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In John 3:19 we read: "...people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil."
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Time was, although no longer true, that most children knew the moral of the fairy tale of Chicken Little and the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Not so with the Reverend Dr. William Barber, president of the N. C. NAACP.
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Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC) is taking aim at Sen. Kay Hagan for here tepid support of the Second Amendment.
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We have been hearing that Governor Pat McCrory, Speaker Thom Tillis and maybe some others are backing down from the idea of requiring a photo ID in order to vote in North Carolina.
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This article ranks among the most important we have ever posted on the Beaufort Observer. We urge you to not only read it in its entirety but to reflect upon what it presents.
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Concord legislator Sen. Fletcher Hartsell's campaign finance records show that he paid thousands to dollars from campaign funds to personal credit cards.
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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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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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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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Our system of government, from the local to the state to the national levels, is a republic.
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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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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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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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At the October 16, 2012 Candidate's Forum, Jay McRoy unwittingly let his true attitude about the county's budget process show through his façade of "conservatism."
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We think Mr. Langley raised an important--indeed an absolutely vital--issue that we should address in Beaufort County. He contended that "when we cut taxes we cut services."
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The Washington Daily News and the Washington/Beaufort County Chamber of Commerce sponsored a Candidates' Forum Tuesday night at Beaufort County Community College.
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Early voting for the November 6 election begins October 18. We are posting our candidate picks for those who have requested that we do so and for anyone interested.
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Let's just get to the point: Gary Brinn is ignorant . He is not stupid, but he is very ignorant when it comes to county business and specifically the county commissioner electoral system. For that reason he should not be elected County Commissioner.
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In most jurisdictions in this nation it is a serious crime, typically a felony, for a public official to swap his vote in return for something that benefits him/her
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