The left-leaning NC Justice Center in Raleigh condemned a new set of regulations for the H-2B guest-worker program that were issued by the Bush administration on Dec. 26 as exploitative of foreign workers, and unaccountable to their US counterparts. The H-2B program is used by businesses to hire unskilled temporary laborers such as farm workers.

Some of the big-ticket items removed from the countys budget include replacement items such as computers, vehicles and library books. The county is also taking $1 million from its Medicaid reimbursements and placing them in reserve. The general services department will take the heaviest hit a cut of $1.

The Forsyth County Commissioners voted unanimously to table a resolution that would have raised the rent the county pays to Baptist Hospital for use of its public health dental clinic by a whopping 6,102,400 percent during the council's regular meeting Dec.

UNCGs mens basketball program will move to the Greensboro Coliseum, where the team will play its home games, starting with the 2009-2010 season, the university and coliseum have announced. The university said former Atlantic Coast Conference administrator Fred Barakat.

The library branch is currently located in a storefront at the Renaissance Shopping Center, and reportedly was originally opened in 1986 as a one-room reading station in the Claremont Courts public housing project.

The Greensboro City Council voted 7-1 to approve a tax incentive package of up to $255,000 to ConvaTec, a medical device manufacturer. The company pledges to create 30 new jobs paying average salaries between $43,300 and $54,300 and invest $19.5 million, after which it will receive tax rebates for up to three years.

Long-time board member Dr. Nancy Routh has already hinted at her retirement from the GCS board, creating a future open seat, Huey wrote, adding that its way to early to speculate about his possible candidacy.

Daves said that anonymous McCain campaign staffers trying to disparage [Palin] to save their own political careers should be ashamed. JG.

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education tabled a resolution during its Oct. 28 meeting that would have amended the school systems standards of professional conduct to prohibit teachers and school administrators from contacting students via internet social networking sites.

Under state law, political campaigns and non-profits making prerecorded calls must identify who is making the call, give the nature of the call and provide contact information for the group that makes the call.