This just in, heat index 124 at 10:30 a.m. in Washington, NC. And now back to our regularly scheduled programming:
This year we’ve got some big problems. The black beans, blackeyed peas, and butter beans (members of the Progressive Backyard Party, also known among themselves as the frijoles negroes verdes oleos blancos) have successfully staged [...]
To Beaufort County Commissioner Stan "Weasel Word" Deatherage:
How dare you suggest the PS Jones Middle School building as a possible site for the county’s municipal office. How dare you!
Perhaps you’ve forgotten the other PS Jones school? The one YOU destroyed? The one YOU were supposed to rehabilitate? Your suggestion makes us wonder [...]
Had a GoogleFight with Washington-NC.com and won…
Well, it’s 88 degrees w/heat index at 102. update: 5:56 pm — heat index 107… So, tell me again, why do we all live here? For the pfiesteria, of course. Duh!
WDN printed a blurb about Carol Dail Finch. Not their own story, mind you… a bought one. Personally, I can’t help but wonder [...]
Okay, here I was, just about to email Jonathan re: today’s CAFTA story and tell him what a fine job he did writing that article — and an email from a friend in Raleigh arrives as I’m typing. WOW, did the Washington Daily News ever miss a BIG story. Man-oh-man. Tranter’s Creek camper accused of [...]
June 2005 – Dunn, Hamlet, Hickory, Mount Airy, Raeford, Red Springs, Rockingham, Spindale, Wadesboro, Wingate Can’t catch a bus in Hamlet no more… or Raeford…
So, tell me again why we’re giving land to the people who want to build an ethanol plant? I’m trying to understand this — Tom Thompson and the economic development folks decided we needed to build an ethanol plant in Aurora, they went out to find someone who wanted to put one there and then [...]
Apparently we hit a nerve when we criticized animal control in Beaufort County. My original thought had to do with insufficient legislation, poorly written city and county ordinances and lack of funding. I had no idea Beth Guthrie had ruffled so many feathers — in fact — I’d never heard anything negative about her until [...]
Originally posted on June 22 –
Could you please come and get the outside cats and dog at 601 E. Second St.? They wear no tags, run free all over the neighborhood, causing property damage, digging up our gardens, getting in our trash, the dog constantly barking at the cats and the cats yowl and [...]
Well… goodbye and best wishes to Rachel Brown Hackney. We truly appreciate her journalistic style. We’ll miss her editorials. Maybe she could write and let us know how them Florida folks feel about what’s going on around them.
Please, please, Mr. Futrell, hire someone with a similar take on our little world here in [...]
Local non-profit employee receives international attention.
Beaufort County Development Center employment specialist Robert MacEwan interviewed in Newsforge.
MacEwan’s career path may have veered in a different direction, but he hasn’t abandoned his first love, technology — specifically open source technology. In 2001, while attending a community college in Greenville, N.C., MacEwan and [...]
Screw the past. This is the New South.
Welcome to the Historic District. Take a seat, we’ll be with you in a moment…
#3 — here today, hopefully gone tomorrow. We missed Bret. Well, actually, that’s a lie. Bret came and went and we thought we’d wait for more storms before we posted. So here’s Three. If Three earns a name, it will be Cindy. That’s with one eye.
#4 — now leaving Gate 14. All passengers should be [...]
Why Ronald Reagan Picked Sandra Day O’Connor — And Why George W. Bush Might Want to Follow His Example
The mixed messages were sincere and strategic. With his high tolerance for paradox, Reagan believed he remained true to conservatism while playing to the center. More cynical aides did not mind some flak from the [...]