Scott Sexton

Cyberbullies and cancel-culture trolls have extracted their pound of flesh. But how much is enough?

“This is hard,” Moore said. “It’s not what anybody wants to do. There are plenty of fingers (of blame) to go around.”

Potential buyers were legally bound from selling to “any person or persons of color.”

Teachers come back year after year, affront after affront, insult upon financial injury.

“Honestly I was quite taken aback,” Don Flow said. “I didn’t know there was any issue at all.”

“I don’t like being blindsided and not being able to tell citizens what’s going on,” said Council member Denise Adams, the committee chairperson.

“It’s annoying and just makes you not want to go.”

“The current political system in America is corrupt,” he said. “Billionaires put unbelievable amounts of money into both political parties.”

“It’s just been a nightmare,” she said after the theft. “And I want other women to know about it so the same thing doesn’t happen to them.”

DMV offices rely in large part on hiring temps. And the audit showed that 68% of some 142 temporary examiner positions were vacant as of June.

Chief William Penn, exasperated by a weekend punctured by a string of high-profile crimes, calls a news conference to condemn the violence and plead for help from the public.

Interim Superintendent Catty Moore deserves some grace in clean-up efforts. Others not so much.

Still, within three weeks -- warp speed in government -- the Winston-Salem Transit Authority rolled out a plan for free fares to cooling centers this weekend.

“There never has been full transparency,” Childress said. “I’m not anti-administration at all. But there is so much mistrust in the Central Office."

“We have folks out walking in the hot sun on Peters Creek Parkway trying to find places out of the dangerous heat,” an earnest young man named Aidan McCarthy told

Few answers, plenty of questions remain in the spectacular and public fall of a former state representative.

“Lord knows how many hundreds or thousands of gallons of water just went down the drain,” said neighbor Don Clark.

Lax isn’t quite the right word to describe enforcement. Selective and complaint-driven are perhaps better descriptors.

A former Marine who enlisted right after 9/11 reflects on a profound loss.And the way he chose to honor the memory of a friend.

A large fire destroyed a 125-year-old building in downtown Kernersville that housed the Caudill Electric Co.It is a total loss.