Jim EGBAR Melvin

From Richard M. Barron at the N&R:

Long has recruited such business and community leaders as Jim Melvin, president of the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation, to serve on the Wyndham’s board.

Several board members, including Melvin, overlap with a group of business leaders formed under the Piedmont Triad Partnership working with King to strengthen home furnishings, business growth at Piedmont Triad International Airport and research in nanotechnology and biotechnology in the region…

The Wyndham has earned between $300,000 and $400,000 a year, and Melvin said he hopes that about half that money could go into economic development projects.

He and Long say that two priorities are helping the Triad Partnership continue a work force preparedness effort after a federal grant runs out next year and, also, to promote this region worldwide.

How about reimbursing the City of Greensboro and Guilford County for security expenses?

Why not plant flowers in front of the derelict businesses along High Point Road?

Maybe they could do something about the homeless beggars lining the road.

I would, at the very least, like to see the books on PTP.

Ed Cone agrees in principle.

I wish there were a way to get around the non-profits. The do-gooders will simply sop it up like gravy in salaries.

I’ve got a few more ideas:

We could provide healthcare for area realtors forced into prostitution.

We could help out of work attorneys get some marketable skills.

We could invest in businesses that actually make things.

We could purchase one way tickets to anywhere for council members.

I really doubt Joe Bryan is pleased with Melvin’s tenure.

We could help build a restaurant qualifying for Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

We could fund a model at the J. Douglas Galyon Depot of the light rail which will never come.

We could pay people to follow Robbie Perkins everywhere he goes and document everything he says. Oh, I forgot; that’s already being handled by the N&R.

We could pay off Councilwoman SAG‘s personal debt, provided she retires from politics. Unfortunately, there’s not enough money in the world to pay off Nancy Vaughn. Speaking of whom, how much did Barakat and Swofford get paid to ruin the ACC?

16:00: I was in the wine aisle at the Westridge H-T recently, strolling behind a country club matron. Having traded in the stripper pole for a tennis rackets decades before, her legs were still exquisite.

It’s occurred to me we could fund DNA tests for the country club bastards, so they would finally know who their parents are.

I’d love to know Don Kirkman‘s salary.

Prepare to laugh:

An agreement has been struck to put some of the proceeds from the Wyndham Championship into an effort to grow jobs in three areas: aerospace, furniture, and science and medical technology. And that will be in addition to the tournament’s regular contributions to charity.

The deal is significant enough that a segment will air this weekend during the Wyndham Championship that shows PGA Commissioner Tim Finchem , Wyndham Worldwide Chairman Stephen Holmes and BB&T CEO Kelly King interviewed by CBS commentator Bill Macatee on the topic of job growth.

This will be the first tournament to earmark a portion of its proceeds specifically for job development…

The budding partnerships locally among banks, corporations and industries, Long said, could form into something like what happened years ago when former First Union bank Chairman Ed Crutchfield and former Bank of America CEO Hugh McColl got together in Charlotte for development purposes.

We know how that ended.

If PTP is the arbiter of such grand design and investment, we should know more about them.