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Illegal immigration is a huge issue in British politics, with the Reform Party saying that neither the Conservative nor Labour parties have been effective in stopping it. It is what is driving Reform's political dominance.

Commented: Sunday, April 20th, 2025 @ 3:20 pm By: borderhawk

He is our salvation; He always has been; He always will be.

Commented: Sunday, April 20th, 2025 @ 7:37 am By: Stan Deatherage

The fiasco at the Aurora public hearing on Snowden was an utter travesty.
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Commented: Saturday, April 19th, 2025 @ 4:14 pm By: John Steed

This Biden plan was nothing short of an attack on democratic freedoms that are the bedrock of our Constitutional republic. Democrats are trying to suppress democracy, not promote it.

Commented: Saturday, April 19th, 2025 @ 10:58 am By: Steven P. Rader

Expensive and unreliable wind and solar energy is why electric rates in Germany are three times higher than in North Carolina, and why their industries are moving out. We do not need to make the same mistake.

Commented: Saturday, April 19th, 2025 @ 9:36 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Steve: Yeah; that is what I saw too.

Commented: Friday, April 18th, 2025 @ 9:45 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Speaking of the media...where does one go for local news?
I notice that WITN news is more like a re-run of the cable news, with a Democrat Party bent to it.

Yes, I do want to see the cat in the tree story when I watch the local tv station's news program. I think I will switch to WNCT.

Commented: Friday, April 18th, 2025 @ 3:54 pm By: Washingtonian

No, no, no. The School Board does believe that the Superintendent and staff work for them. They believe that Cheeseman and his staff do all the working and thinking... so that they dont have to do any work or thinking.

Basically, I was told this years ago when a school board member said: "Look Washingtonian, we board members have jobs, and family, and a life, and that's why we have a staff to do this for us."

Sooo yeah, they think the employees do work for them. LOL
Easy life being on the School Board.

Commented: Friday, April 18th, 2025 @ 3:46 pm By: Washingtonian

Stan, I am reminded of a comment on school boards by a former Florida State Senator. According to the late State Senator Dick Deeb (R-Pinellas), he observed that "too many school board members think the superintendent is their boss, when he is really their employee".

I was in law school at the time and attending a meeting of the Pinellas County chapter of the Florida Conservative Union. Senator Deeb was explaining his local bill in the Florida senate to make the office of superintendent of the Pinellas County Schools an elected office by the voters of Pinellas County. He and others were frustrated at the fact that even with electing mostly Republicans to the local school board, they were unable to muster a majority of them with enough backbone to stand up to a liberal power bully school superintendent.

Senate Deeb's bill passed the state senate with flying colors, but when it got to the House, legislators there who had similar superintendent problems back home in their own counties started amending the bill to include quite a few other counties. Unfortunately that got the bill bogged down where it failed in the House.

Power bully superintendents are hardly unique to Beaufort County.

Commented: Friday, April 18th, 2025 @ 2:05 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Our school problem is that we have a school board controlled by Cheeseman groupies. That needs to change.

Commented: Friday, April 18th, 2025 @ 9:03 am By: Bubba

I have never seen a public hearing conducted like the travesty at Aurora for Snowden school. As General Counsel of the NC Department of Health and Human Services in the Jim Martin administration, I monitored the public hearings conducted by boards and commissions housed within our department such as the NC Social Services Commission, the NC Mental Health Commission, and the NC Child Day Care Commission. I have never seen a bureaucrat run a hearing instead of the presiding officer of the policy making body. Where was School Board chairman T.W. Allen? Hiding in the crowd, like most of the rest of the school board. I have never seen a public hearing open with a bureaucrat giving a one hour spiel trying to explain away his proposal. I have never seen a bureaucrat then preside over the hearing and try to channel speakers away from substantive comments and only into questions. When several speakers tried to offer comments, the superintendent cut them off and asked "what is your question?" Only when Buzz Cayton refused to be bullied that way, did the meeting open up for actual comments.

I commend Charles Hickman for being the only school board member with the brass to actually speak up and point out that Cheeseman was not properly following the statutes. I also commend county commissioners Stan Deatherage, Tandy Dunn, and Hood Richardson for speaking out strongly for community schools and against Cheeseman's consolidation mania and pledging to work through the county commission to put a stop to it.

All over the United States, school consolidation is an issue that separates the education establishment liberals from the conservatives. Any school board member who votes for Cheeseman's poisoned chalice on consolidating Snowden with Chocowinity and giving little children two 30 mile bus rides each day will need to put a big "L" beside their name in the next primary.

Commented: Thursday, April 17th, 2025 @ 12:31 pm By: Steven P. Rader

North Carolina must pass a bill to crack down on these lawless sanctuary counties. I like the idea of making those counties and their sheriffs liable in civil court for any harm done to citizens by illegal alien criminals they release into the community/. They need to be made to pay for that and then maybe they will call ICE instead of inflicting these criminals on citizens.

Commented: Thursday, April 17th, 2025 @ 10:05 am By: borderhawk