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Two courthouses, two register of deeds offices, two tax offices, two jails, two health department offices....... All this talk about Piedmont Triad Cities cooperating and we can't even get two cities within the same county to agree on a mutual location for a goverment center that would benefit all county citizens.

Reminds me of an article about the Piedmont I read in National Geographic back in the late 80's. It described our region as a collection of Greek city-states fighting each other over regional spoils and fearful of allied with the others because one might get a better deal.

Do you not realize that we got a baseball stadium instead? Jim Melvin and company wanted a new toy more than they wanted to address public needs. Since Jefferson Pilot has left, least the big brass, wonder who are the big people Jim wants to entertain when they come to the city for business? Golf and trade shows do not occur during the right season. Cannot imagine much Jefferson Brass comming to town often!

Would be good if someone out there understands the big picture. The carnal offerings of Las Vegas will eventually win the high point trade show audience, Lincoln National took our insurance industry! Skip and Davis would scare the homeless to another city! Many others are dwelling on the pass in Reconsilation of something many of us were not even around for.

What a joke we have for leadership!

Perhaps they will offer the jefferson building in about 5 years. I suspect by then it will be mostly empty or at least the majority of the space will be for lease to other tenants.

Maby the county can work a deal!