Tag: Moore County

#ncpol: A Little Moore scandal?

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Brant Clifton

McClatchy’s Insider has some reporting today that may be of special interest to some of our readers here in Moore County: […] DMV Employee The Division of Motor Vehicles still

#ncga: Last (political) rites for Jamie Boles?

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Some well-plugged in observers in this yellow-dog Republican county say state Rep. Jamie Boles (R) is an incumbent who very well can lose his renomination bid in March. Boles is

#NCSEN: Moore County GOPe ALL IN for Richard Burr

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got a four-candidate primary race coming up on March 15th for the GOP nomination for US Senate. But, in some quarters, we’re being led to believe all we have

Moore, Montgomery taxpayers to EAT $100K in economic development #FAIL?

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That’s what we’re hearing. Influential folks in high places are telling us that Moore County Partners in Progress — the county’s economic development group — and Montgomery County are planning

Moore County’s Picerno rips local NCGA delegation a new one

Posted on September 22, 2015September 23, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Nick Picerno is a lot like EF Hutton in Moore County. When the chairman of the county board of commissioners speaks, people sit up and listen. What he had to tell

2015: The Year of The Woman. (And her name is Ashley Madison.)

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

If you’ve ever watched any late-night TV, you’ve seen the ads for the Ashley Madison web site. It facilitates adultery. It’s kind of a Match.com or JDate for married people.

Moore County government email addresses found among data released in Ashley Madison hack

Posted on August 21, 2015August 21, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Yep. Our tax dollars at work. First of all, signing up for a web site that encourages and enables adultery is kind of dubious. But using your WORK EMAIL ADDRESS

Making the Moore County School Board mess WORSE?

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Well, things are beginning to look a little better. Dr. Bob Grimesey is back in the superintendent’s office. Four of the five troublemakers / coup plotters have resigned from the

A political bloodbath in Moore County

Posted on June 6, 2015June 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

If you thought the decision by Pat McCrory, Dan Forest, Thom Tillis, Richard Burr and the rest to endorse Craig Collins for NCGOP chairman was the biggest political miscalculation of

A coup d’educrat. Contract buyout. Recall election. (Meet The Moore County Board of Education.)

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politics are normally not all that exciting here in staid, conservative Moore County. We’re a yellow-dog Republican county. Cocktail parties and rounds of golf tend to trump passionate political debate.