Comment on City To Raise Taxes, But Has An Extra $60k To Give Away Downtown...
This city council member’s bias toward downtown interests is so obvious it should be embarrassing to them. It’s another reason why some of us do not want to be annexed and forced to provide for their...
View ArticleComment on Questions for City Manager Sterling Cheatham: by Bob Smith
Good questions, Chad. Keep asking….
View ArticleComment on City Drops Public/Private, Goes 100% Taxes Only On Stadium by Chad...
Larry, Point being, there are numerous typos and the “less common” is something a true PIO should not be using for the media.
View ArticleComment on Uranium Enrichment. . . No Big Deal? by Bob Smith
Chad, I wonder if anyone other than you and me noted this? I drafted a commentary on this issue last week, but I’m out of the state and will post it probably next week. Keep pluggin’
View ArticleComment on Wilmington Decides City Streets Are Important. . . ??? by Bob Smith
Yes. This is one of a few government responsibilities. However, our Political Class presists in meddling in irresponsible “development” projects such as you cite above. The fundamental question is: Why...
View ArticleComment on Designing our lives by lilej
Three years later and your prediction has come true!! On August 6th, 2012 at approx 6:00 PM a group of homeowners in rural northern New Hanvoer county – North of Porters Neck will be addressing the New...
View ArticleComment on Downtown Wilmington Needs MORE Parks? by justin
Chad, Did you ever stop to consider that public spaces -like green spaces, parks and playgrounds- actually help attract businesses, entrepreneurs, job creators and economic growth in communities? The...
View ArticleComment on Downtown Wilmington Needs MORE Parks? by Bob Smith
It’s amazing and amusing how editors distort our English words: as you point out statists promote their “wants” by using “need”–a word they fling carelessly in the editorial air hoping it will land on...
View ArticleComment on Downtown Wilmington Needs MORE Parks? by Chad Adams
Green spaces aren’t necessarily bad, but the sheer volume of them is overkill. Why do we need two golf courses? Why are we now the owners of Airlie Gardens? What about dozens of parks we already own?...
View ArticleComment on Rezone The River Bottom! by Bob Smith
Central planners are obsessed with zoning everything. The next step is to regulate.
View ArticleComment on Government Imports Feral Cats? by Bob Smith
Chad, The “compassion” promoters usually impose more problems on us. Check out my post on “Disabled activism.”
View ArticleComment on The REAL Reason For The Utility Rate Increase, Buried! by Bob Smith
Chad, Good one. This needs to be repeated and heeded every time the “Greens” trot out their demand for “alternative energy” for which there is no justification.
View ArticleComment on StarNews Bias On Titan Story by Bob Smith
Well said, Chad. I just finished writing about this. I’m pleased that you see this “study” for what it is: another attempt to try to discredit Carolinas Cement. Further, I think Galbraith should be...
View ArticleComment on Leland: Not In My Back Yard by WaterfordOwner
Much of this article gives incorrect information. The parcel in front of Waterford that developer Bert Exum wanted to sell for an apartment complex is currently zoned commercial only. Exum therefore...
View ArticleComment on Judge Ola Lewis, Back In The News by russellt77
I now get it. The most important aspect of the Brunswick County justice system is that you have to figure out which Judge is going to rule on your case before you pick a lawyer to represent you. Good...
View ArticleComment on Chapel Hill school email announces partisan event by Atnor
wow… that’s amazingly messed up. To me that’s a firing offense. Who does that and thinks it’s acceptable? *shakes head, mind boggled*
View ArticleComment on Cutting edge research at Fayetteville State Univ. by...
Cruisin’ to tenure……
View ArticleComment on Fletcher ‘flushes’ private charities in blog post by Pops
Painting a picture with a mighty broad brush, aren’t you David? I don’t know a single liberal or progressive who is threatened by private philanthropists “stepping” up during the government shut down....
View ArticleComment on Gene Nichol blows his lid by Pops
I read the Nichol column in the Observer. I didn’t see any of the “shrill, vicious, ad hominem laden rants” you claim. Yes, Nichol said McCrory was a “21st century successor to Maddox, Wallace and...
View ArticleComment on The impending chocolate crisis by Jon Sanders
I expect our local media would gleefully fudge the news of an American <a...
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