Well, the worst kept secret in local politics has been confirmed. Pinehurst mayor John Strickland will not be coming back for four more years. Apparently, he didn’t have the stomach
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The on-going Open Meetings Law debate goes on. Pinehurst has Mike Newman plus a gaggle of outside lawyers defending it against a lawsuit brought by former councilman Kevin Drum. Drum
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Way back in October 2021, mayor John Strickland and his henchmen attempted some dirty tricks against then-councilman Kevin Drum and councilmember Lydia Boesch. Strickland, village manager Jeff Sanborn, and Strickland’s
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Transparency-in-government activist and former Pinehurst councilman Kevin Drum is sticking to his guns in the effort to block mayor John Strickland from pushing through an exemption to the vacation rentals
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Transparency-in-government activist and former village councilman Kevin Drum is upping the ante in his offensive against the current council’s effort to exempt one certain neighborhood from the village’s ban on
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We reported at-length on the sketchy efforts by Pinehurst village council to clamp down on vacation rentals. We also brought you word of an attempt to create a special exemption
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It’s been a long time since there’s been this much attorney action involving Pinehurst village government. Of course, that happens when you operate like a bull in a china
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The unnatural disaster rocking our fair village – aka The Strickland-Pizzella cabal — is continuing to wreak havoc via even more bad publicity and BIG legal bills. We all
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Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who found village attorney Mike Newman’s response to Judge Webb’s dismissal of the Open Meetings Law complaint as a wee bit extreme and
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It’s really sad to see the crowing from the senior village staff, the Strickland-Pizzella gang, and The Friday Group over a Moore County judge’s decision to dismiss an open
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