Sam Hieb

Courier-Tribune series on Asheboro’s “big city” problems. First up—‘hanging out’ in Bicentennial Park: Claudia Ainsworth, who manages Morings, the Randolph Arts Guild gift shop on Sunset Avenue, has seen comings and goings in the park for years. She walks her dog in Bicentennial Park three or four times on…

At last night’s meeting, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners took the third option— voting to table a decision on the High Point’s tax increment financing plan for a downtown stadium for 60-90 days. If I took one thing out of last night’s meeting, it was that commissioners…

For starters, the N&R’s Doug Clark reports (big deal) the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce has endorsed High Point’s proposed tax-increment financing plan for a downtown baseball stadium: It’s notable that Greensboro business leaders recognize that the county gains by High Point’s success. The project, centered on a city-owned ballpark,…

The lede this Winston-Salem Journal story is enough — Winston-Salem explores new bond referendum …Especially when you get to the part where city leaders say the $139 million passed a mere three years ago was –as the Journal puts it—“a drop in the bucket.” But keep reading—in “other action,”…

Rhino Times editor John Hammer on the progress of Greensboro’s downtown greenway: I won’t promise it but I will consider endorsing any City Council candidate who will sign an affidavit promising to finish the Downtown greenway in my lifetime. I’m 63 and seem to be in good health, so…

Winston-Salem Journal updates on the proposed sale of Bowman Gray Stadium from the City of Winston-Salem to Winston Salem State University. The city approved a resolution of intent to sell the stadium to WSSU in 2013, with a December 2018 timetable for the deal to be finalized. Two issues…

….This time from editorial page editor Allen Johnson, who’s really about kissing High Point University president Nido Qubein’s you-know-what, but starts out with this: First, to state the obvious: The county commissioners’ mysterious aversion to High Point’s ambitious downtown ballpark plan is, well, just plain dumb. No, what would…

Mayor Pro Tem Viv Lyles defeated Mayor Jennifer Roberts and three other Democrats in Charlotte’s municipal election primary. Lyles will now face Republican Kenny Smith in the November election: Roberts, who ran a Spanish-language TV ad, tapped into her connections with Charlotte’s immigrant community. Recent donors included Hilda Gurdian,…