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Beaufort County has proved it cannot be trusted here recently with the Industrial Park South in Chocowinity, when it allows that industrial park to continue to exist as zoned Light Industrial rather than Heavy Industrial, which is the natural zoning for any property with natural gas, US Highway frontage and rail.

This property is barely in the Chocowinity ETJ, and took a special act of the Beaufort County Commissioners to allow such back in 2006.

Commented: Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 @ 10:26 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Washington has a brazen liar for a city manager, who wantonly lied to the citizens when he claimed that the city had not imposed a tax increase this year. In truth, the manager's budget, adopted by a rubber stamp city council, gave city taxpayers a whopping 28% tax increase.

In revaluation years like this one, state law calculates a "revenue neutral" rate, one that would produce the same amount of revenue as the old tax rate based on the increased value of property. Any tax rate above that revenue neutral rate is, by state law as well as by the reality of what taxpayers have to pay, a tax increase.

The county adopted the revenue neutral rate for this year's taxes based on the rate calculated by state law. The City of Washington adopted a rate 28% above the revenue neutral rate. That is a massive tax increase.

Washington's city government is in a sad state of affairs. Not only does the city manager exercise way too much power for a bureaucrat, but the city council is a patheric joke. They are nothing but rubber stamps for Mayor Sadler, nothing but weak "yes men". Between the manager and the mayor, Washington has a Tammany Hall style government.

But the city manager had better watch out. Sadler would love to get rid of him so he can hire the city's first black city manager. With Sadler, it is as much about race as it is about power.

Commented: Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 @ 8:35 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

There has been an undercurrent of conversations, within certain wings of conservative thinkers, about currency and the smokescreen of the whole Nesara/Gesara rabbithole.

Within the "conspiracy theory" of this alleged legislation there are a few points that the general public have no clue of. Cryptocurrency was known about and used in the late 80's-early 90's in halls of governments....but was rarely mentioned in public media.

There's good and bad in everything BUT most of the known history of cryptocurrency is often associated with untraceable money being created for dark web use...which is also allegedly untraceable.

The Central Banks will purposely tank the fiat dollar to bring in a variation of cryptocurrency....backed by the same thing as the fiat dollar....nothing. They set the price for everything: gold, silver, exotic previous metals. It's a stacked deck being sold as a chance at economic freedom.

Too many are biting, man. They refuse to listen to common sense reason.

Commented: Saturday, August 2nd, 2025 @ 2:29 pm By: John Valley

This newest interview with General Flynn is mind blowing! He's really telling alot these days and spilling out more & more.
Video below-
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Commented: Friday, August 1st, 2025 @ 9:19 pm By: PK

A radical judge with no legal basis for taking a political action falling back on the race card for an excuse shows what is horribly wrong with our federal courts. The Rule of Law is replaced by the political whims of judges. The only way to save our federal judiciary is to start removing rogue judges like this one from office.

This issue has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with the excuse for letting these particular nationalities stay in our country is long since over with.

Commented: Friday, August 1st, 2025 @ 4:15 pm By: Conservative Voter

Here is how the Medicaid scam works for illegal aliens. They are supposed to only be entitled to "emergency Medicaid" for a few months to cover an acute emergency situation. However, liberal social workers often just keep extending that indefinitely for chronic conditions, so it becomes like regular Medicaid. That should not be allowed and social workers who authorize that should be at minimum fired and perhaps even jailed.

For example, dialysis is a costly medical service and must be done frequently and regularly. There are illegal aliens right here in eastern North Carolina who are on dialysis and they routinely get their "emergency" Medicaid renewed. What we should do is give them dialysis once or twice on maybe even a month or two, and then require them either to go back to their home country for dialysis or find a charity that will pay for it. The taxpayers should NOT. Similarly if an illegal alien is diagnosed with cancer, he should get a plane ticket home for treatment, not medical services at the expense of the Aemrican taxpayer.

Commented: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 @ 2:45 pm By: Rino Hunter

Giving AI more power is NOT a smart thing to do nor is it something to triumphantly boast about.

President Trump is screwing up and screwing himself big time. Will the GOP and MAGA give him a pass on this OR will they start asking why in the hell he brags about programs that will actually further enslave America?

I'm telling y'all.....I've got a bad feeling.

Commented: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 @ 12:09 pm By: John Valley

NC has too many RINOs a/k/a "Undocumented Democrats" who pander to the solar and wind grifters. Berger is just one of them. Thom Tillis is another, as is Tillis' protege Michael Whatley. Whatley's lobbying / public relations firm pushed this solar boondoggle. These people are as big of enemies of the North Carolina consumer as the Democrats are.

Commented: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 @ 10:21 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Florida took an interesting approach to reducing the mooching of health care by deadbeat illegal aliens, and it is working. Under Governor deSantis, they adopted legislation to require hospitals to determine the citizenship and immigration status of patients at admission. Once that went into effect, it cut illegal alien freeloading of health care dramatically. We should do that in North Carolina, too.

Commented: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 @ 9:13 am By: borderhawk

A huge burden on American health care that raises medical costs and health insurance premiums is hospitals having to subsidize the cost of treating illegal aliens who should not even be in the country to begin with. When the illegal aliens cannot or will not pay, the cost of their care is dumped on those who can, including their insurance companies. Even if we just limited what hospitals were required to provide to illegal aliens to acute emergencies, it would cut medical costs significantly to American citizens.

As to Medicaid expansion, in North Carolina that scheme made hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians who had private health coverage through their employer ineligible for that private insurance and forced them onto Medicaid. Some lost their doctors in the process. Forcing people who had private health care onto Medicaid is NOT beneficial to those people because many of the better doctors do not take Medicaid. And why should taxpayers have to pay for it instead of their employers?

Tom Campbell is left of Lenin.

Commented: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 @ 8:09 am By: John Steed

Those answers are simple, and can be simply summed up in one answer: Donald Trump is Hitler.

Commented: Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 @ 11:20 pm By: Big Bob 2.0