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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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In John 3:19 we read: "...people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil."
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Time was, although no longer true, that most children knew the moral of the fairy tale of Chicken Little and the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Not so with the Reverend Dr. William Barber, president of the N. C. NAACP.
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North Carolina Senator Bill Cook has sponsored two very important bills in the NC General Assembly, and our publishing friend, the Beaufort Observer, has published information to that effect.
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The government's case in the Tayloe Pharmacy drug bust appears to be unraveling. Charges against Lori Melton and Anna Moore were dismissed yesterday (1-23-13) in Federal Eastern District Court in Elizabeth City by Judge Terrence Boyle.
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners, on January 18, 2013, adopted a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to strengthen the Second and Tenth Amendments, among other things.
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The Beaufort County Board of Education changed officers at its January 15, 2013 meeting. Cindy Winstead was elected chair, replacing Mac Hodges and Terry Williams was elected vice-chair to succeed Winstead who had been serving as vice chair.
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Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC) is taking aim at Sen. Kay Hagan for here tepid support of the Second Amendment.
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The Beaufort County (N.C.) Board of Commissioners adopted unanimously a resolution calling upon the N. C. General Assembly to take necessary measures to nullify any Federal action within the State that infringes on the Second Amendment's guarantee of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
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The Washington City Council voted unanimously Monday night (with Ed Moultrie absent) to apply for a half million dollar grant to renovate the old National Spinning building to accommodate an expansion of Spinrite, Inc. which is already operating out of part of that building.
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We have been hearing that Governor Pat McCrory, Speaker Thom Tillis and maybe some others are backing down from the idea of requiring a photo ID in order to vote in North Carolina.
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This article ranks among the most important we have ever posted on the Beaufort Observer. We urge you to not only read it in its entirety but to reflect upon what it presents.
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Concord legislator Sen. Fletcher Hartsell's campaign finance records show that he paid thousands to dollars from campaign funds to personal credit cards.
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At the January 7, 2013 Beaufort County Board of Commissioners' meeting Hood Richardson gave a "Jail Report" that he had request the staff to compile.
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In Plato's Allegory of the Cave we read about a group of men who have been imprisoned by chaining them to a wall in a cave.
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners was a study in contrasts Monday night as they heard a report from Tax Assessor Bobby Parker.
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Bill Cook was sworn in as the new Senator from the First District Sunday night in the Beaufort County Superior Courtroom before a large crowd of hometown supporters as well as those from other counties in the district.
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If our records are anywhere near representative of the population as a whole the most talked about issue in recent days has been "gun control."
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There has been a scalding debate going on within the Republican Party in Beaufort County between conservatives and the ...whatever you want to call them: RINO's, moderates, centrists, consensus builders etc.
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We've previously reported about the changes Craven County's Board of Commissioners have been making in their economic development program. They "accepted" the resignation of the former director, just as has Beaufort County.
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Individual liberties won one in the N. C. Court of Appeals last week.
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Beaufort County Commissioner Al Klemm touts himself as Beaufort County's economic development commissioner. He recent wrote a letter to the County Compass which we printed in the December 13 edition as a Guest Commentary.
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The Governor just last week swung a deal to give away Dorothea Dix to allow it to become a park to attract visitors to Raleigh.
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In the last two months we here at the Beaufort Observer have spent more time covering election news that not only anything else, but more than all the other stories put together.
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