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Stan, I am asking you as my County Commissioner and not you as a journalist... What is the Tax value of that 9.5 ac piece of land, from which the 4 ac has been cut from...as shown on the Tax Dept's website here locally. Do this before it is overwritten.

2ndly, how did the 9.5 ac deed go from the hands of the Washington City Schools to the Redevelopment Commission of Washington...and then how did it go from them, to the city of Washington??? AND why does the website showing the History of Ownership show that the City didnt acquire this land until July 2024?
Thank you.

Commented: Sunday, February 9th, 2025 @ 10:47 am By: Washingtonian

I don’t see prices going down.

Commented: Sunday, February 9th, 2025 @ 11:10 am By: Big Bob

This fiasco over the missing 4 acres is a total boondoggle, and the ruling cliques of both the school board and county commission have egg all over their faces. The taxpayers have been hung out to dry. Why delegate all of this power to a superintendant who clearly has no business sense or competence? It will be particularly galling if after this dog and pony show he dares demand a raise or a contract extension.

Commented: Sunday, February 9th, 2025 @ 12:17 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

One can find the deed for this property online thanks to our digital register of deeds.

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Somewhere, someone, was aware of this issue awhile back. This deed was written back in 1968, but was finally put into effect and uploaded back in July. Effectively redrawing the GIS, splitting the property.

It’s just incompetence all the way around. Big Frank told you himself he decided to stay out of it.

He would rather let a hired cabbage patch kid superintendent steer the ship, than provide the oversight he was elected to provide.

The county commissioners have the power of the purse. Yet they decided to stay out of a land acquisition, handing the wallet and bargaining power to a spending junkie.

As far as the land swap aspect of this situation that could have occurred without a monetary cost for the property, the process of contacting all of the heirs of Kugler Field to sign an amendment, was too much of a undertaking, even for Cheese. Simply easier to spend half a million, than to get 20 signatures.

Commented: Sunday, February 9th, 2025 @ 12:00 pm By: Will Simmons

The only one who looks stupid on these boards is Little Bobbie with his constant inane comments, mostly copied from far left talking points. Anyone who thinks Soros is good and Musk bad has to be to the left of Stalin or they want to see our economy collapse under a mountain of debt.

Commented: Sunday, February 9th, 2025 @ 11:28 am By: Conservative Voter

Complaining about Soros while president musk ransacks the country makes you look stupid

Commented: Sunday, February 9th, 2025 @ 10:06 am By: Big Bob

While these tariffs are very important in Trump's economic plan, his day one death blow to DEI has sent shockwaves through many sectors of government and industry across the board

Corporations are noticing how Uncle Donnie has elevated the sense of urgency in removing ineffective offices and personnel within government. Since government seemingly is run by corporations, notice how I said that; they know they're next in the guillotine if they don't comply with common sense management guidelines.

Imagine a scenario where regional governments, boards and businesses begin to bring in qualified leadership that were all denied positions because of they were above average intelligence and showed passionate initiative....people would be shocked at how much money would be put back into the community.

Commented: Sunday, February 9th, 2025 @ 8:47 am By: John Valley

Our country's economy is being strangled by the unsustainable government debt from the far ledt's big spending but they want to keep that up. Spendthrift Biden doubled the national debt with his ridiculous spending.

The answer to that existential threat to our country is to find and eliminate all of the waste and grift the Democrats have enacted. Elon Musk is our champion to do that but the far left considers him a threat to their gravy train. They are trying to get crooked leftwing Obama judges to slow or stop it.

Commented: Sunday, February 9th, 2025 @ 8:25 am By: Conservative Voter

Then why it Bigot Bob pitchiing such a tantrum about USAID? It is supposed to work in overseas countries. Is it because he knows they have been improperly subsidizing leftwing media and organizations in domestic politics and wants that money to continue to be misappropriated?

And BIgot Bob is such a strange dude. He puts blacks and Hispanics within the US on a high pedestal but looks down his nose at blacks and Hispanics abroad. Yet he seems to hate America.

Commented: Sunday, February 9th, 2025 @ 7:43 am By: John Steed

Search Marko Elez. You’re gonna love him.

Commented: Saturday, February 8th, 2025 @ 4:36 pm By: Big Bob

The way to jerk some of these sanctuary city politicians into line is to start prosecuting some of them for harboring illegal aliens, which is a felony under our immigration laws. When the first one gets locked up, the rest will get in line. The law has been on the books for years and it is high time to use it.

Commented: Saturday, February 8th, 2025 @ 6:56 pm By: borderhawk

I can personally attest that the Beaufort County Commissioners (at least the Real Republicans) had issues with the Center-Left Coalition's lawyer, who did make a dramatic and concerted move to become just their lawyer rather than attorney to the entire board. That sorry situation is a matter of record (and I possess all the sorry details), and there was nothing the more knowledgeable, more experienced commissioners, of far greater integrity, could do about it because of the RINO infestation on the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners.

Considering all the incompetence that is legend on the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners, it has been quite frustrating ... primarily because my intellect does not work well at that lowly scaled level of existence; serving with those who cannot think past the knot of an issue, and, moreover, are better suited at doing what they are told.

The School Board problem appears to be just as easily a similar matter of gross administrative incompetence, but until elections yield firmer talent, we are all stuck with these so-called decision makers, errant, indecisive, manipulated.

Maybe with the Trump election, and his brilliant mad dash at the onset to govern with abject integrity, I am hopeful that we politicians of the purest integrity, we real Republicans, will now have that strong political wind at our collective backs. We will need, and should welcome all the momentum we can muster.

Commented: Saturday, February 8th, 2025 @ 5:18 pm By: Stan Deatherage