OUR VIEW: Las Vegas, High Point are now allies It has seemed strange this week to read in the Enterprise and other sources about the winter edition of the Las Vegas Market and not snarling at the upstart competition to the High Point Market. N...
OUR VIEW: Let’s keep two-year council term Perish the thought! The idea pushed lately by some members of High Point City Council to override the will of the people and switch from two-year terms to four-year terms swiftly and effectively s...
OUR VIEW: HPU provides boost with more hiring The greater High Point community heard more good news on its economic front late last week when Nido Qubein announced that High Point University, already the city’s eighth largest employer will hav...
OUR VIEW: Five Points redevelopment looks promising The plan by Florida-based GEO Care to build a mental hospital at the Interstate 74/Greensboro Road interchange in east High Point has caused quite a controversy the last few months. But we’ve got a...
OUR VIEW: Perdue shakes up Democratic landscape It certainly was surprising, but it was not a shock. On Thursday in a written statement, Gov. Beverly Perdue announced she will not seek a second term as governor. The decision came just about two...
OUR VIEW: President’s speech fails to impress After his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, you could overhear Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulating President Obama and saying his speech was “the best.” With all due respect,...
OUR VIEW: We’ve read some good education news Not being accustomed to looking at the local education process with a positive viewpoint, some of us may have missed the good news over last weekend. A leading researcher – Shelley Billig, RMC Res...
OUR VIEW: GOP presidential field narrows Now, it’s getting interesting. When the stage was full of would-be nominees maneuvering to grab enough time to throw out a cute one-liner, the attraction just wasn’t there. But now, it’s Mitt vs. ...
OUR VIEW: Update data on Market’s impact In light of the tough economy and lean budgets, now probably seems like a strange time to consider conducting an economic impact study. And for a public entity to consider allocating taxpayer fundi...
OUR VIEW: Election motivates Perdue’s tax proposal It’s not that we don’t like the idea of raising North Carolina’s sales tax. It’s just the politically partisan way in which Gov. Beverly Perdue has proposed this three-quarter cent sales tax hike,...
OUR VIEW: IHM goes green with new school When Immaculate Heart of Mary’s new pre-K to eighth grade school opens near the Johnston Street-Skeet Club Road intersection early in 2013, it will be the first LEED certified green school in High ...
OUR VIEW: Courts put prayer dispute to rest Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court and our neighbors in Forsyth County, we can say that High Point’s controversy during the last few years regarding prayer at City Council meetings is, in effect, ove...
OUR VIEW: Will smoking issue burn again? It’s been a pleasant two years for those among us who like to eat out or visit a tavern, but don’t care for the smell and taste of cigarette smoke. North Carolina’s ban on indoor smoking in restaur...
OUR VIEW: Extra school days aren’t needed The Republican dominated General Assembly wanted to make a statement last year that it was serious about improving education in North Carolina. So the Legislature passed a bill mandating an extende...
OUR VIEW: Review videos for comments period As much as we detest governmental bureaucracy and red tape, especially created by officials who are supposed to be closet to the people ... And as much as we detest almost anything that in some ...
OUR VIEW: Approve sterilization compensation Sometimes, it costs a little money to do the right thing. Sometimes it costs a lot of money. In these days of limited revenues, state budget deficits and legislative fights over spending cuts and ...
OUR VIEW: Thomas officials bring us good news There’s good news and bad news this week in High Point’s business community. The good news is coming out of one of the city’s longtime companies – Thomas Built Buses. And the bad news possibly is ...
OUR VIEW: Shakespeare’s main season is back Maybe it’s because of an improvement in the area’s economic fortunes. Maybe it’s because of renewed energy in the company’s management. Or maybe it’s because of a realization that the North Caroli...
OUR VIEW: Revaluation on horizon in Guilford There’s no time like the present, as they say. So Guilford County officials decided two years ago during the depths of the housing market decline not to delay a required revaluation of real estate ...
OUR VIEW: Prepare now for road’s completion Did you read the good news in Friday’s Enterprise? “The N.C. Department of Transportation still is on track to finish the final section of U.S. 311 in October, said Jeff Loflin, DOT resident engi...
OUR VIEW: Focus on racism, not statistics Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue called the Legislature back into session this week to consider her veto of a Republican-sponsored bill that changes parts of the Racial Justice Act of 2009. On Wednes...
OUR VIEW: Keep PART in mind for city service High Point officials will find themselves next month in the same situation Guilford county commissioners were in last fall when a transportation company gave up its contract to provide services to ...
OUR VIEW: Watt mulls another run for U.S. House Democrat U.S. Rep. Mel Watt of Charlotte also is smoking over whether to run for the House of Representatives again. Watt represents the 12th District, which includes parts of High Point and Guilfo...
OUR VIEW: We see a smooth transition Nine years ago, High Point City Manager Strib Boynton cast a wide net seeking a replacement for former Police Chief Louis Quijas. That nationwide search produced a fine catch; Jim Fealy went to wor...
OUR VIEW: We look toward a new year Happy New Year! We hope that any troubles you experienced in 2011 fade and that 2012 brings pleasant experiences for us all. We certainly expect that will be the case for families of our U.S. mili...
OUR VIEW: Coble faces a tough decision We’re glad to see from reports of his meeting with the media on Wednesday that Republican 6th District Congressman Howard Coble has beat the bug that recently required his hospitalization in Washin...
OUR VIEW: Ditch the partisan elections? The U.S. Department of Justice has approved redesigned voting districts for the Guilford County Board of Education, and the process caused hardly a ripple during the past few months. That’s greatl...
OUR VIEW: Online shopping made impact Most of the headlines throughout these weeks of the holiday shopping season have been pretty positive. It’s seemed as though more folks have been out and about this year spending a little more on g...
OUR VIEW: Hazing merits tough punishment ‘We take bullying and hazing very seriously. It’s wrong and will not be tolerated.” Every student in every school should be able to understand that message, given by Guilford County Chief of Staff...
OUR VIEW: Christians celebrate good tidings, great joy On this Christmas Day 2011, hundreds of millions of people around the world pause in celebration for one reason or another. For some people, it’s another holiday to spend enjoying the fellowship o...
A QUICK THOUGHT: W. Hartley Drive Good move! City Council has approved the contract to widen and extend W. Hartley Drive from N. Main Street to Westover Drive at Shadow Valley, which will improve traffic flow to and from residenti...
OUR VIEW: Randleman Lake filled Kime’s life John Kime is retiring – again. He’s the guy who has been, since 1989, leading the day-to-day activity for the Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority as all the permits (48) were obtained, as the ...
OUR VIEW: North Carolina gasoline tax
is going ... up? The numbers just don’t add up. North Carolina Revenue Secretary David Hoyle announced in a brief statement this week that the state’s tax on gasoline will rise by 3.9 cents a gallon on Jan. 1. Tha...
OUR VIEW: Social Security Trust Fund suffers It looks like President Obama, the Democrats in Congress and their Republican counterparts are taking the “political football” nature of Social Security to a new level. As they have been debating ...
OUR VIEW: PART should revise its mission With Christmas almost here, you might say the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation has received an early Christmas present from the Guilford County Board of Commissioners. Last month, co...
OUR VIEW: GEO plan looks like it gets green light It looks pretty likely that on Monday the High Point City Council will take action that ultimately allows GEO Care of Florida to build here a psychiatric hospital to treat criminal defendants who h...
OUR VIEW: Perdue should OK Alcoa permit Just in time to spice up our dinnertime conversations during the holidays, the Yadkin Riverkeeper organization based in Winston-Salem has resumed with vigor its attempt to get the state of North Ca...
OUR VIEW: How about a satellite campus? High Point University keeps moving ahead with plans to improve its educational mission as well as enlarge its physical presence. Earlier this week, the Enterprise reported the university has just r...
OUR VIEW: Aderholdt served his community Many among us today may remember growing up in High Point and being treated by Dr. Marcus Aderholdt Jr. – in our own homes. Yes, way back in the day when doctors made house calls. Many others may ...
OUR VIEW: Taxpayers own the property The idea to expand the Miracle League complex in north High Point is a good one. We hope those working on the project can pull it off. As we explained in this space nearly 11⁄2 years ago, the Mira...
OUR VIEW: NCLB transfers cause more headaches The Guilford County Board of Education is again wrestling with what to do about students eligible for transfers under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. It’s become an annual exercise for school...
OUR VIEW: Comments period needs specific rules We commend the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, in the face of a challenge during a meeting last week, for sticking by its decision in November to ban use of videos during the public comment...
OUR VIEW: Day of Infamy changed us It’s been 70 years, but many among us still remember when and where they heard the news. At the time, they didn’t really know much about the place, just some military base in Hawaii. But soon – and...
OUR VIEW: Reform the Racial Justice Act of 2009 A majority of members in the Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly acted in a reasonable fashion to revise the North Carolina Racial Justice Act adopted two years ago when a Democra...
OUR VIEW: Find another site here
for GEO Care At first blush, one might think Florida company’s plan to pay $3.1 million for a former health care site, open a forensic mental hospital in High Point, create about 185 jobs, provide work for abou...
OUR VIEW: Get familiar with gun law revisions Finally, it’s here! The major change in North Carolina’s Castle Doctrine Law has gone into effect. As the article in Tuesday’s edition noted, the law now does not require people to run before the...
OUR VIEW: Showtime, textile group keep growing There’s good news this week from the International Textile Market Association as the group that sponsors the twice-annual Showtime event here prepares for Winter Showtime 2011. When Showtime opens...
OUR VIEW: Small business fuels economy Most of the Thanksgiving Day talk about holiday shopping centered on Black Friday. But then came Small Business Saturday, the relatively new concept across the business world that attempts to focus...
OUR VIEW: Early-bird shopping catches on We expect not every retailer across the Triad fit into this picture, but from local, regional and national news reports, Black Friday and the Thanksgiving Day weekend got this year’s Christmas shop...
OUR VIEW: Let’s get city moving again It often takes only a spark to get a fire going. We’re hoping some sparks – ideas expressed at meetings in the community during the last couple of weeks – spread into “fire in the belly” for sever...
OUR VIEW: Economic ups beat downs, locally Developments during the month of November appear to be continuing the two steps forward, one step backward pattern that has hampered economic recovery in the greater High Point area. That appears ...
OUR VIEW: Thanksgiving offers a time for reflection We pause on this national day of thanksgiving to reflect on the past year and to recall blessings we have been fortunate enough to receive – as individuals, as families, as a nation. Certainly, m...
OUR VIEW: Committee won’t derail spending Perhaps early on, we had a glimmer of hope that the congressional Super Committee might be able to make tough decisions needed to move this nation toward regaining solid fiscal footing. Obviously,...
OUR VIEW: Trinity manager is focal point The fallout from last summer’s alcohol sales referendum is continuing to be felt in Trinity. And it’s starting to look like the controversy in the northwest Randolph town isn’t going to subside soo...
OUR VIEW: Overcome the job skills challenge As he stepped down last Tuesday as chairman of the High Point Economic Development Corp. board of directors, retired GTCC President Don Cameron said he’d been asked to reflect on the city’s economi...
OUR VIEW: OK Habitat ReStore relocation A bit of controversy seemed to be developing over a proposal to relocate a High Point business into the former location of the Cloverleaf grocery on Montlieu Avenue. But after action by High Point’...
OUR VIEW: Bison basketball hits the road Maybe they should call it High Point Central North. But on second thought – because of the rivalry between the Southwest Guilford Cowboys and the High Point Central Bison – maybe they should just...
OUR VIEW: Make your contribution to charity count ’Tis the season to be jolly, and for many folks that means being more open with their pocketbooks and wallets when they receive solicitations for charitable contributions. The office of N.C. Attor...
OUR VIEW: Why pass ’em if they can’t read? For a majority parents, many educators and perhaps even more politicians and bureaucrats, even suggesting holding back a third-grade pupil who can’t read at grade level is heresy. SAS Institute Ch...
OUR VIEW: If you're going to sue, do it soon While filing lawsuits hither and yon goes against our grain, we suggest to Guilford County’s Board of Commissioners that, if they believe they should file a suit over the General Assembly drawing r...
A QUICK THOUGHT: Hooray! The ball is rolling. High Point City Council has decided, although a final vote still is to be taken, that the wait for Schwarz Properties LLC of Asheboro to fix a blighted southeast High...
OUR VIEW: Incumbents still have many friends We had heard for quite some time that the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street would spark vote-’em-all-out successes at the polls. But that certainly didn’t happen in local municipal elections, accord...
OUR VIEW; Economy just may be healing itself The Obama administration and much of the media saw hope in the report last Friday that showed the American job market improving modestly in October. News services reported “new hiring outpaced jo...
OUR VIEW: Couple works way through sour economy In 2007, a few months before the Great Recession officially began, Mark and Ruth Smith purchased a piece of the old Hudson Belk building at 12 Commerce St. in Thomasville, operating Thomasville Emp...
OUR VIEW: Market attendance brings smiles The official numbers are in, and as we expected, registration at the fall High Point Market jumped significantly over registrations for last spring’s and last fall’s markets. According to the High...
YOUR VIEW: America needs government that works for us I look back and see the differences between now and when I grew up. You got out of school, got married, went to work – if you weren’t already working – paid bills, raised a family and tried to buy ...
OUR VIEW: Voices lifted and voices heard The people spoke, and the mega-business heard them. And that’s the way it should be. No, we’re not talking about the Occupy Wall Street crowd. We’re talking about the people who matter most to a b...
OUR VIEW: No campaign ads during comment time A number of years ago, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners began setting aside periods of time during several meetings each month to allow members of the public to comment on matters dear to...
OUR VIEW: IMC looks to market’s future Now that we have experienced the first High Point Market with International Market Centers controlling the three major showroom complexes (almost two-thirds of the downtown market district), we hav...
OUR VIEW: Fall market ends on positive note Home furnishings industry analyst Jerry Epperson said this week that Monday was the best day at the High Point Market that he had seen since 2004. That’s a huge validation of what generally looked ...
OUR VIEW: Back in the good, ol’
USA ‘Made in America.” It’s not just a slogan from the past these days as interest in and production of home furnishings made in North Carolina and across the nation has grown, particularly during th...
OUR VIEW: At-large
concept isn’t likely to fly Discussion of a concept that would scrap the current six-ward/two at-large system for electing City Council members quickly began drawing comment throughout the community – the possibility of elect...
OUR VIEW: We need a different approach While he was in the Triad and western North Carolina Monday and Tuesday to drum up support for his American Jobs Act, President Obama talked about the thousands of teachers and construction workers...
OUR VIEW: Jamestown election moves to forefront The town of Jamestown was abuzz the last several days with preparations for Tuesday’s visit by President Barack. On a re-election bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia, the president dropped...
OUR VIEW: Police fight domestic violence This anti-domestic violence program is less than a year old, so it doesn’t yet have an extensive track record. But there is growing evidence that a special policing effort begun by the High Point P...
OUR VIEW: Obama has a hard sell in North Carolina President Barack Obama will be rolling through the Triad Monday and Tuesday on a re-election campaign bus tour of North Carolina and Virginia. He has a stop in Jamestown planned and an overnight st...
OUR VIEW: Go easy with the saber rattling President Obama on Thursday said Iranian officials will be held accountable for their “reckless behavior” in connection with an alleged plot to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States i...
OUR VIEW: Obama puts blame on Congress ‘Give ’em hell, Barry?” was the way The Associated Press began a story last week noting that President Obama was “channeling” former President Harry S. Truman. The AP said, “Obama’s message is str...
OUR VIEW: ‘Fifty years is a long time’ They say time heals all wounds. It may have taken 50 years in this case, but it seems those inflicted when Lynn Fountain Campbell walked the halls of High Point High School (now Central High) inde...
OUR VIEW: Privatization of zoo worth exploring The North Carolina Zoo, located just south of Asheboro near the geographic center of the state, always has been a little different. Opened in 1974, first as an interim zoo, it’s one of just a coup...
OUR VIEW: Here’s your opportunity to sound off Most of the time, certainly at the federal and state level, citizens don’t have an opportunity to influence perhaps the most important part of the voting process – restructuring of voting districts...
OUR VIEW: Enthusiasm builds for fall market In the wake of the upbeat mood three weeks ago among buyers and exhibitors at High Point’s Pre-Market, smiles are appearing now on faces of folks associated with the fall 2011 edition of the High P...
OUR VIEW: Wall Street ‘occupation’ goes on It’s been three weeks since that “Occupy Wall Street” movement began with a couple dozen protesters. And although it’s grown into a pretty large gathering of several hundred, maybe even a few thous...
OUR VIEW: Addressing noise now is wise move Despite a slowdown in development of the FedEx air cargo hub at Piedmont Triad International Airport, local officials wisely are moving ahead with efforts to deal with existing aircraft noise and m...
OUR VIEW: Delinquent showrooms must pay It’s time again for High Point Market showroom operators to pay their showroom taxes. For some showroom owners, it’s past time. And for a few, it’s way past time. The tax, 15 cents per square foot...
OUR VIEW: Washington Street is on the move! T he first sentence of one of the stories in the series beginning today on “the remaking of Washington Street” says a lot in 20 words. “Out of the eight initiatives of the City Project, Washingto...
OUR VIEW: What does the future hold
for PART? Officials of the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation have come up with budget revisions so the mass transit agency serving the Piedmont Triad can survive – at least for this fiscal year....
OUR VIEW: Consider what Perdue meant Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue is catching plenty of grief just now for that comment she made on Tuesday about delaying congressional elections for two years, especially from Republicans who hope to re...
OUR VIEW: Coltrane festival turns
a profit It was great news to read last week that the inaugural John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival was a financial success as well as an exciting event for High Point. We look forward to ne...
OUR VIEW: Move N.C. 12 out of the ocean’s reach As residents and visitors have begun returning to Hatteras Island in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, so has the debate on what to do about N.C. 12, the highway lifeline of that Outer Banks mecca ...
OUR VIEW: Don’t let scams take your money We hope you saw the article in last Tuesday’s Enterprise that told you to be wary of email secret shopper solicitations. The story noted the email message touts “a minimum of $200 weekly” for thos...
OUR VIEW: How harsh will criticism be now? On Feb. 12, 2002, Patrick J. Buchanan began a column with, “The 1950s gave us the ‘Fifth Amendment Communists’ – men who hid behind the Constitution to cover up their treason. Now, we have the Fift...
OUR VIEW: ‘Front porch’ chats can be beneficial Many of you have helped us, and other media and many of your fellow citizens as well, in the continual fight for open and transparent government. We always have appreciated that and, thanks to the...
OUR VIEW: Support local crime fighters Face it: Crime is money. Crimestoppers of High Point boasts, “Crime doesn’t pay, but we do.” Even if we believe crime doesn’t pay, we can’t escape the fact that crime costs. As a report in Sunda...
OUR VIEW: Area’s giving spirit will help get us through All the reports and headlines dealing with the economy can be daunting at times. The Enterprise and other news organizations have recently reported on higher estimates of poverty in the U.S., a pes...
OUR VIEW: Amendment vote is good move The state government of North Carolina is the ruling authority in issuing marriage licenses in this state. It lays out what rules and regulations must be complied with and, of course, what fees mus...
OUR VIEW: Renew, then revise, city loan pool High Point’s loan pool office must have a "no swimming" sign out front. The Enterprise reported last week that the nearly $9.8 million loan pool set up a year ago to spur small-business developmen...
OUR VIEW: Randolph sees landfill benefits For more than a decade, Randolph County’s solid waste management operations have transported solid waste to Montgomery County for disposal because, at the time, that was a cheaper alternative to bu...
OUR VIEW: Not so fast on jobs bill, Mr. President We may hear President Obama during the next few days while in North Carolina and elsewhere tell Congress to pass his jobs proposal bill immediately. “No games, no politics, no delays,” the presiden...
OUR VIEW: War on Terrorism is not over We’ve been focusing all week on our memories of 9/11 – where we were when we first heard, the fear and the loss we first felt and then the anger that boiled as we learned more about the treacherous...
