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Future of publicly funded stadium project in doubt after commissioners delay vote

GREENSBORO — The Guilford County Board of Commissioners’ vote to table a decision on High Point’s proposed downtown stadium casts doubt on the project’s future. “With the commissioners’ decision to delay the vote, the City Council will have to evaluate its options. So we’ll see,” High Point Mayor Bill Bencini told CJ after the Sept....

Sam A. Hieb
Opinion

In higher ed’s amenities arms race, bigger is just bigger

Testifying before the U.S. Senate in 2013, University of Wisconsin professor Sara Goldrick-Rab described college campuses as “glorified summer camps.” She said administrators were “engaging in an arms race to have the most impressive bells and whistles.” In North Carolina, the push to make every campus amenity bigger, better, and more impressive than the next...

Jenna A. Robinson

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