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We here at the Observer have contended for sometime now that care should be taken by government officials before they take risks with taxpayers' money.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 8:57 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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I want to add my thanks for Bob Huets to that of Delma Blinson. Bob has done a great job in moving us one step closer to ending the disaster that the EDC has created with the industrial parks.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2013 @ 2:22 am
By: Warren Smith
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And while it is a condition of behavior over substance; it is a malady most learned rather than a disorder born.
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2013 @ 9:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last year on March 19, the then executive director of the Economic Development Commission presented his report for 2011 and his assurances for EDC's coming achievements in 2012.
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 10:29 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Larry Britt will never get answers from the Beaufort Observer that satisfy his false curiosity. Larry does not see his questioning as false because he is not principled.
Published: Sunday, December 30th, 2012 @ 11:17 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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The industrial parks have incurred capital ($6.5 million) and current ($3.5 million) costs of $330,000 per job created (30 jobs).
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2012 @ 12:46 am
By: Warren Smith
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I have made no secret of my belief that the Economic Development Commission (EDC) has been incompetent and amateurish in its approach to economic development. It would have been impossible for the EDC to have failed more miserably or over a broader range of issues.
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2012 @ 9:51 am
By: Warren Smith
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Commissioners have just sold the QSII building. It is impossible to know if they should have waited or continued ownership. W
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2012 @ 9:15 pm
By: Warren Smith
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The Beaufort County Commissioners met in closed session today to decide the future of the ill-fated Quick Start II, "shell building", resting on 6 acres in Beaufort County's Industrial Park.
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 @ 1:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Quick Start II building is now offered for sale at $1.5 million. This is $900,000 beneath its construction cost and the loss must be increased to include financing, maintenance and depreciation of the structure due to age.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 12:47 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Beaufort County Commissioners met with the Beaufort County Community College way in advance of the 2013 / 2014 budget about possible state budget cuts, but that is not the story from today's meeting.
Published: Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 @ 1:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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What is actually sane about this report? What do you find acceptable about a one sided public relations piece being submitted, 75 days late and only after a threatened suspension of pay, in place of documented tool for management review and oversight?
Published: Sunday, June 10th, 2012 @ 9:37 pm
By: Warren Smith
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We address the much belated Beaufort County EDC report, now finally submitted, through contributor Warren Smith's correspondence to Beaufort County Commissioner Al Klemm.
Published: Saturday, June 9th, 2012 @ 6:26 pm
By: Warren Smith
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On May 7, 2012 the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners began to clean up the mess which local economic development had become during the last decade of unsupervised cronyism.
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2012 @ 9:19 am
By: Warren Smith
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Critical thinking is not one of the finer points of being a County Commissioner. Take the blue goose also known by the Economic Development Council as Quick Start II.
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 @ 7:16 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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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, April 2, 2012
Published: Friday, March 30th, 2012 @ 1:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Economic Development Commission's activities can be sorted into two separate periods, the period between 2001 and 2005 and the period between 2005 and the present.
Published: Friday, March 23rd, 2012 @ 1:46 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Guess what. It's time to put our next county budget together. Boy!! Time really seems to fly when you're having fun...
Published: Sunday, March 18th, 2012 @ 5:44 am
By: Jim Bispo
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The Economic Development Commission's By-Laws of July 3, 2001 require convening an annual meeting in March. At this meeting there is to be a formal presentation of an annual report. Was such a meeting held in 2011? Are these meeting not covered by the Open Meeting Laws?
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2012 @ 7:54 pm
By: Warren Smith
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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, March 12, 2012
Published: Thursday, March 8th, 2012 @ 11:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is rumored that the property initially earmarked for the incentive land grant to P&G/A&E Manufacturing has not qualified for the state funded sewer grant necessary to improve the property for the construction of A&E's 50,000 sq. ft. building.
Published: Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 @ 4:36 am
By: Warren Smith
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The I-95 corridor is no stranger to the disastrous mistakes of economic developers.
Published: Sunday, March 4th, 2012 @ 6:56 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Add to that a little over five thousand more for an engineering firm to evaluate the maintenance required on this facility that is designed to bring unending prosperity to the area and we are looking at a little over $20,000 of what some folks would call "wasted money".
Published: Thursday, February 16th, 2012 @ 7:50 am
By: Jim Bispo
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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, February 6, 2012
Published: Saturday, February 4th, 2012 @ 11:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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