Several weeks ago Duke Energy presented a report about the potential use of the Chocowinity Industrial Park, and the fact that what we have there is a fabulous piece of business real estate that could attract many hundreds of new jobs.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
By: Keith D Kidwell
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What can I say??? It was entertaining / it was enlightening / it was comical / it was sad . . . I only have a page and I could write a book on the Beaufort County Council Meeting last night whose main topic was a possible new Law Enforcement Center.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 11:32 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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This is a serious subject. It is drawing some good early response. It is not the kind of subject you can write a definite final “thus saith the Lord” treatise on. I would like to be the leader of discussion rather than some arbitrator.
Published: Monday, August 4th, 2014 @ 6:25 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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My good friend and mentor, Wayne Martin, sent this to me. I send it to you as just one more example of the way terms like "liberal" and "conservative" are thrown around these days.
Published: Sunday, August 3rd, 2014 @ 11:25 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Earlier last year you began acting on a proposal to fund a new jail at the Washington Industrial Park.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 @ 5:28 pm
By: Warren Smith
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I was peacefully shopping at our local Wal-Mart. It is a joy to be in that particular store, although I normally hate the crowds at them elsewhere. In another town where I used to live there were 2 stores.
Published: Monday, July 28th, 2014 @ 10:27 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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As we move towards a critical November election in the US, you should look for an opportunity to communicate with your local House or Senate candidate.
Published: Sunday, July 27th, 2014 @ 11:53 am
By: John Droz, Jr.
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Here is my line of thinking.
Published: Thursday, July 24th, 2014 @ 11:18 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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To be accurate, I don't think most citizens really know what or who we are! Civics is not a required subject nor is political science.
Published: Monday, July 21st, 2014 @ 8:47 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I see it in the same light as President Ford tripping on the steps of AF- 1 = brings him down to the "foot-in-mouth" disease of most of us. Those who speak publicly and the audience begins to snicker, immediately start to regret they ever said a word for idiots to criticize.
Published: Sunday, July 20th, 2014 @ 2:48 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Vicktor Frankel's "Man's Search for Meaning" was a book I read as I majored in Psychology at Emory. He was a prisoner of the Nazis.
Published: Friday, July 11th, 2014 @ 3:20 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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As tired as I was last night, this morning could well be called a resurrection! It feels great to be alive and have a purpose other than filling a chair or bed in a nursing home!
Published: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014 @ 12:44 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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North Carolina's Civitas Institute does our state's preeminent rating of the legislature, analyzing the key bills and then looking at the voting records of each legislator on those bills as to whether they are liberal or conservative.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 8:21 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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This is rather disturbing since the US Power Grid has been called the most significant engineering accomplishment of our time!
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 10:40 am
By: John Droz, Jr.
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I think Jesus went to the boys on the fishing boat because he wanted real men with real compassion.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 1:41 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I have finally had my chance to review the same-sex attraction of the female Presbyterian minister.
Published: Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 @ 4:19 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I am now 68 and have enough life experience to comment with a degree of wisdom. After a long journey with intelligentsia, Augustine says something simple and real to me: “Almighty God, himself supremely good, would never allow anything evil to invade his works, unless he were so almighty and so good
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 8:49 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I am an advocate of getting local property tax in line with actual values for which it might sell. Right now, Realtors tell me their average sale is 70% of appraised value.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 2:57 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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We are seeing today the possibilities of management/labor cooperation in some places vs. abuse from either side against the other.
Published: Friday, June 13th, 2014 @ 1:53 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I have heard that one from the fundies who took over Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in the late 80's.
Published: Friday, June 6th, 2014 @ 2:29 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Why should my taxes be used to favor your friends and their private interests?
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 12:49 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Your letter to Lucille is interesting. She, like my sister, is suffering from "being tied up in nots" = thou shalt not do this and that! She takes great pride in the Dean's List, but was driven to perfection by our Baby Boom ideals and religion of the South.
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 9:30 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I was blessed with a wise and intelligent father who saw behind all things SBC and Southern. He went to Mercer under threat from the little ladies of Moon's Grove Baptist Church outside Athens that "they will ruin your faith!"
Published: Friday, May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:22 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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We are back home after a great High School Reunion celebrating 50 years. I actually graduated with the class of '63 by taking summer school English and taking enough units to get out just before Kennedy was killed.
Published: Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 @ 2:47 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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We are under a "Vector" which is a guidance line keeping aircraft going the same direction rather than crossing directions creating collisions.
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 8:32 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I have lived here for the last 5 years. We met as I did work at your house after Irene. Instantly I was struck with how a man leaning Democrat and a man leaning Republican could be so similar in basic philosophy and outlook.
Published: Friday, May 16th, 2014 @ 12:25 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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On occasion, we will offer two or more opinion vignettes from Gene Scarborough. These are two of them.
Published: Thursday, May 15th, 2014 @ 3:38 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Sorry we could not continue our good conversation this morning, but your article said it all, I think.
Published: Monday, May 12th, 2014 @ 2:18 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Delmar's cynicism is earned, in my view. Let me quickly tell you of another story which had a better outcome.
Published: Sunday, May 11th, 2014 @ 11:05 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I have NO PROBLEM with anything you say. I used to type up my mother's tests on that smelly alcohol duplicator stencil.
Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 6:41 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Why does Harry want to use Barney to spread hate?
Published: Tuesday, May 6th, 2014 @ 1:14 pm
By: Donald Dixon
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The 2014 election cycle has seen an unprecedented effort by out of state groups through independent expenditures to control the results of Republican primaries for Congress and the Senate in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2014 @ 4:04 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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I worked in the area of Insurance Estate Tax planning with a Series 6 Securities License as well.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 2:07 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Four years ago the State Statute required re-evaluation across NC. Our local tax office here in Beaufort County honestly told them the real estate bubble had burst and prices were going down rather than up.
Published: Sunday, April 20th, 2014 @ 12:52 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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