Archives: July2006

  • Swell website we’d like to recommend…

    Quick — What do the sidewalk on E. Main St. and the surface of the sun have in common? Easy. You can fry eggs on either one of them.
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    Today we’d like to recommend a superior website. It’s the Public Conversations Project. The Beaufort County Board of Education and the Beaufort County Commissioners would be well [...]

  • Our Favorite Legislator — G K Butterfield

    Representative G. K. Butterfield gets the Endless Chain Pig Club "Best of the State" Award for July 2006. What a man. 1. Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 — PASSEDThe 1965 law instituted a nationwide prohibition against voting discrimination based on race, eliminated [...]

  • Migrant and Seasonal Worker Protection Act

     
    The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA) provides employment-related protections to migrant and seasonal agricultural workers and is administered and enforced by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employment Standards Administration.
    Every non-exempt farm labor contractor, agricultural employer, and agricultural association must:

    Disclose the terms and conditions of [...]

  • The Reverend David Moore speaks out…

    Barbara Barrett wrote a fascinating article which is featured on the front page of the the News and Observer today. It must be killing Stan Deatherage, known for his flowery, overblown rhetoric, to see his words reduced to such paltry verbage.  
    A few choice quotes from the article:
    But Beaufort also has one of [...]

  • you’re welcome…

     
    Write your senator, it makes a difference:
    Please be assured that your views and concerns will be given seriousconsideration. It is Senator Basnight’s sincere desire to serve thepeople of our great State to the best of his ability, and to do so, hemust be kept informed. You have contributed greatly in that regard andwe do appreciate [...]