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It looks like SB554 — a provision to allow local school systems to lease facilities from private developers — is on its way to reality. Normally, we’re big fans of
Continue readingIt looks like SB554 — a provision to allow local school systems to lease facilities from private developers — is on its way to reality. Normally, we’re big fans of
Continue readingA group called Robeson for Advancement has been identified in driveby media reports as a leading force in the lobbying effort to get SB554 — authorizing a build/lease program
Continue readingRobeson County is arguably one of the poorest, most crime-ridden locales in the state. That’s why it is so strange that some of the biggest political names in North Carolina
Continue readingOn the face of it, SB554 sounds like a nice, innovative idea — leasing school buildngs under creative financing schemes to cash-strapped county systems around the state. But outgoing treasurer
Continue readingIt’s unusual to hear about Republican political shenanigans in yellow-dog Democrat Robeson County. But it looks like our simian friends have been quite active there recently. There was a state
Continue readingIt’s not often you get to meet someone who has made Guiness’s Book of World Records. But Lumberton’s Joe Freeman Britt did — for putting more people on death row
Continue readingWe’ve got to give props where they are due. Rob Christensen’s son — Colin Campbell — did some fine work on Friday evening: That’s right, House Republicans. Your fearless leader —
Continue readingWhat started out as a mission to tweak a few districts to bring the 1st and 12th congressional districts in line has resulted in radical change for a lot more
Continue readingThat’s what our primaries — congressional ones, at least — appear to be for now. Way back in 1990, DC said we HAD to come up with districts to ensure
Continue readingOdor in the court! Robeson County is a special place. It’s my home county. (And not my current place of residence, BTW.) And it is also one of the state
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