Tag: Currituck County
Coastal NC storm damage raises EVEN MORE questions re: solar farms
Solar goons and their bought-and-paid-for politicians (like Bob Steinburg and Bobby Hanig) like to tell you there’s nothing to fear from all these state-subsidized solar farms being erected all over the countryside. A little poking-around by Currituck County commissioner Paul Beaumont is telling…
#ncga: Steinburg hits up Currituck AGAIN for basketball $$$$$
We wrote extensively on last year’s Steinburg-sponsored debacle in Asheville. In his rookie outing as a basketball promoter, then-Rep., now-senator Bob Steinburg promised all kinds of benefits for Currituck County. For the “cheap” price of $50,000. (It didn’t hurt that now-Rep. Bobby Hanig —…
Currituck leaders defend payments to Steinburg, Steinburg Invitational
The VisitCurrituckOBX.com Battle in The Blue Ridge college basketball tournament happened in Asheville over Thanksgiving. Nobody broadcast the games on television. (ESPN didn’t bother streaming it on its ESPN+ service.) We covered the debacle from its conception to its finale. Then-state Rep. Bob Steinburg (now…
BOING !!!! One of biggest players in NC solar biz bounces a tiny check
Sun Energy1 is arguably one of the world’s biggest players in the renewable energy field. THAT is why it was surprising to see this: Charlotte area-based Sun Energy1 is arguably one of the world’s biggest players in the renewable energy field. (They sponsor NASCAR.) In…
#ncga: A Steinburg Invitational post-mortem
Currituck taxpayers footed the seed money for senator-elect Bob Steinburg’s rookie venture into basketball tournament marketing. We’ve kept you posted on how it’s been going. Though, it is interesting how the senator-elect and his company are stone-cold quiet about how the tournament went and what,…
Steinburg can’t GIVE tickets away to his tax-funded basketball fiasco
According to Asheville officials, tickets to the visitcurrituckobx.com Battle for The Blue Ridge are — in fact — slower than molasses: The “Battle in the Blue Ridge” basketball tournament that Currituck County paid a state lawmaker’s company $50,000 to help promote starts Friday, and so…
A TV blackout for Steinburg Invitational?
State senator-elect Bob Steinburg promised Currituck County a PR bonanza in return for underwriting his private company’s inaugural sports promotional venture. Yes, college basketball season is upon us. The Tar Heels men’s team is headed to Vegas for Thanksgiving to take on the likes of…
#ncga: Steinburg basketball tourney ONE HOT MESS
Once again, we have mail. We’ve covered state Rep. Bob Steinburg’s venture into sports promotion — funded by Currituck County tax dollars — pretty extensively. This time we have a series of emails between officials at the Asheville Civic Center and Bob Steinburg, Jr. —…
#ncga: Indicted Steinburg aide ALSO working on Steinburg Invitational?
Judging from this email, it would appear to be so. Most politicians who have aides under indictment send them off to go spend more time with their families. Not Bob Steinburg. Steinburg has Diana London, currently under indictment for one felony count of embezzlement, (1)…
The Steinburg Invitational: Wanna go?
Excitement is in the air. If you’re planning to be in the vicinity of Asheville, North Carolina over Thanksgiving, state Rep. Bob Steinburg is bringing you some quality college basketball to watch IN PERSON: Arkansas State, Eastern Illinois, UNC-Wilmington, and Gardner Webb. What? Don’t find…
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