The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Intimidation Time!
When all else fails — when you’re caught dead to rights — try to paint your accusers as the villains. That appears to be the strategy at Village Hall
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Tag: ethics
Pinehurst: A hot mess at Village Hall
We’ve made it through two years and a month of the Strickland era in Pinehurst government. The reports coming out of the village’s halls of government evoke memories of
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Folwell, Wood back state-like ethics rules for local officials
The state legislature has got a bill in its possession that would bring local government officials under very similar ethical standards to those state officials have to live by.
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Lydia lawyers up, unloads with both barrels at Village government
You really didn’t believe that Lydia Boesch would just run off, with her tail tucked between her legs, after being ambushed during a streamed, open-to-the-public Pinehurst Village Council meeting,
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The political class CANNOT police itself.
The state board of elections says its A-OK for Democrats on local boards (like inRobeson and Bladen counties) to donate to Democratic candidates and campaign for (and with) them.
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Do what you were elected to do, and the sharks come for you
It’s a sad state of affairs that the three most likely folks to draw well-funded opponents in 2020 are treasurer Dale Folwell, insurance commissioner Mike Causey, and auditor
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Will complaint against Robeson elections chairman disappear down that same Raleigh ‘black hole’ that ate 2015 ethics complaint against David Lewis?
Inquiring minds want to know. It’s easy to say: “We got Dan Bishop elected, now move on.” But is it about more than that? Do we really
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Report: Pay-to-play, the Jason Saine way.
A non-profit watchdog that has bedeviled Speaker Timmy in recent months and years has now set its sights on a certain tubby little parasite from Lincoln County. The Campaign
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#ncga: Tim Moore, innocent victim.
In the Speaker Joe Hackney era, you use campaign funds to buy yourself some new suits and you get bounced out of the House. Do it in the Tim
Continue readingIt’s ALIVE! (Chicken plant is back to take another peck at Speaker Timmy)
We told you earlier about Speaker Tim Moore conveniently getting an ethics complaint about a private business deal dismissed on the very last day of existence for the state board
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