement the Core City recommendations will take months or years of planning and Zoning Commission and City Council hearings – but not so the zoning changes for the county-owned Evergreens parcel, which is already scheduled for a planning and Zoning Commission hearing on Tuesday, Dec. 13, and a City Council hearing on Monday, Dec. 19.

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When the High point City Council keeps control of its meetings, they’re the most boring events imaginable. When it loses control, they get interesting fast.

Two issues before the City Council on Monday, Nov. 21, showed the difference in sharp contrast.

The City Council handled its vote to redistrict City Council wards quickly and efficiently. A unanimous vote to suspend the rules to consider the redistricting proposal, which wasn’t on the agenda, was followed by a motion – made by Councilmember Bernita Sims and seconded by Councilmember Foster Douglas – to adopt the fourth of four maps considered by the City Council over a period of several months.

The City Council, without discussion, approved the map unanimously for recommendation to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), which must approve the map under the federal Voting Rights Act.

Instead of creating the new ward map itself, or having the High point planning and Development Department do it, the City Council hired outside consultants, the Raleigh law firm Bailey & Dixon LLp.

On Nov. 1, the councilmembers agreed on

a map in principle, until Sims and Douglas noticed that the final modification of the map by Bailey & Dixon split precinct H09 – a neighborhood made up largely of public housing projects along the railroad tracks north of Leonard Avenue – between Ward 1 and Ward 2. Both Sims, who represents Ward 1, and Douglas, who represents Ward 2, said the precinct is a neighborhood that should remain together.

That problem was fixed in the new map, clearing the way for the unanimous vote to send it to the DOJ.

As with all issues that get City Council approval quickly, the actual discussion occurred in committee – in this case in the City Council’s Finance Committee, which met earlier in the day.

High point Mayor Becky Smothers kicked off the Finance Committee meeting by saying, “Today is the day” – the day that the City Council would finally get the redistricting issue off its hands and into the hands of the DOJ.

Smothers said the councilmembers needed to decide if there was a consensus on a map – and whether or not they wanted to put it out for public comment again.



The councilmembers had no desire to put the maps out for comment again. The City Council has held several public hearings on the maps, none of which were attended by more than one person, outside of councilmembers and reporters.

Smothers said, “I think we haven’t had that much comment about them in our information meetings, and they have been on our website.”

Councilmember Jim Corey said the City Council should go for the gold – approve a redistricting plan and send it to the DOJ. He said, “The amount of public interest in this is minimal.”

At the Finance Committee meeting, Councilmember Mike pugh made the motion for the City Council to accept Map D, and Douglas seconded it.

Map(Continued from page 6) The real question of the day was whether

Sims and Douglas were satisfied with the final boundaries of Wards 1 and 2 – the majority-minority wards whose black voters’ voting power must be protected under the Voting Rights Act.

Councilmember Latimer Alexander made the point, asking Sims and Douglas whether they were satisfied. The at-large members of the City Council – Smothers, Alexander and Britt Moore – are unaffected by redistricting, and the wards other than Wards 1 and 2 were either less affected, such as Wards 3 and 4, or affected primarily by having to lose population, like Wards 5 and 6, where most of the population growth has occurred since the 2000 census.

Douglas said, “Basically, my seconding the motion speaks to my comfort level.”


average homeowner on a one-acre lot would be assessed a one-time fee of $5,100 for city water, plus, in some cases, some additional fees; but that didn’t stop the residents from Forest Oaks Estates, in the first public hearing, from expressing adamantly that they wanted City of Greensboro water.

At the Forest Oaks Estates public hearing, residents told a lot of nightmare stories about their well water, and several said they have to use bottled water for just about everything.

Gail Tindall said she was a long-time resident of Forest Oaks Estates and, before she spoke, she placed a jar of dirty brown water from her tap on the podium in front of her, to give the commissioners a disconcerting visual aid of exactly why she and her family had to use bottled water for everything from cooking, to rinsing off grapes, to brushing their teeth.

She said there were other problems with the water system in her area.

“We can’t do laundry after a large rain – the sewer backs up,” Tindall said.

Residents also spoke of their dogs getting ill from drinking the tap water and their children getting sick from bathing and showering with the water.

Forest Oaks Estates resident phyllis Brawley said that her family’s life in that subdivision has been a constant battle of replacing water filtration systems and water pumps, and she said that, much of the time, the smell in her yard gets so bad it ruins family plans.

“We can’t have cookouts,” she told the commissioners.

Other Forest Oaks Estates residents complained they had been promised water for years, and now it was 2011 and there still was no city water.

The commissioners, who have done nothing to help them, did express sympathy, and the board voted to take 90 days to see what could be done. Alston stated strongly that the commissioners were determined to see city water for Forest Oaks Estates.

However, Alston failed to mention the big 800-pound elephant in the room: The

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fact that there is no Guilford County water and sewer department and the county has no control of City of Greensboro water. In fact, the agreement with Greensboro, which had been in place since 1968, was cancelled because of the arrogant and high-handed treatment they received from Guilford County over several different issues in recent years.

On Dec. 31, 2010, the longstanding agreement between Guilford County and the City of Greensboro was dissolved; and, ever since, the Board of Commissioners has been powerless when it comes to deciding which areas of Guilford County get water.

Alston appears optimistic that city officials will heed the wishes of the Board of Commissioners; however, earlier this year Alston was also optimistic the city would give the county land for a new parking lot to serve the county’s giant new jail in downtown Greensboro. But that and many other projects haven’t come to fruition because of the way county officials have alienated city officials in recent years.

Guilford County has been holding around $10 million to $12 million in a joint water fund that belongs to the city (the exact amount has remained in question since getting information from the county has been like pulling teeth) and has refused to turn over that money. Only now, 11 months after the agreement was dissolved, does it look as though there might be some resolution to that dispute.

Also, several years ago, Guilford County made an agreement with the city to fund libraries and then county officials failed to honor that agreement because it wasn’t written down.

In addition, last year the county also tried to raise – by 300 percent to 500 percent – the fee charged to the city for collecting property taxes.

Guilford County and the City of Greensboro also considered merging their planning departments, but then Guilford County attempted to hijack that process and take control of the proposed joint department, and Greensboro councilmembers said no


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County Tamps Down Fire House Firestormby Scott D. yoStcounty eDitor

The stated reason for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners’ hastily called work session at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17 was so that the commissioners could hear some of the findings and recommendations from phillip Kowue, senior vice president of Emergency Services Consulting International, on ways to improve fire prevention services in Guilford County.

However, the real reason for the work session was so county commissioners and other Guilford County staff could attempt to calm the frayed nerves of firefighters and fire officials from all over the county – many of whom have been in a frenzy ever since some results of the extensive $100,000 study were released.

Kowue and his staff had been studying the way that fire services are provided in Guilford County, and had looked at fire prevention services for all of Guilford County with the exception of the Cities of Greensboro and High point, which provide their own fire services and together cover 76 percent of the county’s population.

For several weeks leading up to the Nov. 17 work session, county fire officials had been phoning and emailing county commissioners, county officials and print and television reporters in an effort to voice their opinions on the study’s supposed facts and findings.

There had been a plethora of wild claims

flying around: everything from a rumor that Guilford County was going to do away with the use of volunteer firefighters, to another rumor that the county was going to consolidate all of its 22 fire districts into one giant Guilford County fire department.

The work session, which was held in the Blue Room of the Old Guilford County Court House, was standing room only as about 30 fire officials attended, along with Commissioners paul Gibson, John parks, Mike Winstead, Linda Shaw, Kay Cashion, Billy Yow and Chairman Skip Alston.

Guilford County Emergency Services Director Alan perdue was also at the meeting, as was County Manager Brenda Jones Fox, Assistant County Manager Sharisse Fuller and other county staff.

The man of the hour, however, was Kowue, the consultant, who presented some of the findings in the study. Kowue said there had been a lot of misunderstanding and misconceptions regarding the report. For one thing, he said, many statements he’d heard and read in the media claimed that the report contained “recommendations” – however, the truth, he said, was that his company’s report only offered “options.” That is, the report presented many possible courses of actions along with the pros and cons of each option. Those options, he said, were being presented as possibilities rather than hard and fast recommendations.

Kowue said the way fire services are

presently delivered in Guilford County (the limited part that was studied after Greensboro and High point are taken out of the mix) is expensive when compared with the cost of similar services in other counties in the state, as well as when compared with other areas of the country.

Kowue said the cost for fire protection in the small municipalities and unincorporated areas of Guilford County was $134 per person served, while the average for the State of North Carolina was $93 per person. He added that, nationally, the average cost of providing fire protection services was $130 per person.

So, he said, the parts of Guilford County he studied – which leaves out Greensboro and High point, the county’s two major population centers – was right at the top of the range when it came to expense.

“It’s not a cheap system,” Kowue said of the current web of 22 fire districts that offer fire protection to unincorporated Guilford County as well as to the small towns in the county.

The consultant said that the three “big dollar” items for Guilford County were maintaining the facilities, buying and servicing equipment and paying staff.

In the past few weeks, rumors have been flying that some fire stations might be shut down as a result of the study’s findings, but Kowue said no such suggestion was made.

“There is no need to eliminate fire

stations,” he said.He said the existing county fire stations

offered solid, if somewhat uneven, coverage for residents of Guilford County who live outside of Greensboro and High point.

According to Kowue, 53 percent of fire “incidents” in rural Guilford County were within four minutes of a fire station, and 31 percent were within four the eight minutes, which meant 84 percent were within 8 minutes of a response.

He also said one of the findings of the study was that the county’s collective fire services operations were facing large capital expenditure needs over the next 10 to 20 years. He said the departments could expect to see needs of around $21 million for replacing equipment, machinery and facilities.

“Capital asset replacement is a huge item in the fire services,” he said.

He also said the placement of fire engines around the county was currently not optimal. Kowue said that, for instance, in some areas of the county, eight fire engines could arrive in under eight minutes, whereas, in other areas, only one engine could arrive at the scene in under eight minutes.

“So you don’t see a very even distribution across the county,” Kowue said.

He said it was possible that a better redistribution of fire equipment, and a more efficient use of fire trucks along with better


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Local Services, Ethel M, The Real CanonBY ORSON SCOTT CARD

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Local commercials are notorious for being very, very bad. The screaming car guy. The married couple arguing in stilted dialogue and then reconciling over some absurd store or product. You’ve seen them; you’ve fast-forwarded through them; you’ve mocked them.

But that isn’t how it has to be. For instance, for years I’ve worked with Andy Lindsay of Barking Shark, a local media production company. Since I have nothing to advertise, I’ve never hired him to devise a commercial for me.

Ads for books make zero difference in sales; the only things that affect book sales are the cover, word-of-mouth and your past experience with the author or the genre.

But if I were to attempt a commercial for a book, I’d head straight to Andy Lindsay, because of ads like this one that he entered in a Doritos national commercial competition: http://vimeo.com/32321946 .

Officially we’re not supposed to regard commercials as entertainment, but the good ones are. They’re the commercials we don’t fast-forward through. The ones we stop for and make our family come into the room to watch. And there’s no reason why local television and radio advertisements can’t at least aspire to that level of cleverness and memorability.

....Did you need another source of excellent

chocolate candies? I know I didn’t. I have See’s and Fannie May, both online. From Fannie May, it’s the vanilla buttercreams; from See’s, it’s pretty much anything.

I also have Loco for Coco, here in Greensboro; they draw together chocolates from many sources, just for me. Fortunately, they also allow other customers to shop there, too, so you can pick over whatever I happened not to buy.

But because I recently ordered custom M&M’s for a wedding, I ended up on a mailing list for ...

Wait. You do know about ordering customized M&M’s, don’t you? You can pick the colors you want, and have your own messages or even pictures printed on them.

They leave enough candies that have the traditional “m” on them for your guests to know that these are real M&M’s and not some pallid substitute.

But you can put on things like the names of the couple getting married, or the name of the graduate. And you can have more than one message. For instance, for the wedding I just bought M&M’s for, half the candies say “Kyle and Emily” and the other half say “Emily and Kyle.”

For Halloween, I ordered individually

wrapped portions of M&M’s for the high school students who come to our house for religion class at 6:15 a.m. every school day. Our congregation is called “Summit Ward” and we call the religion class “seminary,” so half the M&M’s bore the message “Summit Seminary,” and the other half “Saints Awake.”

So while nobody would call M&Ms “fine chocolate,” they’re part of American culture, and going to http://www.mymms.com/ to order personalized candies is one of the main reasons for the internet to exist, in my opinion.

Anyway, because I’ve ordered at MyMMs.com, I got an email chatting about Ethel M’s. Guess what the “M” stands for? Mars.

Yep. Ethel Mars was the mother of Forrest Mars Sr., of Mars candy fame. They tell us that “in 1911, Ethel Mars began treating her family and friends to delicious handmade brittle and candy stirred in copper kettles in her own kitchen.”

And so her name is used for M&M’s-Mars’ line of small-batch handcrafted chocolates. They have actual stores in Nevada, but nationwide you can order by telephone from a catalog (call 1-800-438-4356) or online, at the website http://www.ethelm.com .

You can create your own assortments, the way you can with See’s and Fannie May. There are eight nut selections, six satin cremes (the vanilla satin creme is lovely), four fruit selections (lime, lemon, raspberry, strawberry), nine dessert selections, six truffles (dark chocolate is

good, but cinnamon is great), and seven caramels (including both creamy and chewy varieties).

The look is somewhere between the natural matte finishes of See’s and Fannie May chocolates, and the shiny “patent leather” finish of Godiva. The presentation is lovely – enhanced by the inclusion in every box of a photographic chart of all the chocolates, so that gift recipients can identify each flavor before taking a bite.

In a large box you can choose up to eight flavors; in the smaller box, up to six. Order a box for yourself, and decide which flavors you want to send as gifts to family and friends in faraway places.

The hard thing, really, is deciding whether to send Fannie May, See’s or Ethel M boxes.

And then, to complicate things further, I must point out that you can go in to Loco for Coco and order boxes to be sent to your entire Christmas list from that store!

Several local companies are giving customers and/or employees Loco for Coco selections in customized mini-boxes, with the company name and a message printed on; you can’t beat Loco for Coco’s elegant presentation.

So if, like us, you’re committed to giving mostly Christmas gifts that are to be consumed rather than take up space in the recipient’s house forever (or until the next white elephant gift exchange), I’d head for Loco for Coco first (or their website, http://locoforcocochocolate.com/ ; but to order their brilliant non-pareils or customized


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I would like for Guilford County to pass a bill requiring ID proof when you go vote. It would cut down on fraud, because people now probably go and say, I’m so and so, and that person might have been dead 10 years. But I think it’s a good idea to show proof that you’re who you are, and you’re honest with your vote. And I hope they pass it sooner rather than later before we really get in a mess with some kind of fraud stuff, because it could cause a real mess.

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When Obama pushed his health care, Obamacare through, and gave these people all kinds of incentives to vote for it, did he not know then that we had a problem with people not having a job? The Republicans running for president needs to bring that out. I don’t think he knew it. I think he was too busy playing golf or basketball. Maybe he don’t know there’s a lot of people in the workforce is out. So, he was going to push the health care through that the people didn’t want behind closed doors. You couldn’t even get in to hear them. If there has ever been anything that was socialism, that’s it. Looks like I don’t know how much more he’ll have to do before people will realize that he is a socialist.

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I sure did enjoy that Carolina game on the aircraft carrier. But there’s one thing I wish that had happened. I think that Obama should have stayed at home. That would have given two more service people a seat. It was for the veterans, the military, and I think they should have had the night for themselves. I don’t think he should have done any kind of campaign speaking, which he did. I think it was out of place to give a campaign speech for the military people. And I hope there will be another game. And I hope Carolina or Duke, one or both could play in it. It was one of the nicest things they could have done and the concert was just a nice finishing touch.

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The Republican party ought to rally around Newt Gingrich. I guarantee you, he can talk more sense about politics if he would drink a fifth of old tater liquor than the rest of them all put together, because he’s been up there. If the Republican party wants a smart man to go against Obama, Newt Gingrich would be the man.

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Yes, Steely Dan Fan, man. I want to holler out to Blue-Eyed Devil. Hey, I was just reading here in the Saturday local newspaper, and they were talking about emergency kits, keep essentials in case of road trouble. All right. Just say you got the average mid-sized car they got nowadays. And you go loading up all this stuff that they tell you to have, especially if you are in winter weather, you wouldn’t have room for four passengers, three passengers, and/or their luggage. I mean you wouldn’t have room for anything. It’s just downright ridiculous. But, anyway, we’ll holler at you later. Bye.

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First, let me say thank you for giving people an opportunity to speak their opinions. I would like to know what all the hoopla about Harry potter is. We’ve got everyone from children to old people watching these so-called magic things that really don’t make any sense. I mean, fantasy is fine, but this is beyond absurd. Of course, if you talk to these people, they will tell you they don’t believe in God because they can’t see him. But they believe in magic and pixies and elves and fairies. What is this world coming to? What is this world coming to? I think the world’s gone nuts. Thank you.

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Yes, this comment is in regards to the recent elections that just took place on Nov. 8. It looks like all the liberals pretty much won the election. Of course, Robbie perkins is now the new mayor. And we pretty much only have one true conservative, Trudy Wade, who kept her spot on the City Council. As a

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

– Mark Twain

I’ve been trying to live a healthy lifestyle recently and I’ve made a discovery but you’re not going to like it.

Let’s start this week with a trivia question: Other than water, what’s the most popular drink in the world?

Everyone always guesses Coke or pepsi or Diet Coke or milk or beer or wine – but those are all wrong answers.

For some reason, people rarely guess the right answer right away.Now, let’s talk a little bit about various drinks and their healthiness.Cokes, pepsis, Mountain Dews, etc., are bad for you because they’re loaded with

sugar – which means they’re loaded with carbohydrates; and, as I’m sure you’re all aware, carbohydrates are the devil.

And, not only does sugar pack a bunch of calories and mess with your metabolism, its effect on the body is bad in other ways – for instance, dentists say it rots your teeth.

So, let’s say you’re worried about your health so you decide to drink Diet Coke or Diet Sprite or diet whatever, which doesn’t have sugar.

Those drinks might not have any sugar, but they contain plenty of artificial sweeteners that are, by many accounts, bad for you. And, even if they didn’t, when it comes to Coke or pepsi or Mountain Dew – diet versions or otherwise – they all contain a slew of all sorts of strange manmade chemicals, (for example, ethylenediaminetetraceticacid, hydroxycitric acid and medium-chain triglyceride – just to name a few.)

And, while admittedly these drinks are quite fizzy and tasty, read the long list of ingredients in your favorite soft drink and see if you can even pronounce half of them. That’s not good, and none of that stuff is any good for you.

So there are plenty of unhealthy things to drink out there – but, fortunately, none of those are the most popular drink in the world. The number one drink in the world (other than water) in fact is something I drink a ton of all the time all day long, and, unlike all those fake man-made drinks, it’s actually good for you.

Aside from water, the most popular drink in the world, is …Tea.It’s easy to see why it’s so popular: Tea is inexpensive; it’s found virtually

everywhere; it can be prepared in many different ways; there are lots of varieties; it can be served both hot and cold – man, you name it, tea has got it going on.

Now, I drink tea all day long. For one thing, I love tea; for another, it’s supposed to be good for you. But I was about to discover how difficult it is to be good and healthy – even when you try really hard.

For instance, I like my tea sweet, but, like I said, sugar is bad for you. I want my tea – but I also want to be healthy, and drinking tea solves the chemical

concoction problem, but since I like my tea sweet, what about all the sugar?Now you get another trivia question: After sugar, what’s the most popular sweetener

in the world? Answer: It’s Truvia. A few years ago, Truvia passed Equal and Sweet’N Low in popularity.

Truvia is actually made by the same company that makes Coca Cola, and, according to the promotional material for Truvia, it’s “a natural zero-calorie sweetener made with the best tasting part of the stevia plant.”

So I was thinking well: Tea with Truvia sounds pretty healthy and safe.Now, in addition, I have a vicious amount of trouble sleeping every night, and most

tea has a lot of caffeine. So, to be healthy, I switched to decaffeinated tea, sweetened with Truvia.pretty healthy, huh? Impressive. I’m really putting the effort in, right?Well, remember how at the start of the column I said I had a point and you weren’t

going to like it. We’re at that moment now. My big point is this: No matter how hard you try, there’s virtually nothing you can do to have a healthy lifestyle.

Take that tea for instance. I thought I was doing pretty well: having my decaffeinated, Truvia-sweetened tea; but I was to discover very shortly that – despite my fervent attempts to stay away from anything bad – my glass of “healthy” tea remained full of threats.

Now, when I read books, I don’t just read one at a time: I read like 20 at a time, and I switch around. For instance, right now I’m reading Natural Health, Natural Medicine, by Andrew Weil, M.D. and Master Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels.

So I’m reading about healthy eating, and, in Jillian Michaels’ book, it talks about the (Continued on page 26)

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Local Movie ScheduleWednesday, November 23 - Thursday, December 1

a/perture cinema311 West Fourth St., W-S (336) 722-8148It’s A Wonderful Life (Unrated) Sa 12:00. Su 8:00.Margin Call (R) W 3:00 and 8:00. F 12:00, 5:00. Sa 5:00. Su 12:15, 5:00. M-Th 6:00.Martha Marcy May Marlene (R) W 3:30, 6:00, 8:30. F 2:45, 7:30, 9:45. Sa 2:45, 7:30, 9:45. Su 2:45. M-Tu 8:30. W 3:30, 8:30. Th 8:30.Melancholia (R) F 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 8:45. Sa 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 8:45. Su 11:45, 2:30 and 5:15. M-Tu 5:30, 8:15. W 3:00, 5:30, 8:15. Th 5:30, 8:15.The Way (PG13) W 5:30.

Brassfield Cinema 102101 New Garden Road, Greensboro • (800) 326-3264, ext. 1204Arthur Christmas (PG) F-Su 4:40, 9:35 M-Th 4:40 Arthur Christmas (3D) (PG) F-Su 2:15, 7:10 M-Th 7:10 Footloose (PG13) W-Th 4:35, 7:20 F-Su 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 M-Tu 4:50, 7:30 Th 4:50, 7:30 Happy Feet Two (PG) W-Th 4:30. F-Su 4:45, 9:45 M-Th 4:45 Happy Feet Two (3D) (PG) W-Th 7:10 F-Su 2:20, 7:15 M-Th 7:15 Immortals (R) W-Th 4:55, 7:30 F-Su 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 M-Th 5:05, 7:40 Jack & Jill (PG) W-Th 4:45, 7:15 F-Su 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:55 M-Th 4:55, 7:20 Muppets (The) (PG) F-Su 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 M-Th 4:30, 7:05 Paranormal Activity 3 (R) W-Th 3:15, 5:25, 7:35 Puss in Boots (G) W-Th 3:30, 5:50, 8:10 F-Su 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 10:00 M-Th 2:55, 5:10, 7:25 Puss in Boots (3D) (G) W-Th 4:40, 7:00 Tower Heist (PG13) W-Th 4:50, 7:25 F-Su 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 M-Th 5:00, 7:35 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (PG13) W-Th 4:15, 5:40, 7:05, 8:30 F-Su 11:55, 1:20, 2:45, 4:10, 5:35, 7:00, 8:25, 9:50 M-Th 4:10, 5:35, 7:00

Carmike 184822 Koger Blvd., Greensboro • (336) 851-0094A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (R) W 12:55, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05. W-Th 12:40, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55.Arthur Christmas (PG) W-Th 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00.Arthur Christmas (3D) (PG) W-Th 12:15, 2:45. 5:15, 8:00.Dolphin Tale (PG) W 1:05, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15. W-Th 1:05, 3:45, 6:30.Happy Feet Two (PG) W 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:30. W-Th 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:30.

Happy Feet Two (3D) (PG) W 1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15. W-Th 1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15.The Help (PG13) W 1:45, 5:00, 8:30.Immortals (R) W 1:05.Immortals (3D) (R) W 4:05, 7:00, 9:35. W-Th 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:35.In Time (PG13) W 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00. W-Th 9:15.Jack & Jill (PG) W 1:10, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15. W-Th 1:10, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15.Moneyball (PG13) W 1:40, 5:00, 8:20. W-Th 12:00, 3:05, 6:15, 9:30.Muppets (PG) W-Th 12:45, 1:15, 3:30, 4:00, 6:15, 6:35, 9:15.Paranormal Activity 3 (R) W 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00. W-Th 9:30.Puss in Boots (G) W 1:45, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45. W-Th 1:45, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45.Puss in Boots (3D) (G) W 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:00.Real Steel (PG13) W 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:35. W-Th 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:35.Tower Heist (PG13) W 1:15, 4:05, 7:15, 9:50. W-Th 1:15, 4:05, 7:15, 9:50.Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (PG13) W 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:05, 3:30, 4:05, 5:15, 6:15, 6:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:20, 9:45, 10:15. W-Th 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:05, 3:30, 4:05, 5:15, 6:15, 6:45, 7:15, 8:15 ,9:20, 9:45, 10:00.

Carmike 82705 N. Main St., High Point • (336) 887-010150/50 (R) W-Su 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:25. M 7:10, 9:25. Tu 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:25. W-Th 7:10, 9:25.Abduction (PG13) W-Su 1:00, 4;00, 6:55, 9:15. M 6:55, 9:15. Tu 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:15. W-Th 6:55, 9:15.Contagion (PG13) W-Su 1:05, 3:55, 7:00, 9:20. M 7:00, 9:20. Tu 1:05, 3:55, 7:00, 9:20. W-Th 7:00, 9:20.Dream House (PG13) W-Su 3:50, 9:05. M 9:05. Tu 3:50, 9:05. W-Th 9:05.The Help (PG13) W-Su 1:35, 4:45, 7:55. M 7:55. Tu 1:35, 4:45, 7:55. W-Th 7:55.Three Musketeers (PG13) W-Su 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9;30. M 7:05, 9:30. Tu 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:30. W-Th 7:05, 9:30.

Carousel Cinema1305 Battleground Ave., Greensboro • (336) 230-162050/50 (R) W 12:45, 2:50, 4:55, 7:00, 9:05. Th 2:50, 4:55, 7:00, 9:05. F-Sa 12:45, 2:50, 4:55, 7:00, 9:05 11:10. Su-Th 12:45, 2:50, 4:55, 7:00, 9:05.A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (R) W 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00. Th 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00. 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.

Blackthorn (R) W 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30, 9:35. Th 3:20, 5:25, 7:30, 9:35. F-Sa 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30, 9:35 11:40. Su-Th 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30, 9:35.Hugo (PG) W 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45. Th 3:45, 6:15, 8:45. F-Sa 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 11:15. Su-Th 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45.Hugo (3D) (PG) W 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00. Th 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00. F-Th 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00.Ides of March (R) W 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30. Th 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30. F-Sa 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30 11:35. Su-Th 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30.J Edgar (R) W 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40. Th 4:00, 7:00, 9:40. F-Th 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40.Jack & Jill (PG) Th 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00. F-Sa 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00. Su-Th 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00.Johnny English: Reborn (PG) W 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:25. Th 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:25. F-Sa 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:25, 11:30. Su-Th 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:25.Love Crime (Unrated) W 12:10, 2:15, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35. Th 2:15, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35. 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) W 12:05, 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30. Th 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30. F-Th 12:05, 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30.Margin Call (R) W 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15. Th 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15. F-Sa 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 11:30. Su-Th 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15.Paranormal Activity 3 (R) W 12:05, 2:00, 3:55, 5:50, 7:45, 9:40. Th 2:00, 3:55, 5:50, 7:45, 9:40. F-Sa 12:05, 2:00, 3:55, 5:50, 7:45, 9:40 11:35. Su-Th 12:05, 2:00, 3:55, 5:50, 7:45, 9:40.Rockstar (Unrated) W 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30. Th 3:10, 6:20, 9:30. F-Th 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30.Rum Diary (R) W 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40. Th 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40. F-Sa 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 12:00. Su-Th 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40.Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Unrated) F-Sa 12:00.

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

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Letters to the EditorRead up on Ron Paul

Dear Editor,On Saturday, Nov. 12, CBS hosted a

Republican presidential primary debate in Spartanburg, South Carolina, dedicated to foreign policy. It has been verified that Congressman Ron paul, who is running in third place in several independent nationwide phone polls, was given 90 seconds in a debate that ran for 90 minutes.

We must ask ourselves why?Ron paul is one of the few candidates

that will stand on stage and tell Americans that our empire-building and policing of the world must stop. Not only is our presence in other places often unethical, we also cannot afford it. He is one of the few that will question why we leave our borders wide open, while sending our National Guard troops abroad to protect the borders of other nations.

I do not know if Ron paul’s ideas of non-intervention (not isolationism) will be totally successful, but I do know that our current policy of aggression, policing and nation-building is not working. We can no longer afford the endless and basically illegal wars that both major parties support. Recently, it was made worse when president Obama entered us into a war in Libya without even bothering to consult with Congress for approval (a constitutional requirement). Instead, he was working directly with the United Nations. This is indeed a scary step

and each and every American (regardless of political affiliation) should be alarmed that this was allowed to happen with no repercussions.

We have a US Constitution that was established for very specific reasons. It was designed to protect us from the government and to keep tight reins on those within all three branches (legislative, judicial and executive) of our federal government. Our elected officials, upon their swearing in, take the oath of office to obey and defend the Constitution. However, it appears that most of them disregard the principles within this document. They toss it into their desk drawers, ignore it and allow it to gather dust. It remains tucked away and forgotten until the next time they run for office. Then, they pull it out, dust it off and again swear an oath to defend it, which they have little to no intention of honoring.

Ron paul lives and breathes our Constitution and bases each vote in Congress on whether the matter at hand is authorized by the Constitution. If all of our elected officials followed this degree of adherence to our Constitution, we would not be confronted with the current economic crisis and our armed forces would not be spread so thinly across the globe.

If you’ve observed Ron paul only through the lens of the mainstream media, then I encourage you, regardless of your political leanings, to please read at least one of his

most important books: A Foreign Policy of Freedom. This book is what ignited my interest in doing additional research on this honest and dedicated statesman. I also encourage you to visit his website, www.ronpaul2012.com, and read about his stance on other issues.Helen Marshburn

Politicians for saleDear Editor,

politicians are the worst liars. They perceive us to be very stupid when it comes to politics. The truth is that voters are a lot more intelligent than the politicians themselves. Once elected, they break all of the promises that they knew they had no intentions of keeping once they were elected. Eventually, the corporate world or the highest bidder, depending on how much money the entity contributes to their prospective campaigns, owns all politicians. They are supposed to represent their constituents who are the beneficiaries of their representation but seem to never do anything they promise they are going to do. The constituents deserve from their representatives and should not have to go through this during such a trying time. The politicians need to be honest with their constituents better from the time they announce their intentions or do us all a favor and not run for office at all. It is not fair to

the voters – who put their trust in someone who they feel will do the best possible job they can do, to find their representatives cuddled up to the big corporations and contributors who own them.Steven M. Shelton

Jamestown can’t afford itDear Editor,

Garbage receptacles and a leaf pickup truck for Jamestown are the most ludicrous thing. Jamestown can’t afford it.

Take the leaves folks are blowing to the streets, when they should be bagged, since most leaves are left to blow into the drains causing more expense. Classic example – when it rains, the leaves wash down into drains, causing lots of expense and problems. The leaf truck can’t pick up the leaves when wet. Surprise, surprise.

As for the garbage cans and recycling bins, another classic example of politicians not listening to facts, let alone thinking of the expense. These cans sit on streets, day after day, garbage strewn all over ,and if you think folks are going to pick up the leftover debris, think again. I’m talking about plush areas, not the slums.

Everyone wants to do the one-stop thing and be done with it. This means our plastic bags are the one-step process. You tie bags up, take them to the street and it’s done. If


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some of your dogs get into these bags, try double bagging if you have stinky food you’ve placed in them, or take the bags out the day of pickup service. Common sense.

Take the garbage that rolls out in big, gaudy plastic containers and is left on the street by the handlers. They throw these receptacles and debris flies around. Not counting the stinking and gaudy containers that sit in yards several days. What do you think this does to a neighborhood?

The recycling receptacles behind Town Hall should tell about people and dumping their garbage. If people don’t wash out bottles, cans and food containers, do you actually think they’re going to wash the garbage receptacles? Think again.

Our children and grandchildren don’t stand a chance, even if they inherit several million dollars, if politicians continue to spend on their useless pet projects.

Old saying, “If it ain’t broken, leave it alone.”Shirley deLong

Tracking debt increasesDear Editor,

The following are debt increases by presidents as compiled by the Congressional Budget Office:

Ronald Reagan – 186 percentGeorge W. Bush – 72 percentBill Clinton – 41 percent

Letters(Continued from page 25) Barack Obama – 23 percent

It has been said of the Republican party, “I’m lost, but I’m making record time.”Bob Kollar

Need long-term solutionsDear Editor,

OK, folks, the clock is ticking. Wednesday is fast approaching and it would appear that you have made little or no progress on budget reform. I can understand that any move, one way or the other, may influence the presidential election and your reelectability. Nobody would want to lose the job you have. Great pay, health benefits, security if needed and the power. Heck, I would not want to make a decision that may affect my employment.

You must remember you are Americans first and Republicans and Democrats second. You must do the peoples’ work even if it affects your electability. Your job is not to get reelected, but it is to do what is right for our country. Honestly, I only recognize one name on this committee (John Kerry). I do believe that your parties choose you, as they feel that you are expendable, cannon fodder. All other members of Congress can say, “Hey, we put together a Super Committee,” it is not my fault they failed. You must feel like lambs being lead to slaughter.

You must increase revenue and reduce expenses. Sounds easy, right? Are you going to increase tax rates for those that still

have jobs? What expenses will you cut? Medicare, Medicaid, military spending, special earmark programs that benefit your district? We will not get out of this situation using that type of thinking.

First of all, your solutions must be considered long term; we did not get into this mess overnight. I believe it will take twice as many years to recover than it took us to get here. Come up with a 10-year plan that will increase revenue now (by putting people back to work and some slight tweaking of the tax code). In order to do this you must create more jobs, which will require government investment initiatives, otherwise known as debt.

Since most jobs are created in the private sector by small businesses, give them a reason to expand their workforce. Guess what, by doing that you just increased revenue, more people working contributing to the tax base and reduced expenses by not having to continue to support the unemployed. The economy needs momentum to start rolling and it is going to take dollars we don’t have (yes, we must increase debt for the short term) to give it a push.

How does a company grow? Buyouts, consolidation, organic growth, cutting expenses? The fastest way to grow is to buy more companies, increase your revenue stream and take on more debt knowing that your “investment” will bring you greater revenue than the debt that was incurred. After making this investment a company would look to consolidate services and become more efficient, as reduced expenses will benefit the returns of the company in the long term. A company’s income stream will never increase as much by reducing

expenses, as it does in making an investment for future growth.

The answer is simple: As small businesses are the largest sector of the economy, give small businesses incentives to grow and hire more people: tax breaks, loans or whatever it takes to get the mountain to move. Leave Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Coca Cola and Apple alone. These companies are great examples of growth. Take on more debt (if you have to) to grow, then trim the fat. The time to trim is when the economy is growing and rolling, not in a shrinking economic environment. You just create a double death spiral, cut expenses, jobs are lost and the revenue stream shrinks and you will spend far more money in the long run in social programs to help those newly displaced workers. Wealth is not created by cutting expenses; it only prolongs a slow economic death.

Do these things: Be brave and courageous.

Invest in small business, put more people back to work increasing the tax base and reducing the needed expenditures of the government cheese.

Tweak the tax code so that Warren Buffet’s secretary does not pay a greater percentage of tax than he does.

Forget about reelection. You are the sacrificial lambs your party has chosen. You will be pointed out as the ones that failed, not the entire Congress, so do the right thing for the country now that you have nothing to lose.

Look back in history and look at the way we came out of the Depression. Some of those tools and strategies should be useful about now.Anonymous

evils of certain methods of decaffeination. And after I had switched to decaffeinated tea, I read that you can’t just get any old decaffeinated tea: You have to get tea that’s decaffeinated in a particular way.

So I can’t win for losing, and that’s one more thing I have to worry about. So I’m like, fine, not only will I have decaffeinated tea, without real sugar; but I’ll find the kind of tea that’s decaffeinated in the right way.

Apparently, there are some processes where they decaffeinate tea by pumping in all these dangerous chemicals, and some of the stuff I’ve been reading says that that process makes the tea even more dangerous than leaving the caffeine in.

So, I go to Earth Fare and I look on the boxes and I find a box of tea that explained that it was decaffeinated in the safe way, not the deadly way, so I get that kind of tea.

So anyway, I was at Earth Fare, and I got the naturally decaffeinated tea but I couldn’t find Truvia. So I asked the Earth Fare lady where I could find the Truvia, and she said it was on aisle 8 or whatever. I said thank you and I began to walk away, and as I was leaving she said, “That is …

Yost(Continued from page 15) if you want Truvia,” and I was like, “Yeah,

I know sugar’s bad for me – so I want Truvia.”

And she said, “Well, you know, Truvia isn’t just stevia – it’s also got erythritol. And there are some concerns about that.”

She started telling me her concerns about erythritol, but I didn’t really understand everything she was saying.

I asked her if it was OK if I just got plain, raw stevia instead of Truvia.

She said that would be fine and said she had no objection to me buying that.

So, I got “Stevia in the Raw” in place of the apparently deadly Truvia.

And now, I would have my naturally decaffeinated tea, sweetened-with-Stevia in the Raw.

Finally I have the ingredients for a good natural, unquestionably healthy glass of ice cold tea, and I sit down, and I’m ready to have a big healthy glass.

But instead I start reading again.Jillian said I needed to drink organic

tea, and mine was not. Who knew what kind of DDT-based pesticides and deadly chemicals went into making my tea.

So anyway, I went and got some organic (Continued on page 29)


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Besides, if you live in or near Greensboro, giving Loco for Coco gifts supports a local business, which is a wise shopping principle to keep in mind in this troubled economy, so that Greensboro can continue to keep its better-than-a-town-our-size-could-hope-for array of restaurants and shops.

....I recently took one of the Great Courses

on the Western Literary Canon. For those who aren’t literature students, the “literary canon” is not book-launching artillery. Or maybe it is. The “canon” refers to a term from religion – it means that something (or someone) is officially certified. So a person who is declared a saint is “canonized,” and also the official scripture is said to be “in the canon.”

Extending this to literature, the “canon” means the works that the academic community regards as essential for any educated person to be familiar with.

The trouble is that what academia considers to be the “canon” has become absurd.

Once, there were works that everybody knew because education followed similar paths. When grammar-school students all had to struggle through translating Caesar’s account of his Gallic Wars from Latin into English, and then reading Cicero, Virgil and others in the original, naturally all educated people recognized famous Latin tag lines.

Uncle Orson(Continued from page 10) It was a mark of education, not that you

had memorized “Veni, vidi, vici,” but that you actually understood that it meant “I came, I saw, I conquered,” and that it was a clever but perfectly natural and understandable way of delivering the message.

But educated people also read books which they selected themselves. There was no English literature department in any university in the 1800s; it was still controversial to have an English department at Oxford, for instance, when Tolkien helped design the course of study for English students.

After all, why in the world would you need a university to teach you how to read the literature of your own language? So English students were required to learn Old English and Middle English, so they could study great works that were written in versions of English that we no longer speak.

Who in the world would need a teacher to explain Dickens or Austen, poe or Twain? They’re perfectly clear to modern readers. And the only reason you’d need an English teacher to explain Hawthorne is because he’s such an unbearably bad writer that you’d rather not read his books yourself.

So the “canon” consisted of books that readers, critics and writers came to love and respect and pass from hand to hand. professors didn’t tell you that you had to read Dickens – you simply had to in order to be part of the culture of your time, rather the way that if you haven’t read any Harry potter books you’re viewed with pity by anybody who actually reads for pleasure.

Nobody declared Harry potter to be “officially good” literature. Rowling’s books were selected by volunteers. And that’s how it used to be.

Jane Austen, for instance, was merely one of many popular writers when her novels first appeared. But she quickly became a favorite among other writers, in part because she developed techniques that nobody else was using, which eventually evolved into the third-person-limited viewpoint that absolutely dominates popular literature today.

And Austen’s books were memorable, so that people passed them from hand to hand and from generation from generation. There was no academic support for this, but her books remained in print perpetually because it was always profitable to publish them. They found readers because readers loved them and wanted other people to share the powerful and pleasurable experience of reading them.

That’s how, for a time, the canon grew. A combination of joy and admiration, along with the prestige of the person who gave, lent or recommended the book to you, gave life to the literary canon.

And then they started teaching contemporary literature in the universities, and the whole process was kidnapped by idiots.

Gone was the “love and joy” portion of canon formation. In fact, the more popular a book was, the more despised it became among academics. Why? Because academia swallowed the entire bunkum of

Modernism, which sneered at “middle-class” values and thought of “high” literature as something deliberately put out of the reach of the common rabble.

The result was pretentious twaddle like James Joyce’s Ulysses, which can only be understood with the magic decoder ring which Joyce thoughtfully provided to friends, and which they passed on to the professors.

By declaring Ulysses to be the greatest work of literature of the 20th century, academics attempted to guarantee their continuing employment. If you can’t be an educated person without reading and pretending to understand, care about and admire Ulysses, then you must obviously take college classes from English professors.

But the whole scheme has backfired, because when we finish learning how to read and understand Ulysses, most of us realize that it’s twaddle. Whatever insights into the human condition James Joyce had to offer were trivial compared to the labor of receiving them.

And it’s not just James Joyce. Students of literature spend endless labor learning to read work after work of modern and post-modern literature, and then learn the precious and silly vocabulary of deconstruction and the patronizing talking-down of multiculturalism, and in the end, what have they done?

They’ve opened Al Capone’s vault and found it empty, and their English professors stand there like Geraldo Rivera, desperately


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trying to explain that it’s still very important to have opened the vault, even though nothing of value was in it.

The result is that enrollment in English departments has plummeted. It used to be that a major in English was good preparation for a career in law or business, because you learned the roots and bones of English so you could write – no, communicate – with clarity and grace.

Now, you learn to write with obscurity and hypocritical pretension, and without independent thought. You come out of English programs knowing nothing of grammar and incapable of writing well, with your head stuffed full of literature that nobody cares about.

I mean really – do you take Stephen Dedalus or Leopold Bloom into your heart and life?

OK, maybe a few hundred academics do. But it’s nothing like the way millions of people have embraced Harry potter. Or, for that matter, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, pip, David Copperfield, Jo and Meg and Beth and Amy, Elizabeth and Jane Bennett and Darcy and Bingley, Scarlett and Rhett and Melanie and Ashley, Judah Ben-Hur, Frodo and Gollum and Sam, paul Muad’Dib, Hari Selden, Sherlock Holmes, Douglas Spaulding, Tarzan, Conan, Robinson Crusoe, Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister, and animals named Buck and Flicka and Bambi and Lassie.

Maybe you didn’t know some of these

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names, or the works they came from, but I’ll bet you knew a lot of them, and not just those whose names are in the titles.

So while academics and critics – people who live by impressing others with their erudition and elitism – almost universally declare Ulysses to be the greatest work of the 20th century, volunteer readers – people who love literature for the joy of it – repeatedly declare that The Lord of the Rings is the greatest work.

Some of us think that only William Shakespeare and Jane Austen rival J.R.R. Tolkien for brilliance of talent and magnitude of achievement.

Here’s the lovely thing: Eventually, the literary canon bends to the popular one. Academics almost universally sneered at Lord of the Rings when it first appeared – even though the author was the very academic who had rescued Beowulf from oblivion and made it that absolutely essential root of English-literature studies.

They hated LOTR because anybody could read it, without help. They declared it to be shallow and worthless and badly written.

But in fact those epithets applied far more aptly to many if not most of the works they taught as “great” contemporary literature. The Man Booker prize is usually given to pretentious ephemera whose writing only thinly disguises the emptiness beneath it, but the slightly-more-popular prizes rarely do any better.

And anyone who says Tolkien’s writing is less than brilliant simply does not understand

language or writing. The Old-English-style poetry of almost every word Tom Bombadil says is a delight to those who recognize it, and Shakespeare and Hardy are the only writers I know who rival Tolkien for his ability to contrast heroic, courtly, common and coarse language in the same work, the same chapter, the same scene.

Nobody in all of English literature is a better master of English prose than J.R.R. Tolkien.

Take this passage from Lord of the Rings:

“And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.”

Even if you haven’t read the book and have no idea of what this moment actually means, that is simply gorgeous, fluid prose. Who has written about the power of language more beautifully than this, exemplifying what he describes?

The people are better judges of great storytelling and, yes, even great writing, than the academics. In the long run, the fads of the volunteer readers are more likely to identify great and lasting works of literature than the fads of the academics.

I’m not talking about bestsellers. There are genres whose best sellers become bestsellers simply because there are so many readers who seek out that genre for their entertainment.

But is anyone still passing along the works of Irving Wallace as must-reads? His work was popular in its time, but its time has passed; it does not take away from its meaning as a marker of culture, but it will never enter the popular canon.

But writers like Dickens and Twain – and, in the long run, Austen and Alcott and Mitchell and Tolkien and Lewis and Bradbury – force their way into the academic canon. How? Because while the professors of one generation might sneer at their work, there will come a generation of professors who became readers precisely because of the love and joy and admiration they got from these writers.

They remain perpetually dissatisfied with academic rules and theories that do not make room for works that these professors still love. And eventually, they create new rules and theories that welcome the beloved works, while eventually shrinking and eventually displacing entirely the once-admired works that were never beloved by volunteer readers.

However, there’s another process at work in canon-formation: The Rescue. Moby-Dick sank like a rock when it first appeared, but it was rescued by mature readers who realized that it was not just a great literary achievement <yawn> but also a delightful, witty, mean, hard-hitting, powerfully told, memorable story.

Beowulf was a rescue, after all. Even Shakespeare, after years of eclipse, was

rescued by a wiser generation. Often great works are pushed “down” into children’s literature – where science fiction and fantasy and women’s fiction are often sneeringly placed by academics and critics too stupid to see past their prejudices – only to be rescued by later generations.

After all, it was as a child that I was first given Alcott, Austen, Mitchell, Bradbury, Dickens, Defoe and Twain; I was given them by people who loved both me and those books, and they were great and memorable gifts that have stayed with me my whole life.

Here is my rule: Never sneer at another person’s taste in reading. Never make another person ashamed of a story that they love. You don’t know what hunger that book is satisfying. And the book you despise today may be part of their personal canon in ways that you are simply unable to understand.

Meanwhile, if you’re a reader, a lover of books, why not take on a little project? As you gather with family this Thanksgiving holiday, take out a notebook and paper and ask: What are the books you love? What are the books that you have urged on your friends and begged them to read?

Offer no word of judgment or criticism, and permit no one else to offer any. If someone says Twilight and you hate the book, keep your opinion to yourself and write it down.

Write them all down. Every book that has been loved.

The danger is that some will suggest books that they think will make them look smart – the main reason for pretending to admire most books in the academic canon. Somebody will say “plato” and someone else will say “Virgil.”

It happens that I do love plato, though I disagree with him on so many things; Virgil, though, I regard as a bit of a talented hack – does anyone really care about the story of Aeneas? I suppose so. Write down the pretentious ones as well.

Leave the notebook open for people to add titles and authors as they come to mind, for many a beloved book lies deep in the memory and only pops up from time to time.

I think of Nordhoff & Hall’s Bounty Trilogy, the third volume of which, Pitcairn’s Island, struck me to the heart as a great tragedy, and the second volume of which, Men Against the Sea, became my exemplar of how the villain of one story can be the hero of the next, without changing even a shred of the character.

Create your family’s Canon of Beloved Literature, and then distribute it. post it on your blog. Send it out with your Christmas letter. Give books from it to people you love and care about. Make sure all the books on the list are on your Kindle or Nook or ipad, and sample the ones you haven’t read.

We, not the professors, are the creators of the real canon. Let’s take conscious control of the thing. As they lose their students, let’s gain readers for the books we love. Then, when the professors wise up and start teaching from our canon, they’ll get their students back. We will have saved them. Aren’t we nice?phone: 379-8640 905 Battleground Avenue fax: 379-7837

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tea, decaffeinated by the safe process not the deadly method, and was ready to sweeten it with raw stevia and, finally, after all that, I was good to go.

Only, before I made my tea, I read some more in my book by Dr. Andrew Weil. He said: “The number of chemicals in our water is large and increasing …”

Uh oh. I knew where this was heading. It hit me that, here I was, trying to be

good but I was making my tea with common ordinary tap water!

I continued to read Weil’s take on tap water: “Industrial waste dumped into lakes and rivers often turns up in drinking water, as do, runoffs from mines and seepage from septic tanks, oil wells, and refuse sites … Many of the chemicals, drugs, and poisons used on farms get into groundwater, either directly or through animal wastes. Acid rain, the product of industrial pollutants released into the atmosphere, contaminates surface water quickly. Toxic metals can dissolve out of pipes into the water flowing through them.”

Dr. Weil went on to say that attempts by municipalities to disinfect the water also pose a grave risk: “Even the most common method of disinfection – chlorination – is antiquated and probably dangerous, since chlorine is a very poisonous gas and powerful oxidizing agent that produces toxic by-products … known to cause cancer and birth defects.”

So here I was, with my “healthy” guilt-free glass of tea, but 98 percent of it was nothing but a concoction of deadly chemicals and pesticides just waiting to give me cancer and birth defects.

As city water goes, I’ve heard that Greensboro has very high-quality water, but, anyway, rather than try to deconstruct all that, I decided to go get some bottled water. And I went to the store and looked at a bunch of types and I bought a case of Deer park water because I could tell from the picture on the bottle that that must be very good water. It had a nice looking happy deer standing in Deer park in front of an amazingly pure environment near a crystal clear mountain lake where the water must be bottled.

And so now I was ready to make my organic, naturally decaffeinated tea, unsweetened, with bottled water from the park with the happy deer.

But then it hit me: The ice. The ice! I (no, I am not kidding) called my

refrigerator maker, GE, and asked if there was any kind of filter in the water line. No, they said, so the icemaker had been using city water.

I like a lot of ice in my tea. So, anyway, that meant going to buy some old-school ice trays, filling them with bottled water, and waiting for the healthy ice to freeze.

Which is when I read in one of my books about the dangers of BpA (bisphenol A) – which is a toxin in plastic that’s used for some bottles. So I called the 800-number on the Deer park bottle and I asked the Deer park people whether or not they used BpA and they said that it wasn’t in any of the products they sold in supermarkets to

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So I was good to go.But then I heard some scientist talking

on NpR about the questions on the safety of stevia, and about how it had been banned in Europe as a sweetener.

I read on a UK government website: “The European Commission considered an application for its use in 1998. The data was considered by the EC Scientific Committee for Food (SCF) who indicated that the extract has the potential to produce adverse effects in the male reproductive system that could affect fertility and that steviol, a metabolite of stevioside produced by human gut microflora, damages DNA. The Committee therefore concluded that stevioside was not acceptable as a sweetener … It is illegal to sell them as sweeteners in the UK.”

So I guess I could have my unsweetened, naturally decaffeinated organic tea, BpA-free, made with mountaintop Deer park water and Deer park ice, and, then perhaps I would have been safe.

I told a friend my whole story, and he said, “I’m not so sure about bottled water. I got some of these test strips that test purity and I tested some bottled water, and you’d be shocked by what you find.”

And I was like: Well, that’s just fantastic.

Now keep in mind, this is all just about having a glass of tea – not about all the possible foods or drinks or products that you use everyday that might be deadly. This is just about one miniscule thing in life.

So, I thought, Yost, you could get test strips and test each bottle of water before you used it to make your unsweetened, naturally decaffeinated, organic tea from non-BpA bottled water, or …

Or, you can do what I actually did, and settle for a nice cold refreshing glass of Diet Coke with a bunch of icemaker ice from city water.

Ahhh – now that’s what I’m talking about.

conservative I hope and I pray that Robbie perkins and the liberal City Council can do something to help fix the problems in Greensboro, which are many, because I feel that their liberal views are going to get in the way of helping the people of Greensboro.

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Yes, continuing. Again, I’m just hoping and praying they can do something about the problems in Greensboro, especially the high unemployment rate and the lack of economic growth. If not, hopefully, in 2013, we can elect maybe a new mayor of Greensboro, hopefully a conservative, and, hopefully a conservative City Council who cares for this city and cares about creating jobs and making our economy grow.

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the commissioners won’t have a perk they usually have every eight years: the ability to reduce the tax rate while holding the revenues coming in to the county the same. That’s called keeping the tax rate “revenue neutral” and, if property values have declined in the last eight years, it brings up an interesting situation.

In the past, holding property taxes revenue neutral has almost always meant lowering the tax rate. However, if property values in the county have fallen, that means the commissioners would be in the unusual situation of having to raise the county’s tax rate simply to hold the county’s revenue steady.

The commissioners can do whatever they want, but, in the past, as a rule, they’ve voted to alter the rate to keep the county revenue neutral – however, again, in past revaluation years, property values have risen rather than fallen.

Chavis said he has no idea how the board will handle the situation if that happens.

“If values drop, the rate would obviously have to go up to keep it revenue neutral,” he said.

He said that, by law, as the tax director, he’s simply required to report to the Board of Commissioners what the revenue neutral tax rate would be. Chavis said it’s entirely up to the board how it uses that information

He said the county is in a new economic reality.

“Things have changed dramatically,” he

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said. “Obviously we’ve experienced some uncharacteristic times.”

Chavis said that, from a national standpoint, Guilford County hasn’t seen the drastically declining markets as others over the last eight years. According to Chavis, places like Arizona, Nevada and Florida had seen extremely tumultuous real estate markets and, in those areas, he said, residents have experienced radical drops in property value since 2004.

“Basically the bottom fell out,” Chavis said. “In the third quarter of 2008 everyone knows what happened.”

Guilford County Commissioner Billy Yow said that, given the history of the board, which has for years been controlled by high-spending Democrats, the commissioners will make certain that no potential tax advantage brought about by lower rates would make it into the pockets of taxpayers.

Yow said that, in the past, when property values have risen, the boards have made that revenue neutral adjustment before making any changes to the tax rate – but then they usually use that as a reset point that ends up simply being the new starting point from which they raise taxes to continue their high spending ways.

Winstead said that, if the board does implement a tax rate increase, the commissioners need to be honest with the citizens. He said the commissioners need to make the public aware what the revenue neutral rate would be, and, then, if the tax rate increased, make sure taxpayers

understand the full extent of that increase.“I’m certainly not for any hidden tax

increase,” Winstead said.He said it’s going to be a very tough

budget year next year because he thinks the other major source of county revenue – sales taxes – will also be depressed.

“Our debt payments continue to rise,” Winstead said, “and our revenue from sales taxes doesn’t look like it will be greater.”

Chavis said that this year doesn’t look much like the revaluation that took place eight years ago.

“For instance, in the last reval,” he said, “values were 85 percent, and so we had to bump up those values to get it to 100 percent.”

Chavis said the goal at the end of a revaluation is always for the assessed tax values to be 100 percent of market values.

“You want to come as close to 100 percent as you can,” he said.

He said that, if property is assessed at an unfairly high value, then taxpayers are paying too much. On the other hand, he said, tax directors don’t want values to come in on the low side.

“If the assessments are too low,” he said, “you’ve left value on the table so to speak,”

Chavis said his staff is doing everything possible to make sure the current tax values they come up with are good ones. He said that, for instance, one of the things that assures fairness is seeing that similar homes in the same neighborhood have roughly the same values.

He said that, in the 2004 revaluation, the county was divided up into 300 neighborhoods for purposes of comparison; however, this time around, he said, Guilford County is being split into about 2,500 neighborhoods for comparison.

“So values in neighborhoods aren’t going to be all over the place,” Chavis said of the 2012 revaluation.

He also said certain parts of the county have increased in value while others have not. “property values will not change

uniformly across the county,” Chavis said.Chavis said the Tax Department had

hired a company that has helped many North Carolina counties with their revaluations. Usually, the Tax Department hires extra tax appraisers; however the group that’s being paid about $200,000 to help the Tax Department this year will be doing more of the day to day work in order to free up the Tax Department staff to spend more time on appraisals.

Chavis said one good thing about the fact that property values in 2012 might not be much different than 2004 is that owners aren’t likely to get what tax officials refer to as “sticker shock” – that is, when property is only appraised every eight years, they see the value of the home and know they will be paying taxes on that high value and they aren’t happy about it.

Guilford County officials have discussed going to a revaluation cycle of every four or six years to avoid sticker shock, but revaluation years are a lot of work, and always mean hiring outside help as well as incurring additional expense.

Currently, Guilford County waits the maximum time allowable by law. According to NC General Statutes, eight years is the maximum number of years a county can go without doing a countywide revaluation.

According to Chavis, new technological tools have been very helpful this time around. He said that, with advances in pictography and satellite imaging, appraisers can see property from at least four different directions and often from street level as well – rather than simply from directly overhead, as was once the case.

Chavis also said property owners would be sent forms with new values and that, if they wanted to contest the county’s appraised values, they would be instructed how to appeal.

The 2012 revaluation only applies to “real property” such as land, houses and buildings. personal property such as cars or business equipment is revalued every year.

Sims said the consultants had come up with a redistricting plan that was as close to the current wards as possible, given the City Council’s responsibility to make the populations of the six wards roughly equal. “I have no objection to plan D,” she said. “I think it does what we’ve asked the consultants to do. I can support it.”

High point City Attorney Fred Baggett said the redistricting plan would be worded as a City Council resolution and forwarded to the DOJ with all the maps and comments submitted, the record of the City Council debates and the population and demographic data gathered by Bailey & Dixon.

“The submission is not a small thing,” Baggett said. “All of that will be in the submission.”

The part of City Council meetings that Smothers and the councilmembers can’t control is public hearings on issues before the board. That was demonstrated on

Map(Continued from page 7) Monday by a fairly spectacular blow-up

over proposed land-use plan amendments for eight High point neighborhoods: Oak Hill, West End, Southside, Macedonia, East Central, Washington Street, Washington Terrace and Five points.

The High point planning and Development Department has been working on long-term land-use plans for the neighborhoods, but only one of the neighborhoods mattered on Monday: Five points, where the Guilford County Board of Commissioners has voted to sell the 21.8-acre property of the former Evergreens Senior Healthcare retirement home at 206 Greensboro Road for $3.1 million to GEO Care Inc., which plans to operate it as a forensic mental health unit – a secure unit for assessing suspects as to their fitness for trial and treating convicts with mental illness.

High point city planners swear it’s a coincidence that the Core City plan land-



coordination of services, might mean the county could save on its purchases of new trucks and equipment over the next decade.

He also said many of the existing contracts and agreements that control the current system needed to be updated to be made more comprehensive and remove ambiguities. In addition, Kowue said, the contracts lacked many performance-measure specifications and other evaluative criteria typically found in similar contracts in other parts of the state and the country.

Kowue reiterated several times that the only thing his consulting firm was charged with doing was presenting options to the county; and, he said, one option, if the county chose to do so, would be to “maintain the status quo,” and, within that existing framework, attempt to find ways the various fire districts could implement changes that led to more cooperation and efficiency.

He said that, on the other end of the spectrum, another option would be for the county to form a single Guilford County fire department that handled all fire services for the county outside of Greensboro and High point. He said that his firm’s study also stresses that such a move would be a major drawn-out process that would have both pros and cons.

“It would be a huge undertaking fraught with perils,” he said.

He also said it would take several years to implement. “Would it be worth it?” he said. “There would be a huge number of benefits.”

Fire(Continued from page 8) He added that, all over the country, local

governments were currently taking another look at the ways in which they provide fire protection services. “It’s all driven by the economy,” he said.

At the work session, Kowue didn’t bring up one possibility that would seem to make a lot of sense: the county contracting with Greensboro and High point for fire services. But, after the arrogant treatment Guilford County has given the City of Greensboro in recent years, it’s certainly understandable why Greensboro at least would have no interest in that deal.

After Kowue spoke at the work session, one of the local fire chiefs, Ray Smith of the

pleasant Garden Fire Department, spoke briefly on behalf of the fire officials in the county.

Smith said he looked forward to receiving the full report and said the firefighters were willing to work with the consultants and county officials to find efficiencies and ways to provide fire service in the most effective and affordable manner possible.

“We are looking forward to an open dialogue,” Smith said.

Alston said there was no need to worry about the county making any rash decisions when it came to a service as important as fire protection.

“We’re not going to do anything today,”

Alston said, adding that he wanted everyone to read the report, begin conversations, and take 60 to 90 days to discuss all the issues thoroughly.

The commissioners, county officials and firefighters all seemed to agree that was the best course of action.

Gibson said, “I think that’s a very reasonable approach.”

Yow suggested a meeting be scheduled for shortly after the first of the year so all of the interested parties could get together and discuss the best way to proceed. The other commissioners all consented to Yow’s suggestion and the clerk to the board said a meeting would be scheduled.

Administrator Bob Robbins said, “Yeah, in a way, it is, what do you call it, a preemptive strike.”

That anyone would not want a treatment center for the criminal justice system on the Evergreens property is unsurprising. With the new US 311 bypass now running past High point and one of its few interchanges located at the intersection with Greensboro Road, Greensboro Road will be a major entranceway to High point – one that already needs some work, given the deteriorating beige-box commercial buildings that dominate Five points. A commercially operated mental health unit for the criminal

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point’s wish list for the county property.But the City Council has not yet voted

to rezone the county-owned parcel, and some councilmembers said they think that someone jumped ahead of the process and told the planning and Development Department to spike the treatment center proposal. The rezoning proposal came from the City of High point, not from the property owner, Guilford County.

In Councilmember Latimer Alexander’s opinion, that person was Smothers. Alexander accused the mayor of instructing staff to push the zoning change to protect the value of the Couch and Griffin property

across the street“Becky Smothers decided on her own

that wasn’t the highest and best use,” Alexander said. “So she wants to throw up roadblocks on it. So she was trying to get a zoning change.”

Alexander also said Smothers was responsible for the choice of the new zoning classification.

“Becky’s mechanism is to change the property zoning,” he said. “It’s a way of outzoning something. It would have been much cleaner if she had put in a text amendment for mental health facilities greater than 70 beds. That way, we wouldn’t



be rezoning a property the owner didn’t ask us to rezone.”

Smothers said that Alexander was off base, particularly on the accusation that she was trying to protect Couch and Griffin’s property values.

“Well, I haven’t talked to David Griffin Jr.,” she said. “I don’t know what he wants to go across the street. If I was going to be anyone’s loyal camp follower, it would probably be Tom Terrell, without whom my past campaigns would have been seriously lacking in political advice. I mean, let’s get real. This is not personal.”

Smith Moore Leatherwood attorney Terrell is representing GEO Care in the purchase. Ironically, Terrell is a member of the High point City project board of directors.

Smothers said Couch and Griffin are planning a mixed-use development for the presbyterian Homes property. She said, “I think they’re close enough to come in with a request for the rezoning.”

Meanwhile, GEO Care representatives have been meeting with High point councilmembers one at a time, trying to sway their votes. They met with Councilmember Chris Whitley on Friday, Nov. 18.

Whitley said that if there was anything odd in the timing of the GEO Care project, it was on the county’s side. He said, “The county might be trying to sell it out from under the land-use change.”

So far, Alexander and (according to

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Alexander) Councilmember Jim Corey have come out in support of the project. Alexander said he sees nothing wrong with it and that the GEO Care project won’t even be visible from the street.

Smothers, Whitley and Councilmember Mike pugh have come out against the GEO Care project.

Alexander said, “That’s going to leave four people to make the decision.”

The county commissioners’ vote on Oct. 20 was to sell the Evergreens property for $3.1 million, but to advertise for an “upset bid” – a higher bidder.

Sprouts for Success Inc. has also expressed an interest in the property but has not yet made an offer. Under state law, an upset bid will have to be for at least $3.25 billion to beat out the GEO Care bid.

Sprouts for Success was incorporated by the operators of the Quality Education Academy charter school in Winston-Salem and proposes to launch a charter school named High point College preparatory Academy in the Evergreens building.

“High point College” is the old name for the rapidly expanding High point University, so that choice of a name is something High point University president Qubein said he has a problem with.

“Yes, I do,” Qubein said. “The reason for that is only because it could be misleading – especially to people from outside High point. Even though ‘college preparatory’ is a correct name for what they do, it would be misleading, I think.”

Qubein, however, said he would be excited about the addition of a charter school to High point – but not about the idea of a correctional mental health facility.

“I am concerned,” he said. “Really, I am. Here you’ve got a dynamic university that’s growing by leaps and bounds. I don’t want High point University to be a dynamic and progressive university in a city that’s any

less than that. “Whether or not that facility fits into that

category of concern, I don’t know, because I don’t have all the facts. But from what I’ve heard I’m not too excited about it.”

Qubein said that he had expressed his objections to the City Council “only informally.” He said, “We at the university have not taken a position on that.”

use amendments came up for consideration immediately after the GEO Care proposal – but the fact that the amendments themselves are not time-sensitive was shown by the fact that the City Council voted rapidly to send them back to the planning, Economic Development and Information Technology Committee, which is chaired by Councilmember Chris Whitley.

Whitley said that by the City Council’s Dec. 19 meeting, his committee would issue recommendations on the first two maps in the proposal – the second of which happens to contain a recommendation to change the land-use designations for the county-owned Evergreens property and the 18.4-acre property across the street from it at 201 Greensboro Road containing the former presbyterian Homes retirement facility. presbyterian Homes Inc. sold it in April 2011 to Community Housing of High point LLC.

The Core City recommendations from city planners would change the properties, which are now institutional, to the “mixed-use development” land-use classification, which would clear the way for the City Council to vote on Dec. 19 on its own proposal to rezone the properties to Residential Multifamily (RM-8). That would prevent the Evergreens property from being used for the mental health facility and probably kill the county’s sale of the property.

Smith Moore Leatherwood attorney Tom Terrell stood and supported Sims’ motion to send the recommendations back to the committee, saying, “I don’t think it’s any secret to anyone that I represent ...”

pugh interrupted, “Who do you represent?”

Terrell said he represented GEO Care. He attacked the City Council for planning to downzone the property and said it would provide 185 jobs while asking for no economic incentives.

GEO Care representatives have been meeting one on one with councilmembers, and Terrell said the company is holding meetings for the property’s neighbors so they wouldn’t have to depend on “sensationalized, alarmist headlines from newspapers.”

Terrell said it was hard to predict the effects of downzoning the property from the mixed-use development proposed in the Core City plan to RM-8. He called on the City Council to table the mixed-use plan and get on with “what you yourself have initiated, which is the zoning.”

Map(Continued from page 30) Until that point, no one had mentioned

the mental health facility – and pugh pressed Terrell on what, exactly, his client planned to do with the property.

Terrell said, “We could go into that if the council would like.” He then attacked pugh for not meeting with GEO Care representatives. He said, “My understanding is, you’ve not returned the phone calls that have come to you about a personal meeting.”

Councilmembers have no responsibility to accept such meetings – and, until January, when the City Council adopted conditional zoning, were actually forbidden by law from accepting them.

pugh, as he does every time someone is represented by Smith Moore Leatherwood before the City Council, pointed out that Baggett, the city attorney, also works for the same law firm.

“We have a city attorney on our staff that works for Smith Moore Leatherwood,” pugh said. “He also gets paid by Smith Moore Leatherwood. To me, that is a conflict of interest because you both work for the same company.”

Terrell said that Baggett planned to recuse himself from the rezoning proposal. pugh said Baggett would still get paid by the law firm.

The other members of the planning, Economic Development and Information Technology committee are Councilmember A.B. Henley, Moore and Sims. So far, only Alexander and Corey have publicly supported the GEO Care proposal. Smothers and pugh have opposed it.

Other than Terrell, only one woman spoke in support of the GEO Care proposal – and she acknowledged that she had met with Terrell before speaking.

One person, Charity Belton – a member of the executive board of the Cedrow Residents Association and the High point Leadership Council, an association of 14 such neighborhood groups – spoke against voting on the changes. Belton came to the meeting for an earlier issue on the agenda.

“Listening to this, I’m glad I stayed,” she said. “I believe that many of the executive board members would be appalled by some of the changes.”

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states that when the contract is terminated, the money in the fund will be divided evenly between Greensboro and Guilford County.

So 17 months ago, when the city sent a notice to terminate the contract, it had reason to believe that in six months it would receive an accounting of the money that had been spent and a check for what city personnel thought would be about $7 million.

Instead, what Young received from Fox was a letter stating that there were complex issues involved. It appears the complex issues boil down to two.

The first is that Guilford County wants Greensboro to agree to pay for two projects – extending water and sewer services to Forest Oaks Estates and Lynwood Lakes – which the commissioners had already agreed to pay for with county bond funds in 2006 and 2007.

The second is the question of interest on the money in the fund. If the fund does in fact total $20 million, as the city was told at the October meeting, then according to Young, the government could reasonably expect to earn $500,000 to $700,000 a year in interest.

Young said he had heard a number of things about the interest. He said he was told that the county said the money was not in an interest-bearing account, which is ridiculous. He said at another point, “There was a comment made that the agreement did not speak to where the interest would go, so the county kept it.”

If the county has kept the interest from this joint account for 42 years, that would certainly explain why the country refuses to tell the city how much is in the account and has rebuffed the city’s attempts to audit it.

If the agreement doesn’t speak to where the interest would go, it also doesn’t say that it belongs to Guilford County.

The agreement set up a separate water city-county trust fund. Money could, according to Fox, only be expended from the fund for projects that had the formal approval of both the Guilford County Board of Commissioners and the Greensboro City Council. If the agreement does not state otherwise, it seems the interest from the account should stay in the account and not be taken by one of the two entities without the knowledge or permission of the other.

Money(Continued from page 1) Currently Guilford County has sent over

1,000 pages of information about the joint account to the City of Greensboro, but the 1,000 pages do not include a bottom line or enough information to figure out what the bottom line is.

Young said the city had requested the necessary information to audit the account, but had not received it as of Tuesday.

Since the city collects water and sewer fees, the city knows how much it has paid into the account, and has some idea of how much has been spent on projects. And while Guilford County should be able to inform the city as to exactly how much money is in the account, in 17 months, despite meetings, letters back and forth and numerous requests and proposals from the city, Fox has failed to provide that information.

In one letter Fox states that the fund cannot pay for an audit because the agreement doesn’t state that money from the fund can be used to pay for an outside audit. Young said that after going round and round on the audit, the city agreed to pay the cost. Young said, “I’m happy to do so because we’re paying $15,000 for an audit of a fund that may have $15 million in it, and we get half.”

Young also said a sticking point that was raised in a letter from Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston was that the city kept the funds that were supposed to go into the city-county trust fund during the six months after the country was notified but before the contract was officially terminated. Young said, “We have maybe $50,000 and they have maybe $20 million; that just doesn’t make sense.” The city said that the amount it had not put in the fund during the last six months should be taken out of their share. The county said that the city had to send the money to the county.

So the county is quibbling about $15,000 for an audit and $50,000 in funds when it is holding about $10 million that belongs to the city, and it won’t even tell the city how much it actually is or give the city the information to figure out how much it is.

When somebody goes to great lengths to hide something, you have to figure they have a reason. In this case it appears that the county has been taking the interest from the joint account and spending it.

Fox may be right. If the county is trying

to figure out how much should be in the joint account based on the fact that the county had been taking the interest for years, that would be very complicated.

At the Nov. 17 Board of Commissioners meeting where residents of Forest Oaks Estates and Lynwood Lakes demanded the water and sewer service they were promised in 2006 and 2007, Alston tried to blame Greensboro Mayor Bill Knight and the conservatives who were elected to the City Council in 2009 and will be going off the council next month. It’s difficult to see how it is Knight’s fault.

The truth is that the Guilford County Board of Commissioners voted to use county bond funds to extend water and sewer to Forest Oaks Estates on Jan. 19, 2006. The resolution passed by the Board of Commissioners, which included Alston, reads in part, “Adopt the Forest Oaks Estates Water and Sewer project Ordinance and appropriate funds from 2/3 Water and Sewer Bonds as follows: Water – 688,638.00 Sewer – 730,656.000 Total – $1,419,294.00.”

The agenda of that Jan. 19, 2006 meeting also states, “This is an approved CIp [capital improvement project] project to be funded from 2/3 Water and Sewer Bonds.”

For the Lynwood Lakes project at the commissioners meeting on Dec. 13, 2007, the board approved a motion to “Adopt the Lynwood Lakes Subdivision Water and Sewer project Ordinances and appropriate funds from the 2/3 Water and Sewer Bonds as follows: Water – $1,535,506.00 Sewer – 2,551,192.00 [Total] $4,086,698.00.”

There is a special note on this agenda item: ”NOTE: This is a CIp project with funding from the 2002 Water and Sewer Bond Issue.”

On the Greensboro City Council agenda for Feb. 5, 2008, an item to approve funding of $4,086,698 for the Lynwood Lakes water and sewer project reads, “This will increase the County Construction projects Fund by $4,086,698. This increase will be funded through County revenues. No City funding is required.”

Alston has been on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners since 1992. He may not remember these votes, but the minutes of the meetings are available to him, and they prove that these projects are county projects, not joint city-county projects.

The only area where confusion could be raised is that the city was going to handle the construction because Guilford County doesn’t have a water and sewer department. But that is done as a contracted service, and all the minutes state that county funds would be used. This is not a project that was to be paid for with money from the now defunct city and county water and sewer trust fund.

Knight had not even run for office in 2006, much less been elected. It is hard to see how Alston can blame Knight for the county’s own incompetence, but he is. Five years ago the county commissioners passed a motion appropriating the funds to complete the Forest Oaks Estates water and sewer project, and so far not an inch of pipe has been laid. That is not the fault of the current mayor of Greensboro; or the previous mayor, Yvonne Johnson; or the mayor at the time the motion was passed, Keith Holliday.

It is true that Alston shot himself in the foot in dealing with Knight and the newly elected Greensboro City Council on Jan. 29, 2010, just over a month after Knight had been sworn in as mayor. Alston and then Vice Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Steve Arnold met with Knight and then Mayor pro Tem Nancy Vaughan to set the agenda for an upcoming joint meeting of the two boards.

After Arnold left the meeting, Alston threatened Knight and Vaughan about what would happen if they didn’t support the federal funding for a proposed hotel on South Elm Street. Alston said he was just relaying what he was hearing in the community, but both Vaughan and Knight said they felt threatened and also believed it was highly inappropriate for Alston, who was the real estate broker of record in the deal, to be bringing up a private business deal in which he stood to make a lot of money at a meeting that was between Greensboro and Guilford County.

Knight and Vaughan went to the media with the story of being threatened by Alston, and the joint meeting of the boards never took place. Even Arnold, who had left the room when the discussion took place, agreed that it was inappropriate.

Vaughan, who was reelected to an at-large seat on the City Council in November, said she felt like they had gotten ambushed.



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At that meeting, Alston told Knight that if he didn’t support the hotel that Alston might remove him from the dais for the upcoming opening of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. Knight said that he told Alston, “I am not intimidated.”

Six months later the Greensboro City Council voted unanimously to terminate the city and county water and sewer agreement that had been in place since 1968.

Looking at the contract was like reading a history of Greensboro. Every mayor and every chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners had signed it for over 40 years. The first mayor to sign was the late Carson Bain.

What happened to end 40 years of cooperation was not anything Knight did. In fact, one of the more outspoken proponents of terminating the joint water and sewer agreement was Councilmember and Mayor-elect Robbie perkins. He said that Greensboro had to control its own water and sewer because that determined growth and development.

But the council was united because the Guilford County Board of Commissioners had refused to honor its agreement with Greensboro on the funding of the Greensboro library system, which is used for free by residents of Guilford County who are not residents of Greensboro. A percentage had been agreed to for funding, but because the agreement was not written down, Alston and the majority of the Board of Commissioners said that the county did not have to honor it.

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Guilford County also decided that it would increase the amount it charged Greensboro to collect property taxes by about 400 percent. In the discussion on what to do about the enormous increase in fees for property taxes, one councilmember asked what the actual cost was to the county to collect the city taxes. perkins replied, “The ink.” He explained that the county already had to send a tax notice to every Greensboro property owner because all of Greensboro was in Guilford County, so the only increased cost to the county was the additional ink on the tax bill.

Also at this time, the county manager kept the city manager and his staff waiting for 10 minutes for a scheduled meeting and then said that she couldn’t meet with them. It did not sit well with councilmembers to have the county manager refuse to honor a scheduled meeting with their manager. At the council meeting where that non-meeting was discussed, Councilmember Zack Matheny, who was reelected in November, suggested that the city contact the county by “certified airmail.” Both city hall and the Old Guilford County Court House, where the county manager’s office is, are on phill G. McDonald plaza – a hundred yards or so from each other.

The money in the joint trust fund came from water and sewer users who live outside Greensboro and are charged double the rate of city residents. One-quarter of that double rate went into the joint water and sewer fund to pay for joint projects, but for some reason Guilford County got to hold onto the money. The contract clearly states that upon termination of the contract the money in the

fund is to be divided equally between the city and the county.

The city had been told that there was about $12 million to $14 million in the join account so was expecting a check for about $6 million or $7 million. But it turns out either the county had no idea what was in the account or the county was once again misinforming the city, because this October it was revealed that the estimate by the county was off by as much as 100 percent and that the actual amount was $20 million to $24 million. It may have been when the city insisted on an outside audit that the county “found” the additional revenue.

Is it any wonder that Greensboro does not want to enter into any cost-sharing agreements with Guilford County? There is no question that half the money in the account belongs to the City of Greensboro. There is no question that Guilford County has the money, and no question that in 17 months even the Guilford County managers’ office counting the money on their fingers and toes should be able to come up with a total.

Correspondence from Young to Fox indicates that since at least April 2011, the city has been trying to make a deal to settle the accounts and divide the money. Even though the city was not obligated to spend any trust fund dollars on the Forest Oaks Estates or Lynwood Lakes projects, Young, in a letter dated April 12, 2011, offers to use money from the fund to pay the costs over what had been allocated by the commissioners for the projects.

As one might imagine, since 2006, the cost has increased considerably. The total cost of the projects when they were passed

was $5.5 million, and the current estimate is $9.6 million. So the city offered to pay $4.1 million out of the joint trust fund for a project for which it had no obligation to pay.

On July 11, 2011, over a year after the City Council had sent the notice of termination of the contract to Guilford County, Young sent a letter to Fox still trying to get Guilford County to agree to have the fund audited.

On Sept. 21, 2011, 15 months after the county was first notified that the contract was being terminated, Young wrote that the city was willing to pay for the audit by the internal audit staffs of Greensboro and Guilford County, followed by the city’s outside auditor. previously, Young had suggested that the trust fund pay for the outside audit and evidently that didn’t fly.

implementing the law, but that the law will also place heavy responsibilities on schools and school systems.

Hebbard said, “A lot of what the law requires, high schools were doing three or four years ago because the association required it.”

The biggest change the law requires is that any student who exhibits signs or symptoms consistent with a concussion not be allowed to play or practice for the rest of the day, and such students must get written clearance from a medical professional with training in concussion management before being allowed to play again.

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Hebbard said the automatic sit-out for concussion symptoms is a way to avoid situations in which an accident happens on the field, and while a trainer says a player has a concussion, the coach wants the player back in the game. So the coach then gets anyone medical – even a doctor watching the game in the stands – to certify the player is fit to return to the game.

The Gfeller-Waller Concussion Awareness Act’s provisions will apply to all sports, not just football. School board member Darlene Garrett asked Hebbard whether or not the act’s rules would apply to the high school intramural bowling program the school board recently approved and which began during this school year. Hebbard said that the act wouldn’t apply, since bowling is not yet a league-sanctioned sport in Guilford County.

Guilford County Schools, like other districts in the state, has had to scramble to comply with the law and to distribute the state-required documents to everyone who had to have copies.

Hebbard said, “The first day of football practice was the first day we saw these documents.”

The documents include the concussion information sheet, which explains what a concussion is and lists its cognitive, physical, emotional and sleep-disturbance symptoms. Coaches, school nurses and athletics volunteers will have to sign papers acknowledging the information and initial

each statement included in the information sheet.

Among those statements are, “I will not allow any student-athlete to return to play or practice if I suspect that he/she has received a blow to the head or body that resulted in signs or symptoms consistent with concussion.” Another is, “If I suspect a student-athlete has a concussion, I am responsible for removing them from activity and referring them to a medical professional trained in concussion management.”

The concussion statement seems to create new legal liability for coaches and school nurses who don’t comply with the law’s requirements – although since parents have to sign the sheets too, that liability may be mitigated some by the parents’ responsibility.

The new paperwork for team sports, what Hebbard called the “return-to-play protocol,” is the easy part of complying with the new law. The more difficult part will be complying with the law’s requirement that each school create an emergency action plan for dealing with concussions during games or practices.

Unlike the return-to-play rules, the emergency action plan has to be school specific. A set of suggested guidelines from the state would create a plan that would assign responsibility for retrieving emergency medical gear, create a system for communicating with school medical personnel, and specify a process for contacting ambulance services and notifying them of injuries.

The guidelines also include a list of emergency equipment a school must have, requires training for school employees in that equipment, including defibrillators, breathing masks and spine boards, and propose creating different athletic zones and entrances on school campuses that would be provided to ambulance services to guide them quickly to an injured player.

The action plan proposed by the state goes far beyond concussions. It would also have the rules apply to heat stroke, asthma, anaphylaxis (severe allergic reactions to bee stings, foods and medications) and lightning strikes.

Hebbard said schools are doing a good job circulating the information sheets and getting them signed. He said, “The piece they’re having the hardest time with is the emergency action plan.”

Hebbard said that many high schools in the state are drafting long, complicated action plans that would slow down getting help to injured players, rather than speeding it up. He said he would limit the plan to who does what, along what chain of command. “One page should be sufficient,” he said.

Another legal issue before the Governance Committee was the possibility of mandatory drug testing of students participating in all extracurricular activities. In the 1992 case Board of Education v. Earls, the US Supreme Court upheld mandatory drug testing for students in all extracurricular activities, not just sports, on the theory that, somehow, students who participate in clubs after school have a diminished expectation of privacy.

The Supreme Court decision was

followed by president George W. Bush’s 2004 State of the Union address in which he proposed $23 million in spending for drug testing in schools.

“So tonight I proposed an additional $23 million for schools that want to use drug testing as a tool to save children’s live,” Bush said. “The aim here is not to punish children, but to send them this message: We love you, and we don’t want to lose you.”

Few school systems have bought into the idea that you have to confiscate bodily fluids from students to keep them alive. Although the North Carolina Supreme Court has also upheld such testing, the North Carolina School Boards Association, which represents 42 of North Carolina’s 115 school systems, reports that, of the 42, only two have athlete drug testing, much less the wider testing allowed by the Earls case.

School board attorney Jill Wilson said that broad drug testing, despite the Supreme Court decision, falls afoul of long-standing Fourth Amendment principles that require specific knowledge of a crime for searches.

“The law on searches is, the greater the invasion, the more particular the information has to be,” Wilson said. “A generalized, ‘There are drugs in our school’ is not very narrow.” Wilson said a policy such as the Oklahoma policy reviewed by the Supreme Court could result in ludicrous situations, such as school systems testing chess club members for drugs.

The school board is monitoring the drug-testing cases but has no immediate plans to implement such testing.

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working together well, and the county approved water for Forest Oaks Estates, in 2006, and Lynwood Lakes, in 2007, those projects never got done.

Guilford County planning Director Betty Garrett said after the Nov. 17 meeting that a lot of engineering and design work goes into projects such as these, and Yow, who owns a well-drilling company and knows just about everything there is to know about water distribution, said it truly is a complex and time-consuming project to extend water to those areas.

According to some sources there was also a setback when a company hired to the work on the projects didn’t to the job correctly and those issues had to be addressed. Still, there’s no question that so little progress after about five years on a project is astounding.

Even with all the historical problems and the bad blood between the county and the city, Alston and other county officials seemed optimistic at the Nov. 17 meeting that, in the end, the citizens of Forest Oaks Estates would get their requested city water.

Alston said at the Nov. 17 meeting, before the testimony of the Forest Oaks Estates residents, that the Board of Commissioners wouldn’t be making any decision that night.

“We’re not going to make a decision

Video(Continued from page 7) for 90 days,” Alston said. “We will not

be making a decision pro or con on these tonight.”

Alston said he and county officials planned to “get with the City of Greensboro” to work the issues out.

At the meeting, Commissioner Kirk perkins said he was highly disappointed with what he had heard from the Forest Oaks Estates residents.

“No one should have to put up with this for this period of time,” perkins said.

Alston said he was determined to work with the new Greensboro City Council to get water to Forest Oaks Estates.

He said he’s hopeful some new councilmembers and a new mayor will mean improved relations.

“We know the Greensboro City Council just had another election,” Alston said – adding that that should help improve the city and county’s relationship.

But he said the people of Forest Oaks Estates could rely on the county commissioners to get the job done – even though they haven’t gotten it done with five years and counting to do it.

“The buck stops with us,” Alston said. “We’re going to do what’s right for the citizens of Forest Oaks – I can assure you of that.”

The only problem is that the buck actually does not stop with Alston or even the Board of Commissioners – the buck is solely in the hands of with the City of Greensboro.

In the Lynwood Lakes public hearing,

there were also some complaints about the water in that area. However, only a handful of people came to speak from that subdivision, and those residents were split on the issue, so it was harder for the commissioners to get a good feel for the desire of the Lynwood Lakes community. However, the board has no plans to make any decision on Lynwood Lakes until the commissioners talk with city officials, so the commissioners will have more time to deal with the issue.

In other business at the Nov. 17 meeting, Commissioner paul Gibson proposed that the board look into changing its purchasing policies to allow the Board of Commissioners more flexibility when it comes to offering county contracts to local suppliers and vendors.

Currently the Board of Commissioners is legally bound in many cases to select the lowest responsible bidder. However, Gibson said, it became clear that the policy needed to be reviewed when, this summer, the board awarded the county’s fuel contract to a Virginia fuel broker rather than a locally based, trusted provider that actually owns fuel and trucks – and that contract had differed by only about $800. Gibson said the state is allowed to show a preference to North Carolina suppliers and vendors whenever there’s only a small price difference in bids – in some cases 5 percent and others 10 percent.

Gibson said that, since the county often “piggybacks” on state contracts, and the state

has a “buy local” preference, that tells him Guilford County could have more leeway when it comes to its purchasing policy.

“I would like to see this board get some more information on modifying our procedure,” Gibson said.

Yow echoed Gibson’s sentiments and the board voted to instruct Guilford County Attorney payne to come back to them with more information on possible changes in purchasing procedures.

Alston instructed payne to look into the county’s legal options and payne said he would do so. payne said there was plenty of law to review regarding the matter of purchasing policies.

“There’s a lot of information on that out there,” payne said.

The next regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners is Thursday, Dec. 1.

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Harris Teeter’s annual Harvest Feast food drive is underway and customers can purchase $5 or $20 cards or donate nonperishable products in collection bins in the lobby of each store through Tuesday, Nov. 29. All monies and food donated in the triad area will be distributed through Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina.

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By John HammerIt’s incredible that we have elected a president who is so politically inept.

president Barack Hussein Obama was elected with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and enough of a majority in the House to do whatever he wanted. He chose health care reform, but went about it in such a ham-handed, do it exactly my way or the highway manner that he almost didn’t get it passed. He wouldn’t even compromise with members of his own party.

It appears that to Obama compromise means the other side gives in. He took the country to the brink on raising the debt limits because he refused to compromise. This week he complained about the Super Committee because the Republicans on that committee would not agree to raise taxes.

The Republicans have said over and over that they are not going to vote to raise taxes, and thank goodness so far they haven’t.

The goal is to cut spending, it seems like the logical thing to find out where the two can agree, but that is not how Obama operates. He just keeps pushing and pushing to raise taxes, asking “the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share.” But he never says what that fair share is.

The top 1 percent, which includes all those who have earned incomes of over $344,000 a year, pays 37 percent of the income taxes. The top 5 percent, those who make more than $155,000 a year, pay 59 percent of all income taxes. And the top 10 percent, those who make more than $112,000 a year, pay over 70 percent of all the income taxes collected by the federal government.

Obama thinks that is not a fair share, but it would be really interesting to know what he thinks a fair share is. Should the top 1 percent pay 50 percent of the taxes collected? Or should they pay 99 percent? Is that a fair share? It’s hard to imagine, but one thing we do know is that Obama desperately wants to raise taxes and he knows the Republicans want to reduce spending. What he doesn’t know how to do is negotiate a deal, and thank goodness for that because the last thing this country needs right now is more taxes or four more years of Obama.

There is a small but growing contingent in the Democratic party that is asking Obama to step aside and allow Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president. They believe that she would have a much better chance of being elected than Obama.

If there were a strong Republican candidate, the Clinton contingent might be larger, but it is beginning to look like the Republicans are going to nominate someone that even most Republicans don’t like.

All the Republicans have to do is come up with a reasonably conservative, reasonably likable candidate and it appears the White House is theirs. But the two leading Republican candidates right now don’t meet that criteria.

By no stretch of the imagination can Mitt Romney be considered a conservative. At times in the past he has not even appeared to be a moderate. Newt Gingrich is certainly a conservative, but the likability factor is the question with him. Gingrich has such huge negatives and has alienated so many people

over the years, it’s a real question.

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Fortunately, it’s not too late for North Carolina, but we could still follow down the absurd path of Europe and ruin our scenic shores and mountains.

After investing billions of dollars, the Netherlands – one of the greenest countries in the world – is trying to get out of the wind energy business. The Dutch built a whole bunch of huge windmills, some out in the water and some on land. But they are so expensive to maintain that they produce expensive electricity, so the government has had to subsidize the windmills to the tune of about $6 billion a year. The Dutch government says that it doesn’t have the money for that kind of subsidy anymore and wants somebody else to pay.

The plan is to allow people the option to choose to use more expensive electricity generated by wind, but they don’t think that enough people will choose to pay more to make up the difference.

If the Dutch are getting out of the wind energy business, then around here – where we don’t have huge windmills the same height as a 30 story building cluttering up the landscape – we’d be wise not to start. Imagine the Lincoln Financial building or Center pointe with a 10-story building on top of them and that is the size of these modern windmills.

One of the incredible costs is maintenance, particularly for the windmills out at sea. As you can imagine, building a 30-story tower out in the ocean is also not cheap. To top it off, you can’t count on the wind blowing every day, so there needs to be even more redundancy built into the electrical production system than normal.

The Dutch gave it a good try and have found wind energy too expensive to maintain. We should take that as a lesson and not have to learn it for ourselves.

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The occupy people appear to want to create a utopian society. There have been a host of utopian societies in the past, and these tent cities resemble them in many ways.

It appears that one of the reasons that we had so many utopian societies here is that land was so cheap. Land is still cheap. The federal government has more land than it knows what to do with. Why not lease these occupy groups some land and let them build their own society? The government could defer payments on the land for 10 years and at the end of 10 years, the occupy people would have to start paying for the land out of the considerable sum of money they will have made, or they would be kicked out like they have been kicked out of parks all over the country.

If their ideas really work, then it should be no problem for them to create a society based on their principles, whatever they are, and all live happily ever after.

The hippies tried it 40 years ago, but there aren’t too many communes today.

Shoot, maybe the occupy people could

do what they do now and just set up a major solicitation system and constantly send out fundraising requests. Then they could outsource the work portion of that project to India or Kenya or some other English-speaking country, and they could sit back as the money rolls in.

It is funny that they are so against the 1 percent, except when that 1 percent happens to be a famous celebrity like Michael Moore or Kanye West Evidently all 1 percenters are not alike.

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Although it’s beginning to look a lot like Newt, if these payments from Fannie May and Freddie Mac stick, that could hurt his chances. But the Republicans are definitely going to try on every coat on the rack before they walk out of the store with Mitt Romney on their back.

It’s amazing just how unpopular Romney is with Republicans. I talk to a lot of people, and I don’t think I have talked to one Republican who is for Romney, likes his ideas, thinks he would be a great president and can’t wait to get out and work for him.

But there are definitely some out there because, no matter what, Romney comes up with about 25 percent in the polls. He may drop down to 22 percent or 23 percent, but he stays right around 25 percent as those around him rise and fall. So 25 percent of Republicans who get polled say they support Romney, but that doesn’t mean it’s the same 25 percent every week, and he never picks up any support.

He is a terrible candidate because he doesn’t inspire people, and it appears he is simply for whatever it will take to get him elected. In many ways he is like former president William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, who had no real political beliefs, except he was 100 percent for whatever would give him a boost in the polls. When his health care reform bill completely flopped and he ended up with a Republican House and Senate, Clinton decided he was in favor of a balanced budget.

Romney seems to believe more than anything that Romney should be president. He has certainly learned how to debate, but he hasn’t learned how to make people like him or how to look comfortable in casual clothes. Maybe he should try some of Gov. Rick perry’s weird shirts, just for the fun of it. But I get the impression that Romney is not a very fun guy.

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This is one of the scariest statistics I’ve run across lately: Federal spending increased by 5 percent last year. Increased by 5 percent at a time when we are running up deficits that are almost unimaginable. Spending by local and state governments also increased overall.

Government is still spending more and more while the private sector is making less and less. I’m sure there are some people in the private sector who are making a lot more money than they did in 2008, but most folks are making less. Even if their salaries haven’t been

cut, things like profit sharing, bonuses and benefits have been reduced. But in government you can still retire with full benefits after 30 years, which for some people is at 48, if they went to work right out of high school; or 52, if they went to work right out of college.

There is all this talk of reducing spending, but the reality is that government is spending more than it spent last year, which was the biggest spending year ever.

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Usually this page is reserved for national and state stories, but there is a local one that illustrates even better than the runaway federal budget how out of control government is in the US. The story is found in the town of Trinity in Randolph County, a well-known Republican stronghold, which makes it even more shocking.

We don’t cover Trinity, but there has been a recent controversy about the salary of the town manager. In Trinity, a town of 6,614, the town manager – who supervises the town’s six other employees – is being paid $82,000 a year plus a generous benefits package.

Really, have we all lost our minds? paying someone $82,000 a year to manage a town with a budget of $4.5 million and seven employees is ridiculous.

If the City of Greensboro paid its manager the same percentage of the budget, the manager would be paid about $8.2 million. If the city manager of Greensboro were paid the same amount per employee, then he would be paid about $41 million.

Government salaries from D.C. to Trinity are out of whack and need to be fixed.

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With the failure of the Super Committee, which had no chance of success, the talk is now of across-the-board cuts in federal spending. Across-the-board cuts are better than no cuts, but they have the same problem as in local government.

When a city manager is told to cut 5 percent, time after time the only thing in the entire city budget he or she can find to cut are police officers or firefighters. When a school superintendent is told to cut costs, not a single administrator can be spared, so the only people who can be cut are school teachers. If a superintendent is clever, he’ll decide to cut particular school teachers that already have organized support groups, like band directors.

In the federal government the bureaucrats work the same way. The Department of Defense will decide to cut a piece of essential military equipment that is made in a factory in a powerful congressman’s district. Or will decide to close a base in another even more powerful congressman’s district.

There is plenty of waste in the defense budget that could be cut. Any organization that size will develop a lot of waste, but if the Defense Department is just told to cut, it is going to cut in areas that will cause the most uproar, not in the places that need it the most.


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