Those writing checks to the Beaufort County Government got the same disrespectful handling this year we got last year.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:41 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners will meet for a Planning Retreat on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 and Thursday, January 31, 2019 starting at 9:00 AM both days. The Planning Retreat will be held at the Cooperative Extension Building located at 155 Airport Road, Washington, NC, 27889.
Published: Wednesday, January 30th, 2019 @ 5:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners has managed recently to eclipse a long list of bad decisions.
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2018 @ 8:24 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will hold a special called meeting On June 1, 2017 at 5:00 PM to adopt a resolution providing for the issuance of a not to exceed $3,750,000 General Obligation Refunding School Bond
Published: Thursday, June 1st, 2017 @ 8:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to conduct their December general meeting. Beaufort County NOW will begin again to follow the meetings, report and analyze ... gently ... the known business of Beaufort County to our readers.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2016 @ 8:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Shortly after Commissioner Richardson's bold mover to make Democrat Jerry Langley chairman of the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners, he discussed three agenda items; all topical, two most important, one very important ... at least for this writer.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 6:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Please see the attached resolution of the regular monthly board meeting updated time.
Published: Friday, August 14th, 2015 @ 3:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Whether this immutable fact threatens your delicate sensitivities or not, Commissioner Richardson is far often than not on the right side of every issue he challenges, and in a fairly wide manner.
Published: Monday, May 18th, 2015 @ 5:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Wake County voters swept out all four Republicans on the seven-member Board of County Commissioners in Tuesday's election, but that result is not as stunning as it is a portrait of what may be increasingly predictable in a divided state, a top political observer says.
Published: Friday, November 7th, 2014 @ 9:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From time to time it is most important to be resolved on integral forces affecting our people, as Beaufort County's governing body, to speak as one voice to our representatives from North Carolina that serve in our nation's capitol.
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2013 @ 12:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Three strikes and you're out. That's been the rule of thumb in the game of baseball. It's been the law in a lot of states' judicial systems.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2013 @ 9:28 am
By: Brant Clifton
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After the General Assembly earlier this year failed to enact legislation that would shift control of school building construction and ownership from the school district to the county commission, the Wake County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 Monday along partisan lines to approve an interlocal agr
Published: Sunday, November 24th, 2013 @ 12:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An open response to Larry Britt on Al Klemm's betrayal of conservative government in Beaufort CountyRather, we are reporting what we view to be a major story...that Al Klemm continues to betray the people in Beaufort County who believe in Republican principles. We believe we have a duty to expose Klemm's betrayal of those principles.
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners voted four to three retain Jerry Langley as chairman of the board.
Published: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 @ 11:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The chairmanship will be selected tonight, and it will set the political tone for this board for some time hence.
Published: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 @ 12:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There is nothing to economically develop at the county level in so far as new industry. That reality applies to every county in the United States.
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 @ 10:10 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Hood reports his knowledge of what county business transpired during the August 6, 2012 general meeting.
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 @ 2:23 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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The disasters of the Economic Development Council spending spree, the loss of the hospital, the millions lost in the school bond over run, the over building of the school system, and the building of the US 17 bypass also known are serious events in the history of Beaufort C
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 @ 6:58 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Wake County's decision not to put a half-cent sales tax referendum on the Nov. 6 general election ballot "is troubling" to Durham County officials, and will affect how they move forward with a tri-county regional transit plan featuring a mixture of light rail and expanded bus service.
Published: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 @ 1:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some three dozen people delivered impassioned pleas Monday afternoon to the Wake County Board of Commissioners, urging them to place a half-cent sales tax on the November ballot.
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 @ 8:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lately, big news revolves around the Economic Development Council also called the EDC and the Committee of 100.
Published: Friday, May 18th, 2012 @ 2:38 am
By: Hood Richardson
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During the last few months the City of Washington has sponsored and applied for several grants, none of which will require any funding to be provided by local taxpayers.
Published: Monday, May 14th, 2012 @ 8:43 am
By: Warren Smith
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I downloaded the 2013 County budget (all 168 pages) and have been through every page in it. I worked my way through it one page at a time to get a "fix" on what's in it.
Published: Sunday, May 13th, 2012 @ 8:43 am
By: Jim Bispo
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