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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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At their December 3, 2012 regular monthly meeting the Beaufort County Board of Commissioner the board heard a "report" from the county's Tax Collector about drainage district assessments.
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There's high drama going down in Washington. Of course the Big One is the kabuki dance being played over the "fiscal cliff." As we've said before, all that is pure show in our opinion.
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An open response to Larry Britt on Al Klemm's betrayal of conservative government in Beaufort CountyRather, we are reporting what we view to be a major story...that Al Klemm continues to betray the people in Beaufort County who believe in Republican principles. We believe we have a duty to expose Klemm's betrayal of those principles.
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Rep. Walter B. Jones, Jr has been disciplined by the House leadership by kicking him off the House Financial Services Committee. Financial Services is considered one of the most important committees in Congress and is a highly sought after slot.
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Nominal "Republican" Al Klemm voted to give presiding control of the Beaufort County Commissioners to the Democrats Monday night as the newly sworn-in board elected its leadership for the coming year.
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Our system of government, from the local to the state to the national levels, is a republic.
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We were treated at the November 13 County Commissioners' meeting, once again, to what is apparently a continuation of the nonsense that parades as Beaufort County's approach to economic development.
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One election is but just over and yet the buzz has already started over the 2014 senatorial elections. That is true simply because so much is at stake.
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All the talking heads on the Sunday shows were discussing the meaning of Tuesday's election.
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It appears from early unofficial vote totals that Stan White narrowly defeated Bill Cook to retain the Senate 1 seat and Paul Tine narrowly defeated Mattie Lawson to win the House 6 seat that Cook has held for the last two years.
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A former state employee, now retired, posted on Facebook that he has already voted four times and intends to vote again on Tuesday. Click here to read the story.
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Let's cut the hype about this business of rescuers risking their lives to help folks who chose to stay with their home and ride out a storm.
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We don't believe the national polls that say that a large number of people are still undecided who they will vote for Tuesday. But just in case there are any such folks out there we will review how we see the electoral landscape in this election at this point.
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The N. C. Supreme Court this week handed down a decision that could have significant impact on coastal North Carolina counties.
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Recently released numbers from the Department of Public Instruction prove just the opposite. Funding for Pre-K-12 has increased since Republican took control of the Legislature, not decreased.
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Al Klemm and his cronies at the EDC/Committee of 100 don't like public scrutiny of their scheming to give away taxpayer funded goodies to their friends (and campaign donors).
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Stan White should be ashamed of himself. So should the N. C. Association of Educators and a number of other "me too" Democrats like Paul Tine. They have lied. They are still lying.
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For the Elite Media to be doing everything it possibly can to get Barack Obama re-elected is one thing, but to deliberately protect his malfeasance in allowing four Americans to die without sending available rescuers is absolutely abominable.
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Commissioner McRoy's characterization of criticism concerning the costs incurred by the Economic Development Commission as being based on "fictitious"numbers is a cheap shot.
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Debra Goldman, Republican candidate for State Auditor, is under attack. It may or may not be deserved, but it is not the main issue.
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You will note that Mr. McRoy makes a comment disparaging the "numbers" he says "many times are fictitious."
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After one gets past the personality issues it is easy to see that major changes in the way Beaufort County handles money could happen if a conservative board were to be elected.
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There's been a rousing debate in recent months in Beaufort County about just what the county's role (as well as the City of Washington's) should be in economic growth and development.
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