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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Housing is a human right

  07-12-2023 19:27 via triad-city-beat.com
  When I get up in the morning, it’s about 40 degrees outside. The needles on our Christmas wreath have emitted enough moisture that there’s a fog on the inside of our glass front door. In our 75-year-old house, it’s often a bit drafty because of the lack of proper insulation and the cracks in the original hardwood floors.But at night, when I get under the covers and fall asleep on my Purple mattress, I’m hit with an immense feeling of gratitude and privilege. It&rsquo
  
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• Prominent candidates for Governor, Congress, Council of State join the fray

  06-12-2023 18:41 via triad-city-beat.com
  This piece was originally published by NC NewslineMajor news on the filing front Tuesday is that Republican U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry (NC-10) is not running for reelection.McHenry announced he will retire after 10 terms that included three weeks earlier this year as temporary House Speaker after Rep. Kevin McCarthy was kicked out of the job. Rep. Patrick McHenry“There is a season for everything and — for me — this season has come to an end.”That leaves an open seat likely
  
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• A consulting group’s plan caused a 13 percent enrollment drop at one university. Now, UNCG is working with the same group.

  05-12-2023 21:17 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Students protest the academic review process on Nov. 16 on campus. (photo by Sayaka Matsuoka)View the rubric that grades all of the programs at UNCG here.New reporting by Triad City Beat delves into UNCG’s relationship with a consulting firm that the university’s administration has contracted to implement an academic program review process that faculty and students say is unprecedented and unnecessary.Additional reporting delves into the effects that consulting firms
  
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• Contaminated groundwater at Weaver Fertilizer property “likely” moving off the site

  04-12-2023 18:08 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: The Weaver Fertilizer plant was destroyed by the blaze. (Photo: NC DOL)This story was originally published by NC Newsline, story by Lisa SorgNearly two years after a catastrophic fire at the Weaver Fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem, contaminated groundwater at the site has “likely migrated offsite to the west and north,” state records show, and “more groundwater investigation is necessary.”The groundwater beneath the property at 4440 N. Cherry St., contain
  
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• New WSTA rules  in effect for downtown Winston-Salem bus station

  04-12-2023 11:42 via triad-city-beat.com
  Winston-Salem Transit Authority’s new rules officially went into effect on Friday.According to a press release from the city, WSTA updated its code of conduct in an effort to “focus on safety for passengers, staff, security officers and law enforcement who visit the Clark Campbell Transportation Center.” The transportation center is located downtown at 100 W. Fifth St. In January, all center visitors will be required to pass through a screening station and metal detectors.Membe
  
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• Medicaid expansion in NC launches today, here are answers to some common questions 

  01-12-2023 18:25 via triad-city-beat.com
  This story was originally published by North Carolina Health News, story by Jaymie BaxleyMedicaid expansion finally launched Friday in North Carolina, giving an estimated 600,000 low-income residents across the state access to health insurance.Here are answers to some questions you may have about expansion and what it means for the state. Who is now eligible for Medicaid in North Carolina?People ages 19 to 64 whose incomes are within 138 percent of the federal poverty level for their househ
  
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• Former Democratic Vermont State Senator, Bob Hartwell, announces run for Winston-Salem city council

  30-11-2023 21:48 via triad-city-beat.com
  Bob Hartwell is the latest contender to join Winston-Salem’s 2024 city council race. The Northwest Ward seat, currently held by outgoing Democratic Councilmember Jeff MacIntosh, is up for grabs next year. MacIntosh is bidding farewell to city hall and will not run for re-election in 2024.Hartwell is a current member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, and served four terms as a Democratic state senator in Vermont. Hartwell told Triad City Beat that he advocated for passage of Vermont&r
  
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• Enrollment at traditional public schools declines for the first time since pandemic

  30-11-2023 20:12 via triad-city-beat.com
  This story was first published by Education NC, story by Chantal BrownPublic school enrollment has increased slightly in North Carolina since the last school year. However, for the first time since the pandemic, traditional public schools observed a decrease in students while charter school enrollment continues to rise. In October, the state Department of Public Instruction released its first look at how many students are in the state’s public schools for the 2023-24 school year. 
  
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• NC A&T women’s bowling team strives for fourth consecutive MEAC championship following strong season start

  30-11-2023 10:34 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: The women’s bowling team won the 2023 MEAC championship in March. Now, they’re training to win the one in 2024. (photo by Erin E. Mizzelle/NCA&T Athletics)The women’s bowling team at NC A&T State University is leaving a striking legacy.With 37 wins so far this season, the team recently came out on top with a score of 1,004-980 against Lincoln Memorial University at the Hawk Classic bowling tournament hosted by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on
  
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• How does the cost of living in each US state compare to the nations of Europe?

  29-11-2023 22:06 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  This story was originally published by Stacker, story by Patrick Villanova
  While the Euro has long been more valuable than the American dollar, the cost of living in the United States is significantly higher than across Europe on average. Basic expenses for a single adult with no children in the U.S. is $2,508 per month, compared to an average of $1,746 per month in Europe. However, individual states and nations run the gamut in terms of costs.With this in mind, SmartAsset examined the cost of l
  
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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: I’m grateful all the time

  29-11-2023 20:06 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Last week, we had an impromptu hosting of Sam’s parents in our 1,100-square-foot-home after they faced a septic tank crisis.  It’s been a busy few weeks here in the Matsuoka-LeBlanc household.Last week, we had an impromptu hosting of Sam’s parents in our 1,100-square-foot-home after they faced a septic tank crisis. (It’s all okay now.) That morning, we deep-cleaned the house, vacuuming, brushing the rug to collect all of the dog hair, cleaning th
  
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• Flipping the script: Kuya Bear brings street ready Filipino eats to the Triad

  29-11-2023 16:18 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Joseph Olson started Kuya Bear in 2021 as a pop-up to make extra money. Now, he runs the operation full-time out of a food truck.They’re not all nurses. That’s what Joseph Olson wants people to know about Filipinos. That, and the fact that their food doesn’t really taste like other Asian food.“I feel like Filipino food is very different from all other Asian cuisine in that it’s not very Asian-y,” says Olson. “It has so many different infl
  
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• Guilford County Schools’ cafeteria workers to return to schools on Wednesday after negotiating with district

  29-11-2023 01:40 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Guilford County Schools cafeteria workers hold up signs during their second day of protest on Nov. 28. (photo by Sayaka Matsuoka)Guilford County Schools’ cafeteria workers will return to schools on Wednesday.During a press conference on Tuesday evening, Superintendent Whitney Oakley told reporters that she met with about 60-100 employees at a town hall to listen to their concerns.“We did receive confirmation that school nutrition workers do plan to return to work tomo
  
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• New city manager to make regular report in Winston-Salem

  28-11-2023 22:07 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Winston-Salem’s new city manager is changing it up. Monday evening’s city council meeting showcased a new agenda item that will make a regular appearance at council meetings from now on: a city manager report.While he’s only a month into his new role, Winston-Salem’s new City Manager Pat Pate is already coloring outside of the lines drawn by previous city managers and will give presentations at the beginning of each council meeting. His predecessor Lee Garrity didn&r
  
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• Guilford County Schools’ cafeteria workers strike for a second day as district officials plan town hall

  28-11-2023 19:22 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Guilford County Schools cafeteria workers hold up signs during their second day of protest on Nov. 28. (photo by Sayaka Matsuoka)Read previous reporting on this issue here and here.Despite near-freezing temperatures, even more Guilford County Schools’ cafeteria workers were outside the district administration office on Tuesday morning, striking again for higher wages after rejecting the district’s new payment plan, which was unveiled on Monday.According to Kelly Sheph
  
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• ‘We deserve more’: Hundreds of Guilford County Schools’ cafeteria workers strike for more pay

  27-11-2023 20:51 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Guilford County Schools cafeteria workers hold up signs during a protest for higher pay on Nov. 27. (photo by Sayaka Matsuoka)“Thirty-five cents is not enough.”“You can’t put nutrition first if you put cafeteria workers last.”“Pay my mommy.”“We deserve more.”Those were just some of the statements displayed on signs held by Guilford County Schools’ cafeteria workers, who walked out en masse on Monday morning to strike for
  
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• Rosa Parks’ historic protest wouldn’t have been possible without this unsung hero

  26-11-2023 22:07 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Sarah Mae Flemming mural on the side of a building in Columbia, South Carolina. (photo by Stacker)This story was originally published by Stacker, story by Sheeka SanahoriOn the northwest corner of Washington and Main Street in downtown Columbia, South Carolina, a brown commemorative street sign sits discreetly above the standard, green signages. Sarah Mae Flemming Way is a nod to a civil rights activist at the intersection where her resistance commenced.Relatively few people know
  
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• 6 stats you need to know about LGBTQ+ youth mental health

  25-11-2023 23:20 via triad-city-beat.com
  This story originally appeared on Northwell Health and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio.2023 has become the most aggressively anti-LGBTQ+ period on record from a legislative standpoint.Of the more than 520 anti-LGBTQ+ bills that have been introduced within state legislatures since the beginning of the year, more than 145 have passed in at least one legislative chamber, according to the LGBTQ+ civil rights organization Human Rights Campaign. At least 70 statutes wer
  
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• 3 innovations helping the homeless in Eugene, Oregon

  24-11-2023 22:21 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Volunteers are building villages of tiny houses for formerly homeless people. (photo by Bruce Kelsh/Cottage Village Coalition, CC BY-SA)This story was originally published by The Conversation, story by Mohamed Hassan Awad, California State University, Los AngelesEven when the economy is booming, the United States has trouble figuring out how to deal with homelessness. Now, with unemployment soaring and millions of Americans unable to pay their rent, solutions are more needed than
  
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• ‘Truthsgiving’ at a river’s edge: Saxapahaw’s Indigenous activists share the wisdom of mutual survival 

  23-11-2023 19:30 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Crystal Cavalier-Keck, a community organizer and member of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, is helping lead resistance to the southern extension of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and a movement to grant Rights of Nature to the Haw River. (courtesy photo)Over the slow beat of a drum, dancers used giant puppets to act out a creation story of the sun and the moon, and sea creatures walking on dry land, and storyteller Jason Crazy Bear Keck explained that his careful steps we
  
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• City leaders approve the sale of North Ward lot designated for “affordable housing units”

  22-11-2023 21:26 via triad-city-beat.com
  During last week’s committee meetings, Winston-Salem councilmembers unanimously approved the sale of a lot in the North Ward to Clayton Homes for $1, along with $824,272 in state ARPA funding. Clayton Homes already has a construction loan of $4.75 million, but the city funding will help fill the financial gap as they work to build 22 modular homes with three bedrooms and two bathrooms each. The location is near Esquire Place and Cheshire Woods Drive, and the proposed development site is 7.
  
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• What would it take for a cease-fire to happen in Gaza?

  22-11-2023 01:38 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Hundreds of protesters called for a ceasefire at a Pro-Palestine rally in Greensboro on Nov. 18 (photo by Sayaka Matsuoka)This story was originally published by the Conversation, story by Laurie Nathan, University of Notre DameCalls for a cease-fire and other limits on military operations and violence were made by governments, advocacy groups and political leaders around the world almost immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 Israeli civilians by Hamas. Israel imme
  
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• From Crystal Towers to city council, activist Michael Douglas seeks election to Northwest Ward seat

  20-11-2023 22:53 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Michael Douglas sits outside of Crystal Towers (photo by Gale Melcher)Longtime Crystal Towers resident and activist Michael Douglas has his sights set on the soon-to-be-vacant Northwest Ward city council seat. In January, incumbent councilmember Jeff MacIntosh told Triad City Beat that he will not seek reelection in 2024, saying that he hoped announcing early would “bring lots of candidates out of the woodwork to think about running.” MacIntosh added, “It’
  
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• What is fentanyl and why is it behind the deadly surge in US drug overdoses? A medical toxicologist explains

  19-11-2023 22:38 via triad-city-beat.com
  This story was originally published by the Conversation, story by Kavita Babu, UMass Chan Medical SchoolBuying drugs on the street is a game of Russian roulette. From Xanax to cocaine, drugs or counterfeit pills purchased in nonmedical settings may contain life-threatening amounts of fentanyl.Physicians like me have seen a rise in unintentional fentanyl use from people buying prescription opioids and other drugs laced, or adulterated, with fentanyl. Heroin users in my community in Massachusetts
  
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• Hundreds in Greensboro protested, called for ceasefire in Palestine this week

  18-11-2023 23:34 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Hundreds of protesters called for a ceasefire at a Pro-Palestine rally in Greensboro on Nov. 18 (photo by Sayaka Matsuoka)Niveen Fahmy stood towards the edge of the crowd that had gathered in downtown Greensboro on Thursday, surrounded by her children. She wore a beige scarf around her head and held a small Palestinian flag in her left hand. She and dozens others — about 75 in total — had gathered at the corner of S. Elm and Market Streets to protest outside of the bu
  
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• New data shows closure plans, construction progress for Guilford County schools

  17-11-2023 16:53 via triad-city-beat.com
  During recent school board work sessions and meetings, staff with Guilford County Schools shared closure plans for four schools and construction progress for 22 schools and one transportation facility.Funding comes from $2 billion in bonds that were passed by voters in 2019 and 2022.As Triad City Beat has reported, Guilford County Schools is the third-largest school district in the state and has had a number of problems with aging buildings including HVAC issues and mold. In 2019, a comprehensiv
  
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• NC cities and towns score high in LGBTQ+ equality despite state laws, GSO scores 100

  16-11-2023 23:22 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Attendees at the 2022 Greensboro Pride Festival.This story was originally published by NC Newsline, story by Joe KillianDespite a legislative session that featured several broad assaults on LGBTQ+ people, their visibility and their allies, most North Carolina cities and towns scored high for LGBTQ+ equality measures in a new study from The Human Rights Campaign.The national LGBTQ+ advocacy organization released its annual Municipal Equality Index this week, scoring more than
  
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• Sudanese filmmaker Fatima Wardy on being RiverRun’s first BIPOC filmmaking fellow

  16-11-2023 09:51 via triad-city-beat.com
  RiverRun International Film Festival has named Sudanese filmmaker Fatima Wardy as its first BIPOC Fellow as part of the BIPOC Filmmaker Fellowship, an initiative aiming to “uplift the work of Black, Indigenous and other filmmakers of color.”As the fellow, Wardy will curate films by filmmakers of color to screen during RiverRun’s 2024 festival.In 2016, Wardy earned an arts and sciences degree from the University College London, where she found her passion for storytelling. After
  
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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: How we’re going to cover the Hamas-Israel conflict

  15-11-2023 18:43 via triad-city-beat.com
  How can local media outlets cover an international conflict that’s taking place thousands of miles away? How can we do it in a way that doesn’t sow further division, but rather creates nuanced conversation? How can we do it in a way that will be meaningful?These are the questions that have been keeping me up at night these last few weeks.When the war broke out between Hamas and Israel after the former launched its unprecedented attack against innocent civilians on Oct. 7, I was busy
  
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• Trans patients and their doctors struggle with confusion, fear under healthcare bans

  14-11-2023 18:32 via triad-city-beat.com
  This story was originally published by NC Newsline, story by Joe Killian[This story is part of ongoing work on LGBTQ+ healthcare in North Carolina, written by Joe Killian. It was conceived and written through a partnership between NC Newsline and Qnotes Carolinas.Due to concerns regarding threats of violence, Newsline agreed to identify some sources in this story by their first names only.]When Sage, a 14-year-old non-binary person from Greensboro, came out as transgender, they had a lot going f
  
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• Guilford County Sheriff’s Office holds town hall, talks about budget, violent crime, drug overdoses

  13-11-2023 21:48 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers speaks at a town hall in Greensboro on Nov. 9, 2023. (photo by Gale Melcher)On Nov. 8, members of the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office held a town hall during which they talked to the community about the department’s budget, detention services, violent crime and how they’re handling illicit drugs.There will be another town hall held on Monday, Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. in Summerfield at 5404 Centerfield Road.Watch the town hall here.
  
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• People from these metros are looking to buy homes in Winston-Salem

  12-11-2023 22:54 via triad-city-beat.com
  This story was originally published by StackerHome prices are largely starting to normalize across the country, but remain high even as the number of homes for sale continues to decline.Record-high mortgage rates are keeping homes largely unaffordable for most buyers. Even a percentage point increase can increase a monthly mortgage payment by more than $100.That’s causing potential homeowners to expand their searches outside costly urban cores, especially when they can work from home.Stack
  
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• Editor’s Notebook: Wins from the last year

  10-11-2023 18:43 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  For two days this week, Brian and I sat in a room of more than a dozen other journalists, all of whom were there for pretty much the same reason: to keep surviving in this increasingly inhospitable industry.It’s true. The news business isn’t the same as it was 20 years ago. It’s barely the same as it was 10 years ago.You’ve heard us say it. There are fewer and fewer reputable news outlets — particularly ones that are locally focused — doing the kind of work th
  
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• W-S Councilmember Barbara Hanes Burke announces 2024 re-election run

  09-11-2023 20:43 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Winston-Salem’s Northeast Ward Councilmember Barbara Hanes Burke announced her re-election campaign at noon on Thursday on the steps of City Hall surrounded by community leaders, friends and family. Burke first won her seat in November 2020.In her first term, Burke said, she and her team have “achieved significant strides.”Burke has been behind many city projects. In September, city councilmembers approved the financing of 216-unit multi-family rental development that will be d
  
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• Oasis Spaces’ exhibit highlights Negro Motorist Green Book locations in Winston-Salem

  09-11-2023 14:53 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: An old Green Book on display at an exhibit in Winston-Salem (photo by Michaela Ratliff)The lump in my throat grew larger and my eyes welled with tears as I turned the pages of a 1938 edition of The Negro Motorist Green Book. I stood alone in near-silence, disturbed only by the sounds of jingling car keys dangling from the lanyard around my neck and the buzzing of suspended panel lights above me. I had never touched a Green Book before this, but I was aware of its existence and wh
  
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• Boomers are hoarding all the houses

  09-11-2023 00:48 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Photo illustration by Michael Flocker // Stacker // CanvaThis story was originally published by Stacker. Story by Elena Cox.The two-and-a-half-year real estate rollercoaster has calmed in 2023, at least somewhat, as more Americans decide to stay put.“The big story for the last couple of months has been lack of inventory due to mortgage rate lock-ins,” Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather said. “Now that rates are above 7 percent, it doesn’t make sense for a lot of peo
  
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• The best beach towns in North Carolina

  08-11-2023 22:36 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  This story was first published by Stacker.Summer vacation is mostly over across the U.S., with kids already headed back to school. So now is the perfect time to start planning next year’s beach vacation.Travelers were busy during summer 2023. On Memorial Day weekend, largely considered the unofficial start of summer, the Transportation Security Administration screened 9.8 million people, surpassing pre-pandemic levels. Trips abroad spiked in popularity as people made up for time lost durin
  
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• Search process begins for new chancellor at NC A&T

  08-11-2023 18:39 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Members of the chancellor search advisory committee meet in Greensboro on Monday. (photo by Joe Killian)This story was originally published by NC Newsline, story by Joe KillianUNC System President Peter Hans made the mission clear Monday at the first meeting of the search advisory committee charged with finding the next chancellor of N.C. A&T.“We’re not here to fill Chancellor Harold Martin’s shoes,” Hans told the 13-member committee in its meeting at
  
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• EDITORIAL: At NC A&T State University, a $2 billion reckoning

  08-11-2023 12:07 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  It is indisputable fact that, over the last 33 years, the state of North Carolina has withheld more than $2 billion from NC A&T State University. It’s part of a $12 billion shortfall that the US departments of Agriculture and Education compiled earlier this year, comparing land-grant HBCU resources against their non-HBCU counterparts.It happened in 16 states, but we’re second only to Tennessee, which shortchanged Tennessee State University by a slightly larger $2.1 billion as com
  
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• High Point General Election results

  08-11-2023 05:25 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  By 9:45 p.m. on Tuesday evening, all of the votes had been counted for the elections held this year in Guilford County. According to the State Board of Elections, 18,342 ballots were cast on Tuesday.Mayoral raceCyril Jefferson
  In the High Point mayoral race, Democrat Cyril Jefferson beat out Republican Victor Jones by more than 13 percentage points. Both Jefferson and Jones served on High Point’s city council in Wards 1 and 5 respectively.In a previous article for TCB, Jefferson stated tha
  
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• The Green Bean reopens in Greensboro under new ownership less than two months after staff walkout

  08-11-2023 01:57 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Editor’s note: Sayaka Matsuoka’s husband and TCB webmaster Sam LeBlanc occasionally works for Borough Coffee in Greensboro.It’s been almost two months since the Green Bean coffeeshop in downtown Greensboro closed its doors after an exodus of its staff. Now, the business is under new ownership.As TCB first reported in mid September, the beloved downtown coffee spot came under public scrutiny after all of its employees quit amid allegations of inadequate management and pay agains
  
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• Less than two months later, the Green Bean reopens in downtown Greensboro under new ownership

  08-11-2023 01:57 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Editor’s note: Sayaka Matsuoka’s husband and TCB webmaster Sam LeBlanc occasionally works for Borough Coffee in Greensboro.It’s been almost two months since the Green Bean coffeeshop in downtown Greensboro closed its doors after an exodus of its staff. Now, the business is under new ownership.As TCB first reported in mid September, the beloved downtown coffee spot came under public scrutiny after all of its employees quit amid allegations of inadequate management and pay agains
  
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• City of Winston-Salem buys Clifford Apartments with plans to sell “as soon as possible”

  07-11-2023 23:21 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  The city of Winston-Salem is the new owner of Clifford Apartments, a property snuggled in the corner of Spring Street and Seventh Street. Council voted 6-2 on Monday evening to approve the purchase with Councilmembers Barbara Hanes Burke and Annette Scippio dissenting.The city made the purchase in “support of the city’s affordable housing objectives” and the “preservation of workforce housing” according to the resolution.The property was sold to the city for $760,00
  
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• Getting in the groove: DJ TAY LIVELY kicks off dance party for EDM-lovers in Winston-Salem

  07-11-2023 17:17 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Taylor Lively, known as TAY LIVELY, has started a new EDM dance party in Winston-Salem. (courtesy photo)Taylor Lively spends a lot of time listening to the first three seconds of songs.“If it doesn’t hook me, I skip,” she says. “And if I do like the first three seconds, I skip to the drop.”It’s part of what Lively calls her “crate digging” process. As a local DJ, she says she spends hours listening to music on Bandcamp, Soundcloud a
  
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• Pallet shelters popping up at Pomona Park in Greensboro, again

  06-11-2023 22:48 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Pallet homes went up for the 2023 fall/winter season recently (photo by Gale Melcher)The city of Greensboro has laid the groundwork for the second round of the Doorway Project, a temporary housing facility located at Pomona Park.On Oct. 30, city staff started constructing temporary Pallet shelters, 64-square-foot aluminum buildings equipped with temperature control, bedding and storage space as a way to provide shelter to unhoused individuals through the coldest months of the yea
  
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• Winston-Salem’s new city manager to take oath of office on Monday evening

  06-11-2023 19:21 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Winston-Salem’s new city manager William Patrick Pate is taking the oath of office at tonight’s city council meeting, according to city documents. Pate was selected by city councilmembers on July 14 in a 5-3 vote and his contract was approved on August 7. He’s been wrapping up his position as the city manager of Manassas, Va. where he’s served as city manager for the last decade.That’s why Assistant City Manager Patrice Toney has been serving as interim city manager
  
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• NC increasingly funds crisis pregnancy centers, while advocates point to lack of accountability

  06-11-2023 16:44 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Salem Pregnancy Center in Winston-Salem is what is known as a crisis pregnancy center, or an organization that offers limited healthcare to women who are pregnant, often working to dissuade them from accessing abortions.This story was originally published by Carolina Public Press, story by Grace VitaglioneWhen Kayla Cyrus first walked into the Your Choice Pregnancy Clinic in Fuquay-Varina in 2017, she said she felt welcomed.“Everyone’s smiling,” Cyrus said of he
  
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• City of Winston-Salem purchases 21 vehicles for police department and BEAR Team

  03-11-2023 12:55 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  During last month’s Winston-Salem City Council meeting on Oct. 16, councilmembers approved the purchase of 21 Dodge Durango pursuit vehicles for a total of more than $850,000. Each car costs around $41,000. Seventeen will replace old police cars, while the other four are designated for the BEAR Team to help the expanding team of crisis counselors respond to mental-health calls and transport clients to facilities.This year, the police department has a budget of $94.3 million. Last year
  
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• NC A&T’s GHOE: A celebration of education, success and liberation

  02-11-2023 09:38 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo by Carolyn de BerryThis story was published in partnership with Triad Voice. Learn more about Triad Voice here.If you do a simple Google search such as, “What is GHOE?” You’ll learn that GHOE is NC A&T’s homecoming. If you read a few journalistic articles, you are bound to come across stories and accounts of systemic racism and violence that is unjustly associated with NC A&T’s GHOE. While these stories may be important and true, it’s a
  
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• Through an Aggie lens: Students reflect on the lead up to the Greatest Homecoming on Earth

  02-11-2023 09:20 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  This story was published in partnership with Triad Voice. Learn more about Triad Voice here.On Oct. 29, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, or NCAT, will begin its annual homecoming festivities, welcoming more than 25,000 people to the 800-acre university that sits in the heart of Greensboro. The Greatest Homecoming on Earth, or GHOE, includes the congregation of alumni, friends, and future and current students through weeklong events that prove why the university’s
  
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