Today's County Compass reports a brouhaha resulting from a request by representatives of Cherry Point MCAS to appear before a joint sess...

NOAA says 2012 was the hottest year on record in the contiguous United States. "The average temperature was 55.3 degrees, 1 degree a...

A good op-ed article in yesterday's New York Times addresses the problem of building up and developing our shorelines in the context of...

I was born in Oklahoma in 1937, near the end of the Dust Bowl period. I was a couple of hundred miles east of the Dust Bowl, in Tulsa. By th...

The past two nights, public television broadcast Ken Burns' new documentary on the Dust Bowl. Very powerful! The dust bowl was a man-m...

A little more than three years ago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill completed a nine-month comprehensive study of coastal wi...

Tonight's meeting of the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners received an information briefing from the Wind Capital Group concerning t...

A couple of years ago a graduate student telephoned, wanting to interview me. It turns out she was doing research on planning approaches in ...

Today's article in the New York Times by Thomas Friedman should be alarming. But don't worry. Oriental's member of Pamlico...

Monday night's County Commissioners meeting addressed, among other things, a request by Commissioner Mele for the board to pass resoluti...

Today, April 22, is Earth Day 2011. A week ago, while I was watching Dr. Strangelove at the Old Theater in Oriental, the scene where General...