Scott Sexton

2 days ago | greensboro.com | Scott Sexton

Swell Tuesday. It'll be a peach. If not for the stack of programs, eager volunteers showing people into the auditorium or the less than subtle signs with photos of Sen. Ted Budd pointing the way, a filled-nearly-to-capacity town hall meeting Monday could have been mistaken for a gathering of aging hippies. There were sensible shoes and more than a few old-guy ponytails at the gathering. The meeting, one of a continuing in-absentia series of town halls for U.S. Sens.

3 days ago | greensboro.com | Scott Sexton

Happy Monday. Peeps and jelly beans half-off this morning. To the average taxpayer - the overwhelming majority of us - House Bill 272 reads like a technical adjustment to an employee pension plan. HB 272 would allow police, prison guards, sheriff's deputies and probation/parole officers to buy up to four years' creditable service time and apply it to their retirement date.

1 week ago | greensboro.com | Scott Sexton

The devil, as always, lurks in the details. A 439-page, $33.3 billion budget proposal working its way through the state Senate centers around a lot of familiar fiscal themes: cutting waste, lowering tax rates, doling out raises for state employees - teachers, troopers and the like - and providing additional relief to victims of Hurricane Helene. Debate, such that it is in a body where an overwhelming Republican majority can, has and will stifle and steamroll differing opinions, won't last.

1 week ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

Groovy Thursday. The devil, as always, lurks in the details. A 439–page, $33.3 billion budget proposal working its way through the state Senate centers around a lot of familiar fiscal themes: cutting waste, lowering tax rates, doling out raises for state employees - teachers, troopers and the like - and providing additional relief to victims of Hurricane Helene.

1 week ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

Thrill-a-minute Wednesday. Say this for Superintendent Tricia McManus. She’s got some stones. The financial woes facing the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools are no secret. An audit found that the school system overspent its budget by $16 million last year including some $10 million more on salaries than what was actually budgeted. School-finance officials said they had projected having more revenue than they actually had so they had to dip into savings.