Suggest cutting down a pine tree in Pinehurst, and you’d think you proposed euthanizing grandma. Building projects get delayed or killed outright by bureaucrats and politicians and loud, obnoxious
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Events down in Wilmington could very well foreshadow Pinehurst’s future: The legal battle set in motion against the City of Wilmington more than two years ago has come to
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The Open Meetings dispute between former councilman Kevin Drum, a nonprofit he chairs, and the Village Council is getting its day in court in Carthage on Friday. Last year, mayor
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On Tuesday evening, a ray of common sense happened to shine on Pinehurst village government. The Planning and Zoning Board voted to swat down John Strickland & The Friday
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For more than a year, it appears the Village of Pinehurst has been. paying FOUR lawyers to represent it in ONE complaint alleging violations of the state Open Meetings
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Like many others, I watched last week’s planning board meeting with some interest. The crowd had to be one of the largest crowds to ever turn out for a
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A meeting at Village Hall on September 1 at 4PM is likely to be a seminal moment in Pinehurst’s history. The Pinehurst Planning Board will be hosting a public
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Some legal-eagle fans of this site slipped me a couple of opinions from the UNC School of Government (SOG) which may indicate so. One SOG opinion centers on the
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Yeah. I thought my eyes were deceiving me, too: In the arm-wrestling match between the Invisible Hand of Capitalism and the Heavy Hand of Pinehurst, the People’s Republic of
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The campaign to regulate short term rentals (STRs) out of existence, that is. We’ve detected a distinct pattern here: inflammatory accusations aired against STRs and their owners followed by
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