From the Google Fiber website: We plan to test ultrahigh speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country.

With apologies to all the stalwart mail carriers out there who have served their nation with honor, we posit that the entire US Post Office has been rendered unnecessary through modern technology and private enterprise. Its time to put the entire business out to pasture.

Last week the Forsyth County Commission decided, by a 4-3 vote, to defend its right to invoke the name of Jesus Christ before meetings, which it had been doing with a prayer until a US District Court judge ruled in January that it violated the First Amendment.

It doesnt seem like all that big a deal: a motion to allow citizens time to speak at the beginning of Greensboro City Council meetings, as has been historically the case, as opposed to the end of the meetings, which can sometimes wind down around midnight.

Earlier this month former Davidson County Sheriff Gerald Hege filed with the county to make a run for his old post as the top cop.

Cuyahoga County, which encompasses the municipality of Cleveland, Ohio, will use $64 million or so in recovery bonds to partially finance a medical complex and convention center. In Buffalo County, Neb. $3.5 million will go to road projects.

As the city of Greensboro makes a permanent shrine to the four college freshmen who created here an epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement, we once again confront a legacy of racism that persists in our government and our culture.

The 5-4 decision essentially elevates corporate personhood into a new realm, granting them privileges inaccessible to actual persons, who by federal law may only donate $2,400 per candidate, $30,400 to national party committees and $10,000 to state and local political parties.

Turndown service, high thread-count sheets, those great little bottles of high-end shampoo and lotion - we can all agree that luxury hotels are fabulous.

By now we assume all of you have seen the image: that ghostly white, vaguely humanoid female form released to the media last week to illustrate the horrors of full-body scans, which are being introduced in airports in Canada, the UK and the Netherlands and could possibly make it to the United States within the year.