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NCDOT board: More trouble than it’s worth

Posted on October 8, 2011October 8, 2011 by Brant Clifton

In this age of dwindling tax revenue and budgets drowning in red ink, I have a few questions for the new conservative majority in the legislature. Why are we still

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Bev Perdue, Campaign 2012, Economy, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

Signs, signs, everywhere signs …

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Brant Clifton

    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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Campaign 2011, Moore County, Politics

Pinehurst 2011: Development a key issue in races

Posted on October 8, 2011October 8, 2011 by Brant Clifton

  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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Campaign 2011, Economy, Moore County, Politics
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Auditing Mr. Bouser on Internet sales taxes

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The Pilot, our local newspaper, runs unsigned staff editorials in each edition — much like many other papers across the country.  (Steve Bouser, The Pilot’s nearly-retired editor, writes most all

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Economy, Media, Moore County

One more point to silence the “assassination” crowd

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Brant Clifton

  Followers of Ron Paul, Walter Jones, Dennis Kucinich and others on the far-left of the spectrum have been up in arms over the recent successful drone strike on terrorist

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Congress, Media, Politics

Broad Street businessman blasts SP mayoral candidate Smithson

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

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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Campaign 2011, Moore County, Politics

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

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Economy, Moore County
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State Senate GOP blasts Boss Bev on ‘pay to play’

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Brant Clifton

      The state Senate GOP majority issued a blistering release today attacking our state’s buffoonish governor for antics that cost The Tar Heel State jobs: Today Continental Tire

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Bev Perdue, Campaign 2012, Economy, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics

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

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Campaign 2012, Economy, Education, Media, Moore County, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics, Republicans

You gotta LOVE Google …

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

      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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Campaign 2011, Media, Politics

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