As soon as election officials in Guilford County got word that new ballots would need to be printed, officials pushed ahead to get prompt ballot approval so the county could place orders before the 99 other counties.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has scheduled multiple cases on back-to-back days in October dealing with consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.Eight cases scheduled for oral arguments on Oct. 22-23 will cover a range of legal disputes related to the pandemic that hit North Carolina in spring 2020. Topics include the shutdown of bars across the state, the impact of the University of North Carolina System closing campuses to students, and the forced vaccination of a high school football player in Guilford County.
A Guilford County teenager and his mother challenge the argument that a federal law blocks their lawsuit over the teen’s forced COVID vaccination. They filed a new brief Tuesday with the North Carolina Supreme Court, which agreed in May to hear the case.
The Guilford County Board of Education is asking North Carolina’s highest court not to take up a case involving the forced COVID-19 vaccination of a 14-year-old boy in 2021. The teen and his mother hope the state Supreme Court will revive their suit against the Guilford schools and Old North State Medical Society.
A Guilford County mother hopes the state Supreme Court will take the case of her teenage son’s forced COVID vaccine shot. The mother and son sued the Guilford County school board and the Old North State Medical Society over the 2021 incident.
It might be a stretch to call Greensboro, North Carolina, a hidden gem. After all, it’s the third biggest city in the state and has more people than Buffalo, New York; Richmond, Virginia; or even St. Louis, Missouri. Still, it’s far from obvious that Greensboro is special if one is merely passing through on their way to...
A former candidate for town council in Sedalia says he filed a report with the N.C. State Auditor’s Office in early June to make the auditor aware of questionable issues with the council’s use of credit cards and town finances. Ed Piotrowski’s complaint comes amid allegations that council members targeted him due to his race...
High Point is closer to getting a professional baseball team. The Local Government Commission on Wednesday approved up to $35 million in limited obligation bonds to build a multi-use stadium. The Guilford County Board of Commissioners has yet to approve the city’s request for county revenue. City resident James Adams objected to using public money...
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....
Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a bill that would change the way local governments issue public notices and referred to the measure as an attack on newspapers. It was Cooper’s eighth veto this year. In his veto message, Cooper, a Democrat, said the Republican-led General Assembly “used the levers of big government to attack important institutions in our state...
RALEIGH — Greensboro and Guilford County officials are examining how to address a significant problem in attracting new businesses to their community: a lack of suitable land for large new industrial sites. “We have a critical shortage” of land for industry, Dan Lynch, senior vice president for the Greensboro Economic Development Partnership, said to The News & Record of Greensboro. The issue has two components. Businesses are increasingly considering only sites with utilities and road access already available upon which they can build almost immediately.
