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Beaufort County Commissioner Hood Richardson has long objected to the manner in which the Center-Left Coalition, and their associative bureaucrats conduct business, and, in that vein of purpose, the Commissioner is requesting an opinion regarding the familial status of married members governing.
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2025 @ 1:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Just yesterday, I was contacted by a real Republican who was very much concerned about the state of local Republican politics here in Beaufort County.
Published: Friday, September 16th, 2022 @ 4:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Instead of welcoming new Republicans to Beaufort County, he chooses to insult people, calling them RINOs and Liberals, questioning their conservatism.
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2022 @ 4:56 pm
By: Donna R Henderson
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BCN's "What's Happening NOW" is thrilled, once again, to meet with Beaufort County Commissioner Hood Richardson and discuss, with BCN publisher and County Commissioner Stan Deatherage, the business of Beaufort County's government.
Published: Sunday, January 16th, 2022 @ 3:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On November 12, 2020 at 6:30 pm, the Republican County Commissioners and County Commissioner-Elect Randy Walker, R, met as a caucus within the former county commissioner chambers at 121 West Third Street, Washington, North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 1:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commissioner Hood Richardson valiantly pitched the argument that Beaufort County should through off the shackles and chains of an Authoritarian governor and reopen its businesses that are arbitrarily deemed nonessential.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 11:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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So, the Sheriff is a participating member of this august body of law enforcement professionals that demand accountability from all Deputies. Yet, he does not demand the same from himself.
Published: Friday, December 24th, 2021 @ 2:03 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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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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When we are in the heat of political battle many of us may have difficulty in identifying the enemy.
Published: Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 @ 10:04 am
By: Hood Richardson
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I regret to inform you that I will not be in attendance at the meeting this evening.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 8:58 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The handling of the so called Corona Virus Pandemic to date is an example of extreme bad judgment in generating estimates of future contagious conditions, the severity of the virus and has trashed the Constitution of the United States.
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2020 @ 8:12 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County has a hole in it budget bucket. It is leaking money. But, the water level never goes down.
Published: Tuesday, April 7th, 2020 @ 6:46 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Among the medium to small populated counties in North Carolina, Beaufort County is blessed to have a huge, valuable, unique and un movable asset.
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 @ 7:55 am
By: Hood Richardson
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We have met our first goal in fund raising. You have donated $2,000. Now I am donating $1,000. We have $3,000. We are on the way to $5,000.
Published: Friday, January 24th, 2020 @ 10:16 am
By: Hood Richardson
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We are within $250 of meeting my challenge. Have you made your contribution to the 2020 Primary election campaign fund. We use this money to support our conservative commissioner candidates.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 @ 9:28 am
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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A bill is now in the North Carolina Senate Rules Committee to provide a method to change the way Beaufort County elects commissioners.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 8:49 am
By: Hood Richardson
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It was a small decision compared to Beaufort County's spending on the on the order of 69 million dollars per year.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 10:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Red flags always mean, caution, we need to be careful in our decision making . For example, another red flag appears when something seems too good to be true, like maybe a free lunch.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 4:20 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The giving away of America's assets: free education; free health care; access to the wealth fare system using anchor babies," etc. is what I have termed, here in Beaufort County, the promised protractive nuisance for Illegals to come in greater abundance.
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2019 @ 8:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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We are all puzzled by events from time to time and sometimes we never really understand what is going on around us.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2019 @ 7:20 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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Too many politicians want to make decisions based on what they think you need. Truth is I do not need very much, what about you?
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 9:36 am
By: Hood Richardson
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During the February Beaufort County Commissioners meeting the County manager, Brian Alligood, took issue with those of us who think continuation budgets are bad things, maybe even evil.
Published: Thursday, March 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Those who want to build a new Beaufort County jail are back. They are the same kind of scheme that cost Beaufort County taxpayers over 40 million dollars in new schools about ten years ago.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2019 @ 1:05 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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In a recent article titled "With friends like these, we don"t need enemies", I explained how the Democrats have managed to keep control of the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners when they have only two votes.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 12:07 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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It is no secret among the truly conservative county commissioners and conservative Republicans that Democrats have held leadership positions on the Board of County Commissioners for the past 12 years.
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2019 @ 1:45 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County Commissioners by a vote of 5 to 2 requested Sheriff Ernie Coleman present a policy providing for a notice to be given by his department to the person(s) designated by the inmate should the inmate be admitted to the hospital.
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2018 @ 11:10 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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If you think you got a good deal or a fair deal in the revaluation of your property for taxes this year, there is a very good chance you did not.
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2018 @ 12:49 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The answer is "none." In Beaufort County, our Board of Commissioners is going to send the help to do it, with little or no oversight.
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 6:45 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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During the fast and furious fray at the July Commissioners meeting about charging the $350,000 of surprise billing for a jail inmates medical costs to last year's expenses six commissioners suddenly started accusing me of covering up stealing in the Social Services Department.
Published: Tuesday, July 17th, 2018 @ 5:20 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County sold a tax foreclosed house and lot at the April meeting for $12,285 dollars.
Published: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018 @ 11:53 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Our guest today is six term Beaufort County Commissioner Hood Richardson. Today's Topic is: "The New President and Fixing America's Government (the largest part health care)".
Published: Monday, June 19th, 2017 @ 10:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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