Category: Moore County

An economics lesson for Nick Picerno

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Brant Clifton

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

Tillman: Leftists playing games with school $$$ numbers

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Brant Clifton

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

Nancy WHO?

Posted on October 7, 2011October 7, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Via our friends at Google, we found this interesting blog entry from 2oo8 on The Greensboro News & Record web site: Stage name or pseudonym?

Pinehurst 2011: WE’VE GOT CAMPAIGN REPORTS !!!!

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Brant Clifton

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

Pinehurst 2011: candidate no-shows turn town hall forum into “The John Marcum Show”

Posted on October 5, 2011October 5, 2011 by Brant Clifton

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

Pinehurst 2011: VAT-PAC ticket getting split?

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Brant Clifton

A political action committee called The Village Action Team (VAT) has been getting a lot of buzz lately for its ad buys in The Pilot and in Pine Straw touting

Tell me again why we tossed Bob Etheridge …

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Renee Ellmers came into office with a lot of promise. She campaigned as a die-hard conservative and embraced the Tea Party, which played a big role in her

Pinehurst 2011: Power AND Arrogance

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I’ve come across two recent examples of just how haughty, condescending, and arrogant some incumbents on the Pinehurst Village Council have become. Exhibit A: A group called Concerned Citizens

Pinehurst 2011: Thurman & Fiorillo ducking, hiding and playing it safe

Posted on October 2, 2011October 2, 2011 by Brant Clifton

An item in today’s Pilot says two of the three candidates for mayor of Pinehurst are refusing to participate in a candidate forum scheduled for this Tuesday evening. Incumbent village

Is Pinehurst’s ruling clique breaking up?

Posted on October 2, 2011October 3, 2011 by Brant Clifton

For years, Pinehurst politics has been dominated by a close circle of residents centered around SpeakerrrrrRichardMorgan™ and his wife Cindy. Now that the voters have removed those two from