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Guilford County 2026 Property Revaluation; Data and Methodology Records Request
With links to related posts
 • George Hartzman
The Parking Deck Scam; How Greensboro's Insiders Turned Public Debt into Private Profit
A small group of connected insiders used The Tanger Center for Performing Arts, parking decks and a purchased City Council to enrich themselves at…
 • George Hartzman
Triad Business Journal selectively frames data, collapses timelines and leans on optimistic narrators in ways favoring real-estate and…
It's not neutral business journalism; it’s boosterism with footnotes.
 • George Hartzman
TREBIC’s Jon Hardister Lobbying for Our Taxpayer Money to Subsidize Home Builder Profits
North Carolina’s Housing “Crisis” Isn’t an Excuse to Socialize Developer Risk
 • George Hartzman
Public Records show Former City of Greensboro Attorney Chuck Watts Paid His Former Partnership 'The Banks Law Firm' $681,182.29 Taxpayer…
Financial disclosures fuel existing ethics questions surrounding former City Attorney’s decision to hire his prior law firm.
 • George Hartzman
The feedback loop where behavior becomes data, data becomes prediction and prediction becomes influence
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 • George Hartzman
Crumbling Commercial Values Threaten Guilford and Greensboro Homeowners with Steep Tax Hike
Empty Offices, Higher Home Bills; The 2026 Tax Reappraisal's Stark Choice
 • George Hartzman
Greensboro's Two Downtowns; A Failing Gentrification with Office Vacancies and Remote Work Compounded with the Surrounding Poverty-Stricken…
A downtown built for outsiders, abandoned by workers and disconnected from its neighbors
 • George Hartzman

January 2026

How Bureaucratic Failure Drove a Tenant From Her Home; A Case Study in Broken Promises in Greensboro, North Carolina
She Followed the Rules. The City Didn't.
 • George Hartzman
Formal Objection & Demand for Recusal of Mayor Marikay Abuzuaiter and Councilman Hugh Holston from Agenda Items H.18 & H.19 on Tuesday…
OFFICIAL SUBMISSION TO THE GREENSBORO CITY COUNCIL FOR INCLUSION IN MATERIALS TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION
 • George Hartzman
Frozen Deal? How an SBI Probe May Have Halted the Controversial Bellemeade Parking Lot Sale to Roy Carroll in Greensboro
The $2.9 Million Question; Was It an Engineering Failure or a Political Favor?
 • George Hartzman
Exclusive; Public Records Reveal Guest List for Taxpayer Funded Contractor’s Party
Beyond bad optics; The legal risks when contractors party with their government overseers.
 • George Hartzman
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