David F. Thompson, who has led the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners for the past nine years, will leave his position as Executive Director in October to take a position with the National Association of Counties (NACo).
Published: Tuesday, August 26th, 2014 @ 10:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory used the deadline for filing income tax returns to tout the historic tax reform package that he signed into law last year.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 8:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last August, the Obama administration floated the idea of a federal college rating system. The basic idea is to reward colleges that score well in the metrics of the system by allowing students who enroll in them to receive larger Pell grants. Conversely, colleges that scored poorly would only be...
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 6:04 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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At a small medical practice in the Duplin County town of Wallace, one diagnosis tends to stand out."Diabetes is rampant in eastern North Carolina," said Dr. Mott Blair of Vidant Family Practice-Wallace. "Sometimes it seems like every patient you see has diabetes."
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 9:17 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Mary Hazel Thompson Lucas, age 99, died Sunday, July 21, 2013, at Arbor Acres in Winston-Salem.
Published: Sunday, July 28th, 2013 @ 9:46 am
By: Announcements
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I just wanted to write a quick note and thank you for your help in protecting county revenues during the General Assembly's tax reform effort. You have helped us achieve one of our top goals for this Legislative session.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2013 @ 2:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Competing plans in the N.C. House and Senate feature widely different approaches to the issue of tax reform. Counties are concerned with the potential loss of county revenues in the final plan that will be adopted when House and Senate leaders confer to work out the differences.
Published: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 @ 6:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina counties could permanently lose millions of dollars in school construction funding if a proposal in the Senate's budget plan becomes law.
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 1:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Lillian Taylor Thompson, 95, a resident of 2570 Windmill Road, Chocowinity, died Monday, June 3, 2013.
Published: Friday, June 7th, 2013 @ 2:07 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Lillian Taylor Thompson, 95, a resident of 2570 Windmill Road, Chocowinity, died Monday, June 3, 2013, at her home.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 @ 3:46 pm
By: Announcements
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Announcements by potential 2016 candidates, Hillary Clinton and Rob Portman, that they now approve of gay marriage made headlines as predicted.
Published: Monday, April 8th, 2013 @ 11:36 pm
By: Alicia Colon
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It's tough enough for a small business to succeed when it faces competition in the open market. It's even tougher when government puts up roadblocks in the form of high taxes or excessive regulation.
Published: Saturday, January 12th, 2013 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Viewing the tape of the July 2, Beaufort County Commissioner's monthly meeting I thought I had been transported to another world.
Published: Thursday, July 5th, 2012 @ 3:26 pm
By: Betty Murphy
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The Beaufort County Commissioners would seem to have done it again. They sit idly by while one of their own seems to be trying to take charge of things (presumably to remake them in his own image - surely thereby enhancing his own stature).
Published: Sunday, June 17th, 2012 @ 7:59 am
By: Jim Bispo
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On June 4, 2012, you mentioned to the Beaufort County Commissioners that, earlier in the day, Mr. Tom Thompson, executive director Economic Development Commission (EDC), had failed to attend a meeting where you had expected to discuss the unfiled and overdue 2011 EDC annual report with him.
Published: Monday, June 11th, 2012 @ 4:32 pm
By: Warren Smith
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There was an interesting discussion at this month's Beaufort County Commissioners meeting on the continuing controversy over the Economic Development program in the county.
Published: Friday, June 8th, 2012 @ 2:18 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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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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The foxes seem to be massing around the hen house. According to a front page article in the 5/1 edition of the WDN, the meeting called a few days ago by the EDC chairman to announce his retirement.
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 @ 9:47 am
By: Jim Bispo
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It is just that he was so drastically different - odd in most people's estimation - that one, I believe, would need to have lived just a piece of his unique existence to understand his genius.
Published: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 @ 9:59 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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In a surprise announcement today, April 18, 2012, Tommy Thompson, Executive Director of the Beaufort Economic Development Commission and the Beaufort County Committee of 100, has resigned.
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2012 @ 2:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Monday night (3-19-12) was a very special occasion. "An evening with Tommy Thompson". In fact it was so special that he was the only one on the program.
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 @ 4:40 pm
By: Betty Murphy
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Mr. Calvin A. Thompson, 53, a resident of 1947 N.C. Highway 123 North, Hookerton, died Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Arrangement will be announced by Don Brown Funeral Home, Ayden.
Published: Monday, November 21st, 2011 @ 2:03 am
By: Announcements
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