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Onslow County: Pollard Pay Problem Polled then Padlocked

The Jacksonville Daily News website has a poll related to the Register of Deeds pay controversy. Go vote. It’s fun. It appears that the Onslow County Board of Commissioners has no interest in discussing Becky Pollard’s pay during their December 15th meeting. Says Commission Chairman W.C. Jarman: "It is not on the tentative agenda and as [...]

Onslow County: Former State Senator Tommy Pollard Pushing to Get Wife a Raise

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 [...]

Guest Post: Lindell Kay’s Rogue Post

(Note from Thomas Brock: What follows is a guest post from Lindell Kay. Read more of Lindell’s writing at the Jacksonville Daily News and at his blog, Off the Cuff.) My father, soon to be 79, has only one testicle. He has never disclosed to me exactly how that came about. In fact, it took [...]

New Bern Sun Journal: End of Man on a Bike

I’ve gotten word from Justin Schoenberger that the New Bern Sun Journal’s “Man on a Bike” online column has come to an end. Unfortunately with his workload at the Kinston Free Press, he’s not able to spend a lot of time on the bicycle. Schoenberger has a great writing style and has had quite a [...]

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