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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Category: Campaign 2011
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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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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You gotta LOVE Google …
My old pal Google also turned up this questionnaire Nancy Fiorillo filled out during her 2009 campaign for the village council. In the document, Fiorillo expresses enthusiastic
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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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Pinehurst 2011: VAT-PAC ticket getting split?
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
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Pinehurst 2011: Power AND Arrogance
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
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