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For decades there has been a clear cut distinction within education between conservatives who favor community schools and liberals who favor large consolidated schools. The large consolidated schools tend to involve less community involvement and less parent involvement, and the liberal education establishment wants to cut out as much of both as they can.

Liberal superintendent Cheeseman is clearly on a resume building mission for his next job to try to move to a larger and better paying district and apparently seeing school consolidation as something he wants on his resume. Thus the ungainly consolidation plan on elementary schools in Washington, and now the closure of Snowden, forcing its student population to a school thirty miles away. We need more school board members who will put the education of Beaufort County students ahead of Cheeseman's resume building. Right now a majority of the board seems to ask "how high?" when Cheeseman says "jump".

Commented: Monday, April 7th, 2025 @ 7:17 pm By: John Steed

It would be poetic justice if Boasberg could be ousted from his judgeship, stripped of his citizenship for treason, and put on one of those planes to El Salvador with his illegal alien gangster buddies.

Commented: Monday, April 7th, 2025 @ 10:01 am By: borderhawk

Buzz, the purpose of the Local GOP is to vet candidates, and then support the ones that are worthy.

It is not civic club. The Beaufort County GOP's exclusive mandate is to elect real Republicans as per the dictates of the Republican Party Platform of Ideals.

I know you see it that way too, or you would not have done all that you have done over these many decades to elect the real Republicans in our midst that truly need real help.

Thank-you Buzz for all that you do, and all that you have done.

Commented: Sunday, April 6th, 2025 @ 12:55 pm By: Stan Deatherage

John: This is the time in politics where we stand strong for what is absolutely right.

Donald Trump has proven himself beyond all measure in standing strong for what is right, and if that does not work, he understands the possible need to at least consider the ramifications of "Burning it all Down."

Commented: Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @ 6:57 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Judicial ethics rules prohibit the official campaign committees of judges from raising most of the issues that other campaigns would. That is why Riggs had out of state leftist dark money funding her attack postcards on Griffin so her own campaign would not be held responsible. The NCGOP set up a Judicial Campaign Fund several cycles ago, which could have done the same thing to get the word out on Riggs and her radicalism. Being able to raise such issues that official judges campaign were barred from doing was one of the reasons that fund was set up. But for some reason in the 2024 Judicial campaign, that money was just turned over to the official judicial campaigns whose hands were tied on being able to use it to expose Riggs. That made absolutely no sense to me.

Commented: Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @ 6:07 pm By: Steven P. Rader

What is really evil is the gain-of-function research on viruses, especially when conducted in China. Those who approved those things should be indicted.

Commented: Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @ 3:13 pm By: John Steed

If Sandy Hardy was wise, he would remove himself from this cabal.
Maybe he didnt know the insider games being played, but now he does, and he wont enjoy the long term backlash.

Commented: Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @ 10:04 am By: Washingtonian

As an interested observer, I've made some phone calls to see how all of this is going. By an overwhelming margin, it appears that only certain people are receiving any party notices. Looks like conservatives are screwed again.

Commented: Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @ 9:33 am By: Van Zant

Confrontation over things past is NOT what is needed. Our country faces an exitential threat from the woke Democrats, and we must do all we can to push conservative policies and solutions at all levels, such as those President Trump is so energetically leading on, and use all of our experience to push those in the most effective manner possible. If something did not go the way we wanted in the past, the objective should be to work constructively do see that it goes a better way in the future.

Commented: Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @ 8:05 am By: Steven P. Rader

It looks like the county insider elitist are making every effort to undue the results of the latest Beaufort County Republican Convention. These folks view the grassroots as people to follow orders, write checks, and keep quiet. My advice to executive committee members is to bring your own refreshments.

Commented: Friday, April 4th, 2025 @ 9:02 pm By: Van Zant

Maybe Musk could set up an "X Lite" with a landing page reciting that the person using it is living in a non-democratic country that does not have freedom of speech, so political discussion is not allowed. That would slam all of these fake democracies with their citizens. Then the citizens would need to learn, as Russians already have, that all you need is a VPN that says you are in a free country to be able to access the REAL X which has free speech and to be able to discuss what you want.

Commented: Friday, April 4th, 2025 @ 1:38 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer