Lately I have been blogging about the possibility of Aycock Middle School becoming the first school in Guilford County to require all students to wear school uniforms.  I am opposed to uniforms and believe the school should try strimgent enforcement of its current dress code before taking such a drastic step.  Aycock's code does not allow a common fashion trend among the hip-hop crowd: baggy pants that reveal student's underwear and sometimes more.

Compared to a new law that is before the Louisianna legislature, we don't know what a "drastic step" is.  "House Bill 1626 would punish anyone caught wearing low-riding pants with a fine of as much as $500 or as many as six months in jail, or both." according to today's Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

Fashion Legislator Derrick Sheppard has had enough, "I'm sick of seeing it,.... The community's outraged. And if parents can't do their job, if parents can't regulate what their children wear, then there should be a law."

Would the law be discriminatory to plumbers, who have been revealing their but-cracks to anyone who chooses to watch them work under the sink long before it was fashionable to do so?  No, says Sheppard, because police would have discretion and hopefully, "only cite violators who deliberately wear pants low on their hips."

Uniforms schmooniforms.  We need us a law.

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North State Chevrolet in downtown Greensboro has completed their move to Bill Black's operation on Bessemer Avenue over here near the Aycock Neighborhood.  North State's old digs are now a vast expanse of land that is ripe for development adjacent to where the downtown baseball stadium is being constructed.  What will become of it?

Talk around City Hall has it that Harris-Teeter, the Mathew's N.C. based grocery chain, is looking to locate one of their new Harris-Teeter Express stores on the site.  Like the two in Charlotte, and others in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, a mini-Teeter would provide full service grocery shopping in a "boutique" atmosphere.

If true, this amenity will be a welcome addition to Downtown Greensboro and go a long way towards making the center city self sustaining.  Harris-Teeter has already demonstrated its support for a major link in downtown's revitaization by raising funds for the International Civil Rights Museum, opening a store will take their commitment to a new level.

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