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Back in February, at the annual Board of Commissioners' retreat, the architectural firm hired by the county to do a study on building a new jail was making its presentation of the options it had identified.
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners and the Beaufort County Board of Education held a joint meeting Monday (4-1-13) the hour before the regularly scheduled Commissioners' meeting.
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Beaufort County will be sending 28 people to Charlotte June 7-9 to the North Carolina Republican Party Convention. The cadre was self-selected at the recent County Convention.
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Keith Kidwell is the new chairman of the Beaufort County Republican Party. He will guide the party through to the 2014 elections.
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The Washington City Council returned the serve Monday night (3-25-13) to the County Commission by taking a position, supported by staff research and legal opinions, that a jail cannot be put in the park without overcoming some serious hurdles.
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It is expected that there will be a major fight at the Beaufort County Republican Convention Tuesday night (3-26-13). The current divisions in the Grand Ole Party will likely play out in the election of officers and Executive Committee members. Here's the background.
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The Beaufort County Board of Educations, at its regular monthly meeting March 19, 2013 voted 7-1 to abandon its traditional standing committee system.
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The Government's case in the Tayloe Pharmacy bust crumbled further Wednesday (3-21-13) when all charges were dismissed against two more of the defendants in the case. Arron Jones and Kevin Dail Owens walked out of court as free men with a huge load lifted from them.
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A record crowd heard a report from newly installed Lt. Governor Dan Forest who told the group what this new administration had discovered as it took over the Executive Branch in January and some of the issues being confronted by the GOP General Assembly.
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The SBI's now getting involved. That's the story out of Wilmington in the Port City Daily. First some background.
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The hottest issue in Beaufort County government these days is the jail. We're being told the jail is not adequate and is unsafe.
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At their regular monthly meeting on March 11, 2013 the Beaufort County Commissioners voted to approve a complex business deal to get rid of the infamous Blue Goose and reward the three companies involved with incentives to create 54 new jobs.
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We often hear conservative complain about expansion of Federal power and it is usually contended that such encroachment on our individual rights is far beyond what our Founding Fathers envisioned when the U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights were ratified.
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Barack Obama is a master of its use. Al Klemm and Alan Jordan are running a close second. What is it? It is the use of the Straw Man.
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners, at their regular monthly meeting March 11, 2013 voted 6-1 to ban roadside hunting in the County.
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Imagine this: Governor Pat McCrory issues orders to all of the local school systems in the state to insure that by year's end every child will be performing where they should be performing in math, science and reading and to do whatever it takes to see that this happens.
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The North Carolina Supreme Court handed down a decision Friday (3-8-13) that may well become a landmark precedent-setting case that will protect citizens, individual and corporate, from abusive municipalities and counties that try to use their taxation powers to control behavior rather than simply r
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The local mullet wrapper is pushing the Turnage again. It recently published an article about the bank putting the building on the market for sale.
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Our state's ferry system is truly a treasure and I would hate to see us mess up a good thing. There are two aspects to the ramifications of adding and increasing tolls on the ferry system -- impact on tourism and impact on the local economy.
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Rep. Julia Howard (R-Forsyth, Davie) has introduced HB 59. If it becomes law it will eliminate the mandatory safety inspection program in the state. It is now it the House Transportation Committee.
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The Washington City Council, in its regular monthly meeting Monday (2-11-13) adopted a "Comprehensive Plan." The vote was 4-1. Doug Mercer dissented.
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If the informal comments from Washington City Council members are taken to heart the County Commissioners need to recycle the decision made February 14 to build a new jail at the Industrial Park on U. S. 264 West.
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Everyone, except for the Yellow-dog Democrats, should pay close attention to what happens at the Republican precinct meetings Tuesday night. It will determine the future of Beaufort County for some time to come.
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The Carolina Panthers want a new stadium. They want the taxpayer to pay for a major chunk of the cost.
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Bob Woodward, the Washington Post editor with arguably the deepest inside connections in the White House published an article Friday (2-22-13) that in effect calls Barack Obama a liar. The issue is who is responsible for "sequester."
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In a surprise, and some would say "underhanded," move four members of the Beaufort County Commission voted February 14, 2013 to build a new jail in the Industrial Park several miles outside downtown Washington.
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This school board action, apparently initiated by Mrs. Winstead, is a good move.
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Today in Asheboro, Governor Pat McCrory signed his first bill into law since taking office.
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Now, nearly twenty months later, the county faces a major lawsuit over the incident, and may be involved in yet another one in the coming months according to reliable sources familiar with the case.
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The Beaufort County Commissioners voted Thursday (2-14-13) to build a new jail at the county's Industrial Park on U. S. 264 West. The vote was 4-3 with the three Democrats (Robert Belcher, Ed Booth and Jerry Langley) being joined by Republican Al Klemm.
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We have recently learned that the Federal Government has an assassination program that has been in operation for several years now.
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From time to time issues come up in local government that "fly under the public's radar" until it is too late.
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At the last County Commissioners meeting Commissioner Robert Belcher (D) made an impassion argument that firearm ownership should be restricted, in spite of the U. S. and N. C. Constitutions prohibiting such restrictions.
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What started out as a discussion of whether the boycott of the January 18, 2013 special meeting by the Democrat members of the Board of Commissioners (Langley, Booth, Belcher) was legal, turned out to be a raucous discussion of gun control.
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