Several years ago the county was refused USDA financing for a justice center at the Minute Man site because the project's sponsors could not demonstrate sufficient community support for the proposal.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 7:29 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Earlier last year you began acting on a proposal to fund a new jail at the Washington Industrial Park.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 @ 5:28 pm
By: Warren Smith
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At the recent candidates forum for the Washington City Council one of the questions posed to the candidates was related to how the city and county could cooperate better.
Published: Wednesday, October 30th, 2013 @ 9:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Rural Center is getting the axe. The waste, incompetence and tangled interests that your inane economic development schemes have forced on this county have likely lost their inspiration.
Published: Friday, July 19th, 2013 @ 10:12 am
By: Warren Smith
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If the old owners of the Weir plant and the new prospective buyers of that building were not in perfect agreement on the price at which the property should change hands, then it was their task, as private profit seeking parties, to negotiate until the difference could be reconciled.
Published: Friday, July 5th, 2013 @ 5:28 am
By: Warren Smith
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Comparing the jail to a dungeon is a gross exaggeration. Our jail meets the standards for a jail. It has only been condemned in the dark cold corners of a few of our heavy thinkers.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 5:05 am
By: Hood Richardson
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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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After handing over half a million dollars in the last five years or so (ending June 2011), with the understanding that it was seed money and there would be no further public funding (and, as I understood it, no further forgiveness of tax bills) by Washington.
Published: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 @ 5:13 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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What store?? The Beaufort County store. You know, the store run by our County Commissioners. It sure doesn't seem to be the Commissioners. Well, at least five of 'em.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 4:50 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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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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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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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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Much of the distrust of the Economic Development Commission is due to its lack of candor, lack of responsiveness and lack accountability.
Published: Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 @ 7:19 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Meanwhile, the EDC is a tax payer financed commission competing in land sales with its tax paying neighbors, and vainly trying to rent space in competition with other landlords while neglecting to write a single grant for three and one half years.
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2011 @ 10:37 am
By: Warren Smith
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The Economic Development Commission's budget and the Industrial Parks have combined to remove $8,494,000 from the available cash balances of Beaufort County government since 2002.
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 @ 9:58 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Another "Dear Commissioner" letter from Warren Smith is worth publishing again.
Published: Friday, May 27th, 2011 @ 9:47 am
By: Warren Smith
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