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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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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Broad Street businessman blasts SP mayoral candidate Smithson
Bob Levy is one of the nicest, most mild-mannered people you’ll ever meet. He has been a real unifying force — relative to past chairs — during his tenure as
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An economics lesson for Nick Picerno
I read the item in today’s Pilot about County Commissioner Nick Picerno’s concern about gas prices in Moore County with one part amusement and one part dismay: Nick Picerno wants
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Tillman: Leftists playing games with school $$$ numbers
State senator Jerry Tillman (R-Randolph), the #2 Republican in the state senate and likely Moore County’s next representative in that body, is taking leftist political activists to task for their
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Nancy WHO?
Via our friends at Google, we found this interesting blog entry from 2oo8 on The Greensboro News & Record web site: Stage name or pseudonym?
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Pinehurst 2011: WE’VE GOT CAMPAIGN REPORTS !!!!
Campaign finance reports tend to be a great indicator of the strength of a political campaign. People who have more money on hand, from more individual donors, tend to
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Pinehurst 2011: candidate no-shows turn town hall forum into “The John Marcum Show”
Pinehurst mayoral candidate John Marcum says increasing public input into village decisions is a key point in his platform. “This current group in village government makes their decisions, then provides
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