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Wells has no plans for City Council run
Neighborhood activist Goldie Wells says she has no plans to run for the seat held by Greensboro City Council member Claudette Burroughs-White.
Wells, a retired teacher and the chairwoman of the neighborhood group Concerned Citizens of Northeast Greensboro, said she's been approached by several people about running but hasn't agreed to run.
"At this point, no," Wells said. "I'm not thinking about it."
Burroughs-White said on Jan. 6 that she hadn't made a decision on whether to seek a sixth term. She said then that she would gladly step aside if she could convince Wells to run for the seat.
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Sens. Dole, Burr claim their musical chairs
Now that the tobacco-quota buyout has been approved, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole is saying farewell to her post on the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Senators must receive special permission from chamber leaders to serve on more than two high-level panels. Dole, a Republican from Rowan County, decided against doing that again for the coming congressional session, spokesman Brian Nick told Inside Scoop.
Dole's other big assignments are on the banking and armed forces committees, both of which tackle issues important to North Carolina. Nick noted that Dole, as coordinator of efforts to elect GOP senators in 2006, holds a leadership post in which she still would make sure the state's farming issues are addressed.
Meanwhile, GOP Sen. Richard Burr of Winston-Salem has been appointed to serve on these Senate committees: energy and natural resources; health, education, labor and pensions; Indian affairs; and veterans affairs. He was elected last fall.
Greensboro Congressman Howard Coble will retain his three committee assignments: chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security and member of the judiciary and transportation committees.
A solution?
Guilford County and Alamance County developer Gail Boswell may be nearing an end in their monthslong tussle over exactly where the property she is developing near the county line is.
Boswell, who is building a high-end subdivision, said she got permission from Guilford County's tax department to cede land to Alamance County, something that Guilford County officials say they can't do.
The biggest problem has been getting the final inspections on two houses already built on the property.
On Thursday, a group of county commissioners and senior county staff met for a second time to try to resolve the dispute. They approved a resolution, which the full Board of Commissioners will consider next week, that would allow Alamance County inspectors to carry out the inspections but keep the property in Guilford County.
Boswell said she would have no comment on whether this would settle her complaint until after that meeting.
Staff writers Matt Williams, Eric Dyer and Mark Binker contributed to The Inside Scoop. For more government and political news, visit The Inside Scoop online: http://blog.news-record.com/scoopblog/
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