Tag: Southern Pines
Moore County: Did John McLaughlin commit a ‘Lorna Clack’?
Some years ago, we had a rather pretentious (and awful) county school board member named Lorna Clack who lost a bid for reelection. (We like to think this site had a small part to play in that event. ) At one particular…
For Southern Pines Town Council: Haney & Lancaster
Election day is Tuesday. We’ve got some decisions to make. The voters of Southern Pines have a choice between four different candidates for TWO SEATS on the town council. I am familiar with three of the four running: Mitch Lancaster, Carol Haney and Marsh Smith. …
Campaign 2017: Moore County
Election Day will be here before we know it. There are some important decisions to be made at the ballot box on November 7. Here’s our two cents on some of them: Southern Pines: On October 7, voters cut the field down from five to…
Southern Pines Police seeking private alternative to Roy Cooper’s crime lab
The typically peaceful Moore County hamlet of Southern Pines has been rocked recently with some troubling violent crimes. In response to some bad publicity and questions from the public and local officials, police chief Bob Temme hosted a public briefing: […] Temme…
Moore media’s hard sell of “Moral Monday”
We’ve got a unique situation here in Moore County. We are one of the most reliably Republican counties in the state. Yet, our only local paper is owned and operated by the same Democrat operatives who owned and operated The Raleigh News & Observer for…
Barack Hussein Smithson
We’ve had to endure nearly four years of class warfare nonsense from our soon-to-be ex-president and his cronies. Now, we’re getting it on the local level from Southern Pines town councilman Chris Smithson. The setting was the latest council meeting where the proposed…
Busybodies and other people’s property
Moore County is yellow-dog Republican. But we have plenty of folks who like to dictate what other people do with their property. It’s one thing to oppose something over noise issues, environmental issues, or safety concerns. It’s another to oppose development because you’re trying to…
Southern Pines Pilot newspaper owner on invite list for Dalton fundraiser
Democrat gubernatorial nominee Walter Dalton has a fundraiser scheduled in Raleigh on Tuesday that includes a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of the state’s Democrat establishment. (Speaking of the word ‘Who’ — Bob Etheridge is on the list of those scheduled to attend.) The…
Property rights, economic development questions for Southern Pines, Pinehurst councils
There was an interesting line in a recent Pilot story about Pinehurst’s new budget: […] Another $252,000 is in the budget for the construction of Spur Road, which would serve the new brewery that is proposed to be located…
The media and “moderation”
I recently read something from a columnist (on my side of the political street) lamenting how leftist politicians and media figures describe themselves as “moderates” and EVERYONE ELSE who does not march in lockstep with them is “extreme” or “far right” or…
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