Red Mike's hit again

Red Mike's Grocery was hit yet again with another unfortunate robbery last night.

The downtown convenience store at the corner of Elm and Fisher, the scene of a violent robbery/homicide this past November that claimed the life of the store's owner Muhammed 'Mike' Ali, was robbed of an unspecified amount of cash Monday night by two armed men. FOX-8 reports no one was hurt in the incident.

As in the last incident, there are no suspects as of yet.

It's interesting that on the same evening, just blocks away, Action Greensboro officials, along with Greensboro Mayor Yvonne Johnson and Guilford Co. Board of Commissioners chair Skip Alston were gathering to wax poetic about downtown. And gee...wasn't it part of a downtown strategy at one point in time to bring more convenience stores and grocery stores to downtown. After all, since we have people living downtown, they need those conveniences, right? But if these stores are getting robbed with unusual frequency, why would these businesses stay?

(A sidebar...Guarino reports on another incident that may have occurred at Friendly Center this past Sunday evening)

But remember...we can't bash the police department, we can't bash the mayor, the city manager nor city council...because Zack Matheny's 'had it' up to here with you bashers!

Well, where's Zack today? The damn mayor was FOUR BLOCKS AWAY when this happened last night! Do you think she left the meeting to go over to the scene?

Is it me, or is this getting disgusting?

E.C. :)