Source: Rhino Times Greensboro

Rumors

December 27, 2012

This is our last issue of 2012, and we’d like to thank all of our readers, and in particular all of our advertisers, for supporting us in the last year and for the past 21 years. I often get asked by people what they can do to support the paper because, since it’s free, readers aren’t asked to provide any financial support. What I tell them is to support our advertisers. Anytime you can spend money with one of our advertisers you are helping us. It is even a bigger help if you mention you saw their ad in The Rhino. Thanks and Happy New Year.

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We count down the issues left in the year every Wednesday when we do a final check before sending the front page to the printer. So the first week, it’s – one down and only 51 to go. It’s amazing how quickly it becomes – 45 down and seven to go. But this year, every week we have said – one down and 51 to go, but, since the world is going to end on Dec. 21, it’s really only 50 to go. Well, by our reckoning we have already sent the last paper to print, number 51, and now we are on overtime. So we are charging time and a half for this paper.

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Last year we celebrated our 20th anniversary with a special edition. This year, more in keeping with our usual practice, we forgot our 21st anniversary until it was long past. However, it does seem worth noting that a newspaper born in a bar is now old enough to legally buy a drink.

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Congratulations to Art Pope, who will be appointed deputy budget director by Gov.-elect Pat McCrory. Pope is a former state legislator who reportedly understands state budgets as well as anyone in Raleigh.

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Here in the South, where there are lots of guns, you might expect someone at the News & Record to know an automatic weapon from a revolver, but evidently they don’t. It appears they know guns are bad and that is all they need to know. Editorial writer Doug Clark wrote an editorial last week about banning “assault rifles.” He’s a little behind the times. Assault rifles are fully automatic and have been effectively banned in this country since 1934. What he might mean is an assault weapon, which is a term the Clinton administration invented for a gun that looks like an assault rifle. Words do have meaning.

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Congratulations to the Proximity Hotel, which in was named as one of the top 500 hotels in the world by Travel + Leisure magazine. The Proximity is one of only eight hotels in North Carolina to be included on this list. The press release lists all kinds of reasons why the Proximity won, but we think it is because they found out the owner walks to work every day. Way to go, Dennis.