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You might want to try to acquire a little bit of knowledge, Bob, before making posts like that.

Flooding is NOT covered by homeowners insurance. One has to buy Flood Insurance for that. Flood insurance rates for oceanfront property are very high. Having served on the board of an oceanfront timeshare resort on the Outer Banks, I am VERY aware of that.

Also, for wind coverage on property as far inland as Beaufort County, we are paying excessive rates due to the legislature years ago allowing the insurance companies to use computer modelling, which is a rigged game, instead of actual historic losses, to set rates in the east for homeowners and fire and wind insurance. In the decades since that scam was allowed, the historic pattern has been what has continued, not the false scenario of their computer models. The result is that eastern North Carolina insurance ratepayers have been badly ripped off and continue to be. The legislature badly needs to junk that computer modelling.

Incidentally, the junk seience of computer modelling is also what is behind all of these "global warming" scare stories that never come true. The problem with computer modelling is that whoever is running it can set up their model to produce whatever result they want to produce, and they do.

Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 8:21 am By: Steven P. Rader

What is NOT true is the far left narrative you always parrot. It is mostly a mixture of lies and half truths, but you follow it blindly, Big Government Bob. The woman who concocted the 1619 project has admitted it is not history. CRT is a reqrite of history by admitted Marxists to try to foster divisions in society that the far left can exploit. They are both political distortions of history, but the far left like yourself follow them blindly.

Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 8:01 am By: Conservative Voter

To rational people, those not in the crazy climate cult, coal is a great option. It is cheap and reliable. Regualr coal is fine, but if you have your panties in a twist over CO2, then there is always clean coal technology, using coal gassification.

China and India are building hundreds of coal fited power plants, while they push the wind and solar that China manufactures on us. That is a deliberate effort to make us dependant on CHina for our electricity and gain an economic advantage of cheaper and more dependable electricity for themselves.

Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 7:33 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Coal is no longer an option.

Commented: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 9:33 pm By: Big Bob

Better Men? No women? Good luck with that.

Commented: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 9:37 pm By: Big Bob

A lot of good can come from it.

Commented: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 9:42 pm By: Big Bob

100% agree Buzz.

The job ain't Rocket Science, however, it may be for what passes as politicians at all levels of governing these days.

Then there is the constant comment; heard it today: "Nobody wants to work any more!"

And who is responsible for the prolonged Covid debacle? It was not me and it was not Hood, that I know here locally.

Everyone smart credits Covid, and the way it was mishandled, as the topping off point for what has become an overall sorry workforce that must change, and it must change quickly, or this Republic will NOT endure. It is that simple.

Commented: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 8:00 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Beachfront property owners should be given the right to sue the wind turbine companies for loss of their seaviews, and commercial fishermen should be able to sue them for damage to their industry.

Commented: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 6:56 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The lying media is the self=styled MSM, which ought to stand for Marxist Socialist Media. Thanks to the lies of the MSM, polls show Americans do not trust the media, and for good reason.

Commented: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 5:37 pm By: Conservative Voter

That is true Stan and why any abortion ruling will never make everyone happy. Compromise is the best path forward. And in NC anyway, I see this to be a reasonable compromise. Maybe we can compromise on other things?

Commented: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 3:52 pm By: Big bob

Good points Stan, but without democratic push back the republicans will take women back to the stone age. Oh and the health of the woman is very important. Republicans abortion laws have left women to bleed out in parking lots rather than treat them for fear of breaking the law. That has to stop. Republicans are starting realize that draconian abortion laws will lead to election losses. As it should be.

Commented: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 9:51 am By: Big Bob

Is MLK not real history?

Commented: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 9:54 am By: Big Bob