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Author: Brant Clifton Published Date: June 3, 2020 2 Comments on When Dale Folwell talks, Roy Cooper listens
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When Dale Folwell talks, Roy Cooper listens

      We told you earlier about the Cooper Administration’s decision to shut down a Tyrrell County prison that put the county at risk of a state takeover.     State treasurer Dale Folwell had more than a few things to say about that….

Author: Brant Clifton Published Date: May 22, 2020 2 Comments on Folwell: Cooper needs to do “the right thing”
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Folwell: Cooper needs to do “the right thing”

      Tyrrell County is one of the state’s more impoverished localities.  The county, and the city of Columbia,  committed to 40 years of debt to build and supply water and sewer to a local industry and a prison facility.  The industry has shut…