The Rhino Times is a conservative news and opinion website covering Guilford County, North Carolina.
[1] The primary newspaper went into hundreds of thousands dollars of debt and ceased publication in 2013,[3] but it was bought by local real estate developer Roy Carroll and reopened later that year.
[9] In July 2009, the paper won a $25,000 judgment for punitive damages against an Arkansas-based Ku Klux Klan group and its leader Thomas Robb.
In June 2011, a controversy was created when the Rhino Times published a cartoon by Geof Brooks that featured two African American men in orange prison jumpsuits in the front yards of what appears to be two suburban homes.
The Greensboro News & Record reported that Hammer called Guilford County Commissioners Chairman Melvin "Skip" Alston to apologize for the cartoon.
[12] In January 2015, Editor John Hammer published a story claiming two Irish tourists were accosted, mistreated, and arrested by Greensboro police while trying to take photos in the city's Bicentennial Garden.