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Vol. IV No. 21

Greensboro, North Carolina

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60% Raise Scott D. Yost

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THE WEEKLY Hammer

Remembering Principal Clendenin by John Hammer Editor I was sitting at the funeral for Robert A. Clendenin, who died on May 10, at First Presbyterian Church on Sunday, May 22, listening to former Page football coach Marion Kirby talk about his long working relationship and friendship with Mr. Clendenin. Clendenin was the principal at Page High School for over 20 years. Sitting there, I realized that I might not have graduated from high school if it hadn’t been for Mr. Clendenin

taking an interest in the problems of one hard-headed student. I had gotten in a big fight with my advanced placement history teacher in my final semester at Page, and neither one of us was willing to back down. According to the rules at that time, no one in the class had to take the final exam. My teacher said no one else had to take the final exam, but I did. I felt like I was being persecuted and refused to take it. He said he would flunk me if I didn’t take the test, and I said fine, I didn’t need to pass the class to graduate.

But someone in the central office administration, I believe to put pressure on me, took away one of my credits, so if I didn’t take the exam and pass the class I wouldn’t graduate from high school with my class. Putting more pressure on me was not the right move and I was more determined than ever not to be singled out to take the exam. If it meant not graduating from high school that was fine. Fortunately for me, Mr. Clendenin was the principal at Page. A lot of principals with graduation coming up and dealing with the end of the school year would have found themselves too busy to get involved in a dispute between a teacher and a stubborn student. It was only Mr. Clendenin’s second year at Page, but I had known him a lot longer because he had been the principal at Aycock School before coming to Page. We lived across the street from Aycock and, although I never attended Aycock, the schoolyard was our playground on afternoons and weekends. Mr. Clendenin, who worked a lot of late afternoons

and weekends, would come out periodically and see what we were doing. We also dutifully trooped into his office when we broke windows playing softball. The deal was we’d pick up all the trash around the school and he wouldn’t make us pay for the window. So I had a good relationship with Mr. Clendenin, which may have been my saving grace because he negotiated a settlement and got both me and my teacher to agree to the terms. I agreed to take the exam I had said I absolutely would not take under any circumstances and the teacher agreed to give me at least a C on the exam no matter what my actual grade should be. I took the exam at the teacher’s house while he was throwing a party for the rest of the class. Even with a C in history I won a full scholarship to Duke and went on with my life, but I can’t help but wonder how my life would have been different if Mr. Clendenin had let this hardheaded high school student take his lumps, and how many other students he took the time to stop what he was doing and help during his long tenure as principal.

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The founder of ESP Magazine, Bill Kennedy, died Tuesday afternoon after a lengthy battle with heart disease. Kennedy owned and operated a number of popular Greensboro night clubs in the ’80s and ’90s, including Joker’s Three and Chasers. A charity event to celebrate his life will be held at the Blind Tiger on Spring Garden Street on Sunday evening. All the details haven’t been worked out yet, but you can check the Facebook group Friends of Bill Kennedy where they will be posted. Sometimes gifts come from unexpected givers. When the Obama

HINOSHORTS

administration decided to make House Bill 2 a national issue, it took a lot of heat off the North Carolina legislature. It’s one thing to claim that North Carolina is backward, bigoted and must be punished. It’s a little more difficult to get any traction saying Arizona, Utah, Maine, West Virginia, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska are also backward and bigoted, and those states have all joined North Carolina in its lawsuit. The May Flowers Rhino Times Schmoozefest is Thursday, May 26 at Kickback Jack’s at 1600 Battleground Ave. There will be free beer and wine and hors d’oeuvres for those who sign in and wear a name tag. Greensboro’s hidden assistant city manager, Andy Scott, has retired. For

the last couple of years, Scott didn’t work in the city manager’s office with the other four assistant city managers and didn’t attend City Council meetings. For a while it was difficult to find out what he did, but he continued to be an assistant city manager. Scott did a lot of good work for Greensboro in community development and overseeing the Planning Department. The city could use his experience and expertise right now, but the city, for some reason that was never explained, wasn’t using his experience and expertise before he retired. Maybe the city will get smart and hire him back as a consultant. We wish him the best of luck. It’s nice to see that Memorial Day is back where it’s supposed to be. Growing up, Memorial Day was always

on May 30. It was considered a Yankee holiday and was not a holiday for the Greensboro City Schools. I attended St. Pius X Catholic School, which was run by Yankee nuns, so we always got Memorial Day off. I’m beginning to think that the News & Record as a corporate entity really hates Greensboro. It’s a major problem if the only daily newspaper in a city spreads lies about the city, because people who don’t know any better think what they read is true. One example is the huge headline that says Greensboro had unsafe water two years ago. This is based on the fact that Greensboro had a spike in an unregulated chemical, chromium 6, in the drinking water. When this very issue was discussed in the state

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legislature, a state senator held up a bottle of water he had purchased and asked if it was true that his bottled water might have more chromium 6 than the water the Department of Health and Human Services had declared unfit to drink. The answer was yes, it might. No one knows because it is unregulated, meaning the government has not found it to be a problem so it isn’t tested for. Greensboro happens to have extremely clean drinking water. It’s because we are at the top of the watershed for the streams feeding into our lakes, and no one is upstream dumping anything into the water because there is no upstream. It’s also for years why we had severe water shortages. This is not true of Randleman Lake, where High Point releases its treated wastewater, but it is true of lakes Townsend, Brandt and Higgins Lakes, where the bulk of Greensboro’s water comes from.

The other is that Page High School wasn’t integrated until after 1970. Greensboro should be proud of the fact that in 1954, when the Brown v. Board of Education decision was made by the Supreme Court, the Greensboro Board of Education passed a resolution in support of desegregating the schools. It wasn’t done immediately, but in 1957 black children and white children started attending the same schools. Page opened in 1959. According to oral history, it was never a segregated school. I know it was integrated before 1971 because I was there. What happened in 1971-1972, which the N&R calls integrating the schools, was federal forced busing for integration. Instead of parents deciding which school their children would go to, the school board decided – not based on academics or the school closest to their homes and most convenient for the families, but based primarily on race. It didn’t work.

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CONTENTS

WEEKLY HAMMER

22 YOST COLUMN

IT’S GOOD TO BE A COUNCILMEMBER

24 ASK CAROLYN ...

BY JOHN HAMMER

BY SCOTT D. YOST

BY JOHN HAMMER

BY CAROLYN WOODRUFF

35 UNDER THE HAMMER BY JOHN HAMMER

COUNTY MANAGERS BUDGET MAKES CHAIRMAN QUEASY BY SCOTT YOST

10 COMMISSIONERS SAY THERE’S NO MEAT IN HIGHTOWER’S BEEF BY SCOTT D. YOST

12 EXPECT A CROWD

WHEN YOU INVITE DISTRICT 13 CANDIDATES BY JOHN HAMMER

14 VETERANS MOVE TO SOCIAL SERVICES BY SCOTT D. YOST

15 UNCLE ORSON

BY ORSON SCOTT CARD

RHINO SHORTS

16, 26 PUZZLE ANSWERS 17

REAL ESTATE

CHILDREN’S SCHEDULE

SUDOKU

NYT CROSSWORD

THE SOUND OF THE BEEP

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

EDITORIAL CARTOON

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It’s Good To Be A Councilmember by John Hammer Once again the Greensboro City Council, under the leadership of Mayor Nancy Vaughan, is preparing to pass a budget that the City Council has never really discussed. Although the City Council has scheduled a discussion on June 7 – the same day they are slated to pass the budget. At the Monday, May 23 work session, the City Council didn’t have time to discuss the budget in any detail but found time to vote themselves a 60 percent salary increase beginning on July 1. The council voted 6 to 2 to raise councilmember salaries from $13,895 to $22,140, the mayors salary from $17,715 to $28,862, and the mayor pro tem’s salary from $15,170 to $22,680. Vaughan and Councilmember Justin Outling voted against the increase. Both agreed that salaries should be raised but suggested a delay in when the raise would be effective. Councilmembers Mike Barber,

Jamal Fox, Sharon Hightower, Nancy Hoffmann, Yvonne Johnson and Tony Wilkins voted to pay themselves a lot more money. Councilmember Marikay Abuzuaiter missed the meeting because she had fallen, broken her elbow and had to have surgery to repair it. The city staff had prepared a range of salary options based on what other cities in North Carolina pay their councilmembers and Fox made a motion to raise his and his fellow councilmembers’ to the highest in the range – 10 percent above the average. Wilkins seconded the motion. It is interesting that those who spoke most vehemently in favor of the increase – Fox and Wilkins included – were the five councilmembers who don’t have full-time jobs. The Greensboro City Council was never intended to be a full-time job, but evidently it is for five out of nine councilmembers. Currently joining Fox and Wilkins in the no full-time job category are Hightower, Abuzuaiter

and Hoffmann. It used to be that the six of the nine members of City Council didn’t have full time jobs, but Vaughan was hired as president of the Guilford Green Foundation, a group that raises money for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender causes. So Vaughan, along with Barber and Johnson, all work for nonprofits. Outling also has a full-time job as an attorney with Brooks Pierce. But there isn’t a single businessman or woman on the City Council. So if you wonder why the City Council is not more business friendly, with only one councilmember employed by a private for-profit company, there is your answer. The mayor and City Council went from being at the bottom of the list of comparable cities in salaries to near the top. Now in the state only Cary, Charlotte and Durham pay their councilmembers and mayor pro tem more. The mayor is paid more only in Charlotte and Fayetteville. Raleigh

with a population of 440,000 pays its councilmembers $16,304 and its mayor $22,504. Instead of discussing the budget, after the City Council got through with, to them, the far more important task of enormously increasing their own salaries, the City Council for the first time since January discussed the proposed bond referendum in public. The councilmembers have spent the last couple of months discussing the proposed bond referendum in secret. The discussions took place in so-called small group meetings, held for the sole purpose of evading the North Carolina open meetings law. It is a far more cumbersome way to conduct business since the city staff has to go over the same thing in three or four separate meetings instead of one, but it allows the City Council to conduct business in secret, which is this City Council’s preferred method of operation. Don’t let anyone tell you that this (continued on page 11)

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County Manager’s Budget Makes Chairman Queasy by Scott D. Yost If the Republican Guilford County commissioners want a tax cut in the budget this year – and they say they do – they’re going to have to find the money to provide it themselves. At the Thursday, May 19 Guilford County Board of Commissioners meeting, Guilford County Manager Marty Lawing presented his 2016-2017 budget proposal to the board, and that budget included a great many things – more money for schools, new positions for social services, new vehicles for the county’s fleet and much more – but Lawing’s recommended budget holds Guilford County’s tax rate steady at 76 cents for every $100 of assessed property value. However, taxpayers in Guilford

County need not give up hope of property tax relief in the coming budget just yet: The operative word in “manager’s proposed budget” every year is “proposed” – and the commissioners can, and usually do, change things up before the final budget is adopted in June. The county budget Lawing proposed totals $602.6 million, and increase of over $16 million from the adopted budget last year. That’s a 2.8 percent increase in the size of Guilford County government. Compared to Guilford County’s 2015-2016 budget now in effect, the proposed budget – which covers from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017 – adds $7 million more for Guilford County Schools for $188 million. That’s $5

million in new money for operating expenses and $2 million for capital needs. It also offers $3.2 million in new money for human services such as health and social services and $2.2 million more for public safety. The proposed budget would also increase Guilford County’s contribution to community services and economic development initiatives by $545,000. Those increases in spending can be paid for while holding the county’s tax rate steady, thanks largely to increased revenues. Growth in the county’s tax base means that the same tax rate is expected to generate $7.6 million more money in fiscal 2016-2017 than in the current fiscal year. Sales tax revenues are projected to increase 7 percent, creating $5.2 million in new funds. The budget also got a bump in federal and state revenue to the tune of $2.3 million, and there are other sources of new revenue as well from fees and user charges. Though the tax base grew some, bringing in more revenue with the same tax rate, Lawing said more of that would have been nice. “Our base is not growing as we’d like,” Lawing told the board at the May 19 meeting. In good years, that property base, the collective assessed value of all property in the county, grows 2.5 or 3 percent or more. This year, however, the growth in the value of real property was just over 1 percent. The sales tax revenue figure, however, was relatively good news – especially when compared with some of the more dismal years that followed the great recession of 2008. This coming fiscal year, county officials estimate about $80.2 million will be brought in through sales taxes. “Retail sales growth is still positive but it’s slowing down,” Lawing said. At the meeting, Lawing had barely finished his presentation before Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Jeff Phillips commented that just hearing the budget proposal made him feel “queasy.” Phillips said after the meeting that he wasn’t referring to any particular aspect of Lawing’s proposal, but instead it was just the emotional impact of “spending $600 million in

30 minutes” – roughly the length of Lawing’s presentation. Phillips said it’s always a little disconcerting every year at this time to hear the budget proposal – and he added that there’s a lot of work to be done between now and the adoption of a final budget. One area that’s the subject of lively debate each year is the amount of money the county gives the Guilford County Schools, and there will no doubt be plenty of discussion on that item between now and the final budget. Lawing’s budget calls for the county’s contribution for school operations to go from $183 million to $188 million – $5 million over what the commissioners approved in the county’s 2015-2016 budget. Lawing’s suggested increase, if approved by the board, would raise the amount of per-pupil county dollars spent on school students from $2,373 per student to $2,419. For school capital improvements, maintenance and repair, the manager’s budget bumps up the county’s contribution to the schools from $5 million to $7 million, so, when that $2 million is added to the $5 million for operations, Lawing’s budget includes a total of $7 million in additional money for the county’s schools. It should be noted that the schools still have about $130 million in unsold bonds that were approved by voters in 2008 for capital needs. It turns out that eight years ago the school system wanted money faster that it could spend it. In fact, the right to sell those bonds expires on May 6, 2018. School officials argue that that bond money shouldn’t be allocated for ordinary school maintenance and repair because it was designated toward specific county projects when those bonds were presented to the county’s voters eight years ago. Of course, the school board did decide not to build some of those specific projects, like the airport area high school. Guilford County also contributes to the operating budget of Guilford Technical Community College (GTCC) each year. Lawing’s budget calls for an increase of $300,000 in 2016-2017, which would put the total amount of GTCC funding at $14.7 million. The extra money in the budget, Lawing (continued on page 30)

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Commissioners Say There’s No Meat In Hightower’s Beef by Scott D. Yost Two Greensboro city councilmembers have been very outspoken in their opposition to a recent move by the Guilford County Board of Commissioners to build the county’s new animal shelter at 3307 Burlington Road in east Greensboro – county-owned land next to the Guilford County Agricultural Center – and this week some commissioners said they were quite taken aback by those comments. Greensboro City Councilmember Sharon Hightower said she was “pissed off” about Guilford County’s attempt to “dump” the shelter on the residents of east Greensboro, and she had some other choice comments for the commissioners backing the

move. One complaint Hightower has is what she called a failure of the commissioners to communicate with the City Council before voting to request a special-use permit for the land near the Ag Center that would allow the animal shelter to be built on that site. This week, Guilford County Commissioner Alan Branson said he was greatly irritated by Hightower’s comments, which, he said, were nothing but baseless criticism of the board he serves on. “That was really classy,” said a sarcastic Branson, who clearly didn’t think Hightower’s comments were classy. Branson also said he categorically rejects the notion that an animal shelter is a negative for a community.

Several commissioners said they were surprised by the negative reaction of some black leaders to the idea of building a new county animal shelter on the east Greensboro site. They said it’s simply not true that a well-built, well-run shelter, like the one the county has planned, would be a negative for the surrounding community. The Guilford County Board of Commissioners voted 6 to 3 at a Thursday, May 5 work session to request of a special-use permit from the City of Greensboro to allow the proposed new animal shelter to be built on the land in economically deprived east Greensboro. That vote by the commissioners came down along racial lines, with the three black county commissioners casting the three no votes. County Commissioner Justin Conrad, like Branson, took issue with comments Hightower made, as well as similar public remarks from Greensboro City Councilmember Jamal Fox. Conrad said Hightower was misguided in talking about a shelter as though it were a waste dump. “I don’t understand that logic,” Conrad said. “I completely disagree with the comparison of a dump with an animal shelter. Someone needs to explain to me why it’s a bad thing.” Conrad added that he would have no qualms whatsoever with having the shelter in his district or near his home. In fact, he said, he had spoken with Guilford County Facilities, Parks and Property Management Director Robert McNiece and had encouraged McNiece to explore the possibility of using an available piece of land that wasn’t far from Conrad’s neighborhood. “Robert looked at that property but it didn’t work,” Conrad said. Conrad added that he was amused at Hightower’s notion that the Greensboro city councilmembers bend over backwards to communicate with the Guilford County commissioners. Last week, Hightower told the Rhino Times that commissioners and county staff “don’t even bother to have a conversation” with the city councilmembers before making a decision that affects the city. “When we have done something

that affects them, we have bent over backward to communicate with the commissioners – but time and time again they don’t show us the same courtesy,” Hightower said just over a week ago. “They don’t even have the decency to talk about it with the councilmembers who represent that area.” Conrad said he has no idea what Hightower is talking about when she refers to all that communication the city has been having with the county over city issues. “I represent a large number of folks and I live in Greensboro and not a single city councilmember has called me a single time about a single issue,” he said. Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Jeff Philips said this week that he’s been working to talk with city councilmembers before the council hears the county’s formal request; though he, of course is aware from public comments that Hightower and Fox are not exactly sold on the proposition. “My position is that it will happen when it happens, however long it takes,” he said of bringing the specialuse permit request before the City Council. “Sooner is better, of course, for the sake of the hundreds of animals at the shelter on any given day, but we’ve waited this long and we intend to do whatever it takes to make the most prudent and cost-effective decision on behalf of our citizens and the animals in our care.” Phillips has maintained that it makes more sense to build the new animal shelter on land the county already owns. He also said the county needs a new shelter badly for the benefit of both the humans and the animals in Guilford County. He also said that given the logistics of animal control services and other considerations, this spot is the right one. “It’s high time that we bring our animal shelter facility into the modern era and put it in a location where the data clearly indicates is the best of all other options,” he said. “As is the case with most other important decisions, we haven’t come to this conclusion quickly or without the consideration of

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City Council believes in transparency. Each and every councilmember chose to attend these unannounced secret meetings to discuss the bond referendum, but it looks like the councilmembers from east Greensboro – Fox, Hightower and Johnson – dominated those discussions. Most of the $106 million in the proposed bond package is slated for east Greensboro. The second largest category of bonds is $34 million for affordable housing. Much of it is to repair both owner-occupied and rental housing. Vaughan said, “Where do you find housing in disrepair. You find it primarily in Districts 1 and 2.” Hightower agreed saying, “It is more of an east Greensboro, District 1 and District 2, problem.” The $34 million would be used to build and repair about 580 homes, according to city estimates, for about $60,000 a home. Both comments were in response to Wilkins noting that of the $106 million in proposed bonds, only 8 percent was slated for District 5, which he represents. That figure is deceptive because the city staff considered items like affordable housing to be citywide. It is true that a small portion of the money will be spent citywide, but the vast majority will be spent in Districts 1 and 2, as Vaughan and Hightower said. Barber said there were a lot of economic arguments against making a huge investment in low-income housing. He said, “This an enormous percentage of an enormous bond package. I think it is far too much.” He added, “If we continue to build low-income housing, it continues to create a problem.” Barber also argued that this $34 million housing bond was based on anecdotal evidence that it was needed, not hard data. He said that he expected far more to be put into parks and recreation and infrastructure rather than so much of the bond being in affordable housing. Hightower said, “I’m not willing to see a piece of this pared down.” Outling said that 580 housing units was just a drop in the bucket compared to what Greensboro needed. And he added that if the bond were going to cause a tax increase, the City Council needed to be transparent about it. Since the bonds were developed in secret meetings, suddenly becoming transparent about some aspect of them would be a huge change of course. In fact, such a major change in the way this council does business might require some new councilmembers to

carry out. It’s almost easier to list what is not in Districts 1 and 2 than what is. The downtown, which is mostly in District 3 but, according to the city staff, includes Districts 1 and 2, is down for $10 million. Hoffmann asked how much was actually needed for the downtown and didn’t get an answer other than a lot. She said they would never get where the downtown needs to be if they don’t have a plan on how to fund it. Outling said, “You actually get a return on your investment downtown.” Since there is currently close to $150 million in construction going on downtown, it seems the city might want to spend enough money to make significant improvements, but this bond won’t do it. Other than the $10 million for downtown, it looks like the rest of the proposed $21.5 million in redevelopment money is going into Districts 1 and 2 – including $1 million for fresh food access, which Vaughan said should be taken off the bond and placed in the regular budget. The street improvements category has no street improvements – at least none for motor vehicles. It’s $5 million for sidewalks and $5 million for pedestrian and bicycle enhancements. Wilkins asked if streets weren’t more of a priority than sidewalks. Parks and recreation has $4.5 million for Barber Park and Gateway Gardens in District 1 and $5.5 million to combine Windsor Recreation Center and Vance Chavis Library into one facility in District 2. It also has $5 million for the Battleground Parks area improvement and $7 million for the A&Y Greenway connector, which will be built on the abandoned railroad tracks that run between Lawndale Drive and Battleground Avenue, both in District 3. The Downtown Greenway, a project that has been underway for 15 years now, is slated to receive $6 million and is also considered a District 3 project, but it includes an Ole Asheboro connector. Since Ole Asheboro is in District 1, not District 3, it’s hard to see how this is not considered for both districts, except there was an obvious effort by staff to make it appear that most of the money was not going to be spent in east Greensboro, when in fact it is. In fact, $2 million for East Greensboro Focus Area Implementation is listed as Districts 1, 2 and 5. Wilkins asked what part of his district was in east Greensboro because he didn’t know (continued on page 30)

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Expect A Crowd When You th Invite 13 District Candidates by John Hammer Even with 17 candidates running in the Republican primary for the 13th Congressional District, it’s been a pretty quiet race. The primary is Tuesday, June 7 and early voting starts Thursday, May 26. One political pundit theorized that nobody was attacking anyone in this race because nobody knew who to attack. The Greater Greensboro Republican Women’s Club held a candidates’ forum on Tuesday, May 24, and had 10 of the 17 Republican candidates speak. That’s pretty remarkable to have 10 candidates in one race and still have seven not make it. It seems like every aspect of this race makes it hard to call. The 13th District is new and doesn’t include any of the old 13th District. It stretches from Greensboro to Statesville, with no voting history as a district. It’s a really short election season. Filing was from March 16 to March 25. Elected officials are being allowed to run without giving up their current seats, which is why one state Sen. Andrew Brock and three state representatives, Harry Warren, John Blust and Julia Howard, are all running. When at least three of them lose, they will run for their current seat in the fall. And there is no run-off in this primary, which means that theoretically someone could win with less than 10 percent of the vote. With voter turnout predicted at 10 percent or less, and considering it was designed to be a safe Republican district, someone could essentially win a seat in Congress representing over

750,000 people with a couple thousand votes – although the winner on June 7 will have to defeat the Democratic candidate in November. The most noise in the race is coming from Ted Budd, a candidate from Davie County whose family owns the Budd Group, which provides janitorial, maintenance and landscaping services for companies throughout the Southeast. The Budd Group has over 3,400 employees. Budd is making more noise than the others because the Club for Growth, a conservative PAC, has put over $280,000 into his campaign. But to compete in the district with people like Brock, Blust, Howard and Warren, who already have name recognition, he probably needs it. Also, Guilford County Commissioner Hank Henning, Davie County Commissioner Dan Barrett and Iredell County Register of Deeds Matt McCall all have name recognition from previous campaigns and they all have long-time supporters who will vote for them. No earth-shattering news came out of the candidates’ forum, and the Republican Women’s Club did a stellar job of keeping things moving, giving 10 candidates and two family members of candidates a chance to speak without running over time. The legislators from Raleigh were allowed to speak first, since one of the downsides of running in this race as a state legislator is that the General Assembly is in session and they all had to get back to Raleigh. Each candidate was asked one

question after being given three minutes to speak Brock said that he looked at bills that came across his desk in Raleigh, and, if it wouldn’t have been good for his grandmother who lived on a farm on a fixed income, or his father, who was a small business owner, then he didn’t support it. In answer to a question about amnesty, he brought up a good point. He said, “We’ve got some people back home that hate illegal immigrants – the legal immigrants.” He said the people who have gone through all the red tape to become legal immigrants were incensed that others could come here and work without doing anything. Blust said that at a young age, “I realized how privileged I was to be an American.” He added that now the American way of life is in jeopardy and is “threatened for future generations.” Blust, an Army veteran, said that he had a proven record of standing strong. He said in the legislature he had “stood up to the liberals and sometimes to even our own party leadership.” Warren noted that each county had its own favorite son in the race, and being from Salisbury he was Rowan County’s. He said he had been involved in job recruitment for over 30 years and learned that “The greatest predictor of future behavior is past behavior.” He asked people to look at his record during his six years in the legislature. When asked about Obamacare, he said, “We need to repeal it completely.” And he said it should be replaced with

a free-market model. Chad Gant, who is running for office for the first time and is a recent law school graduate, made a rookie mistake – he didn’t identify himself. Around me there was a big discussion about who he was. Nobody got it right, and they missed most of what he said, trying to figure out who he was. He said that if elected he would propose a 20 percent pay cut for Congress, which would not make him very popular with his fellow members of Congress. When asked what committee he would like to be on if elected, Gant ran into another problem. He said “the defense committee,” because defense was the initial reason he decided to run. Congress doesn’t have a defense committee. The committee that handles defense is the Committee on Armed Services. Barrett said he has been walking across the 13th District and has about 10 miles left. He said, “I’m doing it to hear from the people of the district.” He said in Thomasville he’d heard a lot about how higher taxes and more regulations are hurting small businesses and he wanted to go to Washington to fight for small businesses. He said he’d work to stop “the last seven years of America becoming weak and we will make America strong again.” Barrett was asked about the Iran agreement. He said, “We give Iran billions of dollars in return for them getting nuclear weapons. That’s a heck of a deal.” (continued on page 28)

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Veterans Move to Social Services by Scott D. Yost Guilford County is changing the way it delivers veterans’ services: It’s taking the Veterans Services department – which until now, with two employees, has been the county’s smallest stand-alone department – and making that department a division of the county’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The Veterans Services office in Greensboro, which is currently in the county-owned BB&T building at 201 W. Market St., is moving to the county’s human services building at 1203 Maple St. Veterans Services advises area veterans and their families about their rights and available resources under state and federal law. Staff also works with veterans to advise and assist them in completing forms, securing benefits and obtaining needed documentation – and it helps them present that information to the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Guilford County Manager Marty

Lawing said this move is something the county had been considering for quite some time and that he felt that now was the time to finally do so. He said one of the two positions in the department is currently vacant and the new employee will be hired soon, which is one reason that now was the right time to merge the department into DHHS. He also said that, under the existing setup, with one Veterans Services worker in Greensboro and one in High Point, there’s no clerical staff. So it’s bad enough when fully staffed but with a vacancy it’s even more so. “It’s our smallest department and recently our Veterans Services officer was hired away by the social services division of human services for a different position,” he said. Lawing said he and staff couldn’t find any downside to making the move, which continues the county’s trend of consolidation in recent years. The biggest example of that is the merger two years ago of the county’s health and social services department

into DHHS. He said they would have offices in High Point and in Greensboro and, with the new move, there would be clerical assistance there as well. “If we move them to social services, they would have access to clerical and administrative assistance,” he said. Lawing said that, under the current system, there have been difficulties whenever one of the two workers couldn’t make it in to work. “It’s been that way for years,” he said. “If someone’s out sick, it’s down to one trying to work both Greensboro and High Point.” He said this new structure should be better all around. “They can be more productive,” he said of the employees. “People are working and the phone’s ringing; they’re trying to work with a client. I think it will be a better operation for the clients, for the veterans, as well as for the staff. It seemed like a win-win.” Lawing also said that, at the Maple Street location, finding parking would be easier as well. The parking lot at

the BB&T building is often full. Lawing said the move isn’t tied to the county’s new budget that will be adopted soon. He said the consolidation won’t reduce or increase the cost to the county for delivering the service. Lawing also said the county is likely to begin interviews for a new Veterans Service worker next week. Guilford County hasn’t indicated when the Veterans Services office at BB&T will be shut down and the new office at Maple Street will open. Guilford County Social Services Director Heather Skeens said Veterans Services will be put under the aging and adult services division of DHHS. Skeens said the hope is that the new arrangement will allow the county to keep both offices open full time – something that’s been difficult to do in the past. According to recent reports, the number of veterans served in the county is growing as younger veterans from the recent wars seek services, on top of those aging veterans from past wars who are already using the office.

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Uncle Orson Reviews Everything

Nice Guys, Power Players, Hamilton by Orson Scott Card

It’s hard not to like The Nice Guys. It’s a detective buddy movie that wants to be as likeable as, say, 48 Hrs., and gets it close enough. The two stars, Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, earn their salaries by being likeable no matter how we feel about their characters. Crowe is unashamedly fat (unlike me; I’m ashamedly fat) and plays a character who makes his living by punching people in the face. He’s reasonably sure the people he hits deserve to get hit. Then again, he’s reasonably sure pretty much everyone deserves to get hit. He takes a job from a young woman named Amanda, who claims that there’s a guy stalking her. And it’s true – because the guy is Ryan Gosling, who plays a detective who took a job to locate Amanda. Well, kind of; he actually took a job from an old woman who claims she saw her niece, the recently deceased porn star “Misty Mountains,” alive in her apartment a few days after her supposed death. Only it wasn’t a supposed death. We already saw her car sail down a mountain and plunge through a house, and we saw the boy her car nearly killed and watched him cover up her semi-nude body with his shirt. The problem is, that boy was the only actual nice guy in the movie. I kind of thought that he was one of the two starring characters as a boy, and that he’d grow up to be that nice. But no, he’s a contemporary of our heroes, and they are not actually nice. Russell Crowe’s character makes his living in a brutal way. In fact, he meets Ryan Gosling by punching him in the face and then using other brutal persuasions to convince him to drop his search for Amanda. The film remains completely vague about why searching for Misty Mountains

involves searching for Amanda – if they explained this, it wasn’t clear. But Ryan Gosling is incredibly forgiving when he then joins forces with Russell Crowe’s character to search for Amanda in order to protect her from people who are trying to kill her. Again, for reasons that are never really clear. Or maybe they were clear, but I didn’t care enough to remember them. Ryan Gosling is not nice, either. He’s amiable enough, and not particularly brutal; but he’s more con man than detective. If people want to pay him to search for absurd things, he’ll take their money. Also, he’s drunk pretty much continuously, except when he’s even drunker, which makes him a lousy custodial parent for his 13-year-old daughter, who has to drive him around 1970s Los Angeles because he has lost his license. As if having a 13-yearold minor drive him is some kind of improvement on driving with a suspended license. The daughter is the most interesting character, both because of her candid assessment of her father’s skill as a detective and as a father, and because she has a penchant for opportune disobedience, getting herself into and, mostly, out of ridiculous scrapes. Like 48 Hrs., the detective work is serious enough: people die, and people are about to die, pretty much continuously. There are some mildly interesting bad guys, but we know that after some shooting and some fighting, they’ll lose. There’s also an incredibly dumb subplot about an FBI director (don’t they mean a special agent in charge in Los Angeles? Because the director would have been, like, J. Edgar Hoover, right?) who is Amanda’s mother, and Amanda believes her mother is corrupt and is trying to

get her killed. And, oh yeah, the car companies are Bad and so is Big Oil and Amanda is a target because of a porn-like art movie she made that would apparently blow the lid off a big corporate conspiracy. Not believable and not interesting for a second. But we’re not watching for the plot, anyway, right? We’re watching because instead of being coy about going into nudie bars and nudie parties, with discreet shots that only imply that stuff (like 1970s movies did), it’s all in our faces. So is the bad language. So if you don’t want to see pointless nudity and hear otherwise likeable actors use the f-word a lot, you shouldn’t see this movie. And, if it had any other actors in the leading roles, you shouldn’t see this movie. But it does have Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, and they both continue to be so likeable that we overlook the fact that in real life we would hate pretty much everything about the characters they play.

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And the script, while it makes little actual sense, and seems to be all over the place on 1970s culture, gives the actors good enough dialogue that the movie remains not just watchable but enjoyable most of the time. So my wife and I didn’t walk out. We also didn’t talk about the movie afterward. It was just ... something we did on Saturday night. Here’s something else we did. Because the restaurants we usually go to for quick meals before a movie were all filled with promming teenagers, we actually went to McDonald’s. It’s been years since my wife would enter a McDonald’s, but now that she can get an Egg McMuffin (No Meat) any time of day, she consented to go in while I got my Sausage McMuffin with Egg. A meal so quick that we got to the theater half an hour early, so we got to sit in those seats where you can put your feet up on the railing cause there are no chairs right in front of you. But it occurs to me that watching The Nice Guys was kind of like eating at McDonald’s. We had wanted the tomato sampler at Green Valley Grill, but we settled for a meal that was good enough. Likewise, we wanted

The Nice Guys to be about actual nice guys, with a story we could believe in and care about now and then. But we settled, in both cases, for something much, much less. In both cases, what we got wasn’t bad; we enjoyed it, to a degree. It’s just that they weren’t what we had hoped for. When we came home, we watched the last of the Power Players Week on Jeopardy!, which we had TiVoed while we were in Manhattan on Friday night. The Power Players Week actually kind of sucked, and not just because Louis C.K. and Al Franken were way better educated than any of the professional journalists. No, Power Players Week sucked because all those journalists had to show off about how they really knew the answer and they couldn’t believe they got it wrong. Lots of histrionics, lots of whining, because if there’s one thing media journalists hate, it’s looking as ignorant on camera as they actually are. Anderson Cooper was the biggest dork about acting out how frustrated he was about his stupid errors. And on two of the nights, there were female journalists (whose names

I never registered) who thought Jeopardy! was a talk show with prizes, so they kept chattering when they should have moved on to the next question. The result was that they always left a ridiculous number of unasked questions on the board because they had wasted so much time on drivel. And since my wife and I, keeping score with our little clickers, can’t answer questions that aren’t asked, our scores were ridiculously low. Maybe the problem was that all prize money was being contributed to a charity, so these celebrity players had nothing at stake except looking stupid. In vain did the Jeopardy! producers try to make “power players” out of these media insiders. They were as pathetic as any other “Celebrity Jeopardy!” players – except for the two comedians (one of them now a Minnesota senator) who were far better informed. The hilarious thing is that our media celebs like to be taken for intellectuals. Anderson Cooper clearly does, and he is just as clearly unqualified for that role. While Louis C.K. and Al Franken came up through the discipline of comedy, where you can’t be funny unless you know something in the real world to make fun of! By the way, we were in Manhattan on Friday because we had to see Hamilton, the new rap Broadway musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton. Well, no. My wife and oldest daughter had to see it. (Our young daughter saw it a couple of weeks before.) And our older daughter couldn’t get away from Maine, where her husband the film director was shooting a movie, unless she took one of their two children with her. That meant that my wife and daughter were in Manhattan to see Hamilton, while our youngest grandchild was there to stay in a hotel room, playing with Grandpa and going to sleep without the tiniest fuss – all because I’m so extraordinarily good with children who have fewer than four teeth. I was thrilled to miss Hamilton because a few weeks ago, I heard some horrible noise coming from downstairs, and when I rushed down to see who was getting murdered, my wife was jigging to the first song on the Hamilton CD. I knew I could never stay in a room, even a large one, where that noise was being produced at top volume, so the quiet hotel room where I sang children’s songs to my granddaughter was by far the better bargain for me. However, I must also say that I approve very strongly of Hamilton

being a huge hit among people who can listen to that kind of music without thoughts of murder or suicide. From all I hear, the creator of the show – Lin-Manuel Miranda, writer, composer, lyricist and star of the musical – has done a brilliant job of adapting Ron Chernow’s brilliant biography of Alexander Hamilton. I credit this musical with saving Alexander Hamilton from having his picture removed from the 10-dollar bill, because the show really does explain that Hamilton laid the foundation for America’s prosperity, and his work survived despite Thomas Jefferson (as dismal an economic idiot as we’ve ever had as president) doing his level best to undo both Hamilton and all his works. I, however, already knew the whole story because I listened to Scott Brick’s brilliant performance of Chernow’s bio of Hamilton back when it first came out. If you want to know the story, but you can’t stand the obnoxious score (which all my womenfolk loved, so, you know, I’m wrong), I urge you to buy the book from Audible.com and listen to Scott Brick read it to you. Or simply buy the book and read it to yourself. As I walked the streets of Manhattan from hotel to restaurant and back again, I loved the vigor and variety of the street life in America’s quintessential big city, and I wondered why I had let so many years pass without visiting there. Then I remembered: All my grandchildren live on the West Coast, in Van Nuys, California, and Bothell, Washington. And I generally don’t travel these days except to see them. So ... until one of my family moves to NYC, my visits there will continue to be rare, alas. Meanwhile, though, much as I enjoy New York (in small doses), I’m always glad to return home to Greensboro, which is still my favorite city in the world, in every season of the year.

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International Baccalaureate (IB) in 147 different countries. Students will be able to take the MYP at Phoenix Academy, with the first cohort commencing their studies in August 2016. This is the first charter school in North Carolina to achieve this status, and the only school in North Carolina to provide an MYP that ranges from 6th through 10th grades. The IB has a positive impact on students, schools and their wider communities with learning going well beyond the classroom. Its unique and innovative approach to learning means both students and teachers are genuinely engaged with the programs and benefit from being a part of an unparalleled global network. Students are able to participate in international conferences and educators work with their peers internationally to ensure that the IB remains at the cutting edge of international education. As Mrs. Kim K. Norcross, M.A.Ed., the founder and superintendent of Phoenix Academy, reports: “We wanted to offer our students a holistic education which will instill in them the skills, knowledge

and outlook to succeed in the 21st century, both in their local community and in the wider world. At the same time, we wanted to give our teachers the opportunity to be a part of an international network of experts leading the field in education. We are delighted to become an IB World School and we look forward to reaping the many benefits of the programme.” According to Drew Deutsch, director, IB America, International Baccalaureate: “The IB is recognized across the world for its innovative approach to education. We strongly believe that it is important to place an equal focus on academics and other, transferrable skills in order to best prepare students for success beyond school.” That Phoenix Academy has successfully completed the authorization process and can now start offering the IB marks an exciting time for Phoenix and, more importantly, for the students who will benefit from an IB education. For more information on Phoenix Academy, go to www.pahp.com, and for the International Baccalaureate program, go to www.ibo.org.

New Opportunities in Aviation for Piedmont Youth Aviation in the Triad is taking off! With the rapid expansion of aviation, there is a need for workers with specialties in aircraft maintenance, air traffic control, piloting and airport support services. Local schools have begun offering specialized training through the community college and the high school STEM programs. Over the past several years, youth in the Triad have had limited access to the world of aviation, except through the Aviation Explorer Post in Greensboro. The Explorer Post is a branch of the Boy Scouts and falls under the Learning for Life program, which is open to

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The 7 Degrees of Change Foundation, in concert with its Philippine counterpart, the Library Renewal Partnership (LRP), has reached a powerful milestone – inaugurating its 150th library in rural Talisay, Cebu, in the Philippines. Founded in 2010, LRP is a growing coalition of public and community education champions ranging from local publishers and literacy experts to educational institutions and civic groups committed to empowering communities through libraries. LRP and 7 Degrees envisioned libraries as democratic spaces that not only promote literacy but inclusive community building and sustainable development as well. Community partner libraries are used by students, professionals, farmers, out-ofschool youth, veterans, senior citizens, entrepreneurs and organizations Seeking public, third spaces to strengthen civic spirit while pursuing their respective ideals. Our libraries have been built strategically in town squares and plazas, farms, prisons, hospitals, schools and remote villages in mountains and valleys, on islands and coastlines. LRP and 7 Degrees are following a publicprivate partnership approach, leveraging the strength of the private sector and community spirit with the mandates of the government to ensure tax accountability and synergized resources for the public good and focusing on a supply chain of educational materials – from physical to e-books, computers and other reference materials – to fulfill the development needs of the community. The partnership has been able to build its web presence and digital reach, while

Currently, charter schools can’t grow more than 20% without State Board of Education approval. The state does not regulate the growth of any other system of education. The Senate is proposing to provide the State Board of Education with flexibility in making growth decisions for charter schools. Charter school waitlists deny parents the right to select the best educational setting for their children.

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Paul Norcross, 7 Degrees of Change Foundation, Mandaue East Rotary Club and LRP with Rosa Flores securing the best world-class educational materials on a sustained basis, and, because of this, are ahead of their target of 200 libraries by 2020. This is part of a 12-institution initiative of local and international champions that include the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers, the Asia Society, Rotary and a host of publishers and civic groups committed to social change through education. Given this success, leaders of LRP and 7 Degrees were invited to present their enterprise model and experience at the University of Oxford’s Southeast

Asia symposium April 14-16. They not only succeeded in sharing their best practices with a regional audience of academics, professionals, civic leaders and entrepreneurs, but were also able to secure firm interest to expand into libraries in Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam and even Bhutan. With the plan to launch a web-based crowd-funding page and grow its coalition globally, the partnership is now aiming to grow 2020 libraries by 2020, a 10-fold increase in reach and impact to empower global citizens for good.

THE NORTH CAROLINA SENATE IS CONSIDERING CHANGES THAT SUPPORT PUBLIC CHARTERS 20% Rule – Arbitrary Cap:

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60% Rule – Arbitrary Cap:

Last year, the Senate proposed and a provision was enacted to define low performing traditional public schools and public charter schools. However, they did not eliminate the existing accountability yardstick of 60% proficiency that applies to charter schools. This left charter schools being measured by two yardsticks. One rule should apply to both traditional public schools and public charter schools.

Charter School Lottery Restrictions:

If a student attends a charter school that does not offer their next grade level, they have to find a new school and get in line. The changes would allow charter schools to give preference in the lottery to students that previously attended a charter school but does not offer their next grade level.

Please contact Senator Phil Berger at Phil.Berger@ncleg.net and Senator Jerry Tillman at Jerry.Tillman@ncleg.net to tell them you support these changes!

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Over the course of the next several weeks, a video series is being produced to explore and showcase the many benefits that families in North Carolina have available to them in educating their children. The seven channels for distribution of education available are: 1) District (Public) 2) Magnet (Public) 3) Charter (Public) 4) Sectarian (Private) 5) Non-Sectarian (Private) 6) Home School 7) Virtual School This will be a unique opportunity for families to tell their story of why they chose a specific school for their child, why they are pleased with that choice and pleased to have the ability to make that choice. For more information and to participate in the video series, please contact Don Redding at don@reddingcom.com.

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David Benoit Christmas Tribute to Charlie Brown This Christmas, don’t miss your only chance to see Grammy-award-winning jazz pianist David Benoit live at the High Point Country Club on Dec. 9, 2016. David Benoit has been performing jazz for over 40 years and has helped popularize the smooth

jazz genre of music. He is also very well known for his musical association with the Peanuts franchise, based on the popular comic strip by Charles Schulz. He recently provided music for the 2015 animated film The Peanuts Movie for 20th Century Fox.

Proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Phoenix Academy Foundation to assist with its scholarship, IB, athletic and music programs. Sponsorships and ticket sales will be available on www.7degreesofchange.org over the summer.

Guilford County’s Largest Public Charter School Continues on a Path of Innovation

Oxford University Matriculation Ceremony In the fall of 2016, Phoenix Academy will begin a centuries-old tradition of a “matriculation ceremony” in concert with its official authorization as an IB World School®. Matriculation is derived from the foremost British universities of Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews, Edinburgh and Durham. The term is used for the ceremony at which new students are entered into

the register (in Latin matricula) of the university, and become members of the university. This tradition is carried over from its ancient provenance to signify the celebration and a rite of passage, where a student enters a new world of learning – with its attendant opportunities that come with the formation of a student’s intellectual

abilities and social responsibilities in preparation for the real world, so they can contribute to their fullest. The students will wear the same “academic dress” or cap and gown as those worn at Oxford University to enter into the “Middle Years Programme.” A new tradition that will continue for all new students as they enter the program.

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The Phoenix Academy Foundation is in the process of developing a scholarship program starting with its first graduating class in 2020! The Foundation has enlisted the assistance of John Murray, associate vice president of investments at Davenport and Company, to assist with structuring the program based on existing models, and tailoring it to the specific needs of the school. In addition to his experience in this area, he is an active charter school advocate. According to Davenport: “this is the first time a North Carolina public charter school has established an in-house, merit based scholarship program. As a supporter of education choice, I am excited to be a part of assisting with the structuring of this program, which we hope will serve as a model for public schools of choice across the state to follow.” The initial funding of the program is scheduled for mid June. This will be the core of what is expected to be a far larger fund through ongoing contributions and investments over time, further enhancing the scope and scale of the scholarships awarded.

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Guilford County Public Charter Schools on Track for Say Yes

The GCYes meeting held on May 3 was a fabulous success. Our mission with this information session was to inform the Guilford County charter school community about the progress with the entry of public charters into Guilford County’s Say Yes to Education program. Twelve public charter school students participated on stage with over 400 public charter students participating in the audience. Presentations were made by County Commissioners Hank Henning and Justin Conrad, State House Representative Jon Hardister and former state House member Marcus Brandon, the chairman of CarolinaCAN, as well as 7 Degrees of Change Foundation Chairman Paul Norcross and (via video message) Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest. Here are some of the remarks from the night’s event…

“I am happy to be working with the Say Yes charter school subcommittee to be moving forward to a pathway for inclusion to the Say Yes scholarship program for charter schools. I hope this pathway is finalized soon and each school can start working towards inclusion in what we all hope will be a great benefit for all Guilford County public school children.” – Justin Conrad

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Everyone in this room should band together to fight for what is right, and you and your children have a choice for education.” – Marcus Brandon “It’s exciting to see so many people here this evening joining together for the children of Guilford County.” – Jon Hardister

“There are 78,000 public school students in Guilford County, with 6,000 of them being in public charters. When our school districts and public charters come together and work towards a common objective for the better of the community and its families, it is a milestone we can all be proud of.” – Dan Forest “I want all parents and families to know that we’re doing our best to ensure that all public school children get to participate in this wonderful program.” – Hank Henning

“Tonight truly is a game changer. For the first time, all the public charter schools in Guilford County are joining together, which will be the beginning of many more unifying events like this to come.” – Paul Norcross The charter school committee will be meeting again in the next few weeks to formalize the path by which public charters will be included in Guilford County’s Say Yes chapter. For more updates on the status of public charters being included in Say Yes, go to GCYes.org and sign up for email alerts.

A new international website has been designed to allow school administrators, parents and teachers to assess government officials, non-government organizations, universities, think tanks, politicians, media, trade groups and service providers that play vital roles surrounding charter schools across the globe.

This is not intended to rate charter schools nor to be used to monitor the performance of the students. It is an A through F grading scale based on how these groups and individuals support school choice and charter schools in particular. See the video to learn more about CSRC now.

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%%% Smart phones. What a dumb choice of words. They dumbed us down. Go into a restaurant these days. Everybody at the table, there’s four or five people at the table, everybody is looking at their phone, messing with their phones. I see people walking, especially around UNCG, or anywhere, just walking. They’re messing with their phones. They’re looking at stuff. Facebook. It’s ridiculous. I just – I can’t understand it. I don’t get it. I don’t do Facebook. I do text from time to time, but I’m not going to carry on a conversation via text. It’s just ridiculous these days, man. It’s – I don’t get it. I guess I’ll never get it. I’m old school. Whatever. But it’s really dumbed us down.

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time travelers walk among us. Time travel has been a big theme in books and movies for a long time, and there have been all sorts of time machines including DeLoreans, hot tubs, a Groundhog Day (incidentally, the only movie that managed to get a real national holiday named after its title), a phone booth (Hint: “Excellent!”), the USS Eldridge battleship, a big chair with knobs, levers and lights, a yacht in a storm, a diner doorway, a large metal shipping container, a space ship traveling near the speed of light, a pontoon boat, a

Did A Time Traveler Go To 1995 To Film A Random Mike Tyson Fight? – Uproxx.com headline May 14, 2016 Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 91 Ocean View, WA 99393. You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before. – 1997 classified ad in Backwoods Home Magazine You may have seen recently the newly discovered video of a 1995 Mike Tyson fight where one woman can be seen standing ringside, astonishingly, recording video using her iPhone. The very big problem, of course, is that, back in 1995, there were no iPhones. So the $50 million question, then, is how could this woman have been filming a Mike Tyson fight on her iPhone in 1995 – when the iPhone wasn’t even invented until 12 years later? Specifically, Apple released the first iPhone to the public on Friday, June 29, 2007, so it’s a really good question why an iPhone is clearly visible in a video unquestionably taken over 20 years ago. That conundrum, in fact, has absolutely lit up the internet this week – and it’s become obvious from all the comments that there can be only one explanation: Time travel is real and someone from the future was at that fight. In fact, as you may have seen, that recently discovered found fight footage has precipitated a quite lively discussion, which in turn has brought

even more surprise evidence to light. In the wake of the controversy about the mysterious time traveler at the Tyson fight, the internet people have been pointing out that there’s a lot of old video footage of street scenes taken in the1930s and 1940s that show people in the background – or should I say, that show time travelers in the background – clearly talking on their cell phones. In these old-timey street scenes, if you look real close, you can pick out other convincing evidence of time travel as well, such as clothing styles and sunglasses that weren’t available at the time. There are skeptics who try to explain their way out of it – but the fact is, if you look carefully at the videos and study one after another, it’s very eerie. There’s tons of other evidence as well that time travel is real. Just to take one example, according to the internet, in 2008 an archaeologist opened a sealed tomb in China that dated back to the Ming Dynasty and they found a Swiss watch. So, believe you me, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest, if not outright prove, that

magical remote control, the Starship Enterprise and Ashton Kutcher’s mailbox. And no wonder time travel is such a popular theme: Just think of the possibilities, Think of all the fascinating people you could meet if you had a time machine. Your imagination is your only limit. For instance, if you had a working time machine, you could use it to go back in time and meet Taylor Swift. You could get in your time machine and go back to before Taylor was famous, like when she was in junior high in Tennessee. And you could follow her and when no one was around her you could go up to her and say, “Taylor, I know you don’t know me yet, but I am a mysterious stranger from the future who has traveled from the year 2016. As proof, I am going to tell you this: You will have some very bad experiences with your boyfriends in high school. I wanted to meet you now, before you got too famous to approach. I know some of this may sound strange to you but, trust me, it will all make sense later and I assure you that I am

perfectly normal. I will see you in the year 2016. You will know to take my call because I will use the code word ‘Afghanistan Bananastand.’ Just be sure that, when you get famous, you tell all your people that, if someone calls and says the code word, ‘Afghanistan Bananastand,’ that you really want to talk to them because it is your mysterious time traveling friend.” And then you could get a time machine and return to 2016 knowing that she would be eagerly waiting for your call for years to come. I think it is a very good plan and so I’ve been reading about time machines and how they work, and I’ve been building one in my garage. And I’ve finally got it working – though, so far, I can only travel forward in time and can only do so at one speed. Yesterday, I had the longest trip yet into the future: I got in the machine and traveled an hour and a half ahead. But it is a lot of work to time travel and just to make that short trip took about 90 minutes of working the controls and keeping my eye on the readouts, but, anyway, the good news is that the only thing left to do now is figure out how to change direction and speeds and then it will be “Hello Taylor Swift!” They say that once I figure out how to go back in time, I’ll have to worry about things like “the Butterfly Effect.” If you’re a non-scientist, that means that you have to be very careful about what you do when you time travel, because if you did something that seemed like a very good idea, like, say kill Hitler when he was a baby – well, that could set off a chain of events that could lead to the death of a butterfly in Brazil – even though you never would have thought the two were connected. And, worst of all, they say, you don’t want to do something to keep yourself from ever being born like talking to your great-grandfather for a few minutes and accidently keeping him from having that first chance encounter with your great-great grandmother. People say you have to worry about that type of thing, but I’ve thought it through and I realized that you don’t have to worry about that type of thing at all. Think about it. So what if you say, messed up that meeting and you then were never born: If you were never born then there would never have been a you to go back in time and mess things up in the first place, so you would be fine. (continued on page 31)

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Dear Readers, Let me hear from you regarding prescription drug abuse and its effect on your family. In the second Ask Carolyn today, I touch on the Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne’s divorce and Prince’s death. Dear Carolyn, I am a pilot going through a divorce. My ex is holding my pilot logbooks hostage. I have asked her nicely to please give me the logbooks and she simply will not do so. How do I get my logbooks back from here in this divorce? Does she have any marital rights to them? Carolyn Answers ... As a pilot myself, I am incensed by your logbook being held hostage by your ex. Logbooks contain a record of flight time and training required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Logged flying time reflects currency as a pilot and eligibility for certificates and ratings. In certain instances, the FAA has the right to demand to see a pilot’s logbook. A pilot logbook contains original signatures of various examiners and instructors and is ancillary to the pilot certificate itself. (For the record, while people commonly say a pilot’s license, it is technically a pilot’s certificate.) While I cannot cite a case in North Carolina where the issue of classification of pilot logbooks as maritial property or separate property has been decided, it is my opinion that your logbooks are your separate property. Your pilot certification, in my opinion, is separate property, much like a doctor’s medical licenses and a law license are separate property. Your

pilot logbook is a required document, just like your medical certificate, to maintain the validity of your pilot certificate. The property division statute in North Carolina says: “All professional licenses and business licenses which would terminate on transfer shall be considered separate property.” NCGS 50-20(b)(2). So, since you have the right to the exclusive control of your logbooks, how do you get them back? I would first write an official demand letter stating that they need to be returned in 10 days or you will have no choice except exercising your rights under the Equitable Distribution Act, which states: “Upon application of by the owner of separate property which was removed from the marital home or possession of its owner by the other spouse, the court may enter an order for reasonable counsel fees and costs of court incurred to regain its possession, but such fees shall not exceed the fair market value of separate property at the time it was removed.” NCGS Section 50-20(i1). Tell her you will be asking for your attorney fees. Dear Carolyn, I am a mother of three children, and I think the father is a prescription drug addict. His doctor prescribes him Percocet for pain, and he is taking quite a lot of it. I think he takes four Percocet a day. Quite frankly, I don’t think there is pain, and he previously used illegal drugs until he found he could get the same thing legally. I don’t want him driving our children. Really, he acts erratically and passes out. What do I do? We are divorced and we do not have a custody order. Carolyn Answers ... I think that prescription drug addiction is one of the biggest problems facing the American family today. You need a custody order,

and you need to make sure the facts of the addiction are presented clearly to the judge. You have the right in a custody case to examine the fitness of the father for visitation. You have a right to his medical and prescription records and the right to present these records as evidence. Perhaps the visitations should be at Harmony House, a supervised visitation center in Jamestown. I certainly would not want him driving with the children. This father will have to decide is the Percocet is more important than his children. You need to link improper parenting to the drug addiction. Percocet is an opiate (opioid), like heroin, and is highly addictive. It can cause respiratory distress and death when taken in high doses or when combined with other drugs or alcohol. In the few days before Prince’s death, he had received emergency treatment for an opioid overdose. Rumors abound that Percocet was found in his bloodstream and in the elevator where he died, but the official toxicology report has not been released. I think of the sad situation with Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osboune, who has struggled with drug addiction all of his adult life. He and his wife have been married since 1982. Ozzy said in an interview with Spin magazine, that drug dependency is a “killer disease,” He indicates he has accepted that he has a problem, and this is the first step. He further claims that he has been completely sober for three-and-aquarter years, although there is chatter that the divorce discussions caused him to “fall off the wagon.” Rumors abound about an affair with a celebrity hairdresser, but last Saturday he and his wife were photographed together in Beverly Hills. Keep your children safe. Prescription drug addiction is a real threat to the safety of your children. Send questions on family law and divorce to askcarolyn@rhinotimes.com, or P.O. Box 9023, Greensboro 27427 or at Ask Carolyn’s comment section at rhinotimes. com.

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I challenge all of these “holier than thou” entertainers, businesses CHANCE TO VOTE TWICE and elected officials (such as the Greensboro mayor and some DEAR EDITOR, Having become a relatively recent councilmembers) that want to allow men resident of North Carolina, I am (regardless of how they are dressed – if confused by the voting scheduled to you have a penis you are male) to use the women’s restroom, open your own occur on Tuesday, June 7. Several months ago, two or more restrooms to the opposite sex if they districts in the state were realigned. are dressed like you. The Greensboro Perhaps that is the sole reason for city councilmembers have private the June voting. But, then again, our restrooms. How many males dressed mailbox seems to be flooded with the as females has Mayor Nancy Vaughan candidates’ literature and we can find allowed in with her? Practice what you no information saying: “If you voted in preach. As for entertainers who have March, you can’t vote again.” What is the truth? Who votes on June canceled shows in North Carolina, 7? We are in the 6th Congressional they are losers. The residents who would have attended their concerts District. now have more money in their pockets Robert Fullerton and the entertainers have less – pretty Editor’s Note: The congressional good balance. If those protestors would read HB2, votes in March weren’t counted. they would learn the truth of the bill. Everybody votes on June 7. All Also, I suggest these people go online 13 congressional districts were and read the article by Paul R. McHugh, redistricted. You might want to check distinguished service professor of your district, as a lot of people in the psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University old 6th are now in the 13th, including and former psychiatrist-in-chief for a big chunk of Greensboro and almost Johns Hopkins Hospital regarding all of High Point. transgendered men and women.

Phyllis P. Gibbs

RIGHTS ONE-SIDED DEAR EDITOR,

It seems that every minority in the US has rights. Where are my rights – a white female who has always used the public restroom labeled “women” without worrying that a person with the male anatomy would be coming into the same restroom? I demand my rights to use the women’s restroom without finding men in the same one. Thank God our state legislators and Gov. Pat McCrory agree with me.

BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER DEAR EDITOR,

My hope for our elected officials is drawn in large measure from the words of Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address, paraphrased here: We are not enemies, but friends. For the sake of our country and its people, we must not and cannot be enemies. Though passion and harsh words have strained our relationships and feelings

for one another, it must not break our bonds of reason and caring. “The mystic chords of sacrifice and memory of those who have gone before us stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart over this broad land will surely swell the chorus of union and thus we will all be touched by the better angels of our nature so that we can be reconciled and joined together for the common good. Let it be. Let it be.

Bob Kollar

CLINTON AND TRUMP WALK INTO A BAR DEAR EDITOR,

I read a letter to the editor in another newspaper recently which begs for a response. It states, “America has become a joke and Donald Trump is the punch line.” I must say, sorry, that title was claimed 20 years ago when Bill Clinton (slick Willie) made America the laughingstock of the world

Darrell Johnson

NEO-CON V. LIBERTARIAN DEAR EDITOR,

“Paul Ryan is the last competent congressman”? What an idiot. Paul Ryan is a neo-con on steroids. He is helping do damage that we can’t come back from ever. The neo-cons (which most socalled Republicans are) have all but destroyed America. They breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court made gay marriage legal. These clowns didn’t want to deal with

it because it might cost them 1,000 votes in their districts. They also had no problem passing our current budget, which adds another trillion to the deficit. Then they can blame Obama. All spending originates in Congress. Obama can’t spend one dime without Congress giving him the money. As for Uncle Orson’s rant about Libertarians, I guess he doesn’t believe in true liberty for everyone. Only neo-cons. sudoku_527B Libertarians believe in minding our Created by Peter Ritmeester/Presented by Will Shortz own business and not starting crud all over the world, and very small 3 7 government. We believe in a strong defense, with all of our troops 8 stationed here. We believe the government has 2 6 business in most things. no I know that’s a hard concept for 2 neo-liberals and neo-cons. I used to be a Republican until I watched 7 them 5 help add $10 trillion to our deficit in the 9 what1I’m talking ’90s, so I think3I know about. The only glimmer of hope is 6 4 9 that most Americans are sick of the horrible politicians we have now. 8

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Henning, who is one of Guilford County’s two favorite sons in this race, said that he had served as a Marine in Iraq because “I will never ask someone to do something in my place.” He said he couldn’t sit at home enjoying the good life while others were putting their lives on the line for him. He said, “I’m frustrated, like everyone in this room. I’m frustrated with the Republican Party because they don’t stand up.” And he added, “We’re watching this country go down the tubes because we haven’t taken a stand.” He asked a question you don’t hear very often these days: What happened to the Contract with America? When asked about a tough decision he has made, Henning said that he and his wife took a stand in Guilford County against Common Core. Vernon Robinson is not an elected official, but it’s not for lack of running. He is what is known as a perennial candidate. Robinson did serve two terms on the Winston-Salem City Council, but he has also run for state superintendent of public instruction, state Senate, state House of Representatives and Congress in the

5th District and the old 13th District. More recently Robinson was the cofounder of the National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee. According to federal campaign documents, the PAC, spent most of its money raising money. Robinson’s company, of which he is the sole owner, was paid over $250,000 by the PAC. Every county may have a favorite son in this race, in which case Robinson is the favorite son of Forsyth County, which isn’t in the district. Robinson noted that he is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and that North Carolina doesn’t currently have anyone in Congress who is a veteran. He said, “We have to remove the Republican leadership.” He said he would tweet every vote he took in Congress and hold town hall meetings in the district 47 weeks out of the year. He did not, however, promise to move into the district if elected. He was critical of the Republicans in Washington for not cutting a dime from Obamacare in six years. Farren Shoaf is a first time candidate who owns a radio station in Mocksville. He said, “I want to fight for our European

heritage.” Shoaf also said he knew first hand how bad Obamacare was because he had it and it needed to be repealed. He said that the leaders in Washington “were paying nothing but lip service to we the people.” When asked what the biggest threat to the US was, he said, “The leaderlessness in Washington DC.” Kay Daly, who voted in the March 15 primary from Moore County, which is not in the district, is now registered to vote in Mooresville, which is. She talked quite a bit about how many people she knew in the district and about all the big-name conservatives, such as Sean Hannity, who have endorsed her. She said, “I’m not going to Washington to make friends and I won’t be well liked. I’m going to fight the cowards in my own Republican Party.” Budd, who has the big money in this campaign, was the last candidate to speak. He said he was running because he wanted his three kids to have the same opportunities he had growing up, and he didn’t want to have to tell them that he had a chance to make a difference and didn’t even try. He said he didn’t want to go to Washington to be a go-along to getalong kind of guy. He is also a first time candidate and the owner of a gun range outside of

Winston-Salem. He said he didn’t plan to make a career of being in DC and signed a term-limits pledge. He was asked about what he had ever lobbied for and he said he wasn’t a lobbyist but that he had worked with organizations to support the Second Amendment. Jason Walser wasn’t at the forum, but his wife spoke briefly on his behalf – an attempt to play a video of Walser didn’t work. Kathy Feather also wasn’t there but her daughter, Billie Feather, read a speech she had prepared. The other candidates who didn’t attend the forum are Rep. Julia Howard, Jim Snyder, Matthew McCall, George Rouco and David Thompson. North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Robert Edmunds also spoke. He will be on the primary ballot in a nonpartisan judicial race. Edmunds has three opponents, and Edmunds is the only Republican running. Some say the state Supreme Court race is the most important one on the ballot because, with Edmunds on the state Supreme Court, the Republicans have a 4-to-3 majority. If Edmunds loses then the Democrats will have a majority, and even though the judges are elected in nonpartisan races, when it comes to political votes, they vote along party lines.

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(continued from page 8) said, would go to pay the bills to operate the Union Square Campus – the new education center in downtown Greensboro. Lawing’s budget keeps the amount of money the county gives GTCC for maintenance and repair at the same level as the 2015-2016 budget – $1.5 million. The manager’s proposed budget offers human services $132 million in total funding, which is $3.7 million more than in the 2015-2016 adopted budget. That includes an increase of $1.6 million for foster care – something that’s been a persistent problem for the county in recent years. The budget adds seven new food stamp workers, one Medicaid eligibility assessment worker, one child support enforcement employee and one school nurse. Much of the cost of those new positions will be covered by state or federal reimbursements. Also, a recent hiring spree of social service workers allowed the county to cancel a contract with an outside vendor that was costing about $840,000 annually to provide many of the services now handled by new social services workers. In the proposed budget, Guilford County Attorney Mark Payne would also get a new assistant attorney. Payne said this week that the new position would allow his legal office to increase its work for social services as well as address other county concerns. In the area of public safety, the county will add two “community paramedics” positions that are being funded by Cone Health and Triad Healthcare Inc. Those workers conduct home visits and offer

medical management of cases to reduce the need for follow-up medical care at emergency rooms and hospitals. Those health workers will do things like make sure patients are taking their medications and help them learn to prevent falls. Also, in the interest of enhancing public safety, the proposed new budget offers an increase of $335,000 for Guilford County’s share of Guilford Metro 911 expenses. Guilford County shares the cost of operating the 911 call center with the City of Greensboro. The budget also calls for an increase in mental health services in the county’s two jails to the tune of $177,000 and there’s $666,000 in the budget proposal to buy new vehicles for the county’s fleet. The budget would reduce the county’s spending on elections by $383,000 due to fewer elections in 2016 -2017 – albeit the one in November will be a big one. Even though the county’s elections department will get less money, the new budget does include pay raises for some precinct officials – something that last happened about 10 years ago. The county budget also includes $1.26 million payment for a merit pool for employee raises, which would average out to a 2.75 increase if everyone got one. The merit increase that an individual county employee receives could be more or less than that percentage. That money covers one half year and employees won’t see merit increases from that fund until January if the commissioners approve that part of Lawing’s proposal. The amount of employee merit pay increase is always a lively topic of debate among

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about it. None of District 5 is anywhere close to east Greensboro. Improvements in community tennis courts for $3 million is listed as Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4, but not District 5. Land acquisition for parks is listed as $4 million for all districts. Public transportation includes $4.7 million for new buses, Galyon Depot renovations for $300,000 and bus shelters for $200,000. Hightower said she didn’t think they needed to put $200,000 in bond money into bus shelters. But if you add up the various bonds, ignoring some of the less-than-honest staff notations, Districts 1 and 2 will get about $56.5 million of the $106 million and, according to staff, another $20.9 million will be spent in all districts. Districts 4 and 5 don’t have a single bond item all to themselves. If the voters approve the $106 million in bonds it is estimated it will raise taxes about 3 cents. Hightower said that she was OK with raising taxes 3 cents all at once. When the City Council found that council salaries were lower than other comparable cities in the state it immediately gave itself a big raise, but the fact that Greensboro has the highest property tax rate of comparable cities did not result in the City Council deciding to cut taxes, but instead to raise taxes so

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commissioners during the weeks leading up to the adoption of a county budget, with Commissioner Carolyn Coleman, for one, claiming each year that county employees aren’t getting enough. Speaking of Coleman, one of her pet projects every year is the African American Atelier in downtown Greensboro, which is an art gallery run by her friend, 12th District Congresswoman Alma Adams. Lawing’s budget includes $50,000 for that cause, the same amount the atelier got last year. The atelier is listed in the budget under “Economic Development Organization” funding along with other county programs and events that also got money: The Friends of John Coltrane music festival will get $20,000, the High Point Arts Council $50,000 and the United Arts Council of Greensboro would get $55,000. The National Folk Festival would get $25,000. It also gives $40,000 to Downtown Greensboro Inc., $20,000 to East Market Street Development, $40,000 for the Guilford County Tourism Development Authority and $75,000 to the High Point Market Authority, better known as the furniture market. Lawing’s proposed budget also includes $100,000 for the Guilford County Economic Development Alliance, $100,000 for the Greensboro Partnership and $100,000 for High Point Economic Development Corp. The county’s undesignated fund balance, or savings account, would be 13.9 percent of the budget, which is nearly 6 percentage points higher than the 8 percent minimum recommended by state finance officials. The fund balance is the savings the county keeps in the bank for unexpected events. County staff likes to have a lot of extra money on hand in case they need it, but Guilford County has had years before where the fund balance fell below the minimum. If the county falls below 8 percent mark, they risk getting a strongly worded letter from the Local Government Commission, better known as the LGC. If the county commissioners want to cut a penny off the tax rate – which is what they did last year – they would need to find $4.7 million in cuts since, under existing conditions, each penny on the county’s property tax rate amounts to $4.7 million in revenue. Phillips said that the county will work to shape the budget in the coming weeks. Commissioner Justin Conrad said there are some things he likes about the budget and some things he thinks that need more discussion. He said he approves of spending more money on school repairs. “I did like the additional capital to the school – raising that to $7 million,” Conrad said. “We hear from parents quite often.” Conrad also said he was glad to see the merit pool increase for county employees and he added that the commissioners still have a lot of things to work out. “We’ve got multiple work sessions to discuss the details,” he said. By law, the Board of Commissioners must adopt a budget by midnight June 30. However, counties have missed that deadline in the past before and nothing much happens when they do. The Guilford County commissioners are holding a budget hearing for public input on Thursday, June 2, and they are hoping to adopt a final county budget at their following regular meeting on Thursday, June 16.

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(continued from page 22) Until I get the kinks worked out of my time machine, I need to find a way to meet other time travelers, and something that happened seven years ago gave me an idea. On June 28, 2009, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking threw a party for time travelers. Hawking sent out the invitations to his party after the event. His invitation was publicized far and wide in media, and is still well known today years later, yet no one showed up – so many people have concluded that means there are no time travelers. But I don’t think you can prove anything from the fact that no time travelers showed up at that party. It was a good idea he had, but was poorly executed. First off, it’s a physics professor party. You know, a physics professor throwing a party at a physics department isn’t exactly the best party in town if you catch my drift. Quite frankly, I imagine that no one shows up for those parties even when Hawking sends out the invitations ahead of time – so the fact that time travelers didn’t want to come either doesn’t surprise me. The second thing is this: His party was held at noon Sunday – not exactly a great time for a party. I mean, let’s say you went to the party – the physics party at the physics department, and you met a really hot woman there (stay with me) – well, even if you did, she probably just came from listening to a preacher who spent the entire morning trying to convince her against precisely what you have in mind. So, anyway, it was a good idea Hawking had, but was poorly executed. But now, I’m going to try it again, but this time do it right. Here goes: This is my open public invitation to all time travelers far and wide. At 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 22, 2016, in your honor, we are holding the Spectacular Amazing 2016 Time Traveler Mega Blow Out Party to End All Parties, at the Rhino Times office at 216 W. Market St. in Greensboro. We’re going to party like it’s 9999. There will be all sorts of hot available women there who haven’t heard a sermon in nearly a week. (And, OK, hot men as well for the women time travelers.) Steak dinners will be flown in from the Luxor in Las Vegas and Van Winkle Bourbon will be flowing freely along with every other type of liquor. Music by Sleeping Booty. There’s too much great stuff to list, but basically, we’re

talking top shelf everything. Now, how much would you pay? But before you answer, don’t say anything – because admission is free to everyone with a valid drivers license that shows a birth date of after June 1, 2016. (Though I will ask one of you to give me a lift to 2004 Tennessee after the party.) And your safety is guaranteed because I’m going to have security there – though to tell the truth I’m having trouble booking security for an event in the past. Come on, all you time travelers. Let’s do this thing!

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in the corner. He brought his old flashlight up and there was a fiveand-a-half-foot timber rattlesnake curled up and started to rattle.

%%% Living in Greensboro, you only break the law if it is politically correct. You rewrite history. You ignore history for a reverend but, instead, support him. You ruin a man’s life when he gives permission for a family viewing but not for the world. You have a mayor running for governor in 2020 but has not announced her campaign.

%%% Well, it is about time women start arming themselves going in the restrooms. Locally, most men will go in the men’s room because they’re not foolish enough to go to the women’s room. But, thing about it is, I hope somebody does try something. If they do, hopefully, they’ll have sense enough to knock the heck out of the person and call the police. No man, I don’t give a darn, that thinks he’s a woman should be allowed in the women’s room unless it’s a darn emergency.

%%% Yes, if you have any doubts as a Democrat whether or not you’re morally supporting a party that is correct on this transgender thing, go to YouTube and look up the story about a 52-year-old man who now says he self-identifies as a 6-year-old girl. If this moral decay suits you, then you’re right (continued on page 32)

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(continued from page 35) anything to get elected. Perhaps they were all just unfortunate accidents, but the Clintons have left a trail of dead bodies and former friends in prison in their wake. In the 20 years since Bill Clinton left office, how many senior White House officials have committed suicide? How many Cabinet secretaries have died in mysterious plane crashes with a .45 caliber hole in their head? How many members of the Obama administration or business associates of the Obamas have gone to jail? Perhaps it is just bad luck, but with Bill Clinton in office there was one personal disaster after another. But Bill Clinton is extremely personable. He has charisma. He can have a two-minute conversation with someone and convince them that they are the most important thing in the world to him. The late 6th District Congressman Howard Coble said he had never met anyone with the people skills of Bill Clinton. People who have the unfortunate occasion to meet Hillary Clinton find out in two minutes that she cares nothing about them or anyone else. Bill Clinton did rope lines because he loved meeting people. Hillary Clinton uses them to keep people away from her.

One of the best examples I’ve found of the kind of person Hillary Clinton is was the report of a fundraiser at a supporter’s apartment when, in an effort to appear more open and friendly, the campaign decided to do away with the rope line and let people who had all made major donations to the campaign meet the candidate without being restrained. The second best was when the Hillary Clinton campaign corralled the press corps in a big lasso to keep them away from the candidate during a parade. The fact that the press put up with it for the entire parade is a horrible example of how flaccid the press corps is when it comes to protecting its own rights. Any reporter worth a nickel would not have put up with being in a moving corral for a minute. First Amendment rights trump the personal feelings of the candidate every time. So with Hillary Clinton you get all the downside of the Clintons but you get none of the upside. The current FBI investigation of her personal email server is just the latest scandal, but the Clintons in their 40 years in politics have never been scandal free. People say that Trump can’t beat Hillary Clinton. They have the words right, just in the wrong order. They

beep (continued from page 31) at home in the Democratic Party. The other thing is, and this is just a joke, but it’s a funny joke. And maybe it makes a point. A man self-identifies as a girl goes into a bathroom and follows a young girl in. A man self-identifying as a tooth fairy goes in and knocks his teeth out. Look in your pants. That’s where you need to figure it out.

%%% Hey, I just want y’all to know that I identify as a wealthy, elite, highsociety of Greensboro. I belong to the DAR and the first families of North Carolina. And I identify as a high society. However, Greensboro Country Club won’t let me in. They are discriminating against me because I don’t have the money to pay their dues. Now just a minute. It’s my bank’s fault. They won’t give me the money. I keep telling them I’m wealthy. I identify as wealthy. My family has always identified

as wealthy and high society. And they won’t give me the money that I think I deserve. I’m going to sue my bank too. And my son, he’s in college. He wants to play football. They won’t let him play. They didn’t even let him play football in high school. They said he didn’t have the necessary physical attributes to be a football player. Now, that’s discrimination. I’m going to sue.

%%% If Hillary should be elected president and the Clintons move into the White House, will taxpayers have to pay for extra security keeping Bill separated from the interns?

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should be saying Hillary Clinton can’t beat Trump. Look at what Trump did. He took the best the Republican Party had to throw at him and beat them all. Hillary Clinton faced one old washed-up socialist and she still can’t beat him. Her rallies don’t involve people screaming and wildly waving signs. They have polite applause and people holding signs, which they raise when the campaign workers order them to. Sometimes the campaign workers can even coerce people into waving signs and looking enthused. But remove the campaign cheerleaders and you have a pep rally without any pep. Some of the election wonks in the Democratic Party should be worried about how Hillary Clinton is winning the Democratic nomination. She’s winning because she is getting overwhelming support from black voters. She loses the white vote, but with 85 to 90 percent of the black vote she wins states that have a significant population of black voters. The black vote is a huge force in the Democratic Party, but not so much in the general election because black voters only make up about 12 percent of the registered voters in the country. One of the reasons Obama won in 2012 is because a higher percentage of black registered voters voted than white registered voters. Analysts attribute this to the fact that black voters went to the polls to vote for the first black president and a lot of white Republicans were not supporters of Romney and stayed home. Black voters aren’t any more excited about voting for Hillary Clinton than white voters. Both groups are more likely to behave like Republicans did when faced with voting for Romney or staying home. There is no way that Hillary Clinton can inspire them to get out and vote. What the Democrats have to hope and pray for is a huge gaffe by Trump just before the election that will energize the Democrats to go to the polls and vote against Trump, because they won’t go to vote for Hillary Clinton. From a strategy perspective, the Democrats would be much better off nominating Sanders because Sanders is more popular with white voters and the black voters will vote for the Democrat over the Republican nine times out of 10. Even when the Republican is black, the black voters in this country vote overwhelmingly for a white Democrat over a black Republican. So if the Democratic Party leadership wants to win in November,

what it should do is move those super delegates from the Hillary Clinton column over to the Sanders column, but that’s not going to happen because Hillary Clinton is Hillary Clinton. The Republican Party is supposed to be the one that is out of control. Trump had his complaints about the national party but it appears that Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Trump are getting along fine now. It’s the Democratic Party leadership that is falling apart. Sanders has attacked Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the national chair of the Democratic Party, as he should. Although Sanders and Hillary Clinton are running neck and neck, Wasserman Schultz has made no secret of who she supports, Hillary Clinton. Wasserman Schultz may not like Sanders and may believe that Hillary Clinton would be a much better president, but if you are going to be the chairman of a national political party, you have to put your personal feelings aside and make sure the nomination process is fair to all the candidates. She has not done that. Sanders is supporting her opponent in the congressional race and that may cause her more trouble than you might think, because reportedly the money has started flowing into her opponent’s coffers from Sanders supporters. It appears that Sanders is right and the Democratic National Convention is going to be a mess. If Sanders can win California it will be even more of a mess. House Speaker Paul Ryan is not willing to support Trump, yet. Not that many people care who Ryan supports. In fact, considering what rank-and-file Republicans think of the Republican-controlled Congress right now, it may benefit Trump if Ryan never supports him. But one thing that people seem to be ignoring is that one of Trump’s most vocal opponents is Mitt Romney, and Romney picked Ryan as his running mate, which pushed Ryan into national prominence. It’s not likely that Ryan would have been picked as speaker of the House if he had not had the national exposure of the presidential campaign. Ryan owes Romney. It is not farfetched to believe that the real reason Ryan has not come on board with Trump is a promise he made to Romney back in the days when it seemed like there (continued on next page)

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was no way Trump was going to be the Republican nominee. The reality is that whether it will hurt Trump or help him, Ryan, as the top Republican elected official in the country, is going to have to endorse Trump at some point. The longer he waits, the more wishy-washy he appears. Right now Ryan is trying to convince the Republicans that they need to bail out Puerto Rico because he promised Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi they would. This might be a good time for the Republicans to leave Ryan out to dry. He has turned out to be no more than John Boehner without the tears or the tan. Republicans who plan on getting reelected might want to think twice about supporting the failed economy of a territory chock full of Democrats. I see where we killed another Taliban leader with a drone strike last week. I have to admit I’m a little skeptical of all these Taliban, al Qaeda and ISIS terrorist leaders that

we are always killing. It seems to be too easy to kill someone somewhere with a name nobody has ever heard or can pronounce and then claiming that he was the supreme high commander of something. Accepting that all of these people that have been killed by Obama are terrorist leaders – and according to Obama he personally approved all these assassination strikes – is anyone else a little worried? They are terrorists, their organizations still exist and the person replacing them may well be more brutal than they are. But if the rules of the game are that it is acceptable to assassinate leaders, what if the various terrorist groups decide to take out some of our congressmen or senators? The president has incredible protection, but your average congressman can be found walking around town like a normal person. They may have a 20-something aide or two with them, but no armed protection. Senators don’t have protection either.

I hope somebody smart has thought about this and is doing something about it because, from where I sit, any of those terrorist groups could decide to kill 10 congressmen one day and they don’t need drones or bombs. They just need people willing to die for the cause, and they seem to have plenty of those. The head of security at the Transportation Security Administration, Kelly Hoggan, officially resigned, but it seems he was fired because of the extremely long lines at airports across the country. First of all, it is incredible that a federal employee lost his job for simply doing it poorly. But, secondly, it is hard to believe that long lines cost him his job when a failure rate of 95 percent didn’t. The whole point of standing in line and being electronically or physically frisked is to make air travel safer by preventing any weapons, or anything that might by some wild stretch of the imagination be considered a weapon, off the planes. But the TSA failed to detect 95 out of 100 guns that agents testing the system tried to

get through. So a success rate of 5 percent is not enough to get someone canned at the TSA but long lines are. It also should be noted that during that time that the TSA was failing in its job 95 percent of the time, Hoggan received $90,000 in bonuses. It makes you wonder what kind of bonuses he would have received if the organization had had a success rate of 10 percent or even 15 percent. Just imagine if the next head of security is three times more successful than Hoggan and only 85 out of 100 guns will remain undetected – 10 times more effective and still every other gun will get through. Obama is far too busy traveling around the world and playing golf to worry about a small thing like airport security, but the next president should abolish the Department of Homeland Security. One of its other major functions is border patrol, and we know how secure our borders are. Homeland security was yet another dumb idea that became a dumb reality under President George W. Bush. Trump, Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, whoever is the next president should just get rid of it.

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beef (continued from page 10) a tremendous amount of research and supporting data.” He stated that, despite the outspoken opposition of Hightower and Fox, the City Council as a whole will be more open to the idea. “I’m confident that, if the facts are thoughtfully considered, the majority of Greensboro’s city councilmembers will agree that we’ve made the best decision,” the chairman wrote. “If I’m wrong, we’ll go to plan B, which will, unfortunately, cost our citizens significantly more money and cause further delays in getting the animals in our care the kind of facility that Guilford County needs and deserves,” Before a special-use permit is granted by the Greensboro Zoning Commission or the City Council, those bodies must acknowledge four findings of fact: “A) That the use will not materially endanger the public health or safety if located where proposed; “B) That the use will meet any restrictions imposed pursuant to [additional restrictions put on by the City of Greensboro]; “C) That the use will not substantially injure the value of adjoining or abutting

property, or that the use is a necessity; and “D) That the location and character of the use will be in harmony with the area in which it is to be located and in general conformity with the plan of development of the City and its environs.” The permit application states in bold type that, if the Zoning Commission or Greensboro City Council doesn’t find those to be true in each case, then the special-use permit should not be granted. Hightower, Fox and other opponents of a shelter in east Greensboro have already stated publically they believe the shelter will bring down property values near the Burlington Road site and will make retail development in the area less likely, so opponents of locating the animal shelter there might argue that the shelter would “substantially injure the value” of the surrounding property. Phillips pointed out recently that the current animal shelter at 4525 W. Wendover Ave. has been at that location for decades and it sits in one of the most business-jammed sections of the county – if not the most business

jammed. He said the existing county animal shelter certainly hasn’t thwarted growth in that area. In granting a special-use permit, the Zoning Commission or the City Council will have the option of imposing more restrictive requirements if they see those as necessary. For instance, they could limit the number of animals kept outside or limit the hours during which

dog walks could take place. The city’s approval of a special-use permit would give the county a twoyear window in which the county has a right to construct the facility and begin using the property for that purpose. If the county later ceased operating the shelter on the site, then the special-use permit for the property would expire after 18 months of non-use.

beep (continued from page 32) think I’d take that a step further. Build a wall or a fence with barb wire on top around Washington and put all the Syrian refugees that he wants to import in the country in there in Washington. They can hang out with all the politicians and other criminals.

%%% Yes, I’m a retired Marine, and I just wanted to let the American people know, and the Democrats, and the educated fools out of college, that I’m sick of hearing about Donald Trump not being able or qualified to be president. Let me remind you, to be qualified for president there are three things: 35 years of age,

14 years’ resident in a row in the US and a natural-born citizen. It is that simple. Anybody can run for president. I have heard the Democrats bash it until I’m sick of it.

%%% Word on the street is Jesus Christ could return at any time. Wonder if he would skip or boycott North Carolina because of HB2. I don’t know if discrimination concerning bathrooms is high on his list. But I’m guessing he’s got bigger fish to fry. PS: When it comes to distinguishing between male or female, I don’t think he’d have any trouble. Southern Guilford County.

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by John Hammer

Donald Trump is going to beat Hillary Clinton if she is his opponent in the fall. She hasn’t made it past Sen. Bernie Sanders, yet, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation may weigh in on the race. I don’t think even a Clinton would be allowed to run for president if under federal indictment. But one thing we know for certain: If Hillary Clinton did run for president under federal indictment, The New York Times, The Washington Post and all the sycophant liberal newspapers that follow their lead would bury the article about a major party nominee running for president under indictment. The idea that a presidential candidate could be under investigation for months by nearly 150 FBI agents and it not be mentioned every time her name is in the news is shocking, even for the liberal media. Imagine what the media would be saying if Trump were being investigated by even one FBI agent. He would be asked about it every time he poked his head out in public. But the press gives Hillary Clinton a pass. Occasionally she gets asked about the investigation, she gives a non-answer and the story is that some reporter had the nerve to ask her about the investigation. Even for the liberal mainstream media it is a stretch for them to ignore such huge news. But it appears that Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic presidential candidate and they can’t take a chance on sullying the reputation of the candidate that they are all going to be working hard to get elected president. But Trump is going to win because he is going to do what Republicans have failed to do over the years, which is why Barack Hussein Obama is president and why Bill Clinton was president. He is going to go after Hillary Clinton’s record. Other than on these pages, how many articles have you read about Bill Clinton that mentioned even in passing that he was impeached? Or that there is a credible accusation of rape against him. Or that he paid Paula Corbin

Jones $850,000 to make her go away. The Clintons at the time, according to Hillary Clinton, were dead broke. Would Bill Clinton, a man who is dead broke, agree to settle a case for $850,000 unless he thought he would have to pay more if it were left to a judge to decide. The worst thing you read in the press about Bill Clinton is that he looks tired and is not the dynamic speaker he once was. Not that he admitted to committing perjury and had to surrender his law license to keep from being disbarred. If Bill Cosby were out campaigning for a presidential candidate, do you think the media would ignore the sexual assault allegations against him? Trump has already made it clear that he is not going to allow the media to ignore all of the Clintons’ scandals – from Whitewater to the current problems with the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s private unprotected email server. Trump doesn’t need the media to write and talk about these issues because he will, and the media can’t ignore the presumptive Republican presidential candidate. In the coming months you can expect to read more about the Clinton scandals than you did when they were taking place and editors across the country were regularly refusing to run stories about them. Remember when this presidential race started? The pundits agreed that Jeb Bush would walk away with the Republican nomination and Hillary Clinton would waltz into the Democratic nomination. Trump wasn’t even supposed to be a front-runner. The pundits predicted his poll numbers would drop long before the voting started, then predicted that as soon as the voting started he would be eliminated. Hillary Clinton’s biggest challenge was supposed to come from Martin O’Malley. Sanders was a crazy old socialist who was along for entertainment value. It proves that the entire political establishment has lost touch with the American people. Even those who are paid large sums of money to know what the American people want and think are completely clueless. Maybe each major news organization should send one brave

soul out to live amongst the people and send secret reports back to the world headquarters. Here’s a question someone in the White House press corps should ask White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, but none will because Earnest wouldn’t like it and the White House press corps’ goal above all else is to please the White House. Occasionally some reporter will touch on an uncomfortable topic, but then they drop it like they picked up a snake and every other reporter in the room moves as far away from them as possible. The question is, “How does the White House define combat?” American soldiers are being killed by enemy forces in Iraq and Syria but we are told we don’t have any troops there in combat rolls. So if Americans are shooting at and being shot by the enemy and that isn’t combat, how does the White House define combat? At the beginning of the Vietnam War we had US pilots flying Vietnamese aircraft so it wouldn’t appear that the US was actively involved. Then we had “advisors” going out on patrols with Vietnamese troops. The next thing the American public knew, we had 500,000 troops in Vietnam. It would appear that Obama is trying to emulate one of his heroes, President John F. Kennedy, who got us involved in Vietnam by using the same methods, outright lies and overall deception. My guess is that we have far more troops in Iraq and Syria than Obama admits.

It’s hard for a lot of Republicans and Democrats alike to believe that the Republican Party is going to nominate Trump for president. I understand the disbelief because Trump is Trump. But it is even more impossible to believe that the Democrats are going to nominate Hillary Clinton. I know that there are Hillary Clinton true believers who consider every word out of her mouth to be the gospel truth, and believe her when she says she has spent her life fighting for women and children, although other than accepting awards from groups that actually do work for women and children it’s hard to find what she has done. She has all of the worst aspects of Bill Clinton and none of the good ones. I can understand supporting Bill Clinton. He had enormous flaws, including that he would have sex with any woman who would have him and some who didn’t want to have him. And that leads to a problem with honesty. A politician can’t explain that they were late for a speech because they were having sex with a woman they met on the elevator, or a 21-yearold White House intern. Men with proclivities like Bill Clinton learn to lie all the time, and he did. When you lie so much about one aspect of your life, it’s hard to keep it out of the other parts. Bill Clinton also thought he was so valuable to the country that it was worth doing

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