Category: Moore County

The Pilot’s county government coverage goes from BAD to WORSE

Posted on August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I thought it would be hard for The Pilot to put someone worse than Florence Gilkeson on the county government beat. But there is a new

Timmy and his fertile imagination keep stirring up trouble

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

A local politico — and faithful reader of this site — forwarded to me an email Moore County commissioner Tim Lea sent to him and several other

Moore County government internal documents paint rosy fiscal picture

Posted on August 22, 2012August 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Sometimes, here at The Haymaker, things just mysteriously drop into our laps. (Those doggone little birds … ) We happened to get our hands an email sent out by Moore

Southern Pines Pilot owner lectures North Carolina voters from the comfort of his Tennessee home

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Frank Daniels III– cousin of Southern Pines Pilot publisher David Woronoff and one of four partners who own Moore County’s Pulitzer Prize winning thrice weekly paper — is mighty disappointed

MOORE County GOP CHAIRMAN: Dining out — and selling out — at the liberal trough

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

In North Carolina, Unaffiliated is the fastest growing voter classification. In Moore County, Unaffiliated voters are about to overtake Democrats and knock them into third place. It appears

Newspaper work is HARD

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I think we’ve established that our local Oscar-winning thrice-weekly newspaper has some real difficulty with reporting the facts. Now, it appears that they’re challenged by things like

The Pilot’s op-ed page keeps the false statements / lefty propaganda coming

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our thrice-weekly Pulitzer Prize winning, Nobel Prize-nominated local paper here in Moore County is at it AGAIN. (The good thing about it is that Congressman Joe Wilson gets to pay

NC Campaign 2012: Don’t cry for the edu-crats

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

During the debate over the 2011 state budget, we heard a lot of screaming, crying, moaning and complaining from Democrats and their NCAE allies about alleged draconian budget cuts. The

Moore County: Unaffiliated voter registrations pulling even with Democrats

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Carolina Transparency’s web site does a great job of tracking voter registration trends in North Carolina. You can use the site to track trends by county based on

Tim Lea & the gays: #HATING on fast food

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I don’t know what it is about fast food. The gays are in the midst of an attack on Chick-fil-A. Moore County commissioner Tim Lea is going all-out against Bojangles’