Tag: Moore County

So, NOW she’s a “Tea Party person”

Posted on August 29, 2012August 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers is having quite a rocky relationship with folks in her new majority Republican district. A recent survey by Public Policy Polling found that she

Source: Justice Reinvestment Act likely played big part in Moore County murder case

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The discovery of an Aberdeen woman’s body near the county landfill, and her live-in boyfriend’s subsequent murder arrest, this week have a lot of people in the area

A travesty of justice in Moore County with a tragic ending

Posted on August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The body of a thirty-something Moore County woman was found Wednesday near the county landfill in Aberdeen. Check out one of the news accounts: A

The Pilot’s county government coverage goes from BAD to WORSE

Posted on August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I thought it would be hard for The Pilot to put someone worse than Florence Gilkeson on the county government beat. But there is a new

Timmy and his fertile imagination keep stirring up trouble

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

A local politico — and faithful reader of this site — forwarded to me an email Moore County commissioner Tim Lea sent to him and several other

Moore County government internal documents paint rosy fiscal picture

Posted on August 22, 2012August 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Sometimes, here at The Haymaker, things just mysteriously drop into our laps. (Those doggone little birds … ) We happened to get our hands an email sent out by Moore

Southern Pines Pilot owner lectures North Carolina voters from the comfort of his Tennessee home

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Frank Daniels III– cousin of Southern Pines Pilot publisher David Woronoff and one of four partners who own Moore County’s Pulitzer Prize winning thrice weekly paper — is mighty disappointed

MOORE County GOP CHAIRMAN: Dining out — and selling out — at the liberal trough

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

In North Carolina, Unaffiliated is the fastest growing voter classification. In Moore County, Unaffiliated voters are about to overtake Democrats and knock them into third place. It appears

Newspaper work is HARD

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I think we’ve established that our local Oscar-winning thrice-weekly newspaper has some real difficulty with reporting the facts. Now, it appears that they’re challenged by things like

The Pilot’s op-ed page keeps the false statements / lefty propaganda coming