The Empty Tomb

Matthew Chapter 28 He Is Risen 1 Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. 2 And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it. 3 His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. 4 And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead...

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Franklin Aldermen April 2013 Meeting Agenda

The Franklin Town Board of Aldermen will be having their regular monthly meeting on Monday, April 1, 2013 at 7pm. No comment regarding that they're meeting on April Fool's Day. I will be there to cover the meeting and will post a link to my live play by play just prior to the meeting. The agenda and a downloadable press kit for the meeting is below for your convenience and in the interest of keeping our elected officials accountable to the...

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Macon County Planning Board 03-18-2013 Flood Ordinance Discussion

The Macon County Planning Board met yesterday and began discussions on whether or not to revise the county flood plain ordinance [county ordinances] at the request of the Macon County Commissioners. I have included downloadable copies of the agenda and the current flood plain ordinance below the video. Also, I was late to this meeting by about thirty minutes, so I missed the introduction of the current task assigned the board by the county commissioners....

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Macon County Board of Education March 2013 Budget Work Session and Regular Meeting

xx The Macon County Board of Education held a budget work session and their regular monthly meeting in Highlands on Monday night. Here is video of both of those meetings. Video of the budget work session that took place before the regular monthly meeting, along with a copy of the latest list of possible reductions embedded below. Possible Reductions to the 2013-14 Current Expense Budget by Thunder Pig The regular March 2013 meeting of the...

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Macon County Sheriff Department Operation Medicine Drop Scheduled for Saturday, March 23rd

PRESS RELEASESheriff Robert L. Holland (828) 349-2152Macon County Sheriff’s Office (828) 349-2104Detention Center (828) 349-2263Crime Stoppers (828) 349-2600 Visit our agency website for updates and additional information:http://maconnc.org/sheriff-press-releases.html DATE: March 19, 2013 OPERATION MEDICINE DROP The Macon County Sheriff’s Office, Highlands Police Department and Franklin Police...

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School Superintendent Releases Revised List of Possible Budget Reductions

Here is an updated list of possible budget reductions put out by the Superintendent of the Macon County School System, Dr Jim Duncan. He intends to present this list to the Board of Education at the monthly meeting this coming Monday. I will be filming that meeting. This list updates the previous list I have posted at this link. I have embedded a downloadable copy for your convenience. Possible Reductions to the 2013-14 Current Expense Budg...

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Macon County Commissioners Meeting Agenda 03-12-2013

**9.55pm** Here is the video of the meeting: The Macon County Commissioners will be meeting tonight at 6pm in the Macon County Courthouse. I have embedded a downloadable copy of the 137 page agenda for your convenience. I will post a link on this article later in the day to my nearly live play by play of the meeting, so check back by around 5pm or so. Macon County Commissioners 03-12-2013 Agenda by Thunder Pig...

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NC General Assembly 03-12-2013

If I cover today's sessions, I will embed the audio here at the top of this post. The current session of the North Carolina General Assembly is underway. Both NC Senate and NC House will be in session today, as well as rules committees of both houses, details of which are posted below. The NC General assembly has also introduced a new feature called the Chamber Dashboard that allows citizens to follow what is going on in the chambers in real...

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Franklin TDA 03-11-2013

The Franklin Tourism Development Authority met last night at 5.30pm in the Town Hall. The TDA tabled all funding requests/decisions until the April meeting, except agreeing to fund Tony Angel Media on a month to month basis until the start of the next fiscal year, then they would agree to an annual contract. The board voted to recommend Cheryl Pullium to the Franklin Aldermen as an acceptable person to fill one of the three vacancies on the TDA...

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The Rand Paul Filibuster of March 6, 3013

Yesterday, for more than twelve hours, US Senator Rand Paul filibustered the nomination of John Brennan to the post of Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Why? Mainly because President Obama refused to clarify an answer to the question, "Does President Obama believe he can order the killing of an American citizen, on American soil, based on nothing more than his own judgment that the person is a threat?" [Click to read more] The White...

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Press Release: Tubular Products Manufacturer to Locate in Macon County

**1.55pm** Even the Governor is getting in on the act. Scroll down for a press release from the Governor's Office. Via a press release from Tommy Jenkins, Director of the Macon County Economic Development Commission: Tubular Products Manufacturer to Locate in Macon County Franklin Tubular Products Inc, a manufacturer of manipulated tubular assemblies, will locate operations in Macon County. A subsidiary of Tricorn Group PLC, the company...

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Franklin Aldermen 03-04-2013

**10.42am** Here is the video of the meeting: Well, it's that time again. The Franklin Town Board of Aldermen are meeting and I'll be there to provide a nearly live play by play of the meeting on G+ and on Fakebook. I am still recovering from the flu, so don't expect me to be at 100% capacity just yet. After the meeting, I'll work on getting a gavel-to-gavel video of the meeting up by sometime Tuesday around noon. I have the short...

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Private Company to Launch Second Supply Mission to the International Space Station Today

The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch an unmanned Dragon space capsule to the International Space Station today on it's second cargo delivery mission for NASA and you can follow the mission live via this video player or, if you have NASA TV on your Satellite or Cable System, you can watch there. For Roku Users, there is a NASA TV App that will allow you to watch the launch live also. The live coverage begins at 8.30am on...

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