Showing posts with label town government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label town government. Show all posts
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Rethinking The Oriental Growth Management Ordinance And Comprehensive Plan

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Good for Janet Alexander. A couple of days ago, she asked a good question on the Oriental Facebook site: "Now what happens to t...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Wal Mart Revisited

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Today's Town Dock posts an article from 2013 describing the Town Board meeting of October 1, 2013 addressing whether the Town should mak...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Wal-Mart To Close All Wal-Mart Express Stores - After Driving Our Local Grocery Stores Out Of Business

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Today's Washington Post reports that Wal-Mart is abandoning its Wal Mart Express concept and closing all Wal-Mart Express stores. This...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Oriental Town Board Meeting

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Last night's Town Board meeting saw the swearing in of one new commissioner, Allen Price, and the swearing in of our new mayor, Sally Be...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Oriental's Exciting Election And Casey Stengel's Lament

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Early voting turnout for Tuesday's municipal election in Oriental has been below that of recent years. Only four voters showed up Saturd...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

October 6 Town Board Meeting

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Last Tuesday evening, October 6, the Oriental Town Board held its regular monthly meeting. Attendance was better than normal, because of the...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

Oriental Town Government Incumbency Protection Program 1-3 Today

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In about an hour, in spite of the rain, what the small, uninformative banner at top of the front page of the Pamlico News describes as ...

Sea Level Rise: No, Al Gore Didn't Invent It, It isn't A Hoax, And Now We Can Visualize It

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Thank goodness, the water has gone down. This morning the water level at Oriental is a bit more than 10 inches above normal. If you want t...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

South Avenue: An Odor Of Mendacity

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For the past two years, Town Board members have complained about my suit against the Town, asserting that I should have talked to them inste...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

Disappeared Records Of Closed Sessions

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I haven't written lately about the "disappeared" records. To tell the truth, I am not quite sure where we stand on this. A...
Friday, August 14, 2015

An Old Saying About Deception Comes To Mind

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Fool me once, shame on you.    Fool me twice, shame on me.
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Is It Just Me? Or Is It Something I Said?

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In recent posts, I have raised the problem of missing records of closed sessions of the Town Board relating to South Avenue and Avenue A. ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Town Of Oriental Releases (Some) Records Of South Avenue Closed Meetings

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Last night, a special meeting of the Town of Oriental Board of Commissioners voted to release some of the records of closed meetings concern...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Town Of Oriental Can't Produce Requested Documents

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Interesting Town Board Meeting tonight.  Raised more questions than it answered. 1. Why was the Board in such a hurry that they appointed ...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Cox v. Town Of Oriental: The Real Story

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A lot of nonsense has been promulgated by Oriental Town Government about why I filed suit against the Town over closing of Avenue A and Sout...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Do ItYourself Legal Proceedings

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I don't know, but I've been told that it was Mayor Bill Sage who wrote the Town of Oriental "Press Release" printed on the...
Monday, April 27, 2015

South Avenue And Watergate

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Last month, the Town of Oriental issued a "press release" ostensibly announcing a settlement agreement between me and the Town of ...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Oriental Town Board Official Minutes Of July 3, 2012 Meeting

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For those nitpickers who pay attention to the Oriental Town Board, it may prove enlightening to compare the verbatim record of the Board...