Winston-Salem Journal

21 hours ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education, as is its wont, opened the public portion of its regular meeting Monday night with a word of prayer, an inspirational quote and a song performed by the R.J. Reynolds High School theater troupe. It was a fitting start to a meeting where embattled administrators were slated to unveil the 2025-26 budget request, and while doing so, ostensibly attempt to offer some clarity about a shifting budget deficit that’s drawn the attention of the state.

1 day ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

The youngest, a kid only to us as she’s 27, unconsciously rubbed the scar on her knee. Like her mother and her sister, she played Division I college basketball - Dartmouth College, class of ‘20, wicked smaht - and competed at a high level with AAU. And for whatever reason, she decided to tick off the names of former teammates who, like her, had torn an anterior cruciate ligament on the court.

2 days ago | journalnow.com | John Dell

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2 days ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

The question, standard, trite and almost a punchline, has to be asked anytime someone hits the century mark when reaching a milestone birthday. What’s the secret? And so, when John Googe, one of the most influential community builders whose name you’ve almost certainly never heard, was asked just before a throng of well-wishers filed into the Barn at Reynolda Village, he took a few seconds to think before answering.

4 days ago | journalnow.com | Richard Craver

The state’s county tier ranking program is not achieving its goals of effectively ranking the economic health of all 100 N.C. counties, a UNC School of Government study has determined. The study comes from the school’s NCGrowth initiative. State law requires that N.C. Commerce Department officials annually rank the economic health of all 100 N.C. counties. Commerce released the 2025 rankings in December. The 20 most prosperous counties are categorized as Tier 3.