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yes, Washingtonian, I did run into Councilman Davis a couple of weeks ago and mentioned the issue to him. He did have some interest, but I think it would take more people expressing concern about the dumb "smart meters" to get him to take any action.
Commented: Tuesday, September 8th, 2026 @ 8:22 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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Raymond Silverthorn, a homeless man of Washington was pushing his shopping cart along west 5th street approaching Hog Heaven when he was struck from behind & killed. I saw him just before he crossed the CherryRun Creek bridge and he was snug up against the curb. Perhaps if the damn speed limit was lower than 50mph along this very congested stretch of road (inside the city limits), the driver would have been able to see the man before hitting him. Headlights shine a great distance. Everyone knows if the limit is 50 it means u can go 59 and still avoid a ticket...so how fast do u think people are willing to speed? As one comes across Cherry Run Creek bridge, one can see up ahead much congestion and even a traffic light, but the DOT has a sign by PC Sound that tells everyone to feel free to go 50mph. Anyone traveling 50mph there under these conditions, are exceeding a safe speed. U could be charged w reckless driving. Make it make sense! SLOW IT DOWN. Drop the limit to 40.
Commented: Monday, September 7th, 2026 @ 10:54 pm
By: Washingtonian
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PK, Seriously, I'm asking...has anyone called the various City Council members and requested their assistance in stopping the installation of thos smart meters?
How do they reply? Call all of them if you want a quick lesson in, double speak, side-stepping, and obfuscating. U will learn a lot about your govt. WHO approved it originally??? Maybe the WOKE Planning Dept?
Commented: Monday, September 7th, 2026 @ 12:01 pm
By: Washingtonian
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PLEASE!!! Listen to Dane Wigington on Smart Meters & what they have done!!!
Link is below, start at marker 6:25 www.youtube.com
Commented: Monday, September 7th, 2026 @ 10:27 am
By: PK
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Washingtonian: MAGA (Make America Great Again) has been trashed by the Word Police of the Left, and while I don't go by any political labels other than Conservative, I embrace Donald Trump as the very best president we could have at this time ... These very difficult times.
Commented: Monday, September 7th, 2026 @ 8:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hey JV. you can call me MAGA everyday of th week, & 3 times a day. Seems like a compliment to me. What is being Maga? I'm pretty informed on th Trump Presidency & so I would say Maga simply means a movement to Make America Great Again, using th strategies of Trump. I dont know of any Conservative Republicans who would deny being MAGA, based on the facts of its purpose & NOT on th smears th left try to paint.
If I could give some advice to folks just learning the ways of the world, it would be dont believe everything a person with a "title" tells you. People like that are probably the biggest liars, having practiced th art longer than most. Hassan Piker said he was fed-up w th wealthy elites not being held accountable for their crimes. Probably 95% would agree. Its turning them to Socialism. The solution is to stop th inequality regarding the elites vs th peons. Sadly its worse locally. JV, Muslims bank w China, Russia, & every single Muslim country. AND...They want U DEAD!!
Commented: Monday, September 7th, 2026 @ 1:58 am
By: Washingtonian
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SD: I agree. The local GOP should have stayed out of the Washington municipal elections. The trouble is that it is even worse than that. It appears the Executive Committee had very little to do with any of it even though the weight of the Party was presented to the public as being behind it.
The people that have been having their way with the local GOP, at least since the 2019 County Convention, had their feathers ruffled at the 2025 Convention when delegates successfully fought for a return to grassroots inclusion on the Executive Committee. The response from the power mongers was to further castrate the Executive Committee and let the unaccountable and shadowy Victory Committee take over the real work while being accountable to no one. It is Victory Committee fingerprints all over the Washington municipal elections. There are people on the Executive Committee that know better and tried to do better. They were bitterly opposed by the power mongers. It seems a slight majority of the Executive Committee is made up of those that are fine with corruption and some that are too dim witted to know the difference. A healthy, functioning Executive Committee would not have made the mess in the Washington municipal elections that was made this time around. This is what you get when schemers, egomaniacs, clowns and weaklings run an organization. 
Commented: Sunday, September 6th, 2026 @ 9:19 pm
By: Van Zant
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Washingtonian: We would all been better off in Washington, with the election of their officials, if the Local GOP had kept their sophistic hands out of that election, where there was a so-called conservative majority, albeit abjectly slim.
In local politics, there has always been a 'a ROT locally,' but blaming the good Conservatives that endeavor to do right by their constituents, will not solve the issue that it will take a real conservative majority to make the necessary changes to dispose of the 'rot,' and for that to occur, it will take this local electorate to pay close attention the candidates, and elect who is real, who is proven.
Commented: Sunday, September 6th, 2026 @ 4:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As a conservative Republican, I voted for the 5 candidates that were recommended by the local Conservative Club. Three were elected. But look...what has it gotten us? Things are as bad as ever. Since then, we have had multiple interim City Managers, a fired city manager, and multiple interim police chiefs, & a still vacant council seat.
The powers-that-be made th current Fire Chief, th interim Police Chief too. That is too much power in one person, & it creates conflicts of interest and an Overwhelming power over Depts of authority, & over th whole of govt, & its pple. What it amounts to is that the powers-that-be wanted to make sure they had a "team-player" in that position. Its almost incestual. They say: When one suspects corruption, its most likely just incompetence. But incompetence easily turns to corruption, so that is what we hav in Washington. U cant blame th voters, we elected 3 out of the 5 that were recommended. There's a ROT locally, & Stan I do not deserve a sick govt.
Commented: Sunday, September 6th, 2026 @ 1:22 pm
By: Washingtonian
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By tying our electric and water system operations into Tyler Tech's national network, Washington puts a bullseye on our back for hackers from adversarial countries. They can take down a whole lot more by attacking there than attacking small systems piecemeal. This is an incredibly stupid idea. Tyler Tech is probably also a target due to their now running court filing systems in multiple states including our own. China and Russia both have armies of hackers and bot farms for assymetric warfare attacks on adversaries, and a standoff with one of them could lead to attacks on our utilities or courts or other things. When those things are concentrated in one place, it makes them a very attractive target for such attacks.
Iran's hackers are less sophisticated than those of China or Russia, but they have taken down a British electric plant recently and are prime suspects in attacks on some utilities here in the US. freebeacon.com If the number of constant glitches in Tyler Tech's court filing system is any indicator, Washington utility customers will not be well served by them.
Commented: Saturday, August 29th, 2026 @ 8:55 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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When you sit & do nothing, THIS is what happens! Since there are two seats open, someone needs to step in!
Commented: Friday, August 28th, 2026 @ 3:35 pm
By: PK
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Here is a list of those whack-a-doodle leftists on the city Planning Board: www.washingtonnc.gov
It looks like there are two vacancies currently.
Commented: Friday, August 28th, 2026 @ 10:56 am
By: Rino Hunter
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CV you said, "Dissolve the city govt and just be part of the county."
OMG...THAT would be wonderful. I'm so sick of all the "Catch 22s" laid before citizens simply trying to get a fair govt. P.S. At that same link pg 24: cms8.revize.com is a whole section titled: "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" in the City.
Commented: Friday, August 28th, 2026 @ 10:47 am
By: Washingtonian
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Good catch, Washingtonian. It looks like the DSA has taken over Washington's Planning Board. They are clearly far left nutjobs. Maybe it is time to dissolve the city government and just be part of the county.
Commented: Friday, August 28th, 2026 @ 9:04 am
By: Conservative Voter
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Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Commented: Thursday, August 27th, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
By: Will Simmons
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Did you know that Washington is Woke?
From Link PK shared: cms8.revize.com Community Goals by Planning Board & Dept * Recommmendations: "#4 Ensure equitable, diverse, & inclusive access to public services, facilities, & participation in governance." "Policy 1.2 Coordinate w Mid-East Regional Planning Org to plan for & provide greenway connections from Washington-Greenville." "Policy 8: Enlist a qualified consultant to evaluate risks of future climate change effects on property in City & develop a long-term action plan to protect community." "Policy 4. Review roads that will flood with sea level rise & identify hotspots (NHA)." ...plan for a future 2ft sea level rise.
Commented: Thursday, August 27th, 2026 @ 5:12 pm
By: Washingtonian
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I think we can ALL see the seriousness of the situation! We MUST speak up! Once the deed is done, it's too late!!!
Commented: Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 @ 9:22 pm
By: PK
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Something just announced today underlines the hacking danger of tying our electric and water systems into a computerized network of a company that runs them for lots of other local utilities. The US DOJ just announced that the Communist Chinese had hacked into the computer systems of a number of federal agencies including theirs. justthenews.com
As a stand alone small utility, especially with traditional mechanical metering, we are extremely low on the hacking target list of any malevolent foreign adversary. It is to our benefit to stay in that posture to avoid hacking danger. Any use of computers creates some hacking danger, but as we are it is minimal. Once we tie ourselves to a network that involves a company handling a computerized system handling many local utilities, we have tied ourselves to what would be a major hacking opportunity near the top of the target list for a foreign adversary. That is just boneheaded. Tyler Tech becomes a hacking target that can be an avenue to sow mischief across many local utility systems. Hackers have in the last few days shut down electricity in a part of the UK, with the hackers likely from Iran. Several incidents with US utilities also appear to have a hacking connection. We are a whole lot safer from a hacking danger keeping our utilities like they are instead of tying them into a network likely to be a major hacker target for foreign adversaries.
Commented: Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 @ 7:33 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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This smart meter thing was a snow job from a salesman for the vendor. They approached someone high in the city bureaucracy, either the head of the utilities or the city manager, but they clearly got both on board. The city bureaucracy swallowed the salesman's spiel, hook, line, and sinker. Was any payola involved? If it was, you can be sure it will stay hushed up. Salesmen dealing with either corporations or government tend to giving expensive gifts rather than cash.
This deal was done during the Sadler era. The mayor and council of that period probably did little to look into it. Why the new council just goes along with it is mindboggling. This vendor is setting themselves up for a continuing income stream of service fees and billing, with extra consumer fees for using credit cards. The system will make it difficult for the city to seek a competitor in the future. They will have welded themselves to Tyler Tech.
Commented: Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 @ 5:45 pm
By: The Shadow
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PK thank you. Great information.
One thing the article on the downside of the meters didn't mention is that the wrong person could be watching and give info to other as it seems it would be easy to track if someone is home or not by electric usage and the info in the wrong hands could lead to more people being robbed while they are out.
Commented: Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 @ 4:45 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Wow, PK, thanks for that link. The potential negative human health aspects of these smart meters is enough to JUST SAY NO to them.
Commented: Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 @ 3:57 pm
By: Victoria
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This is an important link to the down side of smart meters! I think we need to pay attention before it's to late.
www.energy-and-electricity.com
Commented: Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 @ 3:16 pm
By: PK
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Maybe it's time to step up & ask questions! The next Council meeting would be a good first step!
Commented: Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 @ 3:12 pm
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