Lack of a "Creative Class" in GSO???

If this recent Time Warner saga has proven anything, it shows that Greensboro lacks a creative class.

And the "real" mayor of Greensboro, my friend (and real former mayoral candidate) Billy Jones says this about our lack of a creative class:

While Greensboro’s "city leaders" continue to see development and new construction as the only way to build a world class city, more grown up cities like San Diego, California are showing the way by providing residents with the ways and means to convert to alternative energy thereby reducing San Diego’s dependence of imported sources of energy and propelling California’s economy over that of North Carolina and the rest of the nation.

As Roch Smith says today, new construction and development don't build world class cities.

And Guilford County Commissioner Paul Gibson's comment to the News & Record (in remarks regarding new Guilford County manager Brenda Jones Fox seals the deal:

"We aren't going to attract the best and brightest," Gibson said. "People are staying away from Guilford County. We're not going to be able to attract top talent."

Bam.

City Hall, are you listening?

E.C. :)