Tag: Nick Picerno

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

Tim Lea & the gays: #HATING on fast food

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I don’t know what it is about fast food. The gays are in the midst of an attack on Chick-fil-A. Moore County commissioner Tim Lea is going all-out against Bojangles’

Moore County-Robbins water deal looking more and more like a long-shot

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

My #1 mole in the Moore county bureaucracy tipped me off that commissioners Craig Kennedy and Nick Picerno recently connected with state Senator Jerry Tillman in Raleigh for a fact-finding

A few things you might have missed if The Pilot is your primary news source

Posted on June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

If you depend on The Southern Pines Pilot to keep you informed on Moore County government, you MIGHT think commissioner Tim Lea is the ONLY one who ever

The Pilot sings Tammy Wynette’s greatest hit

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Sometimes its hard to be a woman Giving all your love to just one man You’ll have bad times And he’ll have good times Doing things that you don’t understand

Campaign 2012: Picerno REALLY gets to ‘Meet The Press’

Posted on March 22, 2012April 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

County Commissioner Nick Picerno, as a conservative Republican officeholder, knew coming into the job that he’d be engaging in combat with the mainstream media. I’m sure he

Amendment One: Leftist snobbery on display

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Steve Bouser, the opinion editor at our Nobel Prize-nominated thrice weekly local paper here in Moore County, is at it again. He’ll tell you he worked for

Campaign 2012 @ Moore County: Lea OUT, Picerno IN

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Moore County commissioner Tim Lea — the wisest and most intelligent man within the confines of this fine county’s geographic boundaries — has informed our thrice-weekly, Nobel Prize

Southern Software NOW donating services to Moore County

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Brant Clifton

A well-placed source within Moore County government tells me that Southern Software — the Southern Pines-based developer of county public safety’s administrative software package — is officially out of

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