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Because its only a "brand" in your head.

Commented: Thursday, July 18th, 2024 @ 1:30 pm By: Big Bob

Yeah because e the months long underwater well head head broke in the gulf releasing millions of barrels into the gulf was really nothing.

Commented: Thursday, July 18th, 2024 @ 1:28 pm By: Big Bob

An event like a hurricane that tore up a bunch of these wind turbines as it went up the coast would dwarf the damage from the Exxon Valdese. It is not only the fiberglass shards, but there are toxic chemcials in the lubricants in the narcels, and indeed in the coatings on the blades, not to mention the continuing navigation hazzards

As to damage from ships, the environment is fortunate that that car carrier where a shipment of electric vehicles spontaneously combusted and set the ship on fire did not sink as feared in that critically sensitive marine preserve off of the Netherlands. Just good luck that the toxic crap did not end up there.

Commented: Thursday, July 18th, 2024 @ 11:36 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

In some of our counties the community colleges are trying to camouflage the DEI programs with other language. That's not so at Beaufort Community College. They are wearing it like a badge of honor.

Commented: Thursday, July 18th, 2024 @ 11:09 am By: Van Zant

DEI created an incompetent quota-obsessed Secret Service that caused someone to DIE at the Trump rally in Butler, PA. DEI is a cancer in our society that needs to be totally removed. It is totally shameful that we have DEI embedded at Beaufort County Community College thanks to its president, "Fruit" Loupe.

Commented: Thursday, July 18th, 2024 @ 8:54 am By: Conservative Voter

Big Bob: When I say the "Democratic Socialist party has no reason to exist," it is just that. The Democratic Socialists can form under any party they wish, but the Democratic Socialist party is finished as a brand.

I have never said that the "Republican party has no reason to exist;" the Republican party, at the national level, has found a purpose again, and they are voicing that purpose well enough for now.

My writing is plain enough for those that can read for comprehension.

Commented: Thursday, July 18th, 2024 @ 8:01 am By: Stan Deatherage

From the articles linked, there was not any major event that caused that blade to shatter. It just happened. Imagine a hurricane or even a bad nor'easter blowing through a gaggle of these things. How much damage would that cause, and how long to clean it up, if that were even possible? We DO NOT need these wind scams in our oceans. Roy Cooper is an idiot to propose it.

Commented: Thursday, July 18th, 2024 @ 7:52 am By: Rino Hunter

There are not ANY oil platforms off of either Nantucket or North Carolina, so that is an apples and oranges deflection, Little Bobbie.

Big pieces of the shattered turbine can be picked up if they float or wash up on the beach. If they sink close to shore, they will be found when somebody steps on them and cuts themselves severely. Small pieces, which can also do a lot of damage to beachgoers, are extremely difficult to find.

Now imagine a hurricane comes along and shatters a bunch of these things. Finding all the pieces, big and small, is going to be next to impossible. This things need to be banned from our shoreline, or the required insurance needs to be in the stratosphere and cover and direct or indirect damage, including losses of tourism related businesses.

Commented: Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 @ 5:59 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Frank...thanks for your service. No clue how you put up with it, but you are right to hang in there.

Commented: Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 @ 5:42 pm By: Big Bob

Bath Parent: When you slander me, or others that are of substance, people that matter with lies, you will get called out.

Frankie Waters has never been slandered on this platform, because all slander has to begin with a lie. Plus, Frankie is a RINO 1st class, of which every real Republican of Beaufort County knows to their core.

One more thing "Bath Parent," you used a Fake Email again, so couple that with the fact that you operate under an alias, you are suspended from commenting for the next 6 weeks; do it again and it will be much longer if not forever on this august platform.

Commented: Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 @ 5:17 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Stan
You are quick to call slander on people that call out Hood or yourself. Why not call out slander when people comment on TW ALLEN or Frankie? We all know this is a one sided narrative this blog post prints. Have you stopped to ask yourself how much money this grant will put into the county? Oh yea you and Hood would like Beaufort County to not change at all.

Commented: Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 @ 3:12 pm By: Bath Parent

Proper financial management of this $52 million project means we need ALL of our elected school board members AND county commissioners to be fully engaged, not mere bystanders. There is too much taxpayer money invovled here for any of them to take a powder. Cheeseman has little or no experience in this area of building schools. I guess that is why he is so desperate for this one for his resume. He can probably paper over a boondoggle. The taxpayers, on the other hand, will be stuck with it when he moves on.

Commented: Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 @ 12:43 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer