Sam Hieb

Contributing Editor
Sam Hieb is freelance journalist from Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a contributing editor for Carolina Journal and for Piedmont Publius, a blog that focuses on political activity in North Carolina’s Triad (Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point) region. Hieb received a B.A. in English and an M.A. in History from UNC-Greensboro.

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  • Charlotte Observer gets new affordable housing reporter. For half price.

    Years ago my wonderful father-in-law urged me not to go into the journalism business. There’s no money in it, he said. He had a friend in the publishing business who said he had so money people willing to write for free—even some people who were willing to pay him to…
    Sam Hieb, January 17, 2019

  • High-powered developer pulls out of High Point stadium hotel project

    Greensboro developer Roy Carroll has announced he is pulling out of a proposed hotel project near High Point’s $35 million taxpayer-funded downtown baseball stadium. In a statement, Carroll said: “The Carroll Companies will not be moving forward with the development of the downtown High Point hotel. After more…
    Sam Hieb, January 15, 2019

  • Charlotte greenway comes up $77 million short. Council members are stunned….

    Outraged…..embarrassed…disappointed. Charlotte Observer reports the city’s Cross Charlotte Trail—a 26-mile pedestrian and bicycle trail from Pineville to UNC Charlotte—has a $77 million funding gap: Now, the plan’s future is murky, with no clear source of funding to close the gap and no consensus on City Council about whether to…
    Sam Hieb, January 11, 2019

  • W-S property owner calls for removal of Confederate statue

    In case you’ve missed, there has been yet another controversy brewing over a Confederate statue, this one in Winston-Salem. On Dec. 31, the city–represented by Mayor Allen Joines, called for the removal of a downtown statue owned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, citing “concerns over confrontation and violence”…
    Sam Hieb, January 10, 2019

  • Greensboro ‘food desert rescuer’ closes its doors

    The Renaissance Community Cooperative—which received generous help from local government and nonprofit groups to help to alleviate the ‘food desert’ that is supposedly northeast Greensboro—announced it will close on January 25th: The city spent a decade trying to lure a grocer to that area, which had been without one…
    Sam Hieb, January 10, 2019

  • Yet another absentee ballot controversy–this time in state House 103

    Charlotte Observer reports the N.C. Values Coalition is urging North Carolina House officials not to seat incoming state Rep. Rachel Hunt, a Democrat who defeated incumbent Republican Bill Brawley by 68 votes in the House District 103 race. You guessed it—the coalition is citing absentee ballot irregularities. In…
    Sam Hieb, January 9, 2019

  • Charlotte will allow more scooters—with more rules

    Charlotte Observer reports the city will allow more electric scooters on its streets but with “rules to cap speeds, ban sidewalk riding from a big chunk of uptown and charge scooter rental companies a new fee.” The proposed rules, which the City Council could vote on as soon as…
    Sam Hieb, January 8, 2019

  • Guilford County Schools $1 billion bond in 2020?

    If you think the 2020 election won’t be a big enough hoot, the only thing that could make it a bigger hoot—at least here in Greensboro—would be if a $1 billion bond for Guilford County Schools were on the ballot. The Rhino Times’ Scott Yost probes that possibility: Before…
    Sam Hieb, January 4, 2019