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Largesse? PDF Print E-mail
Twin City / Triad
Written by Mark Winston   
Sunday, 10 February 2008

Traffic Preserves

A very good and timely article appeared today in the Journal, dedicated to the regional intercity transit system for the Triad, PART. The reason I display the graph below (courtesy of TRAC) is that the article in today's paper included a noteworthy quote from a UNCC Geography professor, calling the $2.4 Million that various Triad municipalities spend on this system "just another form of government largesse".

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What a Ballpark Will and Will Not Do... PDF Print E-mail
Twin City / Triad
Written by Mark Winston   
Monday, 23 July 2007

Ballpark

I would like to voice my strenuous opposition to the proposal to build another taxpayer-financed ballpark in Winston-Salem.

Public projects which benefit a specific demographic are undeniable failures across our country. The laws and policies used by cities and governments to obtain and clear land for their use are almost universally biased against poor inner-city communities in favor of "bringing in" populations from outside the affected community.

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A Twin City Timeline PDF Print E-mail
Twin City / Triad
Written by David Salem   
Monday, 23 July 2007

Downtown

A timeline of events in Twin City history, complied from Winston-Salem: A History by Frank V. Tursi, and other sources.

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