Greensboro 101

City council hoodwinked people by turning to the very reliable technique of abusing the trust and goodwill of the people of Greensboro. Donald Trump said about misleading people: “People will just believe you. You just tell them and they believe you.” City Council took a page from Trump’s playbook and deceived us by saying the funds donated to Gun Stoppers will come from the gun and knife show when, in truth, they will come from some other source in the taxpayers’ coffers.

The News & Record’s editorial Stacking the Deck chastises the Greensboro city council for imperiling the public trust with the city’s mishandling of the downtown parking deck projects. Unfortunately, the editorial elides the specific bad acts that are causing a loss of public trust and, instead, blames city council only for failing to manage public skepticism. It’s a gutless diversion that attempts to right the ship without rocking the boat.

Three candidates have thrown their hat into the ring for the Democratic nomination for North Carolina’s 13th Congressional district. They are Adam Coker, Kathy Manning and Beniah McMiller. How are they doing so far?

GREENSBORO, NC — The News & Record cannot have it both ways. A pollutant in downstream Jordan Lake cannot be a concern when it comes to attacking the state legislature in an editorial while the presence of the same pollutant in upstream Greensboro’s water is not acknowledged. That is intellectually dishonest.