Tag: Sandhills Community College

The SCC Files: Getting REALLY expensive to build this stuff NOBODY asked for

Posted on August 30, 2025August 30, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Folks in and around Moore County have been hearing about this proposed “innovative high school” on the campus of Sandhills Community College. They also heard, I’m sure, about the $25

The SCC Files: Tax lien explained (kinda, but NOT REALLY)

Posted on August 30, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The financial management side of things at Sandhills Community College has provided us with quite a bit of fodder in recent months. We told you about the disastrous audit produced

The SCC Files: Sandy & Larry STILL trying to fool us

Posted on August 10, 2025August 10, 2025 by Brant Clifton

They’ve been caught mismanaging tax dollars, fighting transparency, and shoving cronyist, leftist policies down our collective throat. But none of that has prevented state Rep. Neal Jackson from reappointing Larry

If you thought $$$-mgmt at Sandhills CC was bad, get a load of Lenoir County, NC.

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Brant Clifton

We’ve written extensively about the really bad and horrible state audit of Sandhills Community College. We’re talking about a $6.2 million screwup and an audit report scolding the college for

The Sandhills Files: incompetence, cronyism, disrespect for the law (and a tax lien ???)

Posted on June 29, 2025July 14, 2025 by Brant Clifton

*** UPDATED.*** Yes, those are the three (four?) winners in recent developments over on the Airport Road campus. The college just got hit by an embarrassing report from the state

The Sandhills Files: blowing smoke, covering up, trying to control damage

Posted on June 7, 2025 by Brant Clifton

You ought to try reading some of the approved minutes from the Sandhills Community College board of trustees meetings. They’re just vague and cryptic enough to sound like pronouncements from

The Sandhills Files: 1 bad audit, 2 drive-bys, and the fall-out

Posted on June 1, 2025June 7, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It took a week for our award-winning local newspaper (based on Pennsylvania Avenue in Southern Pines) to produce a story on the stinker of an audit the state slapped Sandhills

The Sandhills Files: Financial reporting errors worth HOW MUCH ???

Posted on May 23, 2025June 9, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It seems like our local institution of higher learning here in Moore County has some ‘splainin’ to do. State auditor Dave Boliek’s crew reviewed Sandhills Community College’s financial statements for

DEI “officially done in North Carolina”? (Better look again.)

Posted on May 10, 2025 by Brant Clifton

DEI is D-O-N-E, folks. That’s what state Rep. Brenden Jones tells us. Somebody better check in with the diminutive president of Sandhills Community College, Dr. Sandy Stewart, about that. He

The SCC Files: going off the deep end (AGAIN)

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It’s a universally-accepted fact around Moore County that Sandhills Community College (SCC) president emeritus John Dempsey is a nice person who can be a lot of fun at cocktail parties.