“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
Wednesday… More
On a cold January afternoon over a month ago, HAWS’ Executive Director, Kevin Cheshire, and Winston-Salem Alliance President and Mayor Allen Joines addressed the residents of Crystal Towers. At that meeting that was closed to the media and the general public, the residents of Crystal Towers were told that their building wou… More
A month after the deadly ammonium nitrate explosion at the West Fertilizer facility in West, Texas, city officials brought Weaver Fertilizer before the Public Safety Committee. On May 13, 2013, then Fire Chief Antony Farmer and then Weaver Fertilizer co-owner Vernon Carlton told the committee that Winston’s only fertiliz… More
Finance Committee Meeting – Virtual, Monday, February 14, 2022, 4:30-6:00
Public Safety Committee Meeting – Virtual, Monday, February 14, 2022, 4:30-6 pm
Community Development/Housing/General Government Committee Meeting – Virtual, Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 4:30-6 pm
Public Works Comm… 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
Tasha Logan Ford officially began serving as High Point City Manager last week. Before leaving for High Point, Ford worked in various capacities for the City of Winston-Salem for the last few years. From 2018 until her departure in May, Tasha Logan Ford was one of the City of Winston-Salem’s four Assistant City Managers servin… 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
“This is the very first major part of bringing that East End Master Plan vision to life. It’s just a phenomenal project.” -Annette Scippio, April 5, 2021, WSNC City Council meeting.
The Garden Court Apartments are going to be redeveloped. The modestly built apartment units that have been vacant during the pandem… 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
