I still check the headlines at Asheboro's Courier Tribune - even though I cannot read what's under them. My password still does not work.
When I tried to register for a new one this morning (just for kicks) - it tells me my e-mail address cannot be recognized.
This is America, folks. Or rather, this is the Asheboro that Bob Morrison envisioned when he landed here back in the early nineties (him being so much more important and valuable than the rest of us dontchaknow).
Way back when, Bob really could see his $700,000+ per year. He just had to keep the plebes in line. And for that, he found a real friend in David Renfro and the Stevens Media Group.
And now, we've got what they wanted.
Anway, this is all I could read under one of the headlines this morning:
And I suspect (as has been the case for all of the damage control the paper has run for Randolph Hospital over the years) that the story has something to do with some questions (for the city of Asheboro) that I raised on this post . . .
What the hell happened with Kirk Miller?
What was the city trying to cover up when they fired him . . .
. . . when they took away his will to live?
It reminds me of the Mike Baron/City of Greensboro/Randleman Dam debacle. The end justifies the means. All's well that ends well for everybody but Mike. Pass Ed Cone the water.
As for any awards that may be handed out to Asheboro city employees now (quite literally over Kirk's dead body), I look at that much like JCAHO accreditation for Randolph Hospital . . .
. . . after they fired a Pediatrician for intervening to stop - and then reporting - a sentinel event.
(Besides, we are talking about the state of North Carolina . . . which lately has passed around Order-of-the-Long-Leaf-Line awards like some kind of virus.)
I can guarantee you that Bob Morrison and Steve Eblin would have LOVED it if I had jumped off the back of Dad's Ford pickup way back when (I'm betting there are some bloggers-in-Greensboro who would have loved it too). They could have shaken their heads at their swanky dine-arounds, and winked and nodded as they lamented, "Mary was just a little bit crazy, dontchaknow".
Yeah, boys. I was "crazy" and "stupid" to have believed a word that came out of either of your lying, greedy, double-dealing mouths. "Crazy" and "stupid" to have put another woman's child first.
Ray & company are returning to the tried-&-not-so-true techniques that put Asheboro on life support.
You'd think that, given these latest election results, the powers-that-be at the Courier would have gotten the message that the American people can only be fed so much crap-in-a-candy-wrapper (no matter where it's made) before they start tossing it directly in the trash.
They haven't figured out that, in terms of credibility and integrity, taking sides and/or always reporting "the positive" is the equivalent of passing journalistic wastewater.
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"Even before adjusting for inflation, workers in places like Asheboro, N.C., or Spanish Lake, Mo., saw median incomes decline over the last seven years. In the former, this is a result of job losses in the manufacturing and heavy industry sectors; in the latter, an inability to attract highly skilled workers has hampered annual salaries."
"Median incomes can drop if young workers or immigrants are moving to an area and taking newly formed jobs at lower salaries, which isn't necessarily a sign that times are tough. However, if the number of folks under the poverty line surges while incomes drop, it's a sign of economic decline instead of transition."
Good evening Doctor Johnson, I'm 5,000 feet up above in the Smokies right now at a place called The Swag. The view is wonderful from here, and I can the see the devastation below. No need for those in Asheboro to be ashamed, most of the other guests here are from out of state, and don't even know where Greensboro is. The wife and I have simply resorted to saying we're from central NC, that seems to suffice.
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