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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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Grassroots North Carolina is denouncing the use of tax dollars to lobby against your Second Amendment rights.
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What if the people in northern Colorado had known they would be hit with flash floods? Do you think that now they wish they had known what to expect?
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Former Congressman and immediate past-chairman of the N. C. Republican Party has taken a major move that will divide the Republican Party in North Carolina and probably lead to Kay Hagan's re-election.
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An incident last week in the Beaufort County Jail has profound significance, in our opinion. Sheriff Alan Jordan severely abused his authority by having a Beaufort County commissioner forcibly removed from the jail simply because the commissioner disagreed with a decision that was proposed.
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After all was said and done, a lot more was said than done…on changing the method of electing County Commissioners in Beaufort County.
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It begins with public comments, followed by a report from the board's Public Works Director on repairs to the jail and concludes with the defeat by the Gang of Four of Commissioner Gary Brinn's motion to submit the issue to a vote of the people.
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The three Democrat Commissioners on Beaufort County Commission were joined by RINO (Republican In Name Only) Al Klemm to make a three to four majority to kill a motion by Commissioner Gary Brinn to submit the question of whether to build a new jail to a referendum of the voters in the May Primary.
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The community of Belhaven and vicinity rallied in support of keeping the Pungo Hospital open Thursday evening (9-5-13).
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It is the duty of every sworn law enforcement officer to enforce the law. That goes without say. But it is also the duty of every officer to obey the law. But that is not always the case.
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There are few people in Beaufort County who have had more experience with designing electoral systems than has Stan Deatherage. He has been "in the room" when most of the decisions have been made on how the Beaufort County Commission will be elected.
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There's been a great deal said in recent weeks about H 589, the Voter Information Verification Act. But in many ways the "best is yet to come."
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We've said it before, "... getting involved in neighborhood dog disputes is almost always a battle you can't win.
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The Monday August 5 public hearing on a report from the Beaufort County Limited Voting Elections Committee produced uncertainty. After a committee composed of 12 citizens and commissioners studied how to change limited voting for six months Chairman Gary Brinn tabled his motion citing the need for f
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Apparently, backroom dealing continues to be alive and well among the Democrats and RINO Al Klemm on the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners.
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Governor McCrory and his Secretary of Commerce have a major problem on their hands.
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Barry's joined the TEA Party. For several years now, the TEA partiers have been saying that government is dysfunctional and that Washington's the problem, not the solution.
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So who says we "need a new jail?" Other than Alan Jordan and his cronies, that is.
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Abe Lincoln is reported to have said that "you can fool all of the people some ot the time and some of the people all of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
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The N. C. Rural Center has come under fire as a result of a State Auditor's report that said, among other things, that the Center maintained inadequate accountability for grants it gave to businesses that were to create "new jobs."
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Lt. Gov. Dan Forest's opposition to giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens helped kill a bad billWe reported Tuesday (7-16-13) about the House effectively killing HB 786. That bill would have given drivers licenses to illegal aliens, among a long list of "comprehensive immigration reform" measures.
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This is the same outfit that the Observer has reported on in the past, as a result of the very able research of Betty Murphy.
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It's been said before: " pick your battles to fight. Think twice about fighting battles you can't win."
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Like the Energizer Bunny, the Beaufort County Jail story just keeps going, and going.
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