Having noted this morning that I'm not in the downtown power-group loop, I should add that this applies to my roles as a journalist and blogger, and that the disconnect is at the program level, which is what makes it curious.

I am reasonably well-connected at a somewhat higher level, via my board seat with the Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation, in which capacity I attended a meeting this afternoon of the various foundations that fund Action Greensboro. It was an interesting meeting, the details of which I cannot divulge, but I was able to make a suggestion that I hope will have a quick and meaningful impact on Greensboro, its creative culture, and its national reputation...