Author: Jeff Aydelette

PAMLICO COUNTY – Responding to citizen complaints, elected officials vowed Monday night to come down hard on the half dozen brightly illuminated stores, hinting the lights might shroud a dark side to inappropriate business practices. Expressing his approval of a detailed three-page ordinance – a…

Compiled from Staff Reports It appears to have been the last straw for the NCGOP 3rd Congressional District’s Executive Committee. After Phil Berger failed to pass Constitutional Carry (while Republicans held the super-majority), and rumors continue to swirl about arm twisting for gambling, now much…

BAYBORO – Surprise! For inmates at the Pamlico County Jail who have no health insurance (which is quite a few) county taxpayers are on the hook for their health care – a figure approaching half a million per year and growing rapidly. Right now most…

BAYBORO – Well-phrased Monday night by County Commissioner Kenny Heath! He aptly summed up a month that included hours and hours of deliberations to determine if there is a different, and perhaps better, way to tackle Animal Control in our area? The answer is to…

News Analysis Editor’s note: This article uses the term ‘algorithm’ which, in its simplest form, is a set of instructions designed to accomplish a task. In recent years, a property management software company, known as RealPage, has developed an algorithm – used by big landlords…

BAYBORO – Pamlico County Manager Mark Brewington made a convincing case Monday night, explaining to his nine bosses on the County Commission that the absence of Berkley Hill – the one-man 24/7 Animal Control Officer for many years – has created a void in that…

BAYBORO – In a hush-hush & lengthy, public barred, closed door session Monday night, the seven-member County Commission reviewed an existing 11-page ordinance – approved eight years ago – which governs the construction, and ‘decommissioning’ of solar energy facilities. The stated purpose of the meeting:…

BAYBORO – Despite $12 million in the bank, the seven-member board of Pamlico County commissioners agree with the recommendation of Pamlico County manager Mark Brewington and finance officer Bill Fentress to limit part of county spending over the last four months of the current fiscal…

NOT TOO LITTLE. NOT TOO MUCH. (INCOME NEEDS TO BE JUST RIGHT) ‘This is not HUD Section 8 housing’ vow officials BAYBORO – Monday night, before an attentive Board of Pamlico County Commissioners, a large crowd of skeptics and proponents packed the smallish conference room…

PLAINS, GEORGIA – If you think things are crazy these days, believe me, the 1970s were even more so! Jimmy Carter got elected in ‘76 because people were ticked off at Gerald Ford after he pardoned Richard Nixon who had resigned in 1974 following the…

Known as a referendum. The proposed increase, had it been approved by Pamlico voters on Nov. 5, would take the current sales tax rate from 6.75 percent to an even 7 percent. Projections were that the ‘quarter of a penny’ increase might boost county revenues…

News Opinion NATION – Is there a better known name on the planet? Our returning President’s notoriety and even fame has been fed to a great extent by mainstream media’s obsession over the past eight years. Rural voters indeed ‘trumped’ urban voters this time around….