For some gathering time now the Beaufort County GOP has had a heck of a time getting out of its own way, and often acts as a social club rather than a principled party apparatus charged to guide elected victory toward its candidates of a Conservative pedigree.
Published: Wednesday, February 20th, 2019 @ 4:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a recent article titled "With friends like these, we don"t need enemies", I explained how the Democrats have managed to keep control of the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners when they have only two votes.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 12:07 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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The Beaufort County Commissioners must deliver a budget for Fiscal Year 2019 /2020 for the county government in their charge to govern.
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2019 @ 7:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is no secret among the truly conservative county commissioners and conservative Republicans that Democrats have held leadership positions on the Board of County Commissioners for the past 12 years.
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2019 @ 1:45 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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We've been down this road before, but something gives me pause to consider, it will different this time.
Published: Monday, December 3rd, 2018 @ 12:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County Commissioners by a vote of 5 to 2 requested Sheriff Ernie Coleman present a policy providing for a notice to be given by his department to the person(s) designated by the inmate should the inmate be admitted to the hospital.
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2018 @ 11:10 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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If you think you got a good deal or a fair deal in the revaluation of your property for taxes this year, there is a very good chance you did not.
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2018 @ 12:49 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The answer is "none." In Beaufort County, our Board of Commissioners is going to send the help to do it, with little or no oversight.
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 6:45 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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During the fast and furious fray at the July Commissioners meeting about charging the $350,000 of surprise billing for a jail inmates medical costs to last year's expenses six commissioners suddenly started accusing me of covering up stealing in the Social Services Department.
Published: Tuesday, July 17th, 2018 @ 5:20 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County sold a tax foreclosed house and lot at the April meeting for $12,285 dollars.
Published: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018 @ 11:53 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Looking cleanly and well through the prism of history, it matters not that I have voted correctly on more than 90% on the issues that are the business of this board; what does matter is that there still exists Beaufort County Commissioners that are on the other side of these votes.
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 3:28 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Our guest today is six term Beaufort County Commissioner Hood Richardson. Today's Topic is: "The New President and Fixing America's Government (the largest part health care)".
Published: Monday, June 19th, 2017 @ 10:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Belhaven Mayor Adam O'Neal drove nearly 30 miles west from his Town of Belhaven to present the news from his hamlet on Pantego Creek, and, right now, the news is not good.
Published: Friday, January 20th, 2017 @ 9:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The most important business of the people in the first meeting of a singular political /governmental year is the selection of the board's chairman. Almost always, maybe always, it sets the roles of certain commissioners to do the people's business for the balance of the year.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 2:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In the realm of the Limited Voting election scheme, which is rammed down the collective throats of all Beaufort County Citizens and taxpayers, no county commissioner candidate has ever gotten as many votes as did The Hood in this 2016 general election.
Published: Sunday, November 13th, 2016 @ 3:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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With the vote totals still coming in, and if the vote totals hold as of 10:30 pm, this election night of November 8, 2016, the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will change, maybe dramatically, maybe in a minor way.
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 10:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Even disinterested voters in this election have an unusually clear and knowledgeable definition of almost all the candidates.
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 8:51 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Coffee liqueur is a most delicious drink - especially if you love the smell and taste of good coffee.
Published: Sunday, October 23rd, 2016 @ 11:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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$300 Reward
Published: Friday, October 21st, 2016 @ 3:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Monday, July 11, 2016.
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2016 @ 8:55 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Monday, June 6, 2016.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 6:15 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Monday, May 9, 2016.
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2016 @ 3:48 am
By: Christopher Maye
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Tuesday, September 6, 2011.
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 @ 4:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There has not been a lot a talk about Belhaven not having a hospital since the first of the year.
Published: Sunday, March 13th, 2016 @ 10:10 am
By: Hood Richardson
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There is that old "HEE HAW" refrain. "If it were not for bad luck, I would have no luck at all". I have noticed the same principle applies to judgement.
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2016 @ 10:50 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Just about anything the any government does gets complicated very quickly. All government functions, from federal to state to county are complicated. The average person has great difficulty in understanding the policies, the whys and wherefores of all those people and the decisions being made...
Published: Monday, February 29th, 2016 @ 3:39 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Candidate for mayor, Adam O"Neal, suddenly realized something unusual was going to happen in the Belhaven polling place on election day.
Published: Saturday, January 23rd, 2016 @ 5:14 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Here tonight, December 7, 2015, at the general meeting of the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners, former chairman of the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners, Jerry Langley, was elected to serve as the Chairman this night, and will serve until the next December general meeting.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Thursday afternoon, just before the close of their business day, Stan Deatherage filed to retain the Beaufort County Commissioner seat that he has now held for 5 terms.
Published: Tuesday, January 5th, 2016 @ 10:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Government of Beaufort County meets every month for at least one general meeting to discuss and act on the county's business.
Published: Monday, October 5th, 2015 @ 5:58 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Two rural hospitals could be reopened under state legislation that includes the first substantive reform of North Carolina's certificate of need regulation.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 8:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Monday, Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 @ 2:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Government of Beaufort County meets every month for at least one general meeting to discuss and act on the county's business.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2015 @ 10:59 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Beaufort County Commissioners voted 5 to 2 to bequeath its public hospital to University Health Systems.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 12:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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