Friday, March 11, 2005

Possible sale and redevelopment of the Southeastern Building. Huge. What's stranger, that the N&R article doesn't mention the Rhino Times as a tenant, or that the Rhino Times doesn't mention the deal at all? Downtown Greensboro is past the tipping point. It is going to be a very different place in a few years. The Greensboro renaissance is underway. 12:10:57 PM    comment []

My favorite line from the announcement of Leary Davis as the first dean of Elon's new law school: "Davis will begin work immediately in temporary quarters in downtown Greensboro." These folks seem very serious and on the ball. My favorite line from Marta Hummel's article on Davis' appointment: "'I can say that we intend to meet our own very high standards, and ABA approval will be a by-product of those,' he said." I hope they have some specialization around Internet law. I don't think Greensboro has quite digested the very-goodness of this venture. 12:00:30 PM    comment []

YoCo is running "the First Annual NCAA Tournament Bloggers Bracket." 9:27:42 AM    comment []

An AP report in this morning's N&R carries the excellent news that Elizabeth Edwards is home and doing well after her recent cancer surgery, and that she is looking forward to watching the Tar Heels in the ACC tourney. Go Carolina, and Elizabeth. 9:25:34 AM    comment []

Discontent in the ranks: RedState.org says, "The bankruptcy bill before the Congress is bad law, bad practice, and an example of bad faith with the common people whom elected officials presumably serve. When it passes -- and it will -- it will be thanks purely to the Republican Party." (via Instapundit) 9:18:37 AM    comment []

The way we live now: David Wharton on the rise of the Kid-Oriented Subculture (KOSC). "My parents' social lives weren't dominated by KOSCs as ours are." 9:08:54 AM    comment []

Cunning Reallist: "That's not Conservativism. It's intellectual hypocrisy." He takes a good shot at Don Luskin, who has done more to keep people poor than his snarky site lets on...Luskin describes himself as "Founder and CEO, MetaMarkets.com, Inc. -- managers of OpenFund, the world's first interactive mutual fund." CR's version: "For those not familiar with Luskin's past, in 1999 he started a mutual fund firm called MetaMarkets.com. The results were ugly; the company's two funds quickly lost a shocking percentage of investor funds, and had to be shuttered. ...If that happened just as Don was about to retire, would he mind having his personal private account meet the same fate as the funds he managed professionally?" "Why is anyone listening to this person? Is this the best that proponents of private accounts can do?" 9:05:25 AM    comment []

Don and Nancy Vaughan are blogging at The Market Street Journal. He's a sitting Greensboro City Council member, she's a former Council member. Says Nancy of the site: "It is a collaboration between an opinionated husband and wife. It will get interesting because our views are often diametrically opposed." She writes in italics, he in "lawyerly block print." 8:44:54 AM    comment []

Mossberg weighs in on Google's link-insertion technlogy: "Users wouldn't benefit if the Web became a sea of uncertainty, where anybody could alter every Web page." Interesting to see a powerful mainstream media voice join a conversation that's been raging on the web for a while. And good (although hardly surprising) to see him get it right. 8:35:54 AM    comment []