Tag: Village of Pinehurst

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Court of Appeals, here we COME!

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Brant Clifton

The unnatural disaster rocking our fair village – aka The Strickland-Pizzella cabal — is continuing to wreak havoc via even more bad publicity and BIG legal bills. We all

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Lydia Boesch fires back at Village Hall thugs

Posted on October 2, 2022October 2, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who found village attorney Mike Newman’s response to Judge Webb’s dismissal of the Open Meetings Law complaint as a wee bit extreme and

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Anatomy of a political smear

Posted on September 26, 2022 by Brant Clifton

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

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Running Out The Clock

Posted on September 25, 2022September 25, 2022 by Brant Clifton

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

Pinehurst vacation rental owners: Nags Head business feels your pain

Posted on September 25, 2022 by Brant Clifton

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

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: LYING.

Posted on September 24, 2022 by Brant Clifton

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

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Even MORE Open Meetings Law violations ???

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Brant Clifton

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

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Hypocrisy ALERT !!!

Posted on September 20, 2022 by Brant Clifton

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

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Ban Tyranny

Posted on September 5, 2022 by Brant Clifton

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

“Siri, did The Village of Pinehurst violate the law?”

Posted on August 20, 2022August 20, 2022 by Brant Clifton

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