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DId you vote for any of these politicians that so easily wasted $500,000.00 of the public's money in this incredibly nonchalant manner?
Published: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 @ 5:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As part of President Joe Biden's aggressive push to fight consumer junk fees, Democrat lawmakers have announced plans to raise taxes on consumers.
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 12:08 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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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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North Carolina continues under the Authoritarian yoke of an Emergency Powers executive governing stance as Authoritarian Cooper refuses to rescind his extra authority of Emergency Powers even though his own government's bureaucrats admits that the Covid threat is in a diminishing state.
Published: Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 @ 11:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Democratic Socialist place holder president, Joe Biden, visited a mostly far Left composite of this nation's county commissioners and spoke deeply to their Democratic Socialist hearts.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 11:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County's Budgeting process begins with the Great and Annual Beaufort County Commissioner Retreat, where the Commissioners are told and shown and tasked to acknowledge just how much of the public's money is necessary to keep their government afloat.
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 12:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Commissioners will get another bite at the patriotic apple, a fruit they far too often hold in great disdain, to pass this necessary resolution.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 8:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As a Commissioner for over 20 years now, I am finding that my junior commissioners really do not take their jobs at all seriously.
Published: Sunday, January 16th, 2022 @ 8:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County Commissioners Meet in a Special Called Meeting to Decide the Tax Rate for 2020 /2021On Monday June, 8, 2020, Beaufort County's Commissioners met to finish the 2020 /2021 budget; make no cuts with a hastily constructed economic recession raging, and retained the .635 per 100 dollars evaluation as the ad valorem tax rate for Beaufort County tax payers.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 12:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Monday, June 15, 2020, Beaufort County's commissioners were called into action to approve negotiations between the Beaufort County Sheriff and Pitt County Sheriff on relocating inmates to Pitt County, where the rates negotiated were 66% to double what were being paid 18 months earlier.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 9:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Our elected officials have a duty to manage our money effectively and efficiently.
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 @ 8:51 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Commissioner Jerry Langley formally initiated the conversation among the Beaufort County Commissioners that a new jail or "Public Safety Complex" (vernacular for Progressives) should be considered and built.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 3:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Why are the County Commissioners of Beaufort County not spraying for Mosquitoes - worst I ever seen - this year after raising taxes 16% in the last two years?
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018 @ 11:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The McCrory campaign's newest radio ad, "Downfall," shines a spotlight on Roy Cooper's lack of transparency in his 16 years as attorney general, tying him to Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 5:08 am
By: McCrory Communications
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NCGOP Chairman Hasan Harnett today sent a letter to Attorney General Roy Cooper demanding he complies with the state public records law and begin releasing documents requested by the North Carolina Republican Party regarding his 14-year record as attorney general.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 10:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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While most Beaufort County voters are concerned about the way the new 20 million dollar jail experience has unfolded, I am not sure they know what the plan is.
Published: Saturday, March 8th, 2014 @ 8:37 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County Commissioners have voted, 4 (Democrats: Jerry Langley, Ed Booth, Robert Belcher, RINO Al Klemm) to 2 (Republicans: Hood Richardson, Stan Deatherage) against a resolution, written by Stan Deatherage, 'In Support of the Democratic Concept of Referendums'.
Published: Saturday, November 9th, 2013 @ 1:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Seems some of our elected officials do not know about political manners or maybe plain common sense ethics.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2013 @ 11:53 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County Commissioner Stan Deatherage will present a resolution to the Beaufort County Commissioners for passage to signify their willingness to provide their citizenry the opportunity to directly participate in the democratic process on certain issues.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2013 @ 11:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Where will you be when they turn off the lights in the United States economy?
Published: Thursday, April 11th, 2013 @ 11:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There was once a time in America when the exploits of NASA was a national ambition - Democrat, Republican - it did not matter.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 @ 3:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Before we become too excited, let's step back in time and reflect what the Congress was like when Nancy Pelosi was speaker of the Democratic controlled House.
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2012 @ 9:51 pm
By: Marvin Sparks
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Obama's EPA is preparing to shut down more than 200 coal-fired generators. What does that mean in terms of the big picture? An independent group is arguing that it means higher electric bills for Candidate Hussein Obama's favorite demographic -- the working poor and middle class.
Published: Friday, September 28th, 2012 @ 5:41 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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And while this is my byline, and while all of words expressed below may have well been mine - they are not - most are from citizen Warren Smith.
Published: Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 @ 6:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Economic Development, or the lack thereof in Beaufort County, is a major issue.
Published: Monday, June 18th, 2012 @ 9:53 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, June 4, 2012
Published: Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 @ 10:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Okay, we've established that no one wants to pay higher taxes for anything - on income; for goods or services; on capital gains; on estates; and most especially for motor fuel.
Published: Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 @ 8:02 am
By: Marc Finlayson
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President Barack Obama's ongoing "soak the rich because they are evil campaign" is finally spawning a cop-cat movement, which was always his intended purpose.
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2011 @ 10:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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From now until the end of the year (and probably longer than that) we are going to be hearing more than we ever wanted to about budgeting, continuing resolutions, appropriations, and most disconcerting of all, the political mathematics used in getting from one to the other.
Published: Thursday, September 29th, 2011 @ 1:52 am
By: Jim Bispo
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I have come across a copy of an e mail which appears to have been sent to the members of the EDC and Committee of 100. It is dated June 17, 2011 and represents itself to be a prep sheet sent on the authority of the Executive Director of the EDC and the Chairwoman of the EDC to rehearse supporters.
Published: Friday, July 22nd, 2011 @ 4:25 pm
By: Warren Smith
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That's right: Hood's comments will stay up on BCN's front-page until the Senator responds in an article of his own choosing.
Published: Monday, October 25th, 2010 @ 9:57 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Is this the year that we take back our government, or is it the year that we continue to bow to the special interests in Beaufort County?
Published: Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 @ 11:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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