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Here are the video clips from Monday (10-13-14) Candidate's Forum. These are the clips from the County Commission candidates.
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The Beaufort County Schools and Beaufort County Community College sponsored a candidate forum Tuesday September 30, 2014 at Washington High School. All of the candidates for Beaufort County Commission, Senate District 1 and House District 6 were present.
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This is a continuation of the videos from the Candidates Forum held recently. In this installment we share the clips from the Sheriff candidates.
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The specific issue that brought it out at the September meeting was Jerry Langley's attempts to stifle items being put on the agenda for debate that he does not want the public to see how the majority is dealing with them.
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At the October 6, 2014 Beaufort County Commissioners meeting Jerry Langley made a motion to delete several items on the proposed agenda.
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The constitutions (U. S. and N. C.) took a severe beating from Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens Monday (10-13-14) when he ruled that his opinion of the "way things should be" trumped what the national and state constitutions say very clearly.
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Josh Birch filed a report Friday (10-10-14) on WNCT-TV that is a perfect illustration of the flimsy reported much of the TV media have been doing on the jail issue in Beaufort County. Here's why we say "flimsy."
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Due notice: If you are an honorable person you are going to be disgusted when you read this. But let us suggest what is worse than what they people have done: It is perfectly legal. They have seen to it.
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Jerry Langley, Ed Booth, Robert Belcher and Al Klemm, also known as the Gang of Four, have not slowed down in their effort to build a new jail. The jail committee continues to meet. They have applied for permits from the State authorities to build the jail.
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The U. S. Government owns some 2822 acres of land in the northwest corner of Beaufort County.
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Most experienced observers of governing boards sooner or later learn that what you see in the formal meetings is only the tip of the iceberg of what is really going on below the surface.
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Al Klemm is proposing a county tourism authority, with the power to tax. He says it is an effort to promote more tourists coming to Beaufort County and spending more money in local businesses.
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Rebecca Martinez, of the left-wing wunc.org reports on the dispute over whether the North Carolina State Fair can legally ban concealed firearms.
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The Gang of Four, consisting of Commissioners Lnagley, Booth, Belcher, and Klemm, are proceeding to build a new jail as if the November elections are over and they won.
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We have the video of the September 15, 2014 Chocowinity Planning Board meeting at which the board approved recommending the permitting of a solar farm on a tract of land zoned Residential off of Bragaw Lane in Chocowinity.
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In it he proclaims the path to victory for Republicans is for all Republicans to support all Republican candidates.
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Supporters of Thom Tillis are heard to say that it is important that North Carolina elect him rather than Kay Hagan because Hagan would insure Harry Reid continuing and if Tillis is elected, along with Republicans from five other states, then the Democrats would lose majority control of the Senate.
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The Belhaven Hospital situation has been like a roller coaster and a soap opera put in a blender. It is hard to separate the parts.
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We'd like to think that "what you see (in a candidate) is what you get (if they are elected)."
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We here at the Observer have been scolded by some of our Republican friends for not supporting "all" Republicans. The argument goes: We need Republicans in control of both house of Congress and then we could really...
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The next time you are speeding or tempted to do so you might want to remember this information: North Carolina's car insurance premiums are among the lowest in the country - that is, as long as drivers stay on the right side of the law.
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If the state cannot restrict your choice of marriage how can it keep you from marrying your dog?
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This was the response from the Anointed One to Eric Cantor just after the inauguration in 2009. The entire statement was; "Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won."
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Voters will be presented with a proposed constitutional amendment this November 4.
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Within the past seven or eight years a county commissioner race from the primary to the November General Election could be financed for $3,000.00. Twenty thousand dollars would do the same for a sheriff's election.
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It has become more obvious that the majority of the Beaufort County leadership offices are occupied by bullies.
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Four Beaufort County Commissioners and two staff people traveled to Raleigh Monday (8-18-14) to hear it straight from the staff of the Local Government Commission (LGC).
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In spite of the fact that they don't have the money to do the project they're planning, the Commissioner Jail Committee proceeded Wednesday (8-20-14) with the planning to build a project they don't have the money to pay for.
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Those of us who had good social studies teachers know that our system of government is a democratic republic. It is not a democracy.
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Three sitting commissioners, two candidates for the Beaufort County Commission and the Beaufort NAACP held a press conference Thursday (8-21-14) on the recent developments related to the building of a new jail/public safety facility in Beaufort County.
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Sen. Bill Cook's office today (8-20-14) released a copy of a letter he sent to the Local Government Commission last Friday (8-15-14) You can read the letter by clicking here.
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Monday (8-4-14) night's Beaufort County Board of Commissioners' meeting was a phenomenal event. We would not have believed it had we not seen it with our own eyes.
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You can file this one under the "You'll never believe what happened at the County Commissioner meeting."
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In the August Board of County Commissioners' meeting the board heard a report from its Finance Officer, Jim Chrisman, on the various alternative methods for financing a "public safety facility" now that the U. S. Department of Agriculture has refused to finance the project.
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