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The public got an opportunity to meet and hear candidates for the city council in Washington at a Candidates' Forum last night (9-15-11).
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Mr. McCoy explained why CJLEADS was developed before he turned the demonstration over to his staff to show the attendees how the system operates.
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What to do about the feral cats was the big issue, if you count the amount of time spent on it, while the bad drainage issue came up again.
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has called Social Security a Ponzi scheme. Democrats are busy cranking out emails castigating him for pointing out the obvious.
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The crux of that issue is what kind of odor will be released as a result of that process. Thus, where it is located becomes a question of who is concerned about it.
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During last year's budget process the Beaufort County Commissioners debated whether they would raise taxes or cut spending. After a great deal of kabuki dancing the "Gang of 5" (Booth, Cayton, Klemm, Langley, and McRoy) ended up voting a 6% tax increase.
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"When's the power going to be back on?" That's The Question...the most frequent question we received from readers in the aftermath of Irene, after the water came back on.
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You are in trouble. Deep, deep trouble. The evidence to support that contention is all around, but none more profound than Maureen Dowd's piece in the Sunday New York Times.
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The hospital boards voted today to convey the health system, including the hospital to University Health Systems under terms UHS dictated on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
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Do police officers have a reasonable expectation of privacy while performing their duties in public?Does a policeman have a reasonable expectation of privacy when performing duties in a public arena?
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Barack Obama has both begun his re-election campaign and signaled what his message will be: "Politics is the problem." Or, if you prefer: "Those Republican politicians are the problem." Technocracy is his solution.
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Have you ever wondered why it seems that Beaufort County is almost always behind other counties?
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You might want to read this article from the Charleston, West Virginia, Daily Mail before reading the following article about Tuesday's School Board meeting.
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At the end of a grueling meeting the Beaufort County Board of Education elected Mac Hodges to be its new chairman and Cindy Winstead to replace Hodges as vice chair.
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The SBI has been investigating voter fraud in Wake County after the Board of Elections there turned over information to the Wake County District Attorney.
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On Monday night Mercer indicated that his read of the financial statements was that there could possibly be as much as a million in revenue shortfall.
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We recently reported on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling against the Forsyth County commissioners prayer policy.
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At its regular monthly meeting this week the Chocowinity Town Board adopted a new ordinance requiring property owners within the town limits to post street number signs as prescribed by the ordinance.
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We just became aware, indirectly, of yet another example of what we call "abuse of police power under color of law."
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ometimes we agree with the WDN's editorial position and sometimes we don't. Either way we don't hesitate to say so. We think competition in ideas is just as good as competition in other areas.
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At the August County Commissioners meeting, Beaufort Community College President David McLawhorn appeared before the board asking it to adopt a resolution in opposition to the "merger" of Beaufort with Pitt Community College, and presumably according to his comments, with any other college.
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We don't know of anyone who has advocated more strongly for reduced state spending than have we. And in general we think the Republican-controlled legislature did a good job of doing just that, with some exceptions.
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Potash Corp has dropped plans to build a sulfur melting facility at the State Port in Morehead. Governor Perdue journeyed down from Raleigh to make the announcement to hundreds of cheering people.
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As the General Assembly approaches "final" decisions on redistricting, Beaufort County on Wednesday became one of the district to be rather radically changed from what had been proposed.
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Six in 10 North Carolina voters disagree with Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's recent veto of a bill requiring a government-issued photo ID to vote, according to a new poll released by the Civitas Institute.
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Monday was not a good day for Governor Bev Perdue. Her party's representatives in the Legislature abandoned her to the extent that her vetos of several bills were overridden.
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While we commend the N&O for trying to present a balanced perspective we think the public is still left with woefully inadequate data and solid information about the project.
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A unanimous N. C. Court of Appeals decision filed this week (7-19-11) has held that the parents of a UNC-W student who was shot and killed by a New Hanover "Emergency Response Team" member may sue UNC-W for its police department's providing "inaccurate and misleading" information.
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Potash Corp is proposing a new sulfur treatment plant at the State Port in Morehead. The plans have been developed in secret for the most part but have now caused an uproar in Carteret County.
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We all would like to think that the people we hire to run public service departments would spend the taxpayer's money just like they would spend their own.
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In case you haven't heard, there is a big brouhaha going on in neighboring Carteret County.
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There are two stories here, at least.
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What they're doing in Washington is nothing more than a Kabuki dance of politics. The debt ceiling crisis is nothing more than a manufacturered crisis designed to accomplish partisan political objectives.
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The N. C. Court of Appeals today (7-18-11) expanded the protection of students from non-particularized intrusive body searches.
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