Taxes collected from all the people should be spent only for the benefit of all of the people, not selected groups.
Published: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 8:28 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Precinct meetings: The importance of being there
Published: Friday, February 5th, 2021 @ 10:33 am
By: Hood Richardson
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As we approach the November 3rd election date, we need to consider the character of every candidate, whether Democrat or Republican.
Published: Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 @ 1:52 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County Republican primary voters will have three groups of candidates running for county commissioner to choose from this election, and they reflect the three groups that have been on the commission over the past few years.
Published: Wednesday, March 4th, 2020 @ 5:32 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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Early voting started today in Washington, Belhaven and Aurora early voting will be later this month.
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2020 @ 4:03 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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The Beaufort County Republican Executive Committee is charged with replacing former Beaufort County Commissioner Gary Brinn, R, now deceased, since the election is less than 2 years from the commissioner's death and replacement.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2019 @ 8:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Thursday October 24 at 6:30 PM the Beaufort County Republican Executive Committee will nominate the person to fill the unexpired term of Gary Brinn.
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 @ 12:31 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County Commissioner Gary Brinn passed away suddenly after a short illness on October 8, 2018.
Published: Monday, October 14th, 2019 @ 2:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. Gary Lane Brinn, age 74, a resident of Washington, NC died Tuesday October 8, 2019 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Thursday, October 10th, 2019 @ 9:28 am
By: Announcements
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Government officials living in the lap of luxury while us peons and surfs pay for it with our county taxes.
Published: Monday, September 30th, 2019 @ 1:54 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Municipal elections are next. The general election date is November 5. Early voting begins October 16 and ends November 1.
Published: Sunday, September 29th, 2019 @ 7:54 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Commissioner Stan Deatherage took issue with Vidant shutting down the Psych Ward at the Beaufort County Hospital.
Published: Sunday, September 29th, 2019 @ 3:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Those writing checks to the Beaufort County Government got the same disrespectful handling this year we got last year.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:41 am
By: Hood Richardson
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In about 1998, shortly after I was elected to the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners, several of us who watched local government closely realized the news articles, and for that matter reports from the ruling class of commissioners, did not fit with what actually happened.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 @ 7:05 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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It has been a while since i sent you an email. a lot has been going on during the month of may.
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2019 @ 4:07 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The jail is not intended to be a resort hotel or to bring aid and comfort to criminals. It is to keep dangerous people away from the public and for convicted criminals to serve up to 90 days.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2019 @ 9:47 am
By: Hood Richardson
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I have written a lot and talked a lot about unethical behavior and dishonest behavior by several members of the Board of County Commissioners. In general these guys do business in the back room.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 2:01 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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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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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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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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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: Wednesday, July 4th, 2018 @ 6:53 am
By: Hood Richardson
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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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Commissioner Gary Brinn today hand delivered a freedom of information act request to the City of Washington, NC Police Department
Published: Tuesday, October 25th, 2016 @ 7:22 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Beaufort County Commission Vice-Chairman Gary Brinn announced the following today. The North Carolina State Board of Elections has found against Derik Davis on two issues relating to his campaign for County Commissioner.
Published: Friday, October 21st, 2016 @ 3:01 am
By: Gary Brinn
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