Bloviations

While the City of Jacksonville has a ginormous budget (and the debt to go with it), the Onslow County Board of Commissioners chose to cut back and pull funds from the reserve account.
The Jacksonville Daily News reports.
The commissioners were presented a budget plan that called for increasing the tax rate from 50.3 cents per [...]

According the New Bern Sun Journal, the U.S. Navy has narrowed the field of candidate counties to two in Northeastern NC and 3 in Virginia.
The Navy has now narrowed the search to five sites: Hale’s Lake in Camden/Currituck counties, Sandbanks in Gates County and three Virginia locations.
“These five alternative sites … will be fully evaluated [...]