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For Pinehurst Village Council: Berggren & Drum

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Election Day is Tuesday. We have big decisions to make. In Pinehurst, there are EIGHT candidates fighting for TWO seats on the village council. Someone can win four years on

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: NC Court of Appeals time!

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Way back in October 2021, mayor John Strickland and his henchmen attempted some dirty tricks against then-councilman Kevin Drum and councilmember Lydia Boesch. Strickland, village manager Jeff Sanborn, and Strickland’s

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Give me a C. Give me a O. Give me a N. Give me a FLICT.

Posted on January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Transparency-in-government activist and former Pinehurst councilman Kevin Drum is sticking to his guns in the effort to block mayor John Strickland from pushing through an exemption to the vacation rentals

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Again, Conflict of Interest ???

Posted on January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Transparency-in-government activist and former village councilman Kevin Drum is upping the ante in his offensive against the current council’s effort to exempt one certain neighborhood from the village’s ban on

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Conflict of Interest?

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Brant Clifton

We reported at-length on the sketchy efforts by Pinehurst village council to clamp down on vacation rentals. We also brought you word of an attempt to create a special exemption

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: The price tag on political pride

Posted on November 13, 2022 by Brant Clifton

It’s been a long time since there’s been this much attorney action involving Pinehurst village government. Of course, that happens when you operate like a bull in a china

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Court of Appeals, here we COME!

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Brant Clifton

The unnatural disaster rocking our fair village – aka The Strickland-Pizzella cabal — is continuing to wreak havoc via even more bad publicity and BIG legal bills. We all

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Lydia Boesch fires back at Village Hall thugs

Posted on October 2, 2022October 2, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who found village attorney Mike Newman’s response to Judge Webb’s dismissal of the Open Meetings Law complaint as a wee bit extreme and

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Dismissed, but NOT done.

Posted on October 1, 2022October 1, 2022 by Brant Clifton

It’s really sad to see the crowing from the senior village staff, the Strickland-Pizzella gang, and The Friday Group over a Moore County judge’s decision to dismiss an open

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Anatomy of a political smear

Posted on September 26, 2022 by Brant Clifton

The current litigious environment at Pinehurst Village Hall is really opening some eyes on how things, um, “get done” over there. Mayor John Strickland has quite a track record