Today's Washington Post reports that Wal-Mart is abandoning its Wal Mart Express concept and closing all Wal-Mart Express stores. This...

Yesterday at the monthly meeting of Pamlico County's Board of Elections, the two Republican members of the Board voted to abolish three ...

Some of my ancestors owned slaves - from as early as the 1650's in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and possibly Georgia, Arkansas and Texa...

The comings and goings of local peripatetic journalist and curmudgeon Tony Tharp are sometimes mysterious. He disappeared from the 'net ...

There's an old rule of thumb in politics as well as other areas of human endeavor - if you are in a hole, stop digging! At least two o...

I wish Oriental's voters could all have been at tonight's meeting of the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners. They would have seen...

After several months worth of effort, On Monday night, Pamlico County's Board of Commissioners voted five to two to adopt the Pamlico Co...

There is always a bit of an empty spot in public discourse when Tony Tharp's blog disappears, as it did a week or so ago. I don't ...

There was a brief but well-attended ceremony at the County Board of Elections office in Bayboro at noon today. This is the time set forth in...

Last night's County Commissioner meeting dealt mostly with the County Planning Board's draft ordinance covering possible wind farms....

On a more local note, at last night's meeting of the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners, the commissioners voted unanimously to hire ...

There seems to be a bit of confusion or uncertainty about this year's general election ballot. The problems: write-ins and replacement c...

Last weekend, Mr. Ed Credle, one of Pamlico County's most good and faithful servants, passed away. The county has lost a wonderful gentl...

In the summer of 2011 I posted a comment intending to put public service into context. In this case, I was writing mostly about municipal el...

The Pamlico County Board of Elections went to Raleigh yesterday to seek State Board of Elections approval for a plan for One-Stop voting ado...

The County Commissioners passed a good budget tonight. It was a hard slog under very difficult conditions to work it out, but there was no p...