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Brunswick Beacon, 08.10.23 Americans are doing better financially than they were before the pandemic, and you can chalk much of this up...

Brunswick Beacon, 08.03.23 The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced a bold partnership with attorneys...

Brunswick Beacon, 07.20.23 Don’t look now, but Bidenomics is working. Just released figures for June show that inflation is “rapidly...

Brunswick Beacon, 07.20.23 America’s middle class is shrinking. It accounted for 61% of households in 1971, but only 50% of households in...

Progress is a double-edged sword. To some, progress represents opportunity and hope. But others feel differently. “There are people in...

Click on the link to view President Biden's latest ad, featuring -- Marjorie Taylor Greene! https://youtube.com/shorts/y1Rwwb6Qaas?featur...

Brunswick Beacon, 07.13.23 When you think of infrastructure, what comes to mind? Crumbling bridges? Overcrowded interstate highway...

BCDP PRESS RELEASE July 14, 2023 A Bill Suspending Leland’s Annexation Authority Was Just Approved by the State Legislature On July 12,...

Brunswick Beacon, 06.29.23 System development, or impact fees, are charges imposed on new developments to help fund the necessary...

Brunswick Beacon, 06.01.23 The recently passed NC House and Senate budgets take money away from North Carolina’s public schools. These...

Brunswick Beacon, 05.25.23 I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to live under an authoritarian Republican Taliban rule. The...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently announced it will take up a case that could, depending on how it rules, upend governance in America. The...

Budgets approved by governing bodies at all levels are usually measures of how needs will be met. But the budget MAGA Republicans in the...

05.23.23 From the North Carolina Democratic Party: Governor Cooper declared a State of Emergency for public education in North Carolina,...

Brunswick Beacon, 05.18.23 That’s one of many memorable lines from “Casablanca,” perhaps the best movie ever made. In one scene, a couple...

State Port Pilot, 05.17.23 It is noted in the Bible that “No one can serve two masters. Either you hate the one and love the other, …” A...

State Port Pilot, 05.10.23 Want to start an argument in a hurry? Mention a local development project in Brunswick County. You’ll open a...

State Port Pilot, 04.26.23 I am concerned regarding the aggressive development happening in Brunswick County. It seems that everywhere I...

Brunswick Beacon, 04.06.23 A set of bills put forward in the NC legislature would take away NC towns’ traditional rights to control local...

State Port Pilot, 04.05.23 This newspaper recently reported on a set of bills put forward in the N.C. legislature which would take away...