Editor's note: In the interest of full disclosure we would offer the following introductory comment. In September, 1999 when Hurricane Floyd hit Beaufort County, we, like thousands of people DownEast, lost our home and much of what was in it.
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2014 @ 5:25 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Washington, NC is the same as Washington, DC when it comes to making bad decisions, dirty dealing and subverting the State and Federal Constitutions.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 5:52 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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After a long battle the Vidant Pungo Hospital has been given the opportunity to continue operations as a new organization. At a minimum, there will be an emergency room with other services to be determined by the new management.
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 9:07 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Three people showed up at the March Beaufort County Commissioners meeting to show us how brilliant they are. I once heard a man say "My mother always told my sibling to keep its mouth shut so people would not know how little she actually knew".
Published: Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 @ 6:10 am
By: Hood Richardson
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I am hearing a lot of chatter, actually criticism, about Beaufort County refusing to accept the $500,000 of so called "free money" offered to us by Vidant during the early stages of the closing of the Pungo District Hospital. Hyde County took the $250,000 offered to them.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 7:02 am
By: Hood Richardson
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I was there when the cowboys took charge of an environmental policy meeting inside the Washington beltway and thoroughly defeated the liberal, tree hugging environmentalists.
Published: Friday, March 28th, 2014 @ 11:56 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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There's a story unfolding in Hyde County with Rose Acre Farms that every North Carolinian should not only be aware of but fighting mad about.
Published: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 @ 10:38 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The counties of Beaufort, Bertie, Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell Washington and Wayne along with the Cities of Goldsboro and Washington were invited to attend an organizational meeting for a "Joint Land Use Policy Committee for the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base".
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 10:48 am
By: Hood Richardson
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While most Beaufort County voters are concerned about the way the new 20 million dollar jail experience has unfolded, I am not sure they know what the plan is.
Published: Saturday, March 8th, 2014 @ 8:37 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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I wrote an article about ferry tolling last week. That article talked about current events. The issue of a major policy change in funding transportation has been around since at least 2007.
Published: Wednesday, March 5th, 2014 @ 3:34 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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The new Beaufort County jail with sheriff’s offices, magistrates offices, 911 offices, possibly a courtroom, and maybe a gym is moving slowly forward.
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2014 @ 1:13 am
By: Hood Richardson
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I thought we beat the issue of tolling ferries in Eastern North Carolina about a year ago. At that time there were meetings, newspaper articles, threats of political doom, and a lot of dancing by politicians.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:52 am
By: Hood Richardson
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For years I shied away from this. I thought everyone knew it. I assumed bringing it up would only show how shallow I am. After all, we are all Americans and knowing it should be like a genetic appendage.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 6:52 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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He sent a Qualified Domestic Relations Order During November to seize past due child support from an absent parent's retirement account. That family should have a good Christmas.
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 3:06 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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There is an abundance of information. It is here, it is there, it is everywhere. Sometimes I feel like I am floating in a sea of information, reports, news programs, writings and whispered messages.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2014 @ 10:22 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Occasionally my friends inquire about my emotional well being, remarking that I may spend too much time dealing with both solvable and unsolvable problems.
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2014 @ 11:14 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Political power tends to corrupt, absolute political power tends to corrupt absolutely.
Published: Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 @ 7:52 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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During he October 7 Beaufort County Commissioners meeting , Hood Richardson made another motion seconded by Stan Deatherage to place a referendum for a new jail at the Chocowinity Industrial site on the ballot for the next general election in 2014.
Published: Sunday, December 29th, 2013 @ 11:40 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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County Commissioners are the lowest ranking elected officials empowered to make laws and levy taxes. These are essentially the same things the big boys do in Raleigh and Washington.
Published: Saturday, December 28th, 2013 @ 5:24 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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If you have never been deceived or lied to you may want to stop reading now. The rest of this article will have no meaning to you.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2013 @ 10:36 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The liberal Larry Britt and Windy William Buonanno come to almost all the Beaufort County Commissioner meetings these days, and sit on the back row with somber scowling faces.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Seems some of our elected officials do not know about political manners or maybe plain common sense ethics.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2013 @ 11:53 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Former Beaufort County Republican Party chairman, Larry Britt, came to the October Beaufort County Commissioners meeting and read his latest epistle about the need for a new jail.
Published: Monday, October 21st, 2013 @ 9:16 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The Beaufort County Jail Construction Committee met on October 3 at 4:00 PM in the commissioners meeting room on West Third Street. Members present were Al Klemm, Jerry Langley, Robert Belcher and Ed Henry.
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2013 @ 6:46 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Sheriff Jordan is still whining and barking about Commissioner Hood Richardson. Jordan is a slow learner.
Published: Sunday, October 13th, 2013 @ 5:55 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners held a special called meeting on Monday (9-30-13) to discuss the closing of Pungo Hospital in Belhaven. At that meeting I read the following statement.
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 @ 9:50 am
By: Hood Richardson
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When reason gets stretched to the breaking point I start asking myself " What does everybody else know that I do not know?"
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 @ 1:42 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The present controversy between Sheriff Alan Jordan and this county commissioner has breathed new life into the question: What do county commissioner do? To put it another way what are the duties and responsibilities the public should expect from county commissioners.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2013 @ 11:38 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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On July 28 the liberal and uninformed Washington Daily News did an article implying the Republican majority in the Legislature was doing things behind the public's back.
Published: Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 @ 12:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County commissioners voted have the jail open one day each week while prisoners are out of town and providing it did not interfere with repairs so the public could see what their jail looks like.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 @ 1:51 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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The local liberals, and constitutionally un-informed have rendered another editorial opinion that baffles all but the left wing socialists.
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 @ 8:04 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Sarah Palin re-invigorated the idea that a new political party could solve some of the problems with the two identical twin parties we have now.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2013 @ 2:39 am
By: Hood Richardson
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On the front page of the Sunday June 8, 2013 Washington Daily News was an article titled "SBI Move Concerns Local Officials". The Daily News has been supporting those good old boy Democrats during the past few days.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 @ 8:58 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The Saturday (6-8-13) front page and Sunday (6-9-13) editorial of the Washington Daily News is a fine example of how facts can be misinterpreted and spun to fit a political agenda.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 @ 7:32 am
By: Hood Richardson
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