I just thought I ought to let the N&R know when they have done something very right, at least according to my middle schooler and two high schoolers.

This morning, they were all looking over each others' shoulder checking out the latest version of The 'Boro; the N&R's "page for teens by teens".  In the short number of weeks since its debut, The 'Boro has become a must-read for my three. 

Good job, local MSM.

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Update: JR tells us there is even more 'Boro stuff online including a first-ever "moblog".  Now if they will just provide the local teen scene with a local IM service, they'll have a chance to hook them for life.

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After reading the N&R's account of yesterday's split decisions on the part of Greensboro's Zoning Commission and Planning Board, I think our City Council should weigh in on more than just a another contentious rezoning case this time around.

The 34 acre property in question currently serves as a golf course.  The City's much heralded Comprehensive Land-Use Plan shows the property as becoming a low-density development in the future.  But the developer, Blue Ridge Companies, wants the parcel upzoned to accomodate up to 16 units per acre.

Generally, when faced with such upzoning, a majority on our City Council votes against the neighborhoods and the people who worked for many months to develop the Comprehensive Plan.  They're predictable course of action is to side with the developer in instances such as this and echew our Comp Plan as being merely "guidelines"

So this time out, might I suggest that our City Council draw up one of those fancy resolutions and go ahead and rename the Connections 2025 Comprehensive Plan to what it really has become: The Disjointed 2025 Sort-of-Comprehensive Suggestions.

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In the comments to his own post about something or another, Guilford County GOP Chair Marcus Kindley insinuates that those who lose presidential elections should forget about that bothersome 'free speech' stuff and just be quiet for tradition's sake.  Citing recent speeches by Senator Kerry and John Edwards that were critical of the President, Kindley opines...

"It has been tradition for 200 years that presidential candidates who loose (sic) not undermine the administration of the winner. To (sic) bad the these dems don't have the same decency, although it is true conservatives do value tradition.

In subsequent comments, others, namely Mr. Sun, remind Kindley that even though he came in last in the 2004 District 4 primary election for Guilford County Commissioner, no one has suggested that the Chairman should give up his right to say what he wants to say.  In light of that election result, Sol goes on to say he finds the opinionated Chairman's position on free speech kind of, well, amusing...

"Your own electoral outcome was third out of three in the primary.  You hold a partisan political position which does not compare with the stature of sitting U.S. Senator John Kerry or the national influence of John Edwards.  ...What is truly funny is a dead last primary washout trying to connect electoral loss to a reduced right to speak."

Faced with this charge of hypocrisy, Kindley assumes his all-too-familiar fallback position when faced with criticism of thought, and smartly replies...  "Mr. Sun:  thanks for being a Liberal..."   'Hilarity ensues' with Ben and Sue and Potatostew in supporting roles.

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I don't care who you are, if you aren't keeping up with what is going on in the local blogosphere on a daily basis you're missing out on some really interesting stuff.  Where else but hereabouts can you find anything like the exchange outlined above? 

We find the long-time chair of our local Republican Party, writing for his frequently updated weblog, which consistantly extolls the can-do-no-wrong virtues of Neo-Conservatism and continually labels anyone who dares question his writing as a root-of-all-evil Progressive Liberal, who recently lost an election of his own but now suggests that those who lose elections should shut the hell up but doesn't take his own advice.   And then... he gets called out by the center of the solar system.  I love it, dont you?

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