Macon County Commissioners 05-31-2012 Budget Work Session III

**12.04am** Here is the audio of the meeting: Download MP3 The video will take a bit longer because a storm is coming and I don't want to risk processing the video and having the power go out. **note** I will post the audio and video of this meeting on this article as soon after the meeting as I can. The Macon county Commissioners will be having their third budget worksession tonight at 6pm. The Director of the Macon County Health...

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Mitt Romney Clinches Republican Nomination with Landslide Win in Texas

As of last night, with 69% of the vote in Texas, Governor Mitt Romney has secured enough delegates to clinch the nomination to be the candidate of the Republican Party in the 2012 general election. His campaign released the following statement last night: Today, Mitt Romney released the following statement on clinching the required number of delegates for the Republican nomination. “I am honored that Americans across the country have given...

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Memorial Day 2012 is Observed in Franklin, NC

When confronted with the enormity of the sacrifice of those who gave their lives for our nation, we realize that there is nothing we can do to balance the books of our debt to these people. All we can do is be grateful and remember them. This video, accompanied by a few photos, is a documentation of the effort of the American Legion Post 108, with the assistance of other Veterans Organizations in Macon County, to remember those who gave that last...

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A Grateful Nation Pauses on Memorial Day

 "It is the Soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us Freedom of the Press. It is the Soldier, not the poet, Who has given us Freedom of Speech. It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer, Who has given us the Freedom to demonstrate. It is the Soldier, not the lawyer, Who has given us the right to a fair trial; And it is the Soldier--who salutes the flag, Who serves the flag, and Whose coffin is draped by the flag-- Who allows the...

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Gone Fishing

Not really, but the sentiment is the same. I'll be behind the scenes, trying to catch up on editing video from meetings I've been unable to post the video for in the past few weeks without having to worry about adding posts here simultaneously. Regular posting will resume on late Sunday or early Monday. Don't forget to make plans to attend the Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday morning at the Veterans Memorial Park on US441 next to the Community...

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Speed Limit: 5 MPH

Sometimes, slower is better. (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); ...

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Memorial Poppies on Main Street

Lt Colonel John Crawford, USAF (ret) gives memorial poppies in exchange for contributions on Main Street in Franklin, NC The use of the poppy was inspired by the World War I poem "In Flanders Fields". Its opening lines refer to the many poppies that were the first flowers to grow in the churned-up earth of soldiers' graves in Flanders, a region of Europe that overlies parts of Belgium and France.[1] Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel...

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Macon County Commissioners 05-23-2012 Budget Work Session II

The Macon County Commissioners will be meeting today at 3:30pm.  Several Chiefs of the local volunteer fire departments and the Director of the County IT Dept will be present to provide information on their budget requests.  The commissioners will also continue going over the recommended budget (which is embedded below and downloadable) beginning at the Animal Control section. I will be there, tweeting from the meeting using the...

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Macon County Commissioners 05-21-2012 Budget Work Session I

The Macon county Commissioners met last night at about the same time as the Franklin Town Board of Aldermen and I covered that meeting first [see coverage of that meeting], then when it was over, joined the budget work session of the Macon County Commissioners at about 7:30pm for the last half of that meeting. I have embedded the audio below, along with a link so that you may download it to your computer or MP3 Player and listen at your convenience....

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NC General Assembly for 05-22-2012

The North Carolina General Assembly [link] will convene today. The NC Senate [link] and the NC House [link] are scheduled to meet today. I have posted the calendar of scheduled legislative activity along with links to where you can listen online to our state legislators as they go about their tasks. I do not plan on listening or recording today, save for the Hackney and Stam Pressers, which no one else seems to be posting online. Another...

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