One head might be better than two.

• Position: TRIAD REGION - Resignation of Pat Danahy, Dan Lynch - Brief article

Greensboro is looking for a salesman. Two of its top business recruiters--Greensboro Partnership President and CEO Pat Danahy and Greensboro Economic Development Alliance President Dan Lynch--will retire at the end of the year. The Partnership serves as an umbrella organization for the Alliance, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce and other local business groups. Danahy, 70, and Lynch, 63, say they weren't influenced by recent criticism over communication and the pace of development, but signs point to one person potentially replacing both of them. "It's probably a good time to rethink and assess what's happening," says Keith Debbage, a UNC Greensboro urban-planning professor who has done economic-development studies for Action Greensboro, which is under the Partnership umbrella. An oft-cited example of the city's economic-development disappointments was its inability to turn the head of New York-based insurer MetLife, which announced last year it would add 2,600 jobs in Cary and Charlotte. The region is still struggling to recover...