A backroom deal will result in a multi-million dollar boondoggle
Published: Monday, May 13th, 2024 @ 6:16 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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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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On Wednesday, leftist Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe celebrated President Biden’s plan to cancel student loan debt, catalyzing an avalanche of harsh criticism on social media.
Published: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022 @ 4:10 pm
By: Daily Wire
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If we cannot elect whomever we choose, our Constitution, our freedom, and our country are kaput. It will be time to agree to live as surfs of the authoritarian government or mount a second American Revolutionary War. I don't find either of these options appealing, do you?
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 11:56 pm
By: Raynor James
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We know our Students are Years Behind in their education. Students' performance is well below average proficiency scores.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 3:08 am
By: Gary Carlton
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It began as extra weird, grotesquely so, and in this time of a 21st century in American Politics, where the "Free Press" is the grandest running joke mill; a relative repugnant nightmare for this nation, which often appears, of late, to have lost its collective soul of who we are.
Published: Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 @ 1:28 pm
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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First, I want to thank Commissioner Hood Richardson for bringing Sheriff Coleman's out of control spending and abuse of the overtime budget line item to my attention.
Published: Friday, December 24th, 2021 @ 1:48 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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Imposter President Joseph R. Biden, a Fool still with the fulsome allegiance of the Democratic Socialist Propagandist Media, just will not be honest with the American People, or himself for that matter.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 12:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC encourages you to contact your House Members(s) today to ask them to support an amendment to House Bill 729 Charter School Omnibus to eliminate a provision that would give counties authority to provide capital appropriations to charter schools.
Published: Wednesday, May 12th, 2021 @ 9:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I was nominated to be a member of the Jail Committee to study the current Beaufort County Detention Center.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2020 @ 12:51 pm
By: Ray Leary
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The Budget Passed Like a Ghost Ship in the Night
Published: Wednesday, July 15th, 2020 @ 9:58 am
By: Hood Richardson
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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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Have you ever heard someone say "Should Government be doing this?"
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 @ 7:21 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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One of the terms that frequently comes up at Beaufort County Commissioners meetings is "micro manage". It is used by the five "Demopublicans".
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2019 @ 4:50 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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For those of us who are normal and have commonsense this" repair" project should cost no more than $200,000.
Published: Saturday, July 13th, 2019 @ 9:01 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Is 'three times in a row a charm' in the tax raising business here in Beaufort County? Nonetheless, its government's majority believes that yet another tax raise in three consecutive years suits its citizens just fine; so charmed we must be.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 4:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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This government disaster is not costing what the all knowing, all seeing, Beaufort County master manipulators thought.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 11:20 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County Commissioners, at their April 1, 2019 meeting voted not to appoint a committee to look into controlling inmate medical costs.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 3:53 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Sorry Carl, but the Folwell Resolution will not happen in Beaufort County, and will not be even heard.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 12:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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During late September of last year I wrote an article complaining about a $346,000 medical bill for one prisoner held by Beaufort County.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2019 @ 11:58 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The fiscal year that ended on June 30. 2018 audit was presented. Like all other government audits it reported a glowing success for the commissioners and staff.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2019 @ 2:57 am
By: Hood Richardson
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