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Is a low income complex going to hurt a neighborhood? We have a middle class black man as our mayor and he sure seems to think so when he spends $147.000 of our tax money to keep them OUT of HIS neighborhood. Maybe it would be better if the Housing Authority would drug test its tenants and Section 8 recipients regularly to help get a better quality of tenant.
And as noted below, there is a real danger of the Biden regime deciding to pack them with illegal aliens. But for downtown, there is another huge problem. With the elimination of parking on one side of Main Street, there is a parking shortage downtown. Any residential development is just going to make that worse. A more upscale development would at least have much larger units and fewer of them and therefore less parking congestion. If customers of downtown businesses cannot find a place to park, they will not do business there.
Commented: Sunday, October 29th, 2023 @ 9:02 am
By: Conservative Voter
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Commented on The inappropriate instructional materials imbroglio shows how sloppy our school system is being runBig Bob,
From personal experience the vitriol I regularly experience as a gay man is from extreme leftists that hate that I won't conform to their way of thinking, run as a regular candidate and not an LGBTWQWECJFHHJ candidate, and think independently ad do most gay people.
Commented: Sunday, October 29th, 2023 @ 8:07 am
By: Gary Ceres
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Commented on Happy 100 Days of Non-ComplianceGary Ceres is a Muckraker!
This quality is rare in Beaufort County politics, rarer still than what passes for journalism outside of this brave publication /this unique platform. The 1st Amendment guarantee to a Free Press and Free Political Speech is a noble gift bequeathed by our Founders unto an often unworthy People. Don't waste it by not being a knowledgeable electorate; an electorate that will rush to the polls, an electorate that will listen, learn and act in a manner that befits a Good People. Stand up for your community; embrace your muckrakers; embrace your brave Free Press, and maybe WE will continue to deserve this Free Constitutional Republic, with its many local communities that deserve its best and wisest leaders steering US all upon a better and wiser path.
Commented: Sunday, October 29th, 2023 @ 12:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Happy 100 Days of Non-ComplianceThe way this changes is for everyone to get out and vote and vote early which is where they normally have the advantage. Get your friends to vote. If the Sadler machine is running even throughout early voting like they are now, they lose. It's that simple. Election Day voting will skew heavily against the Sadler backed machine candidates and Sadler himself but they normally win 2 to 1 during early voting. That's not happening right now. Get your family and friends to vote and spread the word and share this article everywhere you can. Washington's Tammany Hall can be defeated. They know they are in trouble which explains my missing 75+ signs, calls to Latino restraints telling owners I hate Hispanics, his despicable tactic of telling African American voters to pull up above the orange line where you cannot electioneering so they won't get a chance to talk to me or other non-Sadler candidates. Voting him out and the machine will be the way this has to go down.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 9:10 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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Commented on Happy 100 Days of Non-ComplianceWashington has a Tammany Hall machine in place under Donald Sadler, and the voters need to remove that cancer from control of our city government. Sadler has had two absolute rubberstamps on the city council, the semi-literate Richard Brooks and the often drunk Mike Renn. They will do whatever Sadler tells them to do. Now Sadler has two more rubberstamps running, Anthony Tyre (who really lives in Aurora) and Antwon Horton.
Yes, Sadler went with his wife on many if not all of those taxpayer funded junkets. You left out the one to Las Vegas. So did Sadler's preacher who he also appointed to the Washington Housing Authority. Washington taxpayers need an outside agency, maybe the State Auditor or the Local Government Commission to investigate the goings on at the Washington Housing Authority. Gary, you have been stonewalled, but they cannot stonewall state agencies like that. If things were on the up and up, you would have had an answer by now.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 9:02 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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The 147,000 is nothing compared to the transfer of $580,000 to the Housing Authority his wife heads, the additional $50,000 settlement and the pending lawsuits the mayor has triggered to keep poor people and affordable housing away from his house. His martini sipping supporters are trying to rally around him but I sense we have a shot to defeat his slate of recruits for City Council and Sadler himself.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 8:50 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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Commented on The inappropriate instructional materials imbroglio shows how sloppy our school system is being runWhat should concern voters is not CYA over what has already happened, but what do we do to see that it does not happen again. This appears to be at least the third time in Beaufort County Schools. That is not acceptable.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 8:48 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Commented on Happy 100 Days of Non-ComplianceThank you for your vigilance and for holding these scum accountable.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 7:35 pm
By: Deborah
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Commented on The inappropriate instructional materials imbroglio shows how sloppy our school system is being runWhy should anybody take direction from people who can even acknowledge their past ? Being mean to gay and trans people because they exist is just wrong
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 8:05 pm
By: Big Bob
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My son is severely disabled and no one wants to help him since we came to NC. In NY he received Medicaid based on his disability not income. Unfortunately we can’t afford to live in NY because we are retired and living on a limited income. I currently have 1100.00 in medical bills I cannot pay.
My son was adopted in NY and we received an adoption subsidy through NYC instead of Social Security disability. He was shaken at 2 1/2 months old by his foster mother. Because of this we were told we were not eligible for Medicaid even through the pickle act. Please help us help our son he cannot receive any services without it
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 8:22 pm
By: Cynthia Rubino
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I'm appalled by the legal costs to taxpayers if accurate but not clear how low income housing in Hotel Louise will adversely affect the revival of the downtown business district.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 8:22 pm
By: Concerned Citizen
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Commented on The inappropriate instructional materials imbroglio shows how sloppy our school system is being runMr. Ceres. Not to put too fine a point on your comments re. Mrs. Walker’s actions at the 10-29-23 board meeting, allow us to clarify our point. That point is that if one accepts Mrs. Walker's major premise ("no school board members were aware of the inappropriate assignment and do not condone it...") missed the point also. Nothing she said or did at that meeting would prevent it from happening again and again, as has been true this school year. This Board was told about the policy weaknesses and the first time (when action should have been taken) the response was "it (CRT) is not happening in our schools..." That was demonstrably false. Given the current status of how this board has dealt with inappropriate materials being distributed to our BCS students (not BCCC students), it is obvious that it will happen again, regardless of whether any of these board members know about it in advance or whether they approve of the materials or not. That is a subsidiary issue. The major issue is why have they not fixed this problem long before now? If the understanding between the two organizations is in need of review, which is obvious from the facts, then the primary issue, again, begs the question of why it has not already been addressed and when in fact will it be addressed rather than proffering the lame excuse: "we didn't know…" As Yogi Berra once said: "we aren't arguing about the last pitch, but the next one." We call upon you in your campaigning, to help keep the focus on why this situation happened in the first place. To play on our metaphor, there are horses still in the barn and even if these board members do not know the doors are still open, that is an unacceptable excuse to allow it to continue, or in all due respect to you, justification for diverting the public's attention to subsidiary issues. Again, how could this situation be allowed to happen even after the board was warned about it by the Citizens For Better Government?
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 7:45 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Commented on Police State - new documentary from Dinesh D'SouzaOne of the FBI guys in the trailer said essentially the same thing that Stalin's KGB chief said - "Show me the man, and I will find you the crime". So, is the KGB now the role model for the FBI? They are certainly "finding" a lot of trumped up "crimes" on Donald Trump, mostly from twisting statutes in ways they have never been twisted before.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 5:05 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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Commented on Insanity by the Beaufort County School BoardIf the "test" is not returned, I would give that a resounding yes.
I must be careful, especially on Guest Comments since we do not keep a log of this status of user. We have a log on all our members.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 3:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Insanity by the Beaufort County School BoardBetter?
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 3:35 pm
By: Big Bob
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It is my experience that bureaucrats, whose job is to source funds to others to justify those bureaucrats' existence, will find a way to place that money through 'proper channels" employing whatever duplicitous means necessary.
And, I am speaking of Welfare of Illegals in the US of A.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 3:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is obscene that places like New York or the UK are housing these moochers in upscale hotels at taxpayer expense. Giving them tents, like Austria does is more appropriate, if anything. Maybe a disused prison or jail, at most.
With the main party of the left in Germany starting to wake up on the problem of the fake asylum seekers, can we ever expect American Democrat politicians to do so? The idea of giving them negative answers at the border and not letting them enter in the first place is a good one. They should be interviewed hooked to a polygraph, and when they are caught in lies, they need to be immediately ejected back across the border.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 2:01 pm
By: borderhawk
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Commented on Insanity by the Beaufort County School BoardThis previous Guest Comment by Big Bob is his last since it was submitted under a Fake Email. He may begin anew if he submits comments under a real email.
Once again from the publisher: NO more Guest Comments accepted under Fake Emails.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 12:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Insanity by the Beaufort County School BoardPart of the curriculum problem in Beaufort County Schools rests with the Curriculum Director. On the Bridges math curriculum, he was specifically asked if it was Common Core and told the School Board that it was not. Subsequent research showed that in fact it was Common Core and that fact was not too difficult to uncover.
The question is, did our Curriculum Director just not know that, or did he know about it and choose to misrepresent the facts? The first scenario would indicate incompetence in his job and the second would indicate dishonesty. Either way, he is clearly NOT someone the school board can rely on in the curriculum process. He may be loyal flunky to Cheeseman, but not someone the board should rely upon.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 11:53 am
By: Conservative Voter
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Commented on Insanity by the Beaufort County School BoardDidn’t mean to make you uncomfortable. Best not to talk about it and certainly clean it up before the kids learn about it. Poor little snowflakes.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 10:08 am
By: Big Bob
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Commented on The inappropriate instructional materials imbroglio shows how sloppy our school system is being runJohn Steed's last comments are on target. Cheeseman should start earning his money.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 11:02 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Commented on Insanity by the Beaufort County School BoardConcerned Taxpayer is correct. Also all parents are in and out of neighborhood schools more. They see teachers and staff more and can see first hand what is going on in the school. In most small schools virtually no one has heard of the Superintendent but everyone knows the Principal.
Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 11:08 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Commented on Whatever happened to shame?So shame is good if it's self-awareness, but bullying if it is calling someone else out. Okay, I agree.
So why are YOU actively shaming others by detailing what YOU claim are their sins? You may be a retired pastor, but so am I. Take the log out of your own eye, madam.
Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 10:28 pm
By: Judith
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