Bloviations

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 far [...]

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 [...]

(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 me [...]

Lindell Kay isn’t my biggest fan and, frankly, I’m not a big fan of his writing or public speaking abilities. But he’s getting some flack on his blog that he really doesn’t deserve.
It started when Kay blogged about the autopsy for a home-free fellow that was murdered along some railroad tracks in Jacksonville in June. [...]