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Just when I had about gotten to the point I could hold my nose for Whatley, a RINO who would be Tillis 2.0, the original Tillis is now making that much more difficult. Roy Cooper is terrible, and I wish we had a real alternative like Don Brown would have been.

Commented: Friday, June 5th, 2026 @ 9:46 am By: Rino Hunter

John, that is not the worst thing. They limited their search to career bureaucrats and shut out those with private sector management experience. Private sector managers strive for efficient cost-effective operations while career bureaucrats tend to be empire builders who care nothing about efficiency. They sought absolutely the wrong qualifications in a county manager, and , well, they found them.

Commented: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 @ 8:10 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

WOW! This must really have the "woke" messing up their diapers.

Commented: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 @ 2:17 pm By: Bubba

Would Beaufort County teachers support our females?

"Complaint Sparks US Dept of Education Title IX Investigation into NC School District

WASHINGTON, DC – May 13, 2026, America First Legal (AFL) filed a formal complaint with the US Dept of Ed and the US Dept of Justice, alleging that policies enacted by Cabarrus County Schools (CCS) in Concord, NC, violate Title IX, FERPA, and the US Constitution. The Dept of Ed’s Office for CivilRights (OCR) announced that it launched an investigation in response to AFL’s complaint.

AFL’s complaint exposed CCS’s policies permitting “gender expansive and transgender students” to access sex-segregated intimate facilities based on “gender identity” rather than biological sex. One female student attending Cox Mill High School raised concerns during a public school board meeting that a biological male student “identifying” as female participated on the girls’ football and basketball cheer teams and used the girls’ locker rooms & restrooms."

Commented: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026 @ 8:10 pm By: Washingtonian

Beaufort County's two RINO commissioners, Frankie Waters and Randy Walker, raised spending by 4.7 million this budget period of 070126 to 063027 after last year's harsh revaluation, and then voted against the Ending of Limited Voting for the second month in a row ... just to add insult to the permanent injury of their political character ... As RINOs.

Commented: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026 @ 1:07 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Obama also let in the hordes of Somali "refugees" who are stealing our country blind with their frauds.

Commented: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026 @ 9:39 am By: John Steed

READ: www.northcarolinahealthnews.org
• "Trump's $50B rural health bet meets a HEALTHCARE DESERT in North Carolina (northcarolinahealthn ews.org) — Greenville's ECU Health Medical Center is straining under surging ER demand as nearby Martin County's hospital closure forces more rural patients into the city's only Level 1 trauma center east of Raleigh. Local leaders and ECU Health executives are lobbying for funding, but say Trump's new $50 billion rural health program won't reopen Martin General or quickly ease Greenville's long ER wait times."
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Why would any thinking human choose to relocate to a Regional HEALTHCARE DESERT such as we have here locally? Is the plan to eliminate most humans in coastal NC? Let us die off for lack of medical care, and tax to death the rest of the humans here.

Commented: Monday, June 1st, 2026 @ 11:34 am By: Washingtonian

Randy Walker is a full pledged RINO and full blown liberal, as is his wife on the school board. No question about that, but when it comes to the Senate race, Roy Cooper is just so awful that one has to hold their nose for Whatley. Yeah, Whatley was a bad NCGOP chairman. Yeah, Whatley is closer to Tillis than we would like, but Whatley at least has enough of a political debt to Trump that I cannot see him going against Trump during the next two years, and that is a very critical time period. Don Brown would have been a MUCH better nominee to beat Cooper, but he lost. I hope Don will be running for Attorney General in 2028, but we are stuck with either Whatley or Cooper for Senate in 2026, and Whatley is the lesser of the evils. I very much dislike a "lesser of the evils" choice, but Cooper is so bad, there is just no other viable option this time.

Commented: Monday, June 1st, 2026 @ 6:33 am By: Rino Hunter

I missed the "Meet and Greet" since I was out of town with only a 24 hour advanced notification.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2026 @ 8:39 pm By: Stan Deatherage

It looks like the extreme left hates historic and national flags everywhere. Here they diss many Revolutionary War flags including the Gadsden flag, the 13 star Betsy Ross flag, and others, and historic Confederate flags. They even burn the current American flag. In the UK, they diss the Union Jack and the St. Andrews Cross flag of England. In Canada, it is their Red Ensign. Yet they want to shove things like their "pride flag" is our faces or wave foregin flags at their riots for illegal aliens.

If these anti-democratic thugs get their way, it may soon be illegal to display the longtime national flag of Canada, and at the same time illegal to object to the obnoxious "pride flag". How long until they declare Canada a "people republic"?

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2026 @ 12:12 pm By: Conservative Voter

AI has no place in the Arts, it has no soul and removes the human element from the equation. Imperfections and "mistakes" make music/art special. I can't tell you how many legendary riffs have come from f-ups and producers deciding to "keep it on the tape".

I agree that AI, with strict oversight, can be used for the purposes of good BUT if unregulated, you'll see why and how places like Atlantis fell from grace.

B&N hasn't been worth a crap for almost 20 years. They are a footnote of American Culture now. We used to meet girls there, get our music magazines and graphic novels.....but those times have long since passed.

Commented: Saturday, May 30th, 2026 @ 4:57 pm By: John Valley