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    <title><![CDATA[Dig the new website...]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.yesweekly.com/imgs/hed/art2small.jpg" align="left" border="0" />It's like moving to a better neighborhood.
DId you know that anyone can start a blog on the new YES! Weekly site? I just did. How is that gonna work out?
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    <title><![CDATA[Ten Best: Hot Dogs]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ July is National Hot Dog Month, but here in North Carolina we eat them all year long, usually graced with a slide of chili and a mound of finely chopped cole slaw. That's how we do.                                        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Local Talent: Leena Joandi [the blonde], Laurie Willis [the brunette] Amy Runyan [the redhead]]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ A blonde, a brunette and a redhead walk into a bar. That's not a joke and there's no punchline - it actually happens every Wednesday and Thursday night at Margaritas Grill in downtown Greensboro when Leena Joandi, Laurie Willis and Amy Runyun tend the bar for margaritas and other liquid pleasures.

The three met just a few short months ago in Greensboro: Amy came in for a short-lived job with Skybus, Leena, who is originally from Sweden, moved here with a Skybus pilot and Laurie, the only North Carolina native of the bunch, grew up on the Outer Banks. Now they share a downtown apartment together and have crafted a nightlife scene all their own.                                 ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Fake racism vs. actual racism]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim. He went to a Muslim seminary and is a citizen of Kenya. He doesn't recite the Pledge of Allegiance and took his oath of office on the Quran. He's in a pseudo-Christian cult that hates white people. He is a distant cousin of Saddam Hussein. He hates Jews.                                 ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dana Our 1st]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Dana, a local fitness instructor and woman of many talents, swept our readers away in our first edition. She was, and still is, a favorite of YES! Weekly and our readers.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Like it or not, gay marriage is happening]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Heavens to Betsy, the gays are getting married in California, hugging and kissing and carrying on just like they're regular people. Can you sense the palpable damage it's doing to your marriage?                                         ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Local Talent: Katie Schmidt]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ This week's Page Three model, Katie Schmidt, has a lot of balls in the air. She's a rising junior at UNCG, studying anthropology. And she waits tables at the Out West Steakhouse in Kernersville, where she grew up. They have their similarities. Of anthropology, she says, "Its just learning about different human cultures. It teaches you a lot about humans in general."

And the steakhouse in K-Vegas? "It teaches me about a specific demographic of people - the people who come into a steakhouse in a small town. Lots of well-done steaks." And wouldn't you know it? She's got a modeling contract that will bring her to Mexico next month. "My latest thing is working for a promotional company called Traviesa. They represent Grey Goose and Bacardi, and we'll go to a bunch of different cities and go to clubs. We model for them and we get paid to party. It's a pretty good deal        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ten Best: Nearby vacation spots]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Hanging Rock

If you're like most people, rising gas prices are forcing you to reexamine your fiscal priorities. Especially this summer - a hot spell that promises record prices at the pump - when elaborate vacations may be beyond the reach of those unwilling or unable to take a second mortgage. We've got an idea: Stick to North Carolina. Save your money by booking a weekend getaway at Hanging Rock State Park outside Winston-Salem, where you can camp, hike, fish and swim.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Michael France goes 5 for 5 in Hollywood]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ You may not know the name Michael France off-hand, but you certainly know the movies he's written: Cliffhanger (1993), GoldenEye (1995), Hulk (2003), The Punisher (2004) and Fantastic Four (2005).                        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Jim Dowell returns from a spring interlude with lots of art]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Greetings to you all. The last time I saw you was in April. What a spring we had! I had a wonderful mini vacation during the month of May which gave me time to catch up on my own personal "favorite things": couch potato sessions, reading and seeing movies - in a theater. On the subject of the first, I watched along with the rest of the country, the annual "American Idol" finale.                ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Border warriors dig in to defend the Carolinas]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ The 4Hers and Future Farmers of America descended on the NC General Assembly last week, turning the left quad into a sea of cloverleaf nametags and blue corduroy.                        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A new chapter, one bittersweet page at a time]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ This weekend Janet and I will be making our final move. All the pieces somehow fell in place; all the contracts were honored, the loan went through, the checks cleared.                                                         ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Florida may haunt Democrats again]]></title>

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    <title><![CDATA[Ten Best: Hot weather drinks]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Gin and tonic

You don't have to tell me how hot it is outside. But during my years in the South, I've developed a few strategies for summer survival. First and foremost is: Keep the liquids coming. Also, in the warmer months, a lot of people switch from brown liquors to clear. That's why so many gin and tonics get thrown back between March and October. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Seriously, this gas thing is out of control. You're feeling it... we're feeling it... the whole nation is feeling it, and soon the petroleum-drenched chicken will come home to roost in the form of increased prices. On everything.                                                        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Hanging Rock

If you're like most people, rising gas prices are forcing you to reexamine your fiscal priorities. Especially this summer - a hot spell that promises record prices at the pump - when elaborate vacations may be beyond the reach of those unwilling or unable to take a second mortgage. We've got an idea: Stick to North Carolina. Save your money by booking a weekend getaway at Hanging Rock State Park outside Winston-Salem, where you can camp, hike, fish and swim.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ten Best: Kennedy/Byrd moments]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ June 2, 2008

Last week the two most senior members of the US Senate, Sens. Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), faced individual health crises. Kennedy, who eventually won the Senate seat vacated by his brother John in 1962, underwent surgery for a malignant brain tumor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Amuse Bouche]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ The Fourth of July crept up pretty quickly this year, but sure enough by the weekend the air will be filled with fireworks and the heady whiff of lighter fluid as its sprayed over the coals in preparation for a big meat feast.

Tell me you're not going to eat at least some charred animal remains this Fourth, and I'll tell you you're helping the terrorists.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Booze in Randolph: Do it for the money]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Last week the Asheboro City Council voted 4-3 to put in motion a series of events that might legalize alcohol sales in the city, the seat of Randolph County, which is one of four dry counties left in North Carolina.                        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Editorial: We are all Chinese]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ In a rapidly transforming global economy in which our domestic political system seems all jammed up, it's easy for us in North Carolina to retreat into our provincial comfort zones and tune out a world of dizzying complexity.
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    <description><![CDATA[ It came as news to most people in Greensboro when they found out earlier this year they do not have the same rights as every other municipality in North Carolina and haven't since 1971.
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    <title><![CDATA[Be There!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Today though, cellist Xavier Phillips performs at the Guilford College Sternberger Auditorium. Admission is free with season passes. If you have kids I hope you had a chance to check out what EMF has to offer with their EMF Kids Concerts featuring Hot Peas &lsquo;N Butter and Shana Banana.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ After a history of presenting its shows at various venues throughout the city, including Wake Forest University and the last dozen or so years at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Theatre Alliance finally has a little home to call its own.                                        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Clay Felker, an American journalism pioneer, passed last week at the age of 82. He was a giant in the industry, and an inspiration, either directly or indirectly, to everyone working in magazine journalism today. His achievements are numerous, but his crowning achievement was the creation of New York.                                ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Taking a listen]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Boy, was this was an album for sore ears. Andrew Eversole was Kentucky born, and began his mountain-music journey when his parents relocated to North Carolina. It's been a decade now since his relocation to the Triad, and he has now released his debut album in May on Rivers of Mars Records.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Art that walks out the door In addition to the artwork displayed on cars at the Heavy Rebel Weekender on Trade Street in Winston-Salem was an equally artistic display of tattoos; canvases walking around all weekend.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ When he moved to Winston-Salem a year ago, Luna lost access to his best medicine. New York lawmakers had decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, but people caught with the same amount in North Carolina face a misdemeanor %uFFFDeuro;&rdquo; even if they use it to alleviate pain.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ With the Rev. Nelson Johnson at his side during a press conference in the sanctuary of Faith Community Church in Greensboro on June 30, Cornell faced a bank of television cameras and proclaimed: "My goal is to bring peace to the streets, black, brown, come together as one.                        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ When he moved to Winston-Salem a year ago, Luna lost access to his best medicine. New York lawmakers had decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, but people caught with the same amount in North Carolina face a misdemeanor %uFFFDeuro;&rdquo; even if they use it to alleviate pain.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ With the Rev. Nelson Johnson at his side during a press conference in the sanctuary of Faith Community Church in Greensboro on June 30, Cornell faced a bank of television cameras and proclaimed: "My goal is to bring peace to the streets, black, brown, come together as one.                        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The Greensboro City Council voted 5-3 on Nov. 18 on separate motions to purchase the Canada Dry bottling plant and the Coliseum Inn on High Point Road for a total of $5.3 million. The purchases were backed by the Greensboro Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Greensboro Sports Commission, the Lee Street Merchants Association and area residents.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ A black Boston terrier named Neo jumped up and down, as if on a springboard, trying to peek through the Plexiglass window above the four-foot-high retaining wall of the dog day care area of Downtown Hounds. Neo was one of 10 dogs placed in the care of co-owner Nicole Bianchi on Nov.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ A black Boston terrier named Neo jumped up and down, as if on a springboard, trying to peek through the Plexiglass window above the four-foot-high retaining wall of the dog day care area of Downtown Hounds. Neo was one of 10 dogs placed in the care of co-owner Nicole Bianchi on Nov.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Amber and her 10-year-old daughter Brooklyn sit in the hard plastic chairs that circle the round table, a centerpiece in their one-room home. Two sets of bunk beds line opposite walls. A double bed, carefully made with a blue and white quilt, nestles in the corner near the large, blinded window.                                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Though the Triad might never be considered as a bustling haven for reggae music to flourish, there are still a handful of artists who have dedicated themselves to both the music and the spiritual way of life that accompanies it. One of those is Ras David Graves, vocalist and bassist for Winston- Salem%uFFFDs Pure Fiyah]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ I%uFFFDve got ace-eight, off suit. What the hell. I call the big blind, 30 bucks. A ninja calling himself The Bonaparte raises to 90. Screw you, Bonaparte. I call. The flop comes out eightten-queen. Rainbow. Bonaparte checks, and I know it%uFFFDs because he%uFFFDs got nothing.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The slate gray skies of Alleghany County opened up with a steady downpour on the morning of Oct. 24 as a reporter traveled the highways and byways of northwest North Carolina, making his way to the first debate between US Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina%uFFFDs 5 th Congressional District, and her Democratic challenger, Roy Carter.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Democratic challenger Dr. Teresa Sue Bratton met Republican Rep. Howard Coble (right) for the two candidates%uFFFD first and possibly only debate of the campaign in Greensboro on Oct. 21. Retired UNCG professor David Olson moderated. (photo by Jordan Green).        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Bill Hartsfeld read from a letter he wrote to his son, Dylan, during the October 22 Coalition protest of police brutality in front of the High Point Police Department. First, Hartsfeld gave the approximately 35 people in attendance a little background on Dylan.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ For starters, city leaders found themselves confused about the threshold for sufficiency under state law, namely whether the signatures should be counted against the number of people who voted in the municipal election preceding the petition drive or the election before petitions were handed over to the county board of elections.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Congressman wants the vets Rep. GK Butterfield, who represents North Carolina's 1st Congressional District in the state's northeast corner, has requested that Gov.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Of three incidents, police deem last a hoax On Nov. 7, Wake Forest University students and visitors walked along the paved path that connects the university to Reynolda Village. Brightly colored leaves crunched underfoot as a young family took their toddler for a stroll.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ It was inevitable that the Buracker report &mdash; an exhaustive review of the policies, procedures and performance measures of the Greensboro Police Department &mdash; would be read as a verdict on the changing of the guard that took place in January 2006.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Choice samplings from the Triad&rsquo;s police blotters John K. Gallaher III, 24, called Winston-Salem police on July 15 to report a shooting at 27 Graylyn Place. When officers arrived, they found two victims &mdash; Lori Fioravanti, 24, and Sean Bert Gallagher, 23 &mdash; both of whom had sustained gunshot wounds to the head.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[randomly compiled by Jesse Kiser Okay so the economy sucks and you lost your job, or you&rsquo;re home from college, like me, and have to move back home into your parents&rsquo; basement. You don&rsquo;t want to add your home address on your MySpace or Facebook as &ldquo;mom and dad&rsquo;s,&rdquo; but you have to deal with it anyway.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The Big &ldquo;O&rdquo; 2000, here&rsquo;s the short version: &ldquo;President&rdquo; George W. Bush. Or the shorter version: the Duh.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Every day, something cool Maroon 5 and the Counting Crows are headlining together with opening act, Sarah Bareilles. By the way, if you can&rsquo;t make the Raleigh trip the night before they are playing in Charlotte. Ticket prices vary but they are offering a pretty good group rate for lawn tickets so get some friends together and check &rsquo;em out.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ A suspect entered the Kentucky Fried Chicken on East Bessemer Avenue in Greensboro on July 22 and demanded money by threatening to blow up the business if the clerk did not comply. The clerk said she could not open the register and the suspect left without discharging any kind of explosive device.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask politicians and public servants questions about their jobs. This week we&rsquo;re asking questions about the budget passed by the Winston-Salem City Council last month. The rules are simple: The officials must answer immediately &mdash; no research, no callbacks.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Once-solid support for Greensboro manager has narrowed The first year of the scandal was marked by frustration among many citizens as city leaders promised that answers would be forthcoming following a thorough investigation. In 2007, the city began to release various investigative documents and in September of that year Detective Scott Sanders and Sgt.                        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ It&rsquo;s been a busy seven months for Susan Wies. The director of victim services for Family Services of the Piedmont works primarily with Guilford County&rsquo;s casualties of domestic violence and sexual assault.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ I and residents of the Meadow Oaks community thank you for a doing a great article on our issues with developer, Scott Wallace [&ldquo;Greensboro council overturns apartment decision&rdquo;; July 23, 2008; by Jordan Green]. We knew he had given campaign contributions to some of the city council members, but not all the ones that you listed.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ This week's Page Three model, Charity Lewallen, doesn't need your handouts. She's a career gal, with a gig at Citigroup she's been working at for the last eight years. "I just moved to Greensboro from Julian, which was closer to work" she says. "I moved here to get to know more people.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[City&rsquo;s interest in Coliseum Inn could mean relocation of p Like an unwanted sibling the Coliseum Inn has become almost as much a landmark on High Point Road as its namesake the Greensboro Coliseum, the hulking venue that has hosted everything from Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling matches and Grateful Dead concerts of years past to next month&rsquo;s Central Carolina Fair.                                              ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Forsyth County is a lot like your average American: It has the best financial intentions, but sometimes its spending habits get the better of it.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The courts delivered a string of setbacks to two African-American officers with the Greensboro Police Department who are suing author Jerry Bledsoe and The Rhinoceros Times newspaper, but the plaintiffs&rsquo; lawyer says their case is still strong.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Forsyth County is a lot like your average American: It has the best financial intentions, but sometimes its spending habits get the better of it.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask politicians and public servants questions about their jobs. This week we find out which members of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board have been doing their homework this summer. The rules are simple: School board members must answer immediately &mdash; no research, no callbacks.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Developments across the Triad and beyond, compiled by  Amy Kings Democratic members of the US House Financial Services Committee implored more than a dozen executives in the mortgage industry to exercise leniency towards homeowners who have defaulted on home loans in an Aug. 5 letter.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Since November 2005, a dwindling panel of 18 Greensboro citizens has been poring over the city&rsquo;s development ordinance to bring a code last revised in 1992 into the 21 st century.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Segal, founder of Medical Justice, patented a blend of contracts, contacts and legal threats that he claims inoculate doctors against frivolous lawsuits. His company currently has 1,700 physician subscribers nationwide and occupies a suite of offices on the third floor of the converted textile factory.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask politicians questions about their jobs. This week we&rsquo;re asking questions of the two candidates for state attorney general, Democratic incumbent Roy Cooper and Republican challenger Bob Crumley. The rules are simple: The candidates must answer immediately &mdash; no research, no callbacks.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ It&rsquo;s turned out to be a sleepy summer for what was billed as the most important election of our lifetime. The GOP all the way down from Republican presidential nominee Sen.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Developments across the Triad and beyond, compiled by Amy Kingsl Enrollment in North Carolina community colleges will remain off limits to undocumented students, at least for the time being. The State Board of Com munity Colleges voted on Aug.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ An important development has transpired among Guilford County%uFFFDs poorest residents over the past nine months: People who once slept in tents in the woods, curled up on church porches at night or took advantage of spare couches until friends withdrew the welcome mat are now living in their own apartments.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A Greensboro woman appears to have voted twice in the May primar And then &mdash; if two Authorization To Vote, or ATV forms on file at the Guilford County Board of Elections are to be believed &mdash; Johnson voted a second time at the same polling place on the same day. The names and dates of birth on the two ATVs are exactly the same and Johnson&rsquo;s signatures appear to be identical, but different poll workers initialed the forms and the two sequence numbers, 196 and 412, indicate that more than 200 voters passed through the line between Johnson&rsquo;s two visits.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A Greensboro woman appears to have voted twice in the May primar And then &mdash; if two Authorization To Vote, or ATV forms on file at the Guilford County Board of Elections are to be believed &mdash; Johnson voted a second time at the same polling place on the same day. The names and dates of birth on the two ATVs are exactly the same and Johnson&rsquo;s signatures appear to be identical, but different poll workers initialed the forms and the two sequence numbers, 196 and 412, indicate that more than 200 voters passed through the line between Johnson&rsquo;s two visits.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Alamance County may be Ground Zero in North Carolina for the immigration debate, but among the Carolina Bank employees and Women&rsquo;s Resource Center staff members gathered at a Habitat for Humanity worksite on a busy roadside on the northern outskirts of Burlington on a recent Thursday morning, the conversation took a decidedly empathetic tone.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ But that doesn&rsquo;t keep her from calling her autistic son, and all the kids like him, &ldquo;lost boys.&rdquo; Lost because they&rsquo;re entering adolescence with a condition that responds best to early intervention. And lost because they are on the cusp of an epidemic that&rsquo;s threatening to overwhelm the schools, hospitals and treatment centers that serve them.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask politicians and public servants questions about their jobs. This week we deviate from custom &mdash; in honor of our back-to-school issue &mdash; with a quiz for UNCG students. The rules are simple: No research, no callbacks.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ He was transported by private vehicle to Wesley Long Hospital for treatment of the non-life threatening injury. Vasquez described his assailant as a six-foot tall black man wearing a white T-shirt and a blue and yellow hat..        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Hundreds of dead fish have turned up in a lakebed on Koger Boule vard in southwest Greensboro. The lake has been draining for about a week, said Dan Essary, a field supervi sor with Guilford County Animal Control, who added that someone evidently opened the drain to release the water.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Developments across the Triad and beyond, compiled by Jordan Gre The Forsyth County Commission opted to support the utilities commission in its efforts to wring more money out of the city for the curbside recycling program. On Monday the commission adopted a resolution in support of a utilities commission funding scheme that would require that the city pay half the cost of curbside recycling.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ A panel handpicked by the city of Greensboro&rsquo;s inspection department agreed last week to eliminate mandatory inspection of rental properties and grant lifetime certification to those that have been documented as being up to code.
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    <description><![CDATA[ Winston-Salem police Cpl. JA Henry was working off duty in the downtown district at 1:20 a.m. on Aug. 29 when he loud banging noises. The sound was the result of 46-year-old Derrick Dejuan Broadway&rsquo;s efforts to break in to a city parking meter, according to a police press release.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask politicians and public servants about their jobs. This week we ask candidates for High Point City Council &mdash; sitting members and aspirants alike &mdash; some basic questions about the job for which they are applying.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The take from the door was going to Roy Carter, a former high school teacher and football coach challenging Republican incumbent Virginia Foxx for the 5 th Congressional District seat, but Obama volunteers were handing out stickers at the door and Tilden Hagan, son of the Democratic candidate for Senate, was chatting with visitors nearby.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ While the Democrats exult in the afterglow of a con vention ripe with revitalization, historicity and goodwill on the 45 th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.&rsquo;s &ldquo;I Have A Dream&rdquo; speech, the Republican Party suffered the bad fortune of timing its convention in St.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Every Day, Something Cool Well they are not being sold out of the bed of a truck but rather headlining at Greene Street Club tonight. Also joining them is What Made Milwaukee Famous, Native Sound and Winfield. Don&rsquo;t worry it&rsquo;s an all ages show. Their tour is a big one leading them to all the way Florida and back up to Ohio with stops along the way.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Look, I&rsquo;m 29-years-old and enough of a feminist to know that &ldquo;girl&rdquo; is not the proper label to affix to a professional embarking on the next stage of her ca reer &mdash; in Las Vegas, baby! But I&rsquo;m playing the needy card here.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Some of the elderly residents of the historic Warnersville neighborhood had gathered in front of Greensboro College to voice their displeasure with the college&rsquo;s plans to develop the property around JC Price School, long an institutional anchor of the African-American community established after the Civil War.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Tadd Grandstaff, lead pastor of Graham&rsquo;s Pine Ridge Church, is the new face of the evangelical movement. But it&rsquo;s not his face, or even his conservative haircut, that sets him apart from older church leaders &mdash; it&rsquo;s his designer T-shirts, blue jeans, sneakers and rock music.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ From Day 1, it&rsquo;s more dangerous to be black, Hispanic, Asian or American Indian than white in Guilford County. That&rsquo;s the finding of the NC State Center for Health Statistics, which released numbers last week showing that the infant mortality rate for whites dropped from 8.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Choice samplings from the Triad&rsquo;s police blotters The perpetrators of a mugging outside Rush Fitness on Randleman Road in Greensboro made off with a cell phone and gym clothes in lieu of cash. The victims &ndash; a 42-year-old and a juvenile &ndash; were leaving the gym on Sept. 3 when two black teens armed with a gun approached them and demanded their money.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask politicians and public servants about their jobs. This week, we investigate how well Winston-Salem city councilors and Forsyth County commissioners prepare for meetings. The rules are simple: The officials must answer immediately &mdash; no research and no callbacks.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Raynard Reaves left the North Carolina prison system last year after 32 years behind bars, he left with a bus ticket and the clothes on his back. But he also had something less tangible, something unavailable to most of North Carolina&rsquo;s prison population: A support system provided by Winston-Salem&rsquo;s Project Re-entry.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Choice samplings from the Triad&rsquo;s police blotters, as comp Brandon Lamar Byrd, a suspect in the July 16 murder of 27-year-old Donte Garner, turned himself in to Greensboro police last week. Garner was shot several times on Eugene Street and admitted to Cone Hospital in critical condition. He died from his wounds.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Developments across the Triad and beyond, compiled by Jordan Gre ReynoldsAmerican announced plans to eliminate about 570 jobs at its Winston-Salem headquarters and area facilities on Sept. 9. The tobacco company also said it would focus on Camel and Pall Mall as its growth brands while relegating its Kool cigarettes as a support brand.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ commercial and residential future of the NC Highway 68 corridor near the new GTCC aviation campus took shape on Sept. 10 when the Guilford Planning Board unanimously approved a request by a group of anonymous investors.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask politicians and public servants about their jobs. This week we take to the streets of High Point &mdash; or in this case the Oak Hollow Mall &mdash; to ask regular people some basic questions about the NC gubernatorial race and US congressional race.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[News and info from inside the media bubble A word of advice for the reporter on the campaign trail: Keep the audio recorder running. Nuance is everything when candidates outline their positions on the issues. The candidate has the difficult task of differentiating herself from her opponent while at the same time taking care to avoid alienating key constituencies.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Choice samplings from the Triad%uFFFDs police blotters, as compi Police said the Capel and Chisholm were located and charged with armed robbery. Despite being run over by his own vehicle, police reported that Cheek was not seriously injured..        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Developments across the Triad and beyond, compiled by Jordan Gre Winston-Salem-based Beroth Oil Co. also received a subpoena following consumer complaints about its Four Brothers gas station in Yadkinville. %uFFFDThere%uFFFDs no excuse for ripping off consumers who are already hurting from high gas prices,%uFFFD Cooper said. %uFFFDGouging for greed will not be tolerated in North Carolina.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, or Latin Kings, launched the initiative in June when its North Carolina leader, Jorge Cornell, began meeting with the Rev. Nelson Johnson, 1st vice president of the Pulpit Forum. At least a dozen affiliates of the Latin Kings identified by their yellow and black colors filled a section of the sanctuary at St.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask politicians and public servants about their jobs. This week we test Greensboro City Council members on their recall of matters decided at their Sept. 16 meeting. The rules are simple: no research, no callbacks.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[News and information from inside the media bubble The story won the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and first place in investigative journalism by the NC Press Association, but more importantly it caused a judge to free Daniels from prison last week. Secret has since joined the staff of ProPublica, an investigative journalism group.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ They called it a GOP Women Rock the Vote event despite the fact that the music was provided by a hired DJ, and the song selection favored a canon that might just as easily make the cut for the Democratic Party%uFFFDs soundtrack: John Mellencamp%uFFFDs %uFFFDROCK in the USA,%uFFFD Dolly Parton%uFFFDs %uFFFD9 to 5%uFFFD and Madonna%uFFFDs %uFFFDExpress Yourself.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ An important development has transpired among Guilford County%uFFFDs poorest residents over the past nine months: People who once slept in tents in the woods, curled up on church porches at night or took advantage of spare couches until friends withdrew the welcome mat are now living in their own apartments.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama returned to Guilford County, making a signature campaign speech in a county whose solid support helped him carry North Carolina by a resounding margin and ultimately clinch his primary contest against Sen.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ According to figures provided by the district, almost 2,000 students received vaccinations over the previous week. State law requires students to be up to date on required immunizations by the end of the day on Sept. 25, after which they would be excluded from attending school.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Taxi company owners and drivers plan to meet with city of Winston-Salem staff to discuss a draft rewrite of the city%uFFFDs Vehicles for Hire ordinance on Oct. 8.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[by Brian Clarey, Jordan Green and Keith Barber UNCG and the Greensboro Historical Museum begin a series of events celebrating the life and work of Polecat Creek native Edward R. Murrow on the occasion of what would have been his 100 th birthday. The Edward R. Murrow Centennial Celebration: Guilford County Remembers Its Native Son.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The annual %uFFFDPig, Poultry and Politics%uFFFD reception hosted by the Triad Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition is a must-attend event for those seeking elected office. Two candidates for NC Supreme Court pled their cases. The Democratic candidate for state insurance commissioner threaded through the throng.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The best and worst of Triad area blotters, as compiled by Jorda The would-be robber who targeted Taqueria El Azteca on Spring Garden Street in Greensboro on Oct. 10 might have benefited from attending the Black/ Brown Conference at Genesis Baptist Church the previous weekend.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Openly gay man believes bid for NC House more than a symbolic ge Near the end of the second presidential debate between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain on Oct. 7, Obama spoke to the TV audience about his health care plan for the nation, as a hush fell over the crowd assembled at Krankies Werehouse in Winston-Salem.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Developments across the Triad and beyond, compiled by Keith T. B The policy aims to achieve two overlapping goals: bringing business downtown and creating good-paying jobs.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask politicians and public servants about their jobs. This week we address questions to members of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board to see how much they know about starting teacher salary, SAT scores and the state%uFFFDs current dropout rate.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin%uFFFDs visit to Elon University on Oct. 16 was a defiant and dispirited affair, with many local GOP leaders acknowledging privately and publicly that the party faces significant challenges here in North Carolina and around the country.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Ronnie Ansley hopes the fourth time is the charm. In 2000, Ansley lost his bid for lieutenant governor to current Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bev Perdue. In 2002, he lost to Brad Miller in the Democratic primary for US House District 13. Then, in 2006, he lost his bid for a seat on the NC Supreme Court.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ With %uFFFDchange%uFFFD being the watchword of the election and voters looking with disdain on the party in power, North Carolina Democrats are angling for wins by their presidential nominee and US Senate candidate, along with pickups in a handful of congressional districts.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ %uFFFDThe middle class is disappearing in this country,%uFFFD said the pediatrician, who has spent a significant part of career providing indigent care. %uFFFDYou can do a lot to shore up struggling people. Leveling the playing field a little bit, that%uFFFDs the Democratic philosophy.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ over a revision to Greensboro%uFFFDs ordinance requiring mandatory inspection of rental properties remain mired in miscommunication and confusion, with two panels, staff members, elected leaders and representatives of the real-estate sector and tenant advocates speaking past each other.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Last Friday, Roy Carter, Democratic nominee in the 5th Congressional District race, issued a scathing press release after incumbent US Rep. Virginia Foxx voted for the second time against the $700billion financial bailout package aimed at addressing the nation%uFFFDs economic crisis.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The question posed to five candidates for the Ward 2 High Point City Council seat (a sixth, Fitzgerald Waller was absent) at a forum at the International Home Furnishings Center might have seemed rigged to embarrass one of the contenders. The moderator asked what should be done about the boarded-up houses in the ward.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ In light of the US House of Representatives%uFFFD approval of the $700 billion financial rescue package last Friday and the news of Wells Fargo%uFFFDs proposed purchase of Wachovia, the $62.1 million education bond referendum on the Forsyth County ballot could meet with significant opposition from worried voters on Nov.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ City Manager Mitchell Johnson told the Greensboro City Council on Nov. 18 that the city will likely experience a $4.5 million reduction in revenue as a result of the economic downturn, mostly from declining sales tax monies, but also from other sources.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ This week's Page Three model, Ashley Flaherty, is a young lady we'd like to have on our side. A UNCG senior majoring in human development, Ashley aspires to one day get her law degree and become an advocate for at-risk youth. She credits her grandfather, David, with sparking her interest in politics and law.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The Sunday after Christmas, my thoughts turned to New Year's and the promise of a new beginning. For many years, it's been my philosophy that if you're very lucky, life is not one continuous existence from birth to death, but rather a series of deaths and rebirths.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to a bright new year to gallery hoppers and Arts District denizens alike, bringing the very First Friday of 2009 to life in Winston-Salem.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The best and worst of Triad area blotters, as compiled by Keith The Winston-Salem police have charged two male teenagers with armed robbery in connection with an Oct. 28 incident in which a female Wake Forest student was robbed at gunpoint at an off-campus apartment complex. Winston- Salem police also charged the two suspects with an Oct.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Greensboro RUCO Appeals and Advisory Board approved changes to the city%uFFFDs housing inspection ordinance that were hashed out over the past five months by a task force representing both landlord and tenant interests, with only minor revisions, on Nov. 6.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Of three incidents, police deem last a hoax On Nov. 7, Wake Forest University students and visitors walked along the paved path that connects the university to Reynolda Village. Brightly colored leaves crunched underfoot as a young family took their toddler for a stroll.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Greensboro RUCO Appeals and Advisory Board approved changes to the city%uFFFDs housing inspection ordinance that were hashed out over the past five months by a task force representing both landlord and tenant interests, with only minor revisions, on Nov. 6.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Two days after Election Day at about 1 p.m., BJ Hill, a 32-year-old teacher from Massachusetts, stopped for lunch at the Jamestown Oven & Grill. He cornered a pair of instructors from GTCC and two Kerr Drugs employees dispatched from the Triangle to the store here, and got them to write messages to President-elect Obama in a black bound notebook.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ First of all, thank you for taking the time to participate in the economic roundtable at Guilford Technical Community College last Friday, Dec. 5. I thought the assembled business leaders represented an accurate crosssection of the region and voiced their concerns with eloquence and passion.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Employment Security Commission in Winston-Salem was the second stop of the day for Anthony Clinton. A freelance photographer, Clinton was eighth in line when he arrived shortly after noon on Nov. 12, and as he waited a number of other applicants filed in behind him.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ %uFFFDHow are all my green people?%uFFFD Yvonne Johnson asked. %uFFFDI%uFFFDm just so excited that we are here, and the committee is here, and that so many people are passionate about our green movement. I know I am.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Developments across the Triad and beyond %uFFFDLong-time board member Dr. Nancy Routh has already hinted at her retirement from the GCS board, creating a future open seat,%uFFFD Huey wrote, adding that %uFFFDit%uFFFDs way to early to speculate%uFFFD about his possible candidacy.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we asked politicians and public servants about their jobs. This week we address questions to members of the Greensboro City Council. The rules are simple: no research, no callbacks.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[News and information from inside the media bubble Progressives, on the other hand, worry that the charismatic former senator from Illinois represents a cosmetic change and a preservation of the status quo. After all, he%uFFFDs been talking about keeping Robert Gates on as defense secretary, and his economic team seems to be chiefly comprised of Clinton administration pro-deregulation retreads.        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Undeveloped Guilford tracts could be used for trails]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ John Young, a retired furniture-store owner guided, his Volkswagen Passat station wagon down James Doak Parkway, an easterly route studded with spacious houses built of fieldstone and brick with multiple gables, ample breezeways and rounded windows. The faux chateaus fanned across the landscape north of Greensboro.                                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The Warnersville Community Coalition unveiled a proposal on Nov. 20 to transform the historic JC Price School, which is owned by Greensboro College, into a "life enrichment and cultural center" that would include a senior center, youth performing and visual arts facilities, a historical museum and a business incubator.                ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Homeless for the holidays: Amber's story]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Amber and her 10-year-old daughter Brooklyn sit in the hard plastic chairs that circle the round table, a centerpiece in their one-room home. Two sets of bunk beds line opposite walls. A double bed, carefully made with a blue and white quilt, nestles in the corner near the large, blinded window.                                ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[LET&rsquo;S BE FRANK: the Blind Tiger gets Ugly]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ There are very few instances that come to mind where it is socially acceptable to publicly ask the question "Why does it hurt when I pee?" While "Loveline" with Adam Carrola and Dr. Drew Pinsky is still alive in radio syndication, it's not nearly the same widely recognized forum for topics to make you squirm in your seat as it was in its MTV heyday.                        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The George W. Bush that I know and love]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ See ya later, George W. Bush. Believe it or not, I%uFFFDm gonna miss the old son of a gun. Granted, I opposed him on virtually every count: his belligerent foreign policy, his immoral pursuit of starving social programs for the poor by cutting taxes for the rich, his practice of appointing cronies to head critical agencies and corporate hacks to regulatory positions...        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The most overlooked news story of 2008]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Have you noticed lately that mainstream media are giving less attention to the war in Iraq, especially concerning our troops%uFFFD progress? Who doesn%uFFFDt recognize by now that we live in a time in which there%uFFFDs little, if any, publishing space for positive military stories about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? CNSNews.        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[politics, updates, trends and other vital information.]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ A Guilford County district court judge acquitted Jorge Cornell of assaulting a police officer on Monday. The Almighty Latin King  Queen Nation leader pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, and Judge Pete Hunter found him guilty of resisting and obstructing arrest.                                                                ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ten best!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ President-elect Obama has made a breathtaking pivot from champion of change to upholder of the status quo has been breathtaking as President Bush leaves the United States%uFFFD international standing in shambles and the economy lurches ever deeper into cataclysm.        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[be there!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Historically Chicago blues amplified Delta blues with electric instruments, more jazz and more swing. Even alone on stage, this old white man will make you dance. Margolin also won the 2008 Blues Music Award for best instrumentalist..        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[S C U T T L E B U T T]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ 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.                        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The best and worst of Triad area blotters, as compiled by Keith T. Barber.]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ A 45-year-old Randleman man died after suffering severe injuries related to getting caught in the augers of commercialsize wood chipper while working for a landscaping company in Winston-Salem on Nov. 29.        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tolly Carr should stay clear of TV, role model position]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ After serving a slapon-the-wrist sentence for killing a pedestrian while driving drunk, former WXII TV anchor Tolly Carr will be a free man in May. In the meantime, Carr and his attorneys have been busy averting a wrongful death jury trial that was initially sought by the victim's family.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The official unveiling of the Winston- Salem minor league baseball team%uFFFDs new name at the Millennium Center on Dec. 4 seemed a world away from the harsh realities facing many of Forsyth County%uFFFDs residents.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ After the Greensboro City Council returned from an evaluation of City Manager Mitchell Johnson in closed session tonight, Mayor Yvonne Johnson announced, %uFFFDThe decision of the majority was that the manager remain with no increase in compensation %uFFFD in other words, no raise.        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[CLAD IN PLAID]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ After a history of presenting its shows at various venues throughout the city, including Wake Forest University and the last dozen or so years at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Theatre Alliance finally has a little home to call its own.                                        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Who cares about homeless and hungry]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ The official unveiling of the Winston- Salem minor league baseball team%uFFFDs new name at the Millennium Center on Dec. 4 seemed a world away from the harsh realities facing many of Forsyth County%uFFFDs residents.        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Some of the things I have learned in '08 prepare me for '09]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ If you're doing it right - if you've got your eyes and ears on and you can process those things you take in - you're gonna pick up some knowledge along the way. I'm at the precise age where I realize just how little I know. I'm barely halfway around the tack, and I've only really been paying attention for the last 10 years or so.        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Faun Finley]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ This week&rsquo;s Page Three layout lends itself to the seasonal beauty of Awake the White and Wint&rsquo;ry Queen, a concert and performance composed and produced by Triad artist Scott Fray. The Winter Solstice celebration, according to a press release, &ldquo;is a winter concert meant to evoke the sentiments of the season while maintaining an ancient and ageless awareness.&rdquo; ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Random thoughts the week before Christmas:-Despite the economic downturn, I can't help but feel a renewed sense of optimism lately. Perhaps it's irrational and perhaps it's because I haven't yet been directly affected by the sorry economy, but this.                ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Two years ago, I made a two-anda-half hour drive to Southern Village in Chapel Hill to attend a John Edwards campaign rally. Two days earlier, Edwards had announced his candidacy for president on national television while working to help repair homes ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.                ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Music Guy]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ With the record industry in seasonal hibernation, trying to squeeze out %uFFFDunits%uFFFD into stockings and MP3 players, I%uFFFDm looking ahead to some of the most exciting events, new tunes and DVDs of the coming year. Flannel, anyone? In conjunction with the album%uFFFDs inclusion in Rock Band.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ And quite a reference it was, albeit in a left-handed sort of way. Keech wondered aloud how I had managed to slip through security on the Iraq leg of the Bush Legacy Tour and hurl a pair of shoes at the object of my disaffection (whose name should be changed from Duh to Duck, except that that would be an affront to mallards everywhere).        ]]></description>
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