By: Hood Richardson I remember when students were taught by both their families and the education system, to respect all who worked in law enforcement. We were told they were there to protect us as individuals, and society in general, from the bad guys. In those days the “bad guys’ were almost always men. We were taught that the law was necessary for us to have a happy, productive, civilized life, and we need to respect those who took the risk of working in law enforcement. I still believe all of this and I believe very strongly that it is the duty of the schools to continue to teach these values.
BY: Hood Richardson I have written and spoken a lot more about North Carolina’s “Open Meetings Laws”, ethics, honesty, and back room deals than I have wanted to. But, it seems, the more I write the worse things get. The last 30 minutes of the April Beaufort County Commissioners meeting glaringly focused on and brought into full public light what I have complained about for the last five years. The back room deal. Based on questions posed by this writer, it is obvious that the Chairman of our Board, Frankie Waters, and some of the staff are clueless about ethical standards. The dictionary defines ethics as “Moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conditions of an activity”. Our moral standards in our western society come mostly from biblical teachings and our laws.
BY: Hood Richardson I have written and spoken a lot more about North Carolina’s “Open Meetings Laws”, ethics, honesty, and back room deals than I have wanted to. But, it seems, the more I write the worse things get. The last 30 minutes of the April Beaufort County Commissioners meeting glaringly focused on and brought into full public light what I have complained about for the last five years. The back room deal. Based on questions posed by this writer, it is obvious that the Chairman of our Board, Frankie Waters, and some of the staff are clueless about ethical standards. The dictionary defines ethics as “Moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conditions of an activity”. Our moral standards in our western society come mostly from biblical teachings and our laws.
BY: Hood Richardson A proposal will be made at the Monday April 5 Beaufort County Commissioners meeting to install internet wiring to serve 690 presumed customers at a cost to the County of 7.2 million dollars. That is a cost to Beaufort County taxpayers of $10,400 per home. This brilliant idea comes from the stimulus appropriation made by the Federal Government to Beaufort County of 9.2 million dollars which should arrive later this year. Citizens of the County should be very concerned that the insiders on the Board of County Commissioners have already decided how to spend this money. They did this with no input from the people we commissioners are supposed to serve.
This issue of continued bad Democratic Socialist political behavior, to the detriment of our society and our children, appears to remain a lesser issue for a majority of Beaufort County s commissioners at the March 1, 2021 general meeting. It was my vision, my words, North Carolina s great problem, the general assembly s senate initiative, and our state s Democratic Socialist Governor s negligence in favor of political expediency, while Beaufort County s Commissioners just could not make a suitable stand to do what is immutably right. Instead, Beaufort County s governing board opted for a watered down version of a partial truth, and in the end will probably fail to make any difference whatsoever.