The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Anatomy of a political smear
The current litigious environment at Pinehurst Village Hall is really opening some eyes on how things, um, “get done” over there. Mayor John Strickland has quite a track record
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The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Running Out The Clock
There’s a public hearing at village hall on Tuesday. All indications are that the Strickland-Pizzella mob will iron out their strategy in an illegal closed session to go ahead
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Pinehurst vacation rental owners: Nags Head business feels your pain
You own and operate a perfectly legal business in a resort community. You contribute positively to the community and help fill its tax revenue coffers. Yet, a gaggle of
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The Pinehurst Hot Mess: LYING.
We caught the Strickland-Pizzella gang basically admitting on-camera to violating state open meetings laws on two occasions, and planning to do it a third. If you remember, the gang
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The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Even MORE Open Meetings Law violations ???
A Moore County Superior Court judge is currently mulling over whether to dismiss an Open Meetings violation lawsuit against The Village of Pinehurst. He’s had the information for about
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The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Hypocrisy ALERT !!!
Suggest cutting down a pine tree in Pinehurst, and you’d think you proposed euthanizing grandma. Building projects get delayed or killed outright by bureaucrats and politicians and loud, obnoxious
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The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Ban Tyranny
Like many others, I watched last week’s planning board meeting with some interest. The crowd had to be one of the largest crowds to ever turn out for a
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“Siri, did The Village of Pinehurst violate the law?”
Some legal-eagle fans of this site slipped me a couple of opinions from the UNC School of Government (SOG) which may indicate so. One SOG opinion centers on the
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The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Collapsing like a house of cards
The campaign to regulate short term rentals (STRs) out of existence, that is. We’ve detected a distinct pattern here: inflammatory accusations aired against STRs and their owners followed by
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The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Gettin’ hotter!
Imagine my surprise when THIS showed up on my YouTube feed. The honorables appear to be setting up a “litigation committee” to deal with the legal complaint about the
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