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These radical judges are a disgrace, as are the useless and spineless congressmen like Greg Murphy who refuse to do anything about them. It is a blessing that we have been redistricted out of his district.

Commented: Wednesday, January 14th, 2026 @ 9:18 pm By: Rino Hunter

Politicians who let the hired help - the county managers, city managers, school superintendents, etc. - run government should be ashamed of themselves. We need hands on elected officials who do not delegate their authority to bureaucrats. These lazy politicians need to be replaced.

Commented: Wednesday, January 14th, 2026 @ 4:08 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Truth be Told, Your name is now "Lie to be Told". Stop shooting from the hip and get the facts. The PAC no longer exists. Illegal money is not being raised by me or us.

Read all of the Beaufort County Plan of Organization. Get the facts. Stop distorting the truth.

Sometimes it is better to keep quiet and no one will know how uninformed you really are.

Commented: Wednesday, January 14th, 2026 @ 6:30 am By: Hood Richardson

Wow, Hood sure has Ms Garris in his head. I reached out to her to recommend a law firm for a consult for a defamation, slander, libel lawsuit. According to the State Board of Elections, your club no longer exists but you are still raising money. That’s a big no no. The only people you oppose are republicans. Makes you wonder…you are also being monitored.

Commented: Tuesday, January 13th, 2026 @ 8:43 pm By: Truth Be Told

Nick Fritz, You need to edit what you wrote here:
"The city council does not have any direct access to the local government. The council must appoint a city manager, and the manager is the executive of the government who gets everything accomplished. The manager relays the information from the various departments of government to the council and gives the council advice or takes the council's advice back to the various departments."

The State of NC gives the City Council TOTAL authority at all times, even when the city is with or without a CM.
The Charter of League of Munipalities does not override NC STATE LAW regarding the authority of the City Council.
When you surrender all your STATE given power over to the CM, all you are doing is saying the Council members are too lazy to do the job you promised us you would do. In otherwords, passing the buck.

By the way, I think the pledge of allegiance is a prayer. It mentions God twice. "So Help me God!"

Commented: Monday, January 12th, 2026 @ 1:59 pm By: Washingtonian

David: The last city council was definitely a "team," and while I am not privy to how the last city council built that "team", it was a "team" nonetheless when they raised taxes 28% in one year.

Beaufort County is 314 years old, and that 28% tax raise for any government "team" within this county, those with the statutory police power of taxation; that exorbitant tax raise must be a record raise ... And it was unconscionable, governmentally feckless, and an incredible sign of gross incompetence.

Nick Fritz and Company will continue to have my unyielding support as long as they endeavor to discover and remedy the local corruption of waste, fraud and abuse.

Commented: Monday, January 12th, 2026 @ 4:24 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I did not think you could produce one issue where Armstrong is better than Kidwell, and you have indeed failed to do so, Washingtonian. It is all about personality with you, nevermind the real issues our state and county are facing. I do not know why you are filled with the amount of hate you express, but you are, and that is not good for you or society.

"VOTE for FRESH NEW IDEAS. OUT with the old and stale and in with the NEW" - Washingtonian, that sounds a whole lot like the bill of goods OBAMA and then BIDEN sold America. And it sounds even more like Bernie Sanders. You don't even seem to care what those "new ideas" are. You are talking and thinking like a liberal Democrat.

Commented: Monday, January 12th, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By: Rino Hunter

It's pretty clear that the city council is dysfunctional team. Maybe they should consider some team building exercises. Writing articles such as this, that point fingers and cast blame at the mayor, and other council members certainly don't help bring the team together. Someone needs to grow up, and instead of hurling accusations, start asking questions as to what can we do to come together and do the job we were elected to do.

Commented: Monday, January 12th, 2026 @ 12:39 pm By: David Edwards

I dont know about Climate Change, but I do know we need a clean environment and clean water. Its a done deal, all we can do now is weep for what is lost.

NCDEQ approves permit allowing Martin Marietta Materials to discharge up to 12 million gallons of wastewater daily into Blounts Creek.

Despite strong public opposition—including packed hearings and repeated calls for stronger safeguards—the revised permit moves forward without additional protections.

www.publicradioeast.org

Commented: Sunday, January 11th, 2026 @ 5:19 pm By: Washingtonian

Good to see the new Pope has some common sense opinions, a positive change from the last one who was into Gaia worship a/k/a climate alarmism. Free speech is under attack and the Pope is coming to its defense.

Commented: Monday, January 12th, 2026 @ 9:20 am By: Conservative Voter

Sadly its no surprise that democrats look out for illegal invader criminals and refuse to look out for law biding citizens.

Commented: Monday, January 12th, 2026 @ 8:41 am By: Countrygirl1411

What is going on in Raleigh with the RINOs is not Kabuki theatrics. The corruption of the RINO leadership, especially in the state senate, is quite real, and it impacts real people. Phil Berger's corrupt deal with the CCA to shut down our shrimpers in return for some campaign cash, known as Shrimpgate, is a good example, as is Jimmy Dixon's attempt to put the raw milk independent dairies out of business for payola from a special interest, both this past year, were very real. Kidwell and the House Freedom Caucus played the key role in stopping both of those travesties. So is Berger's NC Green New Deal that is already raising our electric rates and his Obamacare Medicaid expansion that is raising health costs for everyone else. Unfortunately the Freedom Caucus was not able to marshall enough votes on those. The thin red line that sometimes is able to stop this corrupt nonsense is the House Freedom Caucus, and that is why the special interest boys are trying to take them out. How much of this Dixon explained to Armstrong when he came down here to recruit him is questionable as all they really needed was a warm body.

Would Kidwell have been a lot smarter not to get involved so much in the workings of the local party? Definitely. But for people outside the bubble of the party organization, what happens in the legislature has a whole lot more impact on their lives than what happens within the local party organization.

One could say, well if Kidwell goes, then Freedom Caucus vice chairman Rep. Ben Moss, could just carry on. The fact is that the same RINO cabal that is after Kidwell is after Moss, too, as well as four other leaders of the Freedom Caucus. They want to put the Freedom Caucus out of business so that no effective group will be there to stop the leadership's corruption. Darren Armstrong is just a convenient placeholder in that process.

Commented: Sunday, January 11th, 2026 @ 1:23 pm By: John Steed