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Pay no attention to the tax rate. The issue is how much more are they going to spend.
Published: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 @ 5:52 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Case could have significant impact on money-in-politics law.
Published: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 1:21 pm
By: Daily Wire
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As a Fiscal Conservative, I have always made it my goal, as a county commissioner, to hold spending down to keep our taxes low.
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2022 @ 7:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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remarks at recent "Meet and Greet" session
Published: Friday, April 8th, 2022 @ 4:33 pm
By: John Steed
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On major issues, such as local governing transparency among many others, "bipartisan" "Republicans" Frankie Waters and John Rebholz join the Democratic Socialists.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 12:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Each governing year, the Beaufort County Commissioners pick a chairman and vice chairman, and almost every year since December, 2004, the nominal Republicans have conspired with the Democrats to pick both positions in the center of the dais.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 9:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This was the week of the Democratic (Socialist) National Convention, and I discovered a robust similarity between the Democratic Socialists who are deemed to be their stars, their leaders and the majority of the Beaufort County Commissioners: They do not fully endorse law and order.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 10:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last night, at Beaufort County's General Meeting for October, a majority of Beaufort County Commissioners saw fit to snatch away Commissioner Hood Richardson's constitutional right to his political speech to further their Authoritarian agenda.
Published: Thursday, October 30th, 2014 @ 12:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Beaufort County Commissioners request that the United States Congress pass a budget after 4 years of their constitutional neglect.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 2:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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For elected Beaufort County Democrats: Not so much.
Published: Sunday, January 20th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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For the first time since records have been kept by the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners -- and possibly for the first time since the 19th century -- Republicans hold a majority of seats on county commissions in the Tar Heel State.
Published: Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 @ 2:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The majority of the Beaufort County Commissioners have indicated they will raise taxes and borrow the money to build a new jail.
Published: Friday, May 4th, 2012 @ 7:52 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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We are hearing about those awful Republicans who are trying to impose tolls on ferries, including the one at Bayview in Beaufort County.
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2012 @ 11:38 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County Commissioners have many duties, but the most important responsibility that is theirs to reconcile is the setting of an ad valorem (property) tax rate.
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2011 @ 2:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As someone who lives and dies by the strength of his opinion, on a variety of platforms, I am always intrigued by those who treat their opinions as something of an entity that is in constant transition.
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2011 @ 9:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners met at the the Community College from 5:00 pm to 12:21 am to decide the budget of Beaufort County's Government.
Published: Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 @ 1:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Deatherage's motion failed, with only him and Commissioner Hood Richardson voting in its favor; and Commissioners Jay McRoy, Al Klemm, Robert Cayton, Ed Booth and Jerry Langley voting against.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 @ 10:54 am
By: BCN
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Governor Beverly Perdue explains to Beaufort County citizens that she would rather remain noncommittal on the effects of illegal immigration.
Published: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 @ 11:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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