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When will this “weak kneed” school board learn that Cheeseman is hired help? He sits beside the school board Chairman and reads the rules at the opening of the school board meeting for the meeting. There are no assignments given by the board to Cheeseman, and no “return and report” from Cheeseman. Eight out of thirteen schools are poor-performing schools. Why? Half of our consolidated school buildings are empty. (Our county commission chairman wants to build another one) Aurora did not just happen. Cheeseman has allowed this erosion since he has been here. After all, they are just mostly black kids, Let’em ride the bus. If we move the remaining students to Chocowinity and the new one thousand k-6 monstrosity building does not fill up here in Washington, which it will not. Then the next move will be to bring Chocowinity k-6 to Washington, close Bath and bring those to Washington and “voila”, the problem is solved. We can have more consolidated schools, and Cheesman is a hero.

Commented: Friday, July 25th, 2025 @ 10:39 am By: Buzz Cayton

Highly partisan Democrat judges have been a problem, not just in the federal courts. Highly political Democrat judges perverted the cases against Donald Trump in New York state courts, and they were so highly political that they should have recused themselves but did not. Those judges were totally unethical in continuing to preside over those cases.

When the Nevada Supreme Court tried to take Trump off of the ballot, which was later unanimously reversed by the US Supreme Court, all of the judges were Democrats. However, in their 4 to 3 ruling, the four who voted to take Trump off the ballot were Democrat political contributors, while the three who voted to leave him on were registered to vote as Democrats but not involved in the party.

There should be a rule that if a judge has a history of political involvement, either as an activist or a contributor, they should be banned from handling cases of a highly political nature. That would restore a sense of propriety in our justice system which is presently lacking.

Commented: Friday, July 25th, 2025 @ 10:22 am By: Conservative Voter

This is one cut that has been a long time coming, that and Planned Parenthood, which is even worse of a Democratic Socialist fraud.

Commented: Friday, July 25th, 2025 @ 10:05 am By: Stan Deatherage

The American public expects its judicial system to be impartial and objective. When Democrat federal judges continually play the political card, and this is by far the most extreme case as they fell in line with the demands of a major Democrat political leader, they are doing great damage to the reputation of our courts with the American people. That damage will not be easy to repair.

Commented: Friday, July 25th, 2025 @ 7:29 am By: Steven P. Rader

The taxpayers of the US, UK, other European countries should NOT be putting illegal aliens up in luxury hotels, but that has been happening on a wide scale in the US, too, particularly in big northern cities. Subsidizing these deadbeats soaked up so much money in Biden's FEMA budget that they ran short for actual disasters like hurricanes.

SEnd them home.

Commented: Thursday, July 24th, 2025 @ 7:50 pm By: borderhawk

Whatley is an establishment Republican of the worst order. If you liked Tillis, you will love Whatley. The NCGOP can do a heck of a lot better than Michael Whatley. Someone who earned his living turning tricks for the special interests in Washington, DC is not what we need as a US Senate nominee.

Commented: Thursday, July 24th, 2025 @ 5:06 pm By: Rino Hunter

Jann: I appreciate your optimism, but, in the observations of my reality, I have recognized that more than half of all truths go untold on the Democratic Socialist side due to the continued, but diminishing strength of the Democratic Socialist Propagandistic Media, a grouping of fools who generally lie in unison when absolutely necessary.

Commented: Thursday, July 24th, 2025 @ 11:02 am By: Stan Deatherage

The truth always comes out eventually

Commented: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025 @ 9:54 pm By: PK

Wow! What the superintendent did and the school board attorney seems to have failed to do just does not pass the smell test. There may have been some school board members also acting inappropriately.

Commented: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025 @ 3:48 pm By: borderhawk

Yes Bubba,
As you correctly wrote: "Too many of our school board members seem to be little more than rubber stamps / puppets for our very liberal superintendent Cheeseman. That is pathetic."

This puppet/rubber stamp scenario exist for the City of Washington as well. Our entire City Council & the bureaucrats that work for them are mere mindless puppets doing the bidding of the City Manager.

When Hood wrote: "Sometimes, with zoning, there comes corruption, favoritism and huge expensive bureaucracies to administer the favoritism and corruption." I thought he must be talking about the City of Washington. No, they wont see the error of their ways because they are too ignorant & lazy to understand their own responsibilities to the public. I'll bet you not one of them have read the zoning rules posted on their own City website.

Vote wisely.

Commented: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025 @ 2:00 pm By: Washingtonian

Didn't Carolyn Walker and Daniel Hudson both give Cheeseman the votes he needed to close the school in Aurora? Seems like that bought a promotion for one’s daughter and a better report card for the other’s. Cronyism, nepotism, corruption much? Maybe the coincidental timing just make the optics look bad. It really does stink to high heaven…better watch your step and lift your trouser legs if you walk near the BCS bunch.

Commented: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025 @ 1:40 pm By: Nelson Lambert