Plead the First

John Robinson has one: One of the benefits of a geographic-based blogging community (as opposed to a subject-based one) is that there is wide diversity of opinion on virtually every topic. It’s tough to be close-minded because people challenge you. Exactly right. I’m sure it’s easy to think of others as well. One that jumps […]

Most local readers probably know this already, but for the benefit of folks who may be unfamiliar with events leading up to the recent RMA report brouhaha, here’s a bit of basic background. From Timeline: David Wray’s Career, in the News and Record (my comments are in [brackets]): July 2003: [David] Wray named chief [of […]

This year’s ConvergeSouth wrapped up yesterday. It was a great conference once again. The barbecue Friday night at David Hoggard’s was delicious. On Saturday, the conference itself started off with Elizabeth Edwards, who laid to rest any fears that her talk would be politically partisan by barely mentioning anything even remotely partisan. She even shared […]

Roch Smith Jr. recently attended a city press conference and tenaciously questioned Greensboro city manager Mitch Johnson on whether the city would eventually release the RMA report. The report was compiled last year by an independent consultant, and dealt with alleged corruption and misdeeds by former police chief David Wray and members of a covert […]