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(commented on June 22nd, 2011 @ 8:55 pm)The musicians in question (on the main stage) is the band Item 9.
Picture 1: l-r Rick Smith, Gene Gillikin, John Smith
Picture 2:Rick Smith, John Smith
Thanks, these photos are great
~gina gerard (the girl in Item 9)
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(commented on July 19th, 2013 @ 3:10 pm)Maybe Civitas can use my research find an answer to your question. Brian Balfour is using it in today's Blog - almost word for word.
Civitas was able to use the info (attachment 990 Info) that I shared with you. Both De Luca and Balfour are using it to dig deeper into the Rural Center.
(commented on July 19th, 2013 @ 12:19 pm)"...Within hours, Pope’s office hand-delivered to Hall’s replacement the order that demanded the agency stop spending state money.
Pope wrote that the administration is considering “the further step” of seeking recovery of all state funds now held by the center, an amount that may top $100 million.
The order includes a halt to any state money going to grantees or to the center’s employees. It was not immediately clear, according to a Rural Center spokeswoman, whether the funding freeze affected Hall’s severance pay...."
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(commented on July 19th, 2013 @ 12:09 pm)I guess the BCC-100/Braddy Bath property is on hold.
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(commented on December 6th, 2012 @ 2:13 pm)What a wonderful opportunity Mr. Britt has opened up to readdress Al as the self serving boob he is.
Instead of lying low and letting the dust settle, Britt has put the target right back on Al.
For the next two years Al should be objective #1....If Jay reruns in 2014 then Jay and Al will be fighting for the Britt wing votes of the RINO party...while Ed Booth sweeps the Democrats and Stan works the right and middle.
Long story short, Al has no friends and even his old allies, i.e., Jay and Britt are now rivals.
(commented on June 19th, 2012 @ 12:53 pm)Cost of Doing Business in Beaufort County is Electrifying
June 19, 2012 | 08:39 AM
With respect to discussions on the city council about utility rates versus customer usage: the electric rate is overwhelmingly important.
The point of generating electricity is to make the product affordable to consumers for a wide and growing number of uses. Lower rates encourage new commercial and residential users and greater economic development in the community being served. The single best indicator of economic well being in a modern community is strong and rising use of electricity.
Electricity rates are the "elephant in the room" concerning economic development in Beaufort County. Businesses are acutely aware of all manufacturing costs. They are already actively involved in restricting needless uses of electricity at their facilities. Plant managers, manufacturing process designers, selection of efficient machines and motors which are scaled to their best need all contribute to best use of only essential KWH useage. However, various manufacturing processes do have their own most efficient and particular basic KWH requirements and that cost is controlled only by the utility rate.
Our rates are an all prevailing hurdle to our local economy. New business is deterred from locating here. Old businesses are at a disadvantage to competitors being served by lower rate utilities. Residential customers need to direct dollars to utility bills which could go to home repairs. This results in a depreciating housing stock. The distortions to the local economy are all intrusive and pervasive. No amount of EDC scheming or industrial park nonsense can overcome the burden of utility rates. What new development does come to Beaufort County seeks out areas served by alternate power providers.
While it is a service to customers to educate users as to "smart use" strategies, it is not the government or the generating company's place to discourage usage. Discouragement of usage leads to two problems:
1) As utility usage falls the limited KWH hours generated and sold become less able to spread the fixed costs of plant and equipment across a broad sales revenue base. This causes the portion of fixed costs allocated per KWH to rise, this in turn requires moth balling plant and equipment or increasing rates.
..........this is a death spiral for business and for customers.
2) The logical progression for reduced customer usage through recommended thermostat settings, etc., is for the regulators to move into mandated temperature settings and then onto rationing. Regulation by central authorities replaces business and personal decision making
..........this is the death spiral of the business environment.
(commented on June 15th, 2012 @ 1:20 pm)I just watched the city council addressed by Jim Chesnutt and Dot Mote. It is hysterical. Do these folks even believe this stuff themselves?
Mr. Jennings has rightly pointed out that planning needs a great deal more work than anecdotal meanderings about random data.
It is more of the same unsupported and imaginary correlations masquerading as "market studies and evidence" which led the EDC and C100 to propose industrial parks and Quick Start buildings. Notice that neither speaker made any reference to either project....better forgotten and avoided as embarrassing failures...$6,500,000 simply ignored and abandoned.
Just what is it that Mr. Thompson has laid as ground work for our future? Empty real estate? Debt? Higher taxes? $500,000 in clawbacks on grant guarantees?
After 10 years of sending $1,500,000 to salaries in Craven County, $6,500,000 to empty industrial parks and $4,000,000 to Committee of 100 favorites, the self-appointed leadership of economic development feels that Beaufort County and the City of Washington need a plan!
As to the regrettable "negativity"...what is more negative than selling of assets and reducing business exposure in a community?
National Spinning is actually divesting themselves of assets and financial exposure in Beaufort County, yet these same folks want taxpayers to accept the Committee of 100's "vision" for our future.
Mr. Thompson refused to even live here.
ARE THEY SERIOUS? You cannot make this stuff up.
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