November 6, 2009
Board of Commissioners Chairman Melvin “Skip” Alston appeared in peak form during a tour of the High Point University campus Thursday.The commissioners met at the university instead of the Old County Courthouse for their regular meeting.
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November 4, 2009
What: Guilford County commissioners meetingWhen: 5:30 p.m.Where: High Point University, 833 Montlieu Ave., High Point
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October 26, 2009
Over the past few weeks, we've worked on a few stories needing deeper information from Guilford County. The first is one we ran Sunday about the county's debt load.
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October 5, 2009
So you want to know how to apply to the new incentive, or maybe see if you qualify?Well, if you're adding an addition to your home, don't count on it. Unless that addition is for a home office. And there's no job requirement. And few details are needed fo...
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September 29, 2009
So Charlotte's hunting for ways to pay for a streetcar. They've got to somehow scrounge up $457 million for the line.Options such as a city tax or finding federal money are out there, and it appears that a combination of those will end up coming tog...
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September 28, 2009
A work session and a commissioners meeting are ahead for county commissioners.A $115 million jail construction plan will be discussed at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Old County Courthouse, 301 West Market St .The meeting comes mostly at the urging of Commissio...
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September 22, 2009
Nope, this has nothing to do with long-term movie deals or a football team.It's the roadmap for the county's next set plan to build new schools, emergency bases, fund new infrastructure and finish off some ongoing projects.The Guilford County Capital Inve...
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September 18, 2009
One of Scoop's favorite times of year.Auction time.There's one tomorrow morning at 3309 Burlington Road - go pick up an old police cruiser, some tools or a bike.Or a couple of bird feeders. Or some bags of grout. Check out the full list here.Eddie said he...
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September 15, 2009
Guilford County has a few meetings coming up this week, and two could help guide the future of economic development policy in the county for years to come.It all begins tomorrow with a work session for commissioners to take up the county's latest economic...
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September 3, 2009
Pay no mind to that spate of cool weather outside, because there are two things heating up in county business today: incentives and efficiency.
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August 27, 2009
We talked with Kirk Perkins yesterday, who handled the first search for the county attorney and is now working on the second search to find someone for the county's top legal post.Currently the attorney's office is outscored to a firm charging $275 an hou...
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August 25, 2009
Our latest story from the Guilford County commissioners focused on an incentive plan, backed primarily by Steve Arnold, to offer incentives -- or tax abatements, depending on where your politics lie -- to nearly any business in the county.In the story, we...
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August 18, 2009
Incentives are often a target for debate.And an incentive plan that Guilford County Board of Commissioners Vice Chairman Steve Arnold is supporting has received plenty of attention lately.The camps are lining up in support of or against the plan. So we'll...
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August 12, 2009
We're waiting for the bills to show up in the county's offices that will reveal how much a couple of months' worth of private attorneys will cost Guilford County.Based on what we saw from a bit of paid research that Nexsen Pruet did in June, it's gonna be...
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August 11, 2009
We learned some more about the $1.3 million plan for commercial incentives today.Board of Commissioners Chairman Melvin "Skip" Alston said that Vice Chairman Steve Arnold has plenty of support for the plan, including TREBIC, business groups arou...
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