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The Chocowinity Town Board, meeting in its regularly monthly meeting Tuesday night (3-7-12) voted to borrow $2,896,000 to upgrade the sewer line running from the existing Bragaw Lane pump station to Cypress Landing.
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We think this issue needs further discussion, if for no other reason than Washington Electric Utility is implementing a program to install "Smart Meters" in its service area.
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Interesting things are going on in North Carolina about transportation. We now have toll roads and ferry fees.
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At Monday's (2-27-12) Washington City Council meeting City Manager Josh Kay made a presentation to the council and public for a reorganization of Washington city government.
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The Washington City Council, meeting February 27, 2012 in the Committee of the Whole, among other things, heard the City Manager give a mid-year financial report.
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Jimmy Hite, a Greenville architect, formally presented the School Facilities Study to the Beaufort County Board of Education. We have previously reported what the study shows; and that is that the School Board wasted over $24 million in the most recent bond building program.
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The Beaufort County Board of Education met for its regular monthly meeting on February 21. We have video from much of the meeting below.
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This is the first in a series we are doing on the politics of legislative races in Beaufort County.
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We recently commended our County Manager and Board of Commissioners for an improved planning process as seen in the board's recent retreat. But at the same time we suggested that the session was missing some very critical planning elements.
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It was encouraging because for the first time in recent memory we saw the board getting good solid information....data if you will. Much of that data centered on building a new jail and we will have more on that later after we complete our research.
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Judge Wilton "Rusty" Duke, Senior Resident Superior Court Judge for District 3A, was the keynote speaker at the Beaufort Patriot TEA Party Thursday (2-16-12).
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Moreover, we would suggest that Beaufort County and the City of Washington have both done the same thing, in much the same ways. In Beaufort County we are seeing the folly of unsound economic development policies.
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Traditionally, the individual campuses have exhibited a fixation that "more money is necessary." They don't have it within their DNA to reduce spending, no matter how unjustified prior spending was.
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The "Godfather of the Chocowinity Recreation Program," Jeff Haddock tendered notice of his resignation as Director of Recreation at the regular monthly meeting of the Chocowinity Town Board.
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At their regular monthly meeting Monday (2-6-12) the Beaufort County Commissioners discussed an interim property tax revaluation.
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At their regular monthly meeting February 6, 2012 the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to support a resolution offered by Robert Cayton opposing the imposition of ferry tolls on the Bayview/Aurora ferry.
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The Beaufort County Commissioners got a sobering report from architect James Hite Monday night (2-6-12) at its regular monthly meeting.
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Yogi Berra is reported to have told this story: A reporter once ask me, "why do you argue about an umpire's call. Have you ever gotten one to change the call?" To which Yogi responded: "Of course not, but I ain't arguing about the last call, I'm arguing about the next call."
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Second in our series on Tuesday night's public information session
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Representatives from Martin-Marietta meet with the public in Beaufort County Monday night (1-31-12) to review plans for the Vanceboro quarry being proposed for southern Beaufort County.
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The law on the Fourth Amendment's protection from unreasonable search and seizures is evolving. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers North Carolina) ruled last week on what may become a landmark case.
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There is a vociferous debate going on in North Carolina right now between commercial fishermen and sports fishermen. Due to a highly funded lobbying campaign the sports fishermen are winning.
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Those who are students of the law (a.k.a legal scholars—as opposed to practitioners) know full well that the law lags behind society and culture.
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The Barack Obama State of the Union address Tuesday (1-24-12) night was, if nothing else, two things: Rehashed proposals that have no chance of passing, many of which have already been rejected by the Democrats in Congress and outright lies or distortions of fact.
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The Federal government (i.e. Barack Obama) has spent over four trillion dollars attempting to stimulate the economy.
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The N. C. Utilities Commission is giving a green light for the construction of the Pantego Wind Energy project.
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It perfectly illustrates how absolutely rotten our State Government has become and if the good people of North Carolina don't do something about it they have no one to blame but themselves.
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We fully realize that there are many people who just don't like to hear someone called a liar. We don't either. But when it is the truth it is a lie not to call it what it is.
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The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled today (1-23-12) that police violated a man's Fourth Amendment right of protection from unreasonable search and seizure when they put a GPS tracking device on his car and monitored his movements for 28 day.
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This story may be the most important story of the year...both this year and last, except for who is elected on November 6. And the two stories are inextricably tied together.
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A Federal appeals court in Washington has ruled that the public has a right to know what jurors put on questionnaires given them during the jury selection process for a criminal trial.
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Government control of the economy has never worked anywhere in the word as well as has free enterprise.
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Beaufort's Director of Elections, Kellie Harris Hopkins, has jumped into the highly partisan charged lawsuit against the Legislature's new redistricting process.
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Warren Smith is a private citizen in Beaufort County who spent a career in the securities industry.
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