State election officials said Monday that a political operative for Republican Mark Harris orchestrated a complex scheme to illegally collect and falsify absentee ballots in the 9th Congressional District last year, hiding evidence of the scheme as it unfolded and obstructing the state’s investigation after the election.
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On February 14, WGHP MyFox8 posted to its website a story by reporter Aleksandra Bush about plans by the City of Greensboro to take over repairs of an apartment complex at which five children died in a fire in 2018. The story erroneously reported the owners of the apartment complex as Arco Realty and WGHP has failed to correct it — it is at least the third time WGHP has done this. To report Arco Realty as the owners of the property, as WGHP did, is not only demonstrably wrong, it conceals the people actually responsible for the building. Why would WGHP keep doing that?
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Council member Sharon Hightower said it is hypocritical for her colleagues to have campaigned for office on promises of open government, initially invite public comment in town halls and then run for cover when people don’t comment to their liking.
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The N&R used informational sources from Duke Energy itself, which minimize the dangers of coal ash. Independent sources citing the dangers of coal ash were sorely lacking in this article.
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Coach Frank McNeil knew senior night would be emotional for his Dudley girls basketball team. But he wouldn’t have minded a little less drama tonight at Bradley Gymnasium. McNeil’s Panthers broke a tie at 50 with 1:15 to play and came away with a 55-51 victory over Mount Tabor that not only was their 13th straight win, but clinched the Piedmont Triad 3-A Conference regular-season title
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At the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, Thursday, Feb. 7 meeting, Aydin Lyrik, a self-employed Greensboro resident, told the nine commissioners – and the audience in the meeting room and watching on TV – that he underwent a harrowing experience last August in which he was shackled naked in the Guilford County jail in Greensboro for hours, called the N-word and mistreated after being arrested on a drunken and disorderly charge.
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This Brookings Institution report ranks Greensboro-High Point as the second-most-vulnerable metro region to job loss due to AI and robotics. Winston-Salem is number six.
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An argument over the evils of alcohol, though sometimes valid, shouldn’t serve as one point of debate on what is a complex issue transcending the idea of whether people should buy liquor — whether to drink it or to collect it. The argument, rather, is about getting government out of people’s way. It’s about giving entrepreneurs the freedom to honor tradition, to work on perfecting their crafts, to identify markets and to prosper from them. To give consumers more freedom to choose where to buy, and giving them more choice regarding what to buy.
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