still working on updates — partial list of people to thank: Ultimate Tag Warrior and Christine Davis, Derek Punsalan. Just started loading and re-loading the old MySQL, hang in there. that theme isn’t used right now…
I’m using Neon. links and shit in a bit.
–theothermac
NC state senate says phooey to passing a law protecting our property. Read it and weep. It’s okay to take people’s land for economic development. I’m so mad I could scream.
Mad at our City Council for even suggesting that two property owners join in to develop the Evans Seafood property. If the Mayor in [...]
Introduced in January 2007, ya’ll need to let the two people you voted for (not me) about supporting, co-sponsoring, working hard for passage… voting yay, voting hell yes, voting get off my property fool…
Civics lesson: Most bills don’t make it out of committee. This bill is — in committee. Write Mrs. Dole and Mr. Whatshisnamedufus [...]
City Council, Washington, NC could threaten land owners with Kelo v. New London ruling and condemn waterfront property in a grab fest for field of dreams.
Oh shit! There is no way to NOT respond to the City Council’s feasibility study idea.
Of course it’s feasible to sell all the waterfront property in downtown Washington. Of course it’s feasible to coerce all the land owners into selling their property and then combining the land all in one nice lump sum [...]
My neighbor Tex Fuller made a great video (narrated by Clyde Edgerton!) on the NO OLF Fight.
"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy."
–Benjamin Disraeli, 1845
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"Sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."–Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
Yes, it is true. The soul of Father Coughlin has invaded both Hood Richardson’s and Stan Deatherage’s bodies. It left Lou Dobbs behind — sputtering in his isolationist, xenophobic diatribes. Be wary of the evil within men.
–vmac
The whole argument for implementing an English-only requirement is repugnant. Supporters of this Us Against Them revolting mentality, the Lou Dobbsian crowd, should read the history of the English language. Language evolves, just as do the physical traits of sensate beings. (Perhaps Us Against Them, the UAT, proponents believe in the insane creationist theory?)
The [...]
Okay, I can read as well as the next person. I can also google pretty darn well also. So I’m wondering about something I found while digging around the Internets. Fred Fletcher, Jr. Flim-Flam Supreme. Mr. Slight of Development Hand. Abuser of the public trust…
I’m hoping someone can explain this: Fred Fletcher, Jr, owns [...]
If the Hotel Louise project doesn’t meet state criteria by June 30, 2007 and the $750,000 grant has to be returned to the state — logically, this should not create a hiccup in the city’s attempt to attract downtown restoration & rehabilitation investments. The money was only for one building. One downtown building. Had the [...]
Local hockey fan Jane Olsen is a Caniac. Yes, it’s true. Here in sunny Washington, NC we have some true hockey fanatics. Check out her NHL (official) blog and become a Caniac yourself.Any other folks out in Eastern NC with interesting blogs? If so, email us a link and we’ll highlight it. editor at washingtonnc [...]
thank goodness WDN finally got a new advertisement on the top of the page. now if they can just get some sidebar ads.
Washington hopes for the best with the recent turn-over of the new guard for the newer guard. Get it? Fred was new guard and even newer guard dis-lodged him from his tenuous [...]
Five second opinion:Finish the Hotel Louise project and then *voila* — there’s a hotel downtown and developers can leave the 4.5 acres at the east end of the promenade as a green space.
Note to Tom Richter and friends: The Maola Bldg is is privately owned. Seems kinda’ weird that there’s a development plan for it… [...]
How amusing. The WDN gives us an editorial criticizing area developers for not developing quickly enough. The News & Observer gives us a news story quoting our xenophobic county commissioners about how we don’t want no foreigners in this here community. Ain’t nobody gonna’ do us right, ain’t that the truth of it, Larry Wayne? [...]
A most excellent celebration comes to us May 12-19, 2007. We’re speaking of course about the Morehead City Sesquicenntenial celebration.
Oh the events!!
It will surely be a week not to be missed. The website offers information on all aspects of the celebration. Nice job, web designers. You have done well. Easy to navigate, nice layout.
Personally, [...]
ECPC is pleased to hear that our own Walter B. Jones is the GOP member who crossed the aisle to help author the resolution condemning President Bush’s escalation of troops in Iraq. Stopping the proposed ill-advised troop-surge in Iraq is not about Republicans or Democrats, it’s about bringing home our men and women in the [...]
A flock of cedar waxwings visited our yard on Saturday. The crabapples were a big hit, as was the ligustrum. What a joy! We also frequently watch a pair of bald eagles as they survey Jack’s Creek for fish. The eagles have been returning to the eastern Washington area for the last three years or [...]
A unique opportunity exists in this area which should be exploited by the Washington Tourism Development Authority.( authority? like the New York City Port Authority? hmmmm. Do WTDA members have police powers?)
Back to the task at hand. This hamlet should create a new type of tour — an Agri-Eco-Histo Tour. Combine the three popular types [...]
Okay, okay — we’re trying to be pleasant here but seriously folks, can you truly say the wetlands destruction proposed for PCS Phosphate is a good idea?
Yes, yes, many area residents work for PCS. And yes, PCS has threatened us all with a plant closing if we don’t give in to their demands.
But this [...]