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Running a town, county, or country is like running a business. We can see the success of our country under the leadership of a businessman and not another person with no business experience. We would do well to take a good look at our current City Council. Who on there now has business experience? Why do we need to raise taxes? What is this Council doing for the people of Washington after you leave Third Street? How about flooding and potholes? What are they doing to create Washington as a Bedroom Community for Greenville? Millions are spent on Main Street, but there is not enough parking. What are their plans for growth and development? I have not heard any. Maybe I missed it. Hope someone can fill in the blanks for me.
Commented: Sunday, August 10th, 2025 @ 5:22 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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Yes, Fat Alvin needs to experience the Rule of Law as well, the same "Rule of Law" that the Democratic Socialists hypocritically opine about far too often.
Commented: Sunday, August 10th, 2025 @ 5:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Letitia James is not the only one who needs to go to jail for the Stalin Show Trials in Manhattan. Corrupt Soros DA Alvin Bragg needs to join her there, as do a couple of crooked partisan Democrat judges who abused power in those two Manhattan cases. They all need to be locked up and the key thrown away.
Commented: Sunday, August 10th, 2025 @ 2:23 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Letitia James is "as useless as teats on a Boar Hog."
Commented: Sunday, August 10th, 2025 @ 12:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Letitia James needs to be jailed. She has abused power. Lock her up!
Commented: Sunday, August 10th, 2025 @ 11:55 am
By: Bubba
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I find it hilarious that some are against anything involving "The Devil's Lettuce" but have no issue with keeping alcohol readily available... especially at convience stores 24/7.
I'd be more worried about one of these kids getting drunk, getting behind the wheel and killing someone than I would be about them having a Martian cigarette and commiting a serious crime. I'm in favor of legalizing natural marijuana and using the generated tax revenue on infrastructure and education. I'm not in favor of the legalization of synthetic marijuana, the artificial lab-grown crap that the kids are buying at the Arab store. I'd much rather people get a hold of the old school farm grown flower, legally, than get the modern crap grown by the government.THAT's the stuff that makes people stupid. Cannabis (full strength THC plant extract) Indica and Cannabis Sativa medicines were sold over the counter, even in Beaufort County, and in the Sears Catalog, back in the day, before prohibition.
Commented: Sunday, August 10th, 2025 @ 12:07 pm
By: John Valley
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President Trump is reportedly considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Trump told attendees at a recent fundraiser in New Jersey that he was interested in pursuing this change. The Biden administration had begun moving toward the change but left office before putting it into effect. Such a shift would greatly ease the buying and selling of marijuana, boosting profitability in the multibillion-dollar industry. www.thegatewaypundit.com Is this true, not true, only time will tell. The way I look at it drugged people are easier to control. Look at what they do to children who are being children they drug them to more easily control them. The elderly in nursing homes that don't obey every order, they drug them so they can more easily control them.
Commented: Sunday, August 10th, 2025 @ 7:18 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Commented on Is it Management or Education?Van Zant: You bring up several interesting points that I would recommend folks to think long and hard about. Ain't none of it a crackpot "conspiracy theory"; it's called: "common sense".
From what my intuition and situational awareness skills are telling me, Cheeseman's consolidation "pump and dump" plan could easily go to hell in a handbasket if county communities started approaching commissioners with proposals to secure their future...where both sides benefit. I could see a funny hypothetical scenario where even guys like Ol' Unca Frankie would champion (in his olde English accent), under the Republican/NASCAR Democrat banner, "Charter Schools for the soundside and Edgewater parts of the county". If he holds course, folks are liable to start talking crap over'air at the fire department if they see him out there. Cheeseman is past the point of no return. I think Rader and Hickman knows this. If the public opinion were to shift on Cheeseman, I have a good idea about what'd happen
Commented: Saturday, August 9th, 2025 @ 6:59 pm
By: John Valley
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Agreed 100%. Please examine what legalized recreational weed has done to the mean intellect of the people of Colorado, Washington State, California, New York, etc.
And what do they all have in common? These fools all voted for the stupidest politicians in America's history; in other words ... Weed unabated is a terrible ingredient for a Self Governed People.
Commented: Saturday, August 9th, 2025 @ 8:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Kash Patel Finds Secret FBI Room Filled With Thousands Of Trump-Russia Docs In ‘Burn Bags’Finally, a real FBI Director NOT from the corrupt swamp that only serves itself.
Commented: Saturday, August 9th, 2025 @ 3:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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video: "DWI: Driving While Italian."
Thank you for the laugh.
Commented: Saturday, August 9th, 2025 @ 11:00 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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DEI is part of the Democrat Party scheme of Identity Politics, which attempts to divide America instead of uniting us. It reminds me of a funny video: "DWI: Driving While Italian.": www.youtube.com
Commented: Saturday, August 9th, 2025 @ 10:48 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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Commented on Is it Management or Education?CT: A lot of the Snowden students are going over to the charter school in Pamlico County this year instead of taking the long trip to Chocowinity. A much larger number were already going to the Arapahoe Charter School, not because Snowden was bad, but because of the uncertain future of SW Snowden, purposely created by the Beaufort County School leadership. What happened leading up to the Snowden closure was not a reaction but a planned action by leadership. I think this public-school trend to consolidate just may eventually lead to the self-destruction of public schools. It will serve them right.
Commented: Saturday, August 9th, 2025 @ 10:44 am
By: Van Zant
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We really need to get these abusive insurrectionist Biden and Obama judges removed from office. They have made our federal courts a cesspool of political scandal.
Of course, we have another problem in the Senate Democrats stalling Trump's judicial appointments. Republicans did not do that systematically to Biden or Obama judicial appointees. That RINO idiot Thune should have cancelled the Senate's August months long recess to deal with it, but the stupid RINO fool did not. Thune needs to be replaced by someone with some backbone.
Commented: Saturday, August 9th, 2025 @ 10:26 am
By: Rino Hunter
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Paxton is great as AG. No wonder the Democrats and RINOs have always tried to put a target on his back. He will be a great US Senator from Texas, much better than that RINO weasel John Cornyn, who Paxton is leading in the polls for the primary.
Commented: Saturday, August 9th, 2025 @ 10:21 am
By: Rino Hunter
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Commented on Is it Management or Education?The old Bear Grass public school was a victim of public school consolidation, but now as a charter school it is thriving and offering the best education in Martin County. If Cheeseman is arrogant enough to go after Bath school, I am absolutely certain the same would happen there. It would serve Chesseman right if it happened at Snowden.
Commented: Friday, August 8th, 2025 @ 5:14 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Commented on Is it Management or Education?I would say that there's more former Beaufort County students enrolled there than anyone on the board, except for Ol' Hickman and Uncle Steve, would want to admit.
Most parents I've talked with who've also moved their kids to BGCS from the area have no intention of ever bringing our children back into the political s***show that the Beaufort County public education system has become. We're even actively pursuing permanently relocating to the Bear Grass community BECAUSE of the future it holds for our children as well as our families. The home prices in Beaufort County, primarily in Washington, are insanely overpriced. The latest property tax increase, due to the construction of two useless mega-monolith indoctrination facilities, and the fact that there's not a lot of good paying industry jobs, have both been the biggest bullets to the head of Beaufort County. Smart/concerned parents have had enough and they're making a statement to school board members who cover up truth
Commented: Friday, August 8th, 2025 @ 12:19 pm
By: John Valley
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The student enrollment is less than 6,000 now, and in the early days when I was a commissioner, enrollment was more than 7,500 students, and today, we spend far more money on education than we did then.
All these new schools that they are building is not helping the enrollment or the testing scores. "RW" obviously believes that all discussions involving the schools should be of one where he 'fakes it until they make it" motif.
Commented: Friday, August 8th, 2025 @ 11:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Is it Management or Education?I wonder how many Beaufort County students are enrolled at BGCS? The out of county charter schools are a more and more popular option for families on both sides of the Pamlico River.
Commented: Friday, August 8th, 2025 @ 10:41 am
By: Van Zant
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Commissioner/Unca Stan:
Is it just me or did I notice RW's body language and vocal inflection change when you asked him about the ACTUAL realtime numbers of enrollment? His response to the question was an obvious deflection and an acknowledgement that they ain't where they should be. After all, RW DID say that we should "look at the demographic" and call it for what it is. Even though THEY ain't doing that, it's a useful debating tool that would quickly even the odds.
Commented: Friday, August 8th, 2025 @ 9:50 am
By: John Valley
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Commented on Is it Management or Education?Thank you, John Valley. Our major problem is getting the word out. We need more parents involved. Just look at the number of parents who attend the school board meetings. Not many. Then look at our choice of candidates when it is time to vote. Then look at our curriculum. 30 to 35% of our students are at their grades reading level. That means 70% are not. Change the method, change the results.
Commented: Friday, August 8th, 2025 @ 9:40 am
By: Buzz Cayton
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Sean Lennon, son of the Beatles' John Lennon had it right on DEI when he said it stands for "Dumb Evil Idiots".
Commented: Friday, August 8th, 2025 @ 9:49 am
By: John Steed
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Commented on Is it Management or Education?WITN fired a well placed shot with this article. BGCS is making history as well as the fine families of our connected communities.
Link: www.witn.com They are sending a direct and much needed middle finger to these Leninist San Francisco fanny bandits like Cheeseman, his secret "closet protegé" and the County SB Attorney....who's from Durham County. They're hitting these bastards in the pocketbook and have proved the "conspiracy theories" to be right....again. I hope this trend continues and that the communities around Bath Elementary and Chocowinity Primary bring positive growth to THEIR communities. Montessori ain't cutting it. We've got to do better. I hope Cheeseman and those peckerwoods on the school board are publicly humiliated and credited for one of the biggest f-ups in BOCO history.
Commented: Thursday, August 7th, 2025 @ 10:48 pm
By: John Valley
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