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The Beaufort County Commissioners were put on notice Monday night: "Proceed as you're going and there will be a law suit..."
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Sen. Bill Cook announced Monday (1-6-2014) that he would see re-election to the N. C. Senate from District 1, which serves Beaufort County as well as other counties to the northeast including Dare.
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We had an interesting conversation with a friend the other day that in retrospect we think worthy of disclosing here. Here's where we're headed with this: Thom Tillis is the favorite of the Democrats in North Carolina to win the Republican nomination for U. S. Senate
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Mark Binker and Cullen Browder, writing at WRAL.com, have done what we think is a good job of identifying "five big political questions for 2014." We don't necessarily agree with the slant they take but the list is inarguable, we think.
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Mark Finlayson, Director of the U. S. 17 Association, appeared before the Beaufort County Commission at its December meeting to present the "Economic Impact Study" that the Association has had done in support of continued development of U. S. 17.
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At their regular monthly meeting on November 25, 2013 the Beaufort County Board of Education heard a report from Superintendent Don Phipps as well as comments from Paul Varcoe during the Public Comment section of the agenda on the hotly debate issue of the "Common Core."
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We love making Beaufort County home. But it is distressing to live in a county that has leaders with so little vision.
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Did you watch the discussion at the December 2 County Commissioners' meeting on video recording of county meeting? Chances are you didn't. It came at the end of a long three-hour meeting.
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The Beaufort County Commissioner Jail Committee met Wednesday (12-11-13) to accept proposals from architects and construction companies to do the design work on a new Law Enforcement Complex in the Chocowinity Industrial Park as well as manage the construction once/if construction starts.
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Ever evolving technology continues to exceed the ability of the law to adapt to the new threats to our inalienable rights (i.e., those natural rights that exist by the grace of God and not by man-made law) by over-zealous law enforcement people.
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State Budget Director Art Pope responded Monday (12-9-13) to the announced boycott of his family's businesses the NC NAACP, Democracy NC and the Institute of Southern Studies.
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The bridge is only a gimmick being used by wacko environmentalists to drum up contributions to allow them to harass good hard working people in our state. They have already succeeded in driving most local fishermen out of business and left us with seafood imported from Asia and Latin America.
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Donald Dixon, one of the announced candidates for Sheriff of Beaufort County spoke during the Public Comment section of the December Board of Commissioner's meeting.
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The December meeting of the Beaufort County Commissioners was a humdinger.
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Al Klemm appeared before the Beaufort County Board of Education at the board's regular monthly meeting November 25, 2013. He spoke during the "public comment" section of the agenda. Again, we see Mr. Klemm's ignorance on full display.
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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over North Carolina, last week returned a major decision that has significant implications for law enforcement agencies in North Carolina, and especially in Beaufort County.
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There are very few pure coincidences in this world. Experience has shown that if one digs deep enough into those things that look like they could be related one will almost always find a connection. Connecting the dots often shows the picture.
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Sometimes, in this "communications" business we just have to shake our head and wonder if the Government can get any more idiotic than it already is.
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The Beaufort County Jail Committee met November 6, 2013. If you had attended it would have been a waste of your time, but we are posting the video here for the record.
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Some, including us, have long felt that Downeast is the "red headed stepchild at the family reunion," so to speak, in North Carolina politics.
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One of the most frequent criticisms we hear about the decision by the Gang of Four (Langley-D, Booth-D, Belcher-D and Klemm-RINO) to build a new jail/law enforcement complex in the Chocowinity Industrial Park is that they did not, and have not, considered all of the alternatives.
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Week before last, President Obama tried to spin his way out of his 29 statements over two years that "if you like your plan you can keep it. Period. If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. Period."
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There's a debate taking place in Brunswick County that comes up from time to time (almost every budget season) in Beaufort County also.
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The decision was an administrative one and should have been made solely by the County Manager according to board policy.
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With each passing day it is becoming clearer and clearer what Barack Obama said just before taking office when he declared "...we are five days away from fundamentally transforming America."
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The taping of such meetings also produces a permanent record of what went on. If the County Clerk needs to review the video to insure accuracy of the minutes, the record is there.
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The Problem: Prior to last year North Carolina had a hodge-podge patch-quilt set of gun laws. Each municipality enacted its own version of restrictions on the right of citizens with concealed handgun permits to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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Most of our readers are aware that Vidant is closing Pungo Hospital. As you hear in the link above, Vidant makes it sound like they will be providing pretty much the same kind of emergency services as Pungo not provides.
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Donald Dixon has told the Beaufort County Commission how to solve the jail problem: Elect him Sheriff. He appeared before the board at its regular monthly meeting Monday (10-7-13) night and spoke during the public comment section of the agenda.
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Keith Kidwell, Chairman of the Beaufort County Republican Party, made a very constructive presentation to the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners Monday (10-7-13) night.
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'What to do about the jail' was the dominate issue at the October 7, 2013 County Commissioners meeting. During the public comments, five people spoke, four of whom addressed the jail issue.
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The Beaufort County Commission held a special called meeting Monday (9-30-13) to discuss what they could do to help with the Pungo Hospital issue. Vidant is closing the facility and replacing it with an "urgent care" clinic that it says will operate 24/7/365.
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They came to "Save Our Hospital." They left knowing that they could not.
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Never let it be said that we do not give credit where due (you can't imagine how hard our Editorial Team debated whether to say "give the Devil his due") but credit is due the Board of County Commissioners.
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