An Outer Banks teen’s take on offshore oil and gas drilling
Offshore drilling has been a hot topic on the Outer Banks. The locals are unanimously against offshore drilling. In fact, I haven’t spoken to anyone in favor of it.
View ArticleKDH mayor weighs in with students on offshore drilling
Can we, with a clear conscience, allow the oil industry to threaten our pristine beaches and marine wildlife all in the name of economic development when most of it will not even benefit our communities?
View ArticleProtest? Self-aggrandizing event is not news
The Kill Devil Hills police department has received a request from a Kansas-based organization to be allowed to protest the morning of June 1 across the street from First Flight High School. That's...
View ArticleDOT claims payments to idle contractor are ‘confidential’
The construction site of the new permanent bridge over the inlet opened by Hurricane Irene in 2011 is a mess. The road is torn up. It's an eyesore as the new tourist season gets underway.
View ArticleCounty needs to work as one on beach, inlet solutions
Raise the sales tax by a quarter of a percent -- 25 cents per hundred dollars -- and dedicate the money to dredging all our inlets and interior waterways, the chairman of the Dare Democratic Party urges.
View ArticleE-mails reveal maneuvering to fund inlet dredging
It was at a meeting of the Oregon Inlet Task Force where we first learned that the Army Corps of Engineers was willing to work with Dare County to keep a dredge working full-time on Oregon Inlet.
View ArticleAction, inaction and overreaction created split over sand
Everyone in Dare County benefits from both an open Oregon Inlet, wider beaches, needed services and good schools, and the moves made by three groups is causing a rift that only existed in the minds of...
View ArticleNo green beans on the Outer Banks? We beg to differ!
A columnist for the newspaper in Albemarle, N.C. was in town recently with his family and apparently didn't find something simple at any establishment where he dined, and we find that impossible to...
View ArticleCoastal Review guest column: The science of shark bites
Unfortunately, sound bites do not lend themselves to proper public communication of science because they are divorced from the process by which scientists reach conclusions.
View ArticleFor GOP in Raleigh, it’s payback time for Dare County
The North Carolina General Assembly is proposing a sweeping change in the way sales taxes are funneled back to the state's counties and cities. And it's a change that would be crippling, scary, a...
View ArticleBattle for control of North Carolina seafood is complicated
The first of a five-part analysis of who is in control, who is being ignored, and who has no voice at all in the management of the state's multi-million dollar resource of finfish and shellfish that...
View ArticleCCA’s small numbers have large grip on N.C. politics, fisheries
This is the second of a five-part series examining who is in control, who is being ignored, and who has no voice at all in the management of the state's multi-million dollar resource of finfish and...
View ArticleHigh rollers, big names back CCA agenda across U.S. & N.C.
In the third of a five-part series, we document how the Coastal Conservation Association small but well-heeled membership has become a powerful influence on the management of fisheries in the United...
View ArticleDisputed fisheries studies: Politics or inexact science?
It would take a few hundred words to demonstrate where science goes off the rails and how other factors, including interest group reactions, exert an influence on what is expected to be an unbiased,...
View ArticleN.C. Bar, KDH attorney out of order in drive to oust judge
A group of non-elected, non-accountable lawyers who are members of a non-profit “business league” are able to overturn an election, remove a judge and thumb their noses at the General Assembly and the...
View ArticleEx-MFC members say don’t cut flounder fishery
Dr. Barbara Garrity-Blake, Jess H. Hawkins, III, Edward L. Mann, Sr., William T. (Rusty) Russ, and Dr. Allyn Powell penned a letter saying there isn't enough proof that the N.C. Marine Fisheries...
View ArticleE-mail shows info was leaked to officials during Britt probe
The e-mail also suggests that the town and League of Municipality officials had decided to move against Superior Court Judge Jerry R. Tillett before the pan el investigating the KDH police chief was...
View ArticleE-mail suggests League might have swayed D.A. on Britt
The same e-mail that reveals leaks from an investigation into the management practices of KDH Police Chief Gary Britt also suggests a different scenario of why then-District Attorney Frank Parrish...
View ArticleFormer KDH mayor questions town on Tillett, Merrell
My question now is, when did the Board of Commissioners direct the Town Attorney to send the e-mail and file the complaint and did the Board support the employee time, energy and expense in pursuing...
View ArticleAnother view: Tillett story gained traction on slippery facts
The officer performed a search of the car and occupants for drugs and found nothing, as did a second officer with a K-9 unit. No crime had been committed and so no charges were pressed.
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