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Comedy is back with Cam O’Hara Rivers and the gang putting out a short comedy documentary with raw edge and plenty of laughs. Inspired by Spike Lee’s classic Original Kings of Comedy, Watch Yo Mouth follows Cam and the gang on the night of their big comedy show. As fun…

I don’t know if the earthworms I discovered in my Greensboro, North Carolina garden a few years ago might be endangered but they are apparently thriving alongside the regular earthworms in my garden. When I first discovered these green earthworms several years ago I carried some of them to the…

“Every storm drain in this city of 300,000 people has a little sign on it asking us not to throw trash on our streets and yet Greensboro’s wealthiest citizens routinely put dump truck loads of trash on our streets.” — The picture you are looking at is two doors down from my home. It could have been yesterday, six months ago, or ten years ago — doesn’t matter, it is always the same. Did the residents put it there? The neighbors? No, the landlords and property management companies do it…

“Government and media like to make claims, and often use statics to back up their claims, but do they really measure up? Here are examples of how they lie to the public.” — “The United States lost a total of 22 million jobs after the pandemic took hold in 2020. But things are turning around. In February, 678,000 jobs were added, leaving the total number of jobs 2.1 million shy of pre-pandemic levels.”

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try you never recover. — Return to the daze of my youth. Not all of the stories from the daze of my youth are funny… or easily forgotten. The year was 1971. I was a 15 year old 10th grader at James B Dudley Sr High School in Greensboro, North Carolina. I had already suffered…

Chapter IX. A Waiting Game — Return to Chapter 1 Nancy Stoddard waited for what seemed like hours alone in a tiny room until finally Special Agent John Mularski walked into the room. “It’s about time someone told me what’s going on here,” Mayor Stoddard demanded. “I’m only going to tell you this once,” Agent…

Chapter IV, Greensboro Transit Authority Return to Chapter 1 It was Thursday, 3 incidents in a week, all within a quarter mile of one another, and downtown Greensboro was for all intents and purposes, a ghost town. No amount of government incentives would make most folks walk into what was…

A story that has haunted me for 7 years, the story of a failed effort to help a community move closer to sustainability, and provide jobs for thousands nationwide. — In 2015 I began a project I named Bessemer Aquaponics for the Bessemer community in east Greensboro, North Carolina. After the fall I noted on the Bessemer Aquaponics Facebook Page that the dream had not died. As for my 2017 run for mayor… That tanked. Alas it had died. The…

As America Struggles to Lessen the Racial Divide, a Group of women in Greensboro, NC Have More Than a Twenty-Five-Year Head Start In 1991 when North Carolina struggled to stitch racial tatters at home, the Greensboro Commission on the Status of Women stepped forward and launched the Women Improving Race Relation (WIRR) initiative. By 1994…