Tag: Pinehurst

Pinehurst councilwoman laments NCGA’s “love of property rights”

Posted on June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 by Brant Clifton

In an era of Neo-Marxist rioting and vandalism, it’s more than disturbing to hear a leader so close to home bad-mouth the concept of property rights. But THAT

Hey, Pinehurst: Here comes the John Strickland Tax Increase!

Posted on December 28, 2019December 30, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I For years, he’s huddled in the back of the village council meeting room organizing his minions. John Strickland couldn’t win his last election, so he was going

Pinehurst 2019: I told you so …

Posted on October 19, 2019October 19, 2019 by Brant Clifton

This bunch trying to gain entry onto the Pinehurst Village Council have got regulation and limitation of property rights on the brain: The thorny issue of regulating short-term home

Pinehurst Campaign 2019: Individual, property rights at risk

Posted on October 13, 2019October 14, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Just by perusing the list of candidates on Pinehurst’s November ballot, it’s pretty clear that we stand a good chance of ending up with a majority on the Village

The Pinehurst elections

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Brant Clifton

With all the hubbub about the 2019 special elections for Congress, and the March 2020 primaries, it’s important to remember that many parts of North Carolina will be holding

To replace Cashion in Pinehurst: Berggren OR Campbell

Posted on December 3, 2018December 3, 2018 by Brant Clifton

The local paper says 14 folks have applied to fill out the last year of John Cashion’s unexpired term on The Village Council. (Cashion retired on November 13th due to

The return of Pinehurst’s hollering NIMBYs

Posted on November 24, 2018 by Brant Clifton

I really thought we had turned the corner. It wasn’t long ago that Pinehurst village government consisted of a somnambulant group of 80-somethings who allowed bureaucrats to run willy-nilly on

For Pinehurst Village Council: Berggren & Drum

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Election Day is Tuesday. We have big decisions to make. In Pinehurst, there are EIGHT candidates fighting for TWO seats on the village council. Someone can win four years on

Pinehurst Matters? (Yeah, but so does THE TRUTH.)

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Brant Clifton

There’s a small, but loud group of people making quite a commotion about this year’s village council races in Pinehurst. They really, really, really don’t like Mayor Fiorillo (aka Queen

Campaign 2017: Golf gloves are coming OFF in Pinehurst

Posted on October 25, 2017October 25, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Things are generally very cordial here in our little corner of paradise. Rolling green fairways. Mild weather. Little to no crime. Neighbors that offer a friendly ‘how-do’ when you pass