State Representative Donny Lambeth is back at it. Lambeth has once again filed a bill in the North Carolina House to amend the structure of the Winston-Salem City Council. But this time around, there isn’t much to object to. Instead of sweeping changes to the City Council, Lambeth’s HB334 keeps the existing City Council … More
Today’s Burke Street is a lovely little avenue of bars, restaurants, and shops bordering the West End and West Salem neighborhoods. Before Urban Renewal, the eastern portion of Burke Street was an African American pocket neighborhood. United Metropolitan traces its roots back to Burke Street and Brookstone Avenue. In rece… More
John Railey wrote an excellent article last week in The Chronicle. Railey criticized the City of Winston-Salem for spending hundreds of thousands on housing studies but failing to implement policy recommendations from those rather costly studies. That’s a criticism I have been making against the City for some time now.
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“If someone says Winston-Salem is falling behind, the numbers just don’t support that. We are still going very strong”
“20 years ago, we laughed and said you could shoot a cannon down 4th street after 5 and not hit anybody…Today that’s not true.”
-Allen Joines, March 30, 2022
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Much of the city’s Black history has been destroyed over the years, with historical markers marking what market forces and racist policies long ago removed from the city’s landscape.
The City of Winston-Salem kicked off Black History Month with a Facebook post from Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission, hono… More
Prior to the raging inferno at 4440 N. Cherry, my social media feed was dominated by Ukraine/Russia hysteria and Tom Bradey speculation. I first started seeing images of the massive Weaver Fertilizer fire in my social media feed on Monday evening. As the evening progressed, it became evident that the city had a major fire and potenti… More
Mayor and Winston-Salem Alliance President Allen Joines has largely failed to maintain existing affordable housing units or produce new affordable housing units in Winston-Salem. As Joines has now been in office for 2o years. He is by far the longest-serving mayor in the twin city’s history. Through state and federal offic… More
The September 7, 2021, meeting of the Winston-Salem City Council was a relatively brief and bland affair. It lasted just over 53 minutes. Several items on the Council’s monthly zoning agenda were unceremoniously pulled from the agenda and continued to a later date without explanation. The Housing Authority’s redeve… More
Edited 6/19/2021
Back in April, the Winston-Salem City Council passed a toothless resolution supporting the principle of reparations. The resolution, approved by all seven Democrats on an eight-member board, costs the City of Winston-Salem almost nothing. It promises little more than empathy to African Americans in the city wh… More
For nearly forty years (1975-2012), Winston’s Union Station was just another garage. It was Davis Garage, an auto repair and towing service owned and operated by Harvey Davis. The Davis family bought Union Station for a song back in 1970 and had ambitions of one day redeveloping it. Harvey Davis’ dreams were dashed when … More
