Monthly Archives: July 2006

Not dead, just resting

By dhoggard | Published: July 29, 2006
I have noticed over the years that as we move into August, the local blogosphere tends to hit the doldrums.  I feel it coming again.  A bellweather for this annual occurance can be found with Mr. Sun’s full, month-long, eclipse. Although I’m not going to go that far, Hoggs Blog will be going dim for the next [...]
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Double Hung times four

By dhoggard | Published: July 27, 2006
Yesterday will command a red letter on the Double Hung calendar for years to come.  First came the call from Hickory, NC.  Several weeks ago I was asked to intervene in a spat between that city’s preservation community and the Catawba County Center for the Arts (CCCA) that is housed in an adapted re-use of a [...]
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Eating on East Market Street

By dhoggard | Published: July 25, 2006
Allen Johnson sees both good and bad things happening on East Market Street. He mentions that one of east Greensboro’s finest eating establishments might relocate into the old post office when that project gets underway: United House of Prayer (U-HOP to me and my neighbors).  That would be a good thing, because it is very difficult [...]
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Crying wolf

By dhoggard | Published: July 23, 2006
Cone writes about Guilford County’s black leadership’s love/hate affair with the words “racist” and “racism” in this morning’s N&R. “…issues raised by the declaration (PDF file), such as unequal economic opportunity or the disproportionate school suspension rate for black students, reduce complex social issues to “racism,” which would seem to dilute the power of the word as [...]
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Additions to Greensboro101.com

By dhoggard | Published: July 23, 2006
While I’ll not pretend to know what goes on down at the N&R’s Department of Blogs, I do now know that someone is coordinating something somehow.  It smells like Lex. For the longest time only about a third of their extensive line-up of blogs have been listed on Greensboro’s premier weblog aggregator, but a couple of days [...]
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My new country doctor

By dhoggard | Published: July 21, 2006
How much do you pay for a visit to your family doctor?  $60.00?  $75?  More? Do you even know what their ‘reasonable and customary” charge actually is?  If you have health insurance, probably not.  All you care about is the ‘co-pay’, right? I went to get a complete physical yesterday at the offices of Dr. Mark Fields.  I [...]
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Putting double entendre’ to work

By dhoggard | Published: July 20, 2006
A friend/neighbor of mine has been putting a logo together for my business.  I have noticed that everytime I put one of my old, boring yard signs in a customer’s yard - they get swiped in a day or so.  Could have something to do with the name… I just don’t know. That got me to thinking [...]
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By dhoggard | Published: July 20, 2006
House of Xanadu stays after Guilford County’s black leadership.
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Headlines for better living

By dhoggard | Published: July 20, 2006
Inspired by WFMY News 2, David Boyd is going to make it more difficult for you to get out of bed tomorrow
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Minj again

By dhoggard | Published: July 19, 2006
Guess what I had for dinner:  Only the best wings on the face of the earth.  Minj Grill is open for business. I spoke with owners Niki and Matt and they never really said why they were closed for a while, but no matter… their Yuengling is cold and the “kicked-up” version of their wings are hot and [...]
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