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Friday, January 16, 2004

The City of Greensboro has completed its audit of affordable housing provider Project Homestead.  The N&R provides the actual audit (PDF file) and reporter Mark Binker's article and summary of the audit is here.

Project Homestead's now deceased founder Rev. Michael King surely knew the extent of financial irregularities that were to be found within his organization.  His death, possibly by his own hand, might have been his way of dealing with the inevitable firestorm that he knew the audit would unleash.


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Supersleuth blogporter Ed Cone has uncovered the truth about a rumor published by the Rhino and me regarding Jim Melvin's possible budding newspaper career through an extraordinary bit of research

Is there anything Cone won't do for a free drink?


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From an email by Gary Palmer, co-chair of Greensboro's chapter of GLSEN:

"The Board of Education for Guilford County Schools, North Carolina’s third largest school district with an enrollment of more than 65,800 students and nearly 8,000 employees passed Policy AC, Discrimination-Free Environment (PDF File) at the January 13th, 2004 Board of Education meeting."

..... (This policy covers) harassment, bullying, and discrimination based on an individual’s real or perceived race, color, sex, religion, creed, political belief, age, national origin, linguistic and language differences, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, socioeconomic status, height, weight, physical characteristics, marital status, parental status, or disability.  The Board prohibits any and all forms of harassment because of those differences....

"The policy proposal came from a committee designed to work on LGBT issues in the Guilford County Schools.  The committee was composed of individuals representing GLSEN Greensboro, PFLAG, NEA and various departments within the Guilford County Schools.

Congratulations to everyone who helped get this policy in place.  If all school systems adopt just such a policy, perhaps what happened to 7 year-old Marcus McLuarin back in December will be a thing of the past.


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In an effort to transform my webblog address into something that even I can remember, I registered hoggsblog.com and pointed it here.

The usual Radio address of http://radio.weblogs.com/0128341/ not very catchy and it is just too much for me to remember, much less type, everytime I want to share my URL.

Update your bookmarks/favorites folks.

 


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