Southern Pines 2011: The Money Chase
Typically, a campaign that raises the most money from the most individuals does quite well on election day. Campaigns that raise over $1,000 are required to file finance reports with
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Author: Brant Clifton
Southern Pines 2011: Chris Smithson, The Sierra Club, and ‘Cool Cities’
Once again, Google is an amazing tool to supplement my election coverage. I found the following post, dated July 23, 2007 on the blog for the North Carolina
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“Occupy Wall Street” REALLY STINKS
The alleged mainstream media is trying to hard to compare these idiots running amok in New York’s financial district to The Tea Party. (Never mind that there have been over
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NO, Nancy & Ray are NOT MOVING to Greensboro
To all of you Moore County campaign operatives who read this blog religiously, PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY. I have had several emails and
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U.S. Economy keeps stumbling along
BarryO and his sycophant accomplices in the alleged mainstream media keep telling us about “job creation.” People who actually know something about business and the economy will tell
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Southern Pines 2011: handicapping the races
Pinehurst is not alone with its silly season. Southern Pines has one that has geared up as well. The Town has two council seats up for election — one
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NCDOT board: More trouble than it’s worth
In this age of dwindling tax revenue and budgets drowning in red ink, I have a few questions for the new conservative majority in the legislature. Why are we still
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Signs, signs, everywhere signs …
You can tell it’s campaign season throughout the Sandhills. Signs are starting to pop up on the landscape, and people are starting to complain about them. In today’s
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Pinehurst 2011: Development a key issue in races
It’s become increasingly clear that development is playing a key issue in the 2011 village council races. Voters are expressing frustration with an eroding downtown, a failed residential development
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Auditing Mr. Bouser on Internet sales taxes
The Pilot, our local newspaper, runs unsigned staff editorials in each edition — much like many other papers across the country. (Steve Bouser, The Pilot’s nearly-retired editor, writes most all
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