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Latest Comment(s) by Wanda Gail Keith (view all)
Commented On Once again: WHERE WAS DON COX?
Wow! Don Cox had the "nerve" to call someone lazy? He is one of the laziest men I have ever seen. He stays on facebook the majority of the day trying to get some recognition and praise for himself through his constant food post,etc.
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Mar 5th, 2020 @ 4:03 pm |
Don Cox is one of the most negative individuals I have ever encountered. He is an egotistical, know-it-all, but he doesn't know much at all in reality.
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Mar 5th, 2020 @ 3:59 pm |
Commented On Candidate Don Cox's 'Granddaddy' Got it All Wrong
Well said Stan.
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Commented On An open response to Larry Britt on Al Klemm's betrayal of conservative government in Beaufort County
What a wonderful opportunity Mr. Britt has opened up to readdress Al as the self serving boob he is.
Instead of lying low and letting the dust settle, Britt has put the target right back on Al. For the next two years Al should be objective #1....If Jay reruns in 2014 then Jay and Al will be fighting for the Britt wing votes of the RINO party...while Ed Booth sweeps the Democrats and Stan works the right and middle. Long story short, Al has no friends and even his old allies, i.e., Jay and Britt are now rivals. |
Dec 6th, 2012 @ 2:13 pm |
Cost of Doing Business in Beaufort County is Electrifying
June 19, 2012 | 08:39 AM With respect to discussions on the city council about utility rates versus customer usage: the electric rate is overwhelmingly important. The point of generating electricity is to make the product affordable to consumers for a wide and growing number of uses. Lower rates encourage new commercial and residential users and greater economic development in the community being served. The single best indicator of economic well being in a modern community is strong and rising use of electricity. Electricity rates are the "elephant in the room" concerning economic development in Beaufort County. Businesses are acutely aware of all manufacturing costs. They are already actively involved in restricting needless uses of electricity at their facilities. Plant managers, manufacturing process designers, selection of efficient machines and motors which are scaled to their best need all contribute to best use of only essential KWH useage. However, various manufacturing processes do have their own most efficient and particular basic KWH requirements and that cost is controlled only by the utility rate. Our rates are an all prevailing hurdle to our local economy. New business is deterred from locating here. Old businesses are at a disadvantage to competitors being served by lower rate utilities. Residential customers need to direct dollars to utility bills which could go to home repairs. This results in a depreciating housing stock. The distortions to the local economy are all intrusive and pervasive. No amount of EDC scheming or industrial park nonsense can overcome the burden of utility rates. What new development does come to Beaufort County seeks out areas served by alternate power providers. While it is a service to customers to educate users as to "smart use" strategies, it is not the government or the generating company's place to discourage usage. Discouragement of usage leads to two problems: 1) As utility usage falls the limited KWH hours generated and sold become less able to spread the fixed costs of plant and equipment across a broad sales revenue base. This causes the portion of fixed costs allocated per KWH to rise, this in turn requires moth balling plant and equipment or increasing rates. ..........this is a death spiral for business and for customers. 2) The logical progression for reduced customer usage through recommended thermostat settings, etc., is for the regulators to move into mandated temperature settings and then onto rationing. Regulation by central authorities replaces business and personal decision making ..........this is the death spiral of the business environment. |
Jun 19th, 2012 @ 12:53 pm |
I just watched the city council addressed by Jim Chesnutt and Dot Mote. It is hysterical. Do these folks even believe this stuff themselves?
Mr. Jennings has rightly pointed out that planning needs a great deal more work than anecdotal meanderings about random data. It is more of the same unsupported and imaginary correlations masquerading as "market studies and evidence" which led the EDC and C100 to propose industrial parks and Quick Start buildings. Notice that neither speaker made any reference to either project....better forgotten and avoided as embarrassing failures...$6,500,000 simply ignored and abandoned. Just what is it that Mr. Thompson has laid as ground work for our future? Empty real estate? Debt? Higher taxes? $500,000 in clawbacks on grant guarantees? After 10 years of sending $1,500,000 to salaries in Craven County, $6,500,000 to empty industrial parks and $4,000,000 to Committee of 100 favorites, the self-appointed leadership of economic development feels that Beaufort County and the City of Washington need a plan! As to the regrettable "negativity"...what is more negative than selling of assets and reducing business exposure in a community? National Spinning is actually divesting themselves of assets and financial exposure in Beaufort County, yet these same folks want taxpayers to accept the Committee of 100's "vision" for our future. Mr. Thompson refused to even live here. ARE THEY SERIOUS? You cannot make this stuff up. |
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Latest Comment(s) by Nancy Murdoch (view all)
The problem as I see it is fear. Right now the fear factor is in the back seat. However, when fall and flu season returns, the media will amp up the fear propaganda, and the return of masks, social distancing, and lock downs. We can hope that people will rebel, but it's not likely judging by past reactions. Plus the unjabbed will probably be blamed for every case of the sniffles. Boosters may be involved for all the 'variants'. Sadly, most people lack fundamental scientific understanding, and buy into the propaganda.
Good luck getting a member of the cult to even listen to information that doesn't follow the rules of the cult. It's the new accepted religion. |
Jul 5th, 2021 @ 10:09 pm |
Commented On Why do we give up our privacy so easily?
Just because you are a honest person, you should never think others are honest, especially if money is involved. In today's world, data is money.
Sadly, its almost impossible to opt out of the surveillance world short of moving to a desert island, and that probably doesn't work either. |
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Commented On D Day...June 6, 1944
Few are left that even remember D-Day. I'm beginning to think it wasn't worth the sacrifice. Americans have let fear rule their lives, and courage is as rare as chicken teeth.
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Latest Comment(s) by Wes Sumner (view all)
Commented On Resolution To Ensure Election Integrity
I just sent a message to Diane, thanking her for this excellent article. I wish every citizen would read this and put it into the public discourse. And thanks to you, Stan, for making her excellent blogs so available. This is the kind of election reform we need, that the false kind sent by the Progressives/Liberals.
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Commented On A Proposed State Sovereignty Resolution (“A Re-Declaration of Independence”) for North Carolina
As usual, a very good analysis of an issue that seems to have gone by the wayside with our current progressive government. I commend Diane for her insightful work, which needs to be read by every North Carolinian. And, thank you, BCN, for publishing it
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Commented On Dueling Hits - Kris Kristofferson Then and beyond
Good job! Sorry, I love that gravelly voice and his songwriting is heartfelt.
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Commented On Washington, N.C., Deserves Better Than This
I despise what is woke. It makes me real mad that they breath the same air as me and mine.
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Apr 9th, 2026 @ 7:26 am |
When I hear about how these RINOs are ruining my county and my country, it makes me real mad.
Me and my buds will vote big in the November for the real Republicans. |
Mar 5th, 2026 @ 10:54 am |
I am just now finding out about all these "RINOs" in Beaufort County politics, and what I hear about about them "RINOs" makes me real mad. I reckon them "RINOs" better steer clear of me when I get mad like this.
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