The Onslow County Board of Commissioners wishes all the County residents a happy holiday.
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Lindell Kay has a new article at the Jacksonville Daily News about the very public drama over Register of Deeds Becky Pollard’s pay.
In the article, Pollard claims that his “research” into other Registers of Deeds’ salaries was an attempt to ensure that Pollard (who has zero experience as a Register of Deeds) maintained the level [...]
Even before Ms. Becky Pollard was sworn in as Onslow County’s Register of Deeds, her husband, former State Senator and former member of the NC Department of Transportation Board, Tommy Pollard was lobbying the Onslow County Board of Commissioners to give his wife a raise.
Lindell Kay reports in the Jacksonville Daily News:
Tommy Pollard passed out [...]
It’s been 4 days since Election Day. I haven’t updated the Elections Page, but I will. There’s just been a lot to process (politically and otherwise) for me.
Senator Barack Obama won by a pretty large margin (his 53% to McCain’s 46%). Check out President-Elect Obama’s Transition Office’s website for more information on his transition staff and [...]
President:
Obama/Biden (DEM) 44.34% 13,034
McCain/Palin (REP) 55.02% 16,174
Senate:
Kay Hagan (DEM) 46.50% 13,414
Elizabeth Dole (REP) 49.28% 14,215
U.S. House NC-03:
Craig Weber (DEM) 40.22% 11,421
Walter B. Jones (REP) 59.78% 16,972
NC Governor:
Bev Perdue (DEM) 55.07% 15,872
Pat McCrory (REP) 41.33% 11,913
Onslow Commissioners: (following 5 are in the lead)
Padgett
Ikner
Wright
Jarman
Midgett
Sales Tax Referendum:
FOR 43.26% 11,239
AGAINST 56.74% 14,744
We all know Tuesday is Election Day here in the U.S. I’m sure it’s an election that the world will be watching, as well as very nervous Americans.
I’ll be posting frequent updates here (probably every half-hour to hour) and will be Twittering updates as well.
The races I’ll be paying particular attention to are:
President of the [...]
North Carolina’s early voting period begins Thursday (October 16th).
The Onslow County Board of Elections will have four sites maintained for the early voting period:
Jacksonville Commons Rec. Center
Swansboro Middle School Annex
Tar Landing Baptist Church
Verona Fire Station
These locations will be open from 8:00am to 5:00pm on weekdays and on Saturday (November 1st) from 8:00am to 1:00pm. [...]
The Swansboro Chamber of Commerce is hosting the candidates for election to the Onslow County Board of Commissioners tomorrow evening from 7 PM to 9 PM in the Assembly Hall of the Town Hall located at 502 Church Street.
According to the Jacksonville Daily News report, the audience will be able to submit questions and there [...]
I’d like to send the candidates running for the Onslow County Board of Commissioners a questionnaire (hopefully to be answered by election day).
Here are some of the questions I have:
The Onslow County Board of Commissioners and the City Council of Jacksonville have not been able to work well together in recent years. Would you [...]
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 [...]
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