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They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\nWhy does local Law Enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to go out with signs showing support? Is it because the Internet is full of horrifying videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and even killing innocent citizens? Is it because LEOs use powerful, often unlawful technologies like \'Stingrays\' to collect private information and data on each and every citizen regardless of whether they are suspected of committing a crime? Is it because LEOs routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> as they go about their business, in a supposed effort to reign in crime?\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <strong>stolen</strong> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <strong>seized</strong>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police.</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators. Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect them?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy? Are our Police unwittingly allowing themselves to become mafia style enforcers, making sure we don\'t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often former military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important, fundamental differences as well. Those drawn to military and law enforcement service, generally speaking, prefer Order over the Anarchy that Individual Freedom and unfettered Self Expression frequently engender. This preference for Order works well in the military, but can make it difficult when trying to achieve that right balance between Order and the Rights of individuals in a free, open society. LEOs must walk a fine line if they are to serve those they\'ve sworn to serve and protect. This has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are Just, Lawful or Constitutional. There\'s and old saying: \"<strong>There are two things you don’t want to see being made, sausage and politics\"</strong>.\r\n\r\nDid you know most legislation isn\'t written by the legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of wealthy families and large corporations? Many Legislators routinely vote for Bills they\'ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the law and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we as voters don\'t insist our Legislators give them clear directions they can reasonably be expected to follow and implement?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local Law Enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear and sophisticated surveillance devices. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Police and Soldiers going off to war.\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and LEOs with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <strong>on and off</strong> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <strong>edit footage</strong> to make sure the video fits the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by the Scotland County Sheriff’s Department, and quite frankly, came away disappointed. There appears little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to remain a free people in an open society.\r\n\r\nDeputies appear interested in manipulating the public instead of doing the hard work needed to successfully address long festering issues. Recent training efforts appear designed to better enable Officers to deflect public concern.\r\n\r\nNot only are our Police and Sheriff taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to buy the latest gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment, they are in return allowing, and even encouraging Federal agencies to come into the area and do whatever they want with no oversight. <strong>This is extremely short sighted and potentially very dangerous.</strong>\r\n\r\nLauringburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and County Sheriff Ralph Kersey exist to serve and protect us, not Washington DC schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nSeveral attempts have been made to contact Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding issues, but no response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1381, 1, '2016-04-06 18:45:49', '2016-04-06 18:45:49', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"we-support-our-police\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" />\r\n\r\n(Pic) This is Part 3 of a series focusing on the role our Police and Sheriff departments play, as we quest for solutions to failing communities, severely depressed economies and a rising tide of violent crime.\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us. Their service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of sign at Jerry\'s Deli)</span> Why does local Law Enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs showing support?\r\n\r\nIs it because the Internet is full of horrifying videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and even killing innocent citizens?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs use powerful, often unlawful technologies like \'Stingrays\' to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every citizen</strong> regardless of whether they are suspected of committing a crime?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> as they go about their business, in a supposed effort to reign in crime?\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police.</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect them?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy? Are our Police allowing themselves to become mafia style enforcers, making sure we don\'t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often former military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important, fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that individual freedom and self expression frequently engender. This preference works well in the military, but can make it difficult when trying to achieve that <em>right balance</em> that\'s required if we are to maintain a <em>free</em> and <em>open</em> society. LEOs must walk a fine line if they are to truly <em>serve and protect</em>. This has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l. <em><strong>T</strong><strong><em>h</em>ere are two things you don’t want to see being made, sausage and politics</strong></em>.\r\n\r\nDid you know most legislation isn\'t written by the legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of wealthy families and large corporations? Many Legislators routinely vote for Bills they\'ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we as voters don\'t insist our Legislators give them a clear directions to follow?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local Law Enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear and sophisticated surveillance devices. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Police and Soldiers going off to war.\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and LEOs with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <strong>on and off</strong> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <strong>edit footage</strong> to make sure the video fits the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by the Scotland County Sheriff’s Department, and quite frankly, came away disappointed. There appears little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to remain a free people in an open society.\r\n\r\nDeputies appear interested in manipulating the public instead of doing the hard work needed to successfully address long festering issues. Recent training efforts appear designed to better enable Officers to deflect public concern.\r\n\r\nNot only are our Police and Sheriff taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to buy the latest gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment, they are in return allowing, and even encouraging Federal agencies to come into the area and do whatever they want with no oversight. <strong>This is extremely short sighted and potentially very dangerous.</strong>\r\n\r\nLauringburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and County Sheriff Ralph Kersey exist to serve and protect us, not Washington DC schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nSeveral attempts have been made to contact Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding issues, but no response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1382, 1, '2016-04-06 19:11:24', '2016-04-06 19:11:24', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"we-support-our-police\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" />\r\n\r\n(Pic) This is Part 3 of a series focusing on the role our Police and Sheriff departments play, as we quest for solutions to failing communities, severely depressed economies and a rising tide of violent crime.\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us. Their service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of sign at Jerry\'s Deli)</span> Why does local Law Enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nIs it because the Internet is full of horrifying videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and even killing innocent citizens?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs use powerful, often unlawful technologies like \'Stingrays\' to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every citizen</strong> regardless of whether they are suspected of committing a crime?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> as they go about their business, in a supposed effort to clamp down on crime?\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police.</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy? Are LEOs allowing themselves to become mafia style enforcers, making sure we don\'t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often former military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that individual freedom and self expression can engender. This preference works well in the military, but can make it difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> required to maintain a <em>free</em> and <em>open</em> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. This has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l. <em><strong>T</strong><strong><em>h</em>ere are two things you don’t want to see being made, sausage and politics</strong></em>.\r\n\r\nDid you know most legislation isn\'t written by the legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of wealthy families and large corporations? Many Legislators routinely vote for Bills they\'ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we as voters don\'t insist our Legislators give them a clear set of directions to follow?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local Law Enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest in <em>crowd control</em> to quell free speech and the right to petition government for grievances. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war.\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and LEOs with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <em>on and off</em> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <em>edit footage</em> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by the Scotland County Sheriff’s Department, and quite frankly, came away very disappointed. There appears to be little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to remain a free people in an open society.\r\n\r\nDeputies appear more interested in manipulating the public than doing the hard work necessary to successfully address long festering issues.\r\n\r\nIt\'s bad enough that local Law Enforcement is taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to buy gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment, worse yet, they are allowing, and even encouraging Federal agencies to come into the area and do whatever they want with no oversight. <strong>This is extremely short sighted and potentially very dangerous.</strong>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement is here to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington DC schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to contact Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. No response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of sign at Jerry\'s Deli)</span> Why does local Law Enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nIs it because the Internet is full of horrifying videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and even killing innocent citizens?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs use powerful, often unlawful technologies like \'Stingrays\' to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every citizen</strong> regardless of whether they are suspected of committing a crime?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> as they go about their business, in a supposed effort to clamp down on crime?\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police.</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy? Are LEOs allowing themselves to become mafia style enforcers, making sure we don\'t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often former military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that individual freedom and self expression can engender. This preference works well in the military, but can make it difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> required to maintain a <em>free</em> and <em>open</em> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. This has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l. <em><strong>T</strong><strong><em>h</em>ere are two things you don’t want to see being made, sausage and politics</strong></em>.\r\n\r\nDid you know most legislation isn\'t written by the legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of wealthy families and large corporations? Many Legislators routinely vote for Bills they\'ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we as voters don\'t insist our Legislators give them a clear set of directions to follow?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local Law Enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest in <em>crowd control</em> to quell free speech and the right to petition government for grievances. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war.\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and LEOs with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <em>on and off</em> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <em>edit footage</em> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by the Scotland County Sheriff’s Department, and quite frankly, came away very disappointed. There appears to be little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to remain a free people in an open society.\r\n\r\nDeputies appear more interested in manipulating the public than doing the hard work necessary to successfully address long festering issues.\r\n\r\nIt\'s bad enough that local Law Enforcement is taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to buy gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment, worse yet, they are allowing, and even encouraging Federal agencies to come into the area and do whatever they want with no oversight. <strong>This is extremely short sighted and potentially very dangerous.</strong>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement is here to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington DC schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to contact Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. No response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1384, 1, '2016-04-06 19:19:53', '2016-04-06 19:19:53', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"we-support-our-police\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" />\r\n\r\n(Pic) This is Part 3 of a series focusing on the role our Police and Sheriff departments play, as we quest for solutions to failing communities, severely depressed economies and a rising tide of violent crime.\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us. Their service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of sign at Jerry\'s Deli)</span> Why does local law enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nIs it because the Internet is full of horrifying videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and even killing innocent citizens?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs use powerful, often unlawful technologies like \'Stingrays\' to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every one of us, </strong>regardless of whether we are suspected of committing a crime?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> as they go about their business, in a supposed effort to clamp down on crime?\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police.</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy? Are LEOs allowing themselves to become mafia style enforcers, making sure we don\'t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often former military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that individual freedom and self expression can engender. This preference works well in the military, but can make it difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> required to maintain a <em>free</em> and <em>open</em> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. This has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l. <em><strong>T</strong><strong><em>h</em>ere are two things you don’t want to see being made, sausage and politics</strong></em>.\r\n\r\nDid you know most legislation isn\'t written by the legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of wealthy families and large corporations? Many Legislators routinely vote for Bills they\'ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we as voters don\'t insist our Legislators give them a clear set of directions to follow?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local Law Enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest in <em>crowd control</em> to quell free speech and the right to petition government for grievances. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war.\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and LEOs with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <em>on and off</em> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <em>edit footage</em> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by the Scotland County Sheriff’s Department, and quite frankly, came away very disappointed. There appears to be little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to remain a free people in an open society.\r\n\r\nDeputies appear more interested in manipulating the public than doing the hard work necessary to successfully address long festering issues.\r\n\r\nIt\'s bad enough that local Law Enforcement is taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to buy gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment, worse yet, they are allowing, and even encouraging Federal agencies to come into the area and do whatever they want with no oversight. <strong>This is extremely short sighted and potentially very dangerous.</strong>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement is here to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington DC schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to contact Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. No response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1385, 1, '2016-04-06 19:26:33', '2016-04-06 19:26:33', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"we-support-our-police\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" />\r\n\r\n(Pic) This is Part 3 of a series focusing on the role our Police and Sheriff departments play, as we quest for solutions to failing communities, severely depressed economies and a rising tide of violent crime.\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us. Their service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of sign at Jerry\'s Deli)</span> Why does local law enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nIs it because the Internet is full of horrifying videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and even killing innocent citizens?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs use powerful, often unlawful technologies like \'Stingrays\' to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every one of us, </strong>regardless of whether we are suspected of committing a crime?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> as they go about their business, in a supposed effort to clamp down on crime?\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police.</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy? Are LEOs allowing themselves to become mafia style enforcers, making sure we don\'t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often former military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that individual freedom and self expression can engender. This preference works well in the military, but can make it difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> required to maintain a <em>free</em> and <em>open</em> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. This has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l. <em><strong>T</strong><strong><em>h</em>ere are two things you don’t want to see being made, sausage and politics</strong></em>.\r\n\r\nDid you know most legislation isn\'t written by the legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of wealthy families and large corporations? Many Legislators routinely vote for Bills they\'ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we as voters don\'t insist our Legislators give them a clear set of directions to follow?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local Law Enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest in <em>crowd control</em> (to quell free speech and the right to petition government for grievances). It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war.\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and LEOs with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <em>on and off</em> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <em>edit footage</em> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by the Scotland County Sheriff’s Department, and quite frankly, came away very disappointed. There appears to be little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to remain a free people in an open society.\r\n\r\nDeputies appear more interested in manipulating the public than doing the hard work necessary to successfully address long festering issues.\r\n\r\nIt\'s bad enough that local Law Enforcement is taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to buy gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment, worse yet, they are allowing, and even encouraging Federal agencies to come into the area and do whatever they want with no oversight. <em><strong>This is extremely short sighted and potentially very dangerous.</strong></em>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement is here to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington DC schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to contact Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. No response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1386, 1, '2016-04-06 19:27:11', '2016-04-06 19:27:11', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"we-support-our-police\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" />\r\n\r\n(Pic) This is Part 3 of a series focusing on the role our Police and Sheriff departments play, as we quest for solutions to failing communities, severely depressed economies and a rising tide of violent crime.\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us. Their service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of sign at Jerry\'s Deli)</span> Why does local law enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nIs it because the Internet is full of horrifying videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and even killing innocent citizens?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs use powerful, often unlawful technologies like \'Stingrays\' to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every one of us, </strong>regardless of whether we are suspected of committing a crime?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> as they go about their business, in a supposed effort to clamp down on crime?\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police.</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy? Are LEOs allowing themselves to become mafia style enforcers, making sure we don\'t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often former military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that individual freedom and self expression can engender. This preference works well in the military, but can make it difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> required to maintain a <em>free</em> and <em>open</em> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. This has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l. <em><strong>T</strong><strong><em>h</em>ere are two things you don’t want to see being made, sausage and politics</strong></em>.\r\n\r\nDid you know most legislation isn\'t written by the legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of wealthy families and large corporations? Many Legislators routinely vote for Bills they\'ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we as voters don\'t insist our Legislators give them a clear set of directions to follow?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local Law Enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest in <em>crowd control</em> (to quell free speech and the right to petition government for grievances). It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war.\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and LEOs with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. 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There appears to be little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to remain a free people in an open society.\r\n\r\nDeputies appear more interested in manipulating the public than doing the hard work necessary to successfully address long festering issues.\r\n\r\nIt\'s bad enough that local Law Enforcement is taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to buy gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment, worse yet, they are allowing, and even encouraging Federal agencies to come into the area and do whatever they want with no oversight. <em><strong>This is extremely short sighted and potentially very dangerous.</strong></em>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement is here to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington DC schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to contact Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. No response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1387, 3, '2016-04-07 01:00:32', '2016-04-07 05:00:32', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1419 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Block-Williams-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Block &amp; Williams\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" />Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s meme, <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its \'Needs Assessment\'. While it\'s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</a></span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scotland County’s New School</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-mired-in-depression-part-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scotland County Mired in Depression (Part 1)</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'Mayor & Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears?', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'mayor-police-chief-poised-to-shift-gears', '', '\nhttp://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks', '2019-03-12 13:35:13', '2019-03-12 17:35:13', '', 0, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/?p=1387', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1388, 3, '2016-04-07 13:07:03', '2016-04-07 13:07:03', '(PIC)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dieter - Start Here, don\'t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: ____ INSERT LINK\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Mayor & Police Chief Walk Through Aids \'', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 13:07:03', '2016-04-07 13:07:03', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1389, 3, '2016-04-07 13:13:49', '2016-04-07 13:13:49', '(PIC)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dieter - Start Here, don\'t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\nLE ARTICLE:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n_ _ _ _ _\r\n\r\nEND OF LE ARTICLE\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Mayor & Police Chief Walk Through Aids \'', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 13:13:49', '2016-04-07 13:13:49', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1390, 3, '2016-04-07 13:17:14', '2016-04-07 13:17:14', '(PIC)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dieter - Start Here, don\'t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Mayor & Police Chief Walk Through Aids \'', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 13:17:14', '2016-04-07 13:17:14', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1391, 3, '2016-04-07 13:18:17', '2016-04-07 13:18:17', '(PIC)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dieter - Start Here, don\'t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1392, 3, '2016-04-08 01:00:29', '2016-04-08 05:00:29', '<img class=\" wp-image-1427 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/no-paypal-300x156.png\" alt=\"no-paypal\" width=\"279\" height=\"145\" />The City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their \"gender identity\". The State Legislature responded by passing the \'Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act\', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That\'s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as part of its its mission, allowing men into women’s and little girl\'s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a \'Global Operations Center\' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal\'s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal\'s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to \'punish\' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal\'s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,\" further stating that the \"new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Williams Institute</a></span>, only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls\' restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtstlx96s8M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NWO pedophilia</a></span> is already rampant and growing throughout our country? Pedophiles already have access to our little boys and now you want them to have access to our girls too?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn\'t really about the rights of transgenders, who should and do have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture that\'s meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work of completely reordering our society gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty, constructing a police state that threatens to destroy our nation and enslave us.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don\'t need your stinkin\' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New American</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/facebook-seeks-trump-assassination/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Supports Trump Assassination</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1393, 3, '2016-04-07 13:28:58', '2016-04-07 13:28:58', '(PIC)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dieter - Start Here, don\'t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: ____ INSERT LINK\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - NC Relieved From Big Corporate Bullying', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1392-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 13:28:58', '2016-04-07 13:28:58', '', 1392, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1392-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1396, 3, '2016-04-07 14:30:45', '2016-04-07 14:30:45', '(PIC) [INSERT TEXT]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - NC Fights Back Against Big Corporate Bullying', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1392-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 14:30:45', '2016-04-07 14:30:45', '', 1392, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1392-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1397, 3, '2016-04-07 14:32:59', '2016-04-07 14:32:59', '(PIC) [INSERT TEXT]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\">The New American</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><center></center><address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - NC Fights Back Against Big Corporate Bullying', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1392-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 14:32:59', '2016-04-07 14:32:59', '', 1392, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1392-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1398, 3, '2016-04-07 14:46:29', '2016-04-07 14:46:29', '(PIC)\r\n\r\nAs many of you know, the city of Charlotte recently passed a city ordinance that would have allowed individuals to select the restroom of their \"gender identity\". As a result, the state legislature passed a new law, the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, overturning the Charlotte ordinance. In other words, the law would not allow grown men to use the same restrooms as young girls.\r\n\r\nWell, the ruling elites and big corporate bullies decided they don\'t like state government resisting their progressive policies, implemented largely by the lure of their big money, and decided to \'punish\' North Carolina.\r\n\r\nPayPal, a company well-known for its support of LGBT causes, has chosen to punish the state of North Carolina for its new law, the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, designed to protect the rights of North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. Yes, PayPal, whose service purportedly provides a secure way of paying for goods over the Internet, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl\'s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms\r\n\r\nThe corporate giant PayPal, well-known for its support of LGBT causes, is purportedly cancelling plans to open a global operations center in Charlotte, after the passage of the law that PayPal declares is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claim to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). The move by PayPal may cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal\'s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decidion by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to \'punish\' North Carolina, and other states implementing similar laws, comes from other big bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 compaines have banded together in protest of the law.\r\n\r\nPayPal\'s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,\" further stating that the \"new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the Williams Institute (LINK: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf), only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant access to grown men access to little girls in restrooms across the nation when pedophelia is rampant in our country? They already have access to the little boys and now you want them to have access to the girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn\'t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the real dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything in their power to keep us entertained and distracted. Don\'t fall for it. Stay focused on what\'s really important, what is causing the real destruction of our way of life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: we don\'t need your stinkin\' progressive ideas infecting our state or any other state. Thank you for voicing your stance. We have confirmed you are on the correct list for boycotting and hopefully putting you out of business as citizens devise workarounds to your services. Think it can\'t happen? Watch as Monsanto continues is ever increasing decline into the abyss.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco or Seattle, build your global operations center there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\">The New American</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - NC Fights Back Against Big Corporate Bullying', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1392-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 14:46:29', '2016-04-07 14:46:29', '', 1392, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1392-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1399, 1, '2016-04-07 14:54:00', '2016-04-07 14:54:00', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"we-support-our-police\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" />\r\n\r\nThis is Part 2 of an ongoing series focusing on the role our Police and Sheriff departments play, as we quest for solutions to failing communities, severely depressed economies and a rising tide of violent crime.\r\n\r\nWe were in the neighborhood the other day and decided to stop by the <strong>Vance Convenience Store</strong> to see if we could learn more about this important unfolding story. The Laurinburg Police Department (LPD) recently conducted a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/we-support-our-police-part-1/\" target=\"_blank\">drug bust</a></span> there due to the alleged sale of Synthetic Marijuana, known as Spice.\r\n\r\nThe Vance Convenience Store is located several hundred feet from the Laurinburg Housing Authority\'s \'Morris Apartments\'.\r\n\r\nIt was early afternoon and a group of about twenty adult males were standing out front. A steady stream of customers came and went, on foot, by bike and car.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-1363 alignright\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Alssaidy-300x201.png\" alt=\"Alssaidy\" width=\"271\" height=\"181\" />Walking inside, we immediately recognized Yassar Alssiady, one of those recently arrested. We introduced ourselves and asked for an interview. Yassar was warm, friendly, engaging and obliging. We went outside so as not to interrupt customer traffic.\r\n\r\nYassar, a university educated Civil Engineer, worked for the World Bank in his native Yemen before emigrating to the the United States about seven years ago. He\'s bright, articulate and while conversant in English, he\'s definitely not fluent. We and he had to listen carefully to each other and frequently ask for clarification.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1364 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CCN_Alissaidy-300x180.png\" alt=\"CCN_Alissaidy\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" />During the 40 minute conversation, Yassar never became evasive, non responsive, nor was he afraid to look us in the eye. He clearly wanted his story told.\r\n\r\nYassar manages the Vance Convenience Store, plus another in a neighboring town, so he can\'t be present at all times, especially given that the store is a 24/7 operation.\r\n\r\nWhen present owners purchased the store things were not going well, so it\'s taken a lot of effort to try and turn things around. The neighbourhood\'s shallow pool of prospective employees, plus it being in a high crime area and that it\'s open 24/7 has made hiring and retaining good help challenging.\r\n\r\nSome employees have in the past been discharged, including several just prior to the \'bust\', when video surveillance and other means revealed undesirable and possibly illegal activity. Yassar stated that, given the often close relationship between employees and customers, disgruntled former employees have ample opportunity to work behind the scenes to keep things stirred up. Managing the Vance Store is clearly not for the faint of heart.\r\n\r\nYassar said he\'s had a constructive, cooperative relationship with LPD in the past and is surprised and puzzled that this latest incident culminated in his arrest. According to Yassar, LPD discovered \'Spice\' in an employee backpack located in the store.\r\n\r\nWe asked what \'in-store\' surveillance video footage showed and questioned why LPD would arrest him. Yassar responded that some videos showed employees going outside with customers and then returning to their duties. He acknowledged that such behavior is suspicious. He went on to say that LPD has not inquired about or asked for the surveillance videos, which he said could readily be made available.\r\n\r\nThroughout the conversation Yassar insisted that his story, if allowed to be told, along with evidence, if properly presented, would firmly establish his innocence. He further stated that neither he nor owners would risk reputations or the business by participating in or knowingly permitting illegal activities to take place.\r\n\r\nYassar appeared unfamiliar with the legal process and the current status of the case. He has retained legal counsel and remains optimistic regarding the police, our judicial system and his eventual outcome.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to speak with Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Sargent Campbell regarding this case, but no response has been received.\r\n\r\nWe\'ll keep you posted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nRelated Articles:\r\n\r\n<address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/\" target=\"_blank\">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/\" target=\"_blank\">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland County’s New School</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1400, 1, '2016-04-11 10:59:54', '2016-04-11 14:59:54', '<img class=\" wp-image-1427 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/no-paypal-300x156.png\" alt=\"no-paypal\" width=\"279\" height=\"145\" />The City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their \"gender identity\". The State Legislature responded by passing the \'Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act\', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That\'s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\n\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\n\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as part of its its mission, allowing men into women’s and little girl\'s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\n\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a \'Global Operations Center\' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal\'s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\n\nPrior to PayPal\'s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to \'punish\' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\n\nPayPal\'s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,\" further stating that the \"new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\n\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>, only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls\' restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtstlx96s8M\" target=\"_blank\">NWO pedophilia</a></span> is already rampant and growing throughout our country? Pedophiles already have access to our little boys and now you want them to have access to our girls too?\n\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\n\nBut this isn\'t really about the rights of transgenders, who should and do have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture that\'s meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work of completely reordering our society gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty, constructing a police state that threatens to destroy our nation and way of life, and enslaves us.\n\nHere\'s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don\'t need your stinkin\' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\n\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\">The New American</a></span>\n\n<center></center>&nbsp;\n\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/facebook-seeks-trump-assassination/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Supports Trump Assassination</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/\" target=\"_blank\">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/\" target=\"_blank\">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1401, 1, '2016-04-07 15:32:54', '2016-04-07 15:32:54', '(PIC)\r\n\r\nThe City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their \"gender identity\". The State Legislature responded by passing the \'Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act\', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That\'s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating by rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services over the Internet, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl\'s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms\r\n\r\nThis corporate giant is threatening to cancel plans to open a \'Global Operations Center\' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). This move by PayPal could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal\'s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to \'punish\' North Carolina, and other states implementing similar laws, comes from other corporate bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 compainies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal\'s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,\" further stating that the \"new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the Williams Institute (LINK: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf), only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophelia is rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want us to extend access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn\'t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted. it\'s time to stay focused on what\'s really important, what\'s really causing the destruction of our nation and way of life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: we don\'t need your stinkin\' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\">The New American</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - NC Fights PayPal\'s Corporate Bullying', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1392-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 15:32:54', '2016-04-07 15:32:54', '', 1392, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1392-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1402, 1, '2016-04-07 15:42:27', '2016-04-07 15:42:27', '(PIC)\r\n\r\nThe City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their \"gender identity\". The State Legislature responded by passing the \'Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act\', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That\'s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl\'s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a \'Global Operations Center\' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal\'s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal\'s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to \'punish\' North Carolina, and other states implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal\'s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,\" further stating that the \"new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the Williams Institute (LINK: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf), only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophelia is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn\'t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation, way of life and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don\'t need your stinkin\' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\">The New American</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1403, 1, '2016-04-07 19:01:27', '2016-04-07 19:01:27', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s meme, <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\n</span>\n\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its \'Needs Assessment\'. While it\'s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\n\nThe Exchange\'s recent \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\n\nThe fact is, there aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. ThiIt\'s a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\n\nNo amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\n\nSources:\n\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\n\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\n\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1404, 1, '2016-04-07 16:13:51', '2016-04-07 16:13:51', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent stroll through Laurinburg\'s existing City Hall, along with City Manager Charles Nichols and Council member Dee Hammond, appears to be little more than a thinly disguised move, allowing them to shift gears in favor of the New $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Nichols stated: \'There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in. If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The fact is that if something isn\'t done to turn Laurinburg and Scotland County\'s economy around, the City may not need anything but a small office in 5 or ten years, as Laurinburg is transitioning from a city to a rural village.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1405, 1, '2016-04-07 16:30:59', '2016-04-07 16:30:59', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent stroll through Laurinburg\'s City Hall, along with City Manager Charles Nichols and Council member Dee Hammond, appears to be for the purpose of providing \'cover\', positioning them to shift gears in favor of the New $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nichols statement that <em>\'There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in. If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is anything but factual.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The truth is, if something isn\'t done to turn Laurinburg and Scotland County economies around, the City will need only tiny office in 5 or ten years because it\'s presently transitioning to a \'rural village\', as businesses close and those who can, sell out and flee.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis whole sordid rumpus got wings and started to fly following the City\'s 2013 \'Needs Assessment\'. The fact is, this isn\'t about what\'s needed, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, cannot afford.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1406, 1, '2016-04-07 16:46:45', '2016-04-07 16:46:45', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent stroll through Laurinburg City Hall, along with City Manager Charles Nichols and Council member Dee Hammond, appears to be for the purpose of providing \'cover\', better positioning themselves to shift gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nichols statement that <em>\'There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in. If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is anything but factual.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If things don\'t change, Laurinburg will only need a tine-weeny office in 5 or ten years, as it\'s presently transitioning to a \'pastoral rural village\'. Businesses are closing and those who can, sell out are fleeing.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis rumpus only got wings and started to fly after the City commissioned its 2013 \'Needs Assessment\'. That was wonderful, but this isn\'t about what\'s needed, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, cannot afford.\r\n\r\nAs for the Police Department\'s needs, what about the community\'s needs? You guys\' are spending <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">months</span> investigating a pot heads over near the Housing Authority\'s \'Morris Apartments\' while the city is rocked by violent crime. Heck, we\'ve called numerous times to discuss issues and no one bothers to pick up the phone, let alone return a call. Get your feet off the desks, you butts off the car seats and start policing?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1407, 1, '2016-04-07 17:34:52', '2016-04-07 17:34:52', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears to be for the sole purpose of providing \'cover\', allowing them to get better positioned before shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nichols statement: <em>\'There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in. If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is nothing but tripe.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If things don\'t change, Laurinburg will only need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a \'pastoral rural village\'. Businesses are closing and those who can are selling out and fleeing.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis rumpus only got wings and started to fly after the City commissioned its 2013 \'Needs Assessment\'. While that was wonderful, this is not and has never been about \'needs\', it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, cannot afford.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1408, 1, '2016-04-07 18:15:19', '2016-04-07 18:15:19', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll/photo op through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to provide sufficient \'cover\' prior to their shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s statement that <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\', </em>is also disingenuous and just plain wrong.\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need only a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral, rural ghost village\'. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a growing tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire new City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its 2013 \'Needs Assessment\'. Sure, it\'s great to have a list of needs, but <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent piece \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</span>\' was <em>not news</em>, but thinly disguised propaganda to help move the new City Hall/Police Complex forward. There are no \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue and debate. The only talking that\'s going on is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\nNo amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1409, 1, '2016-04-07 18:24:35', '2016-04-07 18:24:35', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll/photo op through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to make sure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s statement that <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\', </em>was disingenuous and just plain wrong.\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral, rural ghost village\'. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, as they try to outrun a growing tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire new City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its 2013 \'Needs Assessment\'. It\'s great to have a list of needs, but <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent piece \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</span>\' was <em>not news</em>, but what looks like thinly disguised propaganda to help move the new City Hall/Police Complex forward. There simply are no \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. The only <em>talking</em> that\'s going on is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\nNo amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1410, 1, '2016-04-07 18:33:58', '2016-04-07 18:33:58', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll/photo op through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s statement that <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\', </em>was disingenuous and just plain wrong.\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral, rural ghost village\'. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire new City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its 2013 \'Needs Assessment\'. It\'s great to have a list of needs, but <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent piece \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to help move the new City Hall/Police Complex forward.\r\n\r\nThere aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. The only <em>talking</em> that\'s going on is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\nNo amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1411, 1, '2016-04-07 18:38:15', '2016-04-07 18:38:15', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll/photo op through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to officially shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s statement that <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\', </em>was disingenuous and just plain wrong.\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral, rural ghost village\'. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire <em>new</em> City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its 2013 \'Needs Assessment\'. It\'s great to have a list of needs, but <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent piece \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to help move the new City Hall/Police Complex forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThere aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. The only <em>talking</em> that\'s going on is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\nNo amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1412, 1, '2016-04-07 18:48:20', '2016-04-07 18:48:20', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s statement that <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, was disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun the tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its 2013 \'Needs Assessment\'. While it\'s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\nNo amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1413, 1, '2016-04-07 18:55:36', '2016-04-07 18:55:36', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s meme that <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its 2013 \'Needs Assessment\'. While it\'s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. It\'s a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\nNo amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1414, 1, '2016-04-07 19:01:51', '2016-04-07 19:01:51', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s meme, <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its \'Needs Assessment\'. While it\'s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1415, 1, '2016-04-07 19:14:07', '2016-04-07 19:14:07', '(PIC)\'Healthy, Wealthy and Wise\' as the old saying goes. Without good health, the rest doesn\'t really matter. Scotland County\'s 2nd to last placing in the latest State rankings is but one more sign that we\'re headed in the wrong direction and change is needed.\r\n\r\nAre more government funded consumer education programs the answer? Should government pass more rules? Do we need additional government regulation?\r\n\r\nThe fact is Good Health largely depends upon decisions we as individuals make each day. Today, healthy lifestyle choices are only a few keystrokes away, as the Internet is filled with great information, articles and tips on how to live healthier, longer and for less money.\r\n\r\nFirst, we must desire to become healthy, then we must put a realistic plan into place.\r\n\r\nBetween the time the captain (of an ocean going oil tanker) orders the helmsman to change course and the desired change is achieved, the ship has traveled at least six miles. If calamity is to be avoided, the captain must think ahead, have a plan and implement it.\r\n\r\nIt\'s no different for us. If we desire positive lifestyle change, but don\'t think ahead, don\'t have a plan or implement it haphazardly, too fast or not at all, we\'re going to fail.\r\n\r\nObesity is the number one cause (behind smoking) of many of life\'s most debilitating and catastrophic ailments. fortunately, our weight is almost 100% dependent upon the number of calories we take in each day, versus the number of calories we expend. If we take in more than we expend, we will gain weight, if the same, we will maintain our weight, if less, we will lose weight.\r\n\r\nIf we are slightly overweight it may take just a couple of months to reach the goal, but if we are obese or morbidly obese, it could take a year or more.\r\n\r\nDiets, especially fad diets, aren\'t successful over time. Lost pounds tend to come right back, often with a vengeance. A healthy dietary plan is needed to permanently shed extra pounds and keep them off.\r\n\r\nOnly 21% of shoppers read <strong>ingredient labels</strong> before purchasing grocery items. Sugars (of any kind), including high fructose sweeteners, are believed to be the single most important factor leading to obesity and diabetes, and are suspected of promoting the growth and spread of cancer.\r\n\r\nIt\'s not just about our sugar intake from outside sources either, many foods such as pastas turn into sugars during the digestive process.\r\n\r\nDiet sodas and other \'diet\' foods don\'t help either, as our body continues to crave the energy it needs until satisfied. Some evidence even suggests that ingredients commonly found in many \'diet\' products could be responsible for the explosion we\'re seeing in Pancreatic Cancer, which is largely fatal within months of diagnoses.\r\n\r\nVisit our <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Healthy Living</span> section to learn more and follow the latest trends and breakthroughs. There\'s never been a better time to be alive, and it\'s never been easier to enjoy good health.    <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <a href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1416, 1, '2016-04-07 19:19:48', '2016-04-07 19:19:48', '(PIC)\'Healthy, Wealthy and Wise\' as the old saying goes. Without good health, the rest doesn\'t really matter. Scotland County\'s 2nd to last placing in the latest State rankings is but one more sign that we\'re headed in the wrong direction and change is needed.\r\n\r\nAre more government funded consumer education programs the answer? Should government pass more rules? Do we need additional government regulation?\r\n\r\nThe fact is Good Health largely depends upon decisions we as individuals make each day. Today, healthy lifestyle choices are only a few keystrokes away, as the Internet is filled with great information, articles and tips on how to live healthier, longer and for less money.\r\n\r\nFirst, we must desire to become healthy, then we must put a realistic plan into place.\r\n\r\nBetween the time the captain (of an ocean going oil tanker) orders the helmsman to change course and the desired change is achieved, the ship has traveled at least six miles. If calamity is to be avoided, the captain must think ahead, have a plan and implement it.\r\n\r\nIt\'s no different for us. If we desire positive lifestyle change, but don\'t think ahead, don\'t have a plan or implement it haphazardly, too fast or not at all, we\'re going to fail.\r\n\r\nObesity is the number one cause (behind smoking) of many of life\'s most debilitating and catastrophic ailments. Fortunately, our weight is almost 100% dependent upon the number of calories we take in each day, versus the number of calories we expend. If we take in more than we expend, we will gain weight, if the same, we will maintain our weight, if less, we will lose weight.\r\n\r\nIf we are slightly overweight it may take just a couple of months to reach the goal, but if we are obese or morbidly obese, it could take a year or more.\r\n\r\nDiets, especially fad diets, aren\'t successful over time. Lost pounds tend to come right back, often with a vengeance. A healthy dietary plan is needed to permanently shed extra pounds and keep them off.\r\n\r\nOnly 21% of shoppers read <strong>ingredient labels</strong> before purchasing grocery items. Sugars (of any kind), including high fructose sweeteners, are believed to be the single most important factor leading to obesity and diabetes, and are suspected of promoting the growth and spread of cancer.\r\n\r\nIt\'s not just about our sugar intake from outside sources either, many foods such as pastas turn into sugars during the digestive process.\r\n\r\nDiet sodas and other \'diet\' foods don\'t help either, as our body continues to crave the energy it needs until satisfied. Some evidence even suggests that ingredients commonly found in many \'diet\' products could be responsible for the explosion we\'re seeing in Pancreatic Cancer, which is largely fatal within months of diagnoses.\r\n\r\nVisit our <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Healthy Living</span> section to learn more and follow the latest trends and breakthroughs. There\'s never been a better time to be alive, and it\'s never been easier to enjoy good health.    <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <a href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1417, 3, '2016-04-07 19:31:34', '2016-04-07 19:31:34', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s meme, <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its \'Needs Assessment\'. While it\'s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\" target=\"_blank\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</a></span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Mayor & Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 19:31:34', '2016-04-07 19:31:34', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1418, 1, '2016-04-07 19:32:15', '2016-04-07 19:32:15', '(PIC)\'Healthy, Wealthy and Wise\' as the old saying goes. Without good health, the rest doesn\'t really matter. Scotland County\'s 2nd to last placing in the State\'s latest Health rankings is but one more sign that we\'re headed in the wrong direction and change is needed.\r\n\r\nAre more government funded consumer education programs the answer? Should government pass more rules? Do we need additional government regulation?\r\n\r\nThe fact is Good Health largely depends upon decisions we as individuals make each day. Healthy lifestyle choices are only a few keystrokes away, as the Internet is filled with great information, articles and tips on how to live healthier, longer and for less money.\r\n\r\nBetween the time the captain (of an ocean going oil tanker) orders the helmsman to change course and the desired change is achieved, the ship will have traveled at least six miles. If calamity is to be avoided, the captain must think ahead, have a plan and implement it.\r\n\r\nIt\'s no different for us. We must first desire to become healthy, then we must develop a realistic plan and implement it. Lastly, we must give it time to succeed.\r\n\r\nObesity is the number two cause (behind smoking) of many of life\'s most debilitating and catastrophic ailments. Fortunately, our weight is almost 100% dependent upon the number of calories we take in each day, versus the number of calories we expend. If we take in more than we expend, we will gain weight, if the same, we will maintain our weight, if less, we will lose weight.\r\n\r\nIf we are slightly overweight our plan may take just a couple of months to reach its goal, but if we are obese or morbidly obese, it could take a year or more. Slow and steady will get the job done.\r\n\r\nDiets, especially fad diets, are rarely successful. Lost pounds tend to come right back, often with a vengeance. A healthy dietary plan will shed those extra pounds and keep them off.\r\n\r\nOnly 21% of shoppers read <strong>ingredient labels</strong> before purchasing grocery items. Sugars (of any kind), including high fructose sweeteners, are believed to be the single most important factor leading to obesity and diabetes, and are suspected of promoting the growth and spread of cancer.\r\n\r\nIt\'s not just about our sugar intake from outside sources either, many foods such as pastas turn into sugars during the digestive process.\r\n\r\nDiet sodas and other \'diet\' foods don\'t help either, as our body continues to crave the energy it needs until satisfied. Some evidence even suggests that ingredients commonly found in many \'diet\' products could be responsible for the explosion we\'re seeing in Pancreatic Cancer, which is largely fatal within months of diagnoses.\r\n\r\nVisit our <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Healthy Living</span> section to learn more and follow the latest trends and breakthroughs. There\'s never been a better time to be alive, and it\'s never been easier to enjoy good health.    <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <a href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1419, 3, '2016-04-07 19:58:23', '2016-04-07 19:58:23', '', 'Block & Williams', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'block-williams', '', '', '2016-04-07 19:58:23', '2016-04-07 19:58:23', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Block-Williams.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(1420, 3, '2016-04-07 19:58:58', '2016-04-07 19:58:58', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1419 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Block-Williams-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Block &amp; Williams\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" />Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s meme, <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its \'Needs Assessment\'. While it\'s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\" target=\"_blank\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</a></span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Mayor & Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 19:58:58', '2016-04-07 19:58:58', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1421, 3, '2016-04-07 20:00:59', '2016-04-07 20:00:59', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1419 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Block-Williams-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Block &amp; Williams\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" />Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s meme, <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its \'Needs Assessment\'. While it\'s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\" target=\"_blank\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</a></span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'Mayor & Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 20:00:59', '2016-04-07 20:00:59', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(1422, 3, '2016-04-07 20:05:32', '2016-04-07 20:05:32', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1419 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Block-Williams-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Block &amp; Williams\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" />Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s meme, <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its \'Needs Assessment\'. While it\'s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\" target=\"_blank\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</a></span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/\" target=\"_blank\">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland County’s New School</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-mired-in-depression-part-1/\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland County Mired in Depression (Part 1)</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'Mayor & Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 20:05:32', '2016-04-07 20:05:32', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1423, 3, '2016-04-07 20:06:32', '2016-04-07 20:06:32', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1419 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Block-Williams-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Block &amp; Williams\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" />Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient \'cover\' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City Manager Charles Nichol\'s meme, <em>\'If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years\'</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don\'t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it\'s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its \'Needs Assessment\'. While it\'s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about \'needs\'</strong>, it\'s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange\'s recent \'<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\" target=\"_blank\">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</a></span>\' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren\'t any \'<em>talks\'</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/\" target=\"_blank\">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland County’s New School</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-mired-in-depression-part-1/\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland County Mired in Depression (Part 1)</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'Mayor & Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 20:06:32', '2016-04-07 20:06:32', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1424, 3, '2016-04-08 13:21:45', '2016-04-08 13:21:45', '(PIC)\r\n\r\nThe City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their \"gender identity\". The State Legislature responded by passing the \'Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act\', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That\'s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl\'s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a \'Global Operations Center\' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal\'s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal\'s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to \'punish\' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal\'s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,\" further stating that the \"new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the Williams Institute (LINK: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf), only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophelia is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn\'t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation, way of life and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don\'t need your stinkin\' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\">The New American</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - NC Fights PayPal\'s Corporate Bullying', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1392-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 13:21:45', '2016-04-08 13:21:45', '', 1392, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1392-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1425, 3, '2016-04-08 13:23:09', '2016-04-08 13:23:09', '(PIC)\r\n\r\nThe City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their \"gender identity\". The State Legislature responded by passing the \'Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act\', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That\'s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl\'s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a \'Global Operations Center\' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal\'s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal\'s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to \'punish\' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal\'s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,\" further stating that the \"new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span> (LINK: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf), only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophelia is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn\'t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation, way of life and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don\'t need your stinkin\' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\">The New American</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1426, 3, '2016-04-08 13:26:22', '2016-04-08 13:26:22', '(PIC)\r\n\r\nThe City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their \"gender identity\". The State Legislature responded by passing the \'Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act\', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That\'s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl\'s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a \'Global Operations Center\' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal\'s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal\'s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to \'punish\' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal\'s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,\" further stating that the \"new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>, only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls\' restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophilia is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want them to have access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn\'t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation and way of life, and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don\'t need your stinkin\' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\">The New American</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'NC Fights PayPal\'s Corporate Bullying', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1392-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 13:26:22', '2016-04-08 13:26:22', '', 1392, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1392-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1427, 3, '2016-04-08 13:44:43', '2016-04-08 13:44:43', '', 'no-paypal', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'no-paypal', '', '', '2016-04-08 13:44:43', '2016-04-08 13:44:43', '', 1392, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/no-paypal.png', 0, 'attachment', 'image/png', 0),
(1428, 3, '2016-04-08 13:45:11', '2016-04-08 13:45:11', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1427 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/no-paypal-300x156.png\" alt=\"no-paypal\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" />The City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their \"gender identity\". The State Legislature responded by passing the \'Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act\', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That\'s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl\'s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a \'Global Operations Center\' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal\'s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal\'s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to \'punish\' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal\'s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,\" further stating that the \"new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>, only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls\' restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophilia is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want them to have access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn\'t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation and way of life, and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don\'t need your stinkin\' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\">The New American</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'NC Fights PayPal\'s Corporate Bullying', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1392-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 13:45:11', '2016-04-08 13:45:11', '', 1392, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1392-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1429, 3, '2016-04-08 13:47:43', '2016-04-08 13:47:43', '<img class=\" wp-image-1427 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/no-paypal-300x156.png\" alt=\"no-paypal\" width=\"279\" height=\"145\" />The City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their \"gender identity\". The State Legislature responded by passing the \'Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act\', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That\'s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl\'s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a \'Global Operations Center\' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal\'s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal\'s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to \'punish\' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal\'s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,\" further stating that the \"new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>, only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls\' restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophilia is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want them to have access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn\'t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation and way of life, and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don\'t need your stinkin\' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\">The New American</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/facebook-seeks-trump-assassination/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Supports Trump Assassination</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/\" target=\"_blank\">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/\" target=\"_blank\">Who’s Spying on You?</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1431, 3, '2016-04-08 13:53:29', '2016-04-08 13:53:29', '<img class=\" wp-image-1427 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/no-paypal-300x156.png\" alt=\"no-paypal\" width=\"279\" height=\"145\" />The City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their \"gender identity\". The State Legislature responded by passing the \'Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act\', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That\'s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl\'s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a \'Global Operations Center\' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal\'s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal\'s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to \'punish\' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal\'s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,\" further stating that the \"new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>, only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls\' restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtstlx96s8M\" target=\"_blank\">NWO pedophilia</a></span> is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want them to have access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn\'t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation and way of life, and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don\'t need your stinkin\' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\">The New American</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/facebook-seeks-trump-assassination/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Supports Trump Assassination</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/\" target=\"_blank\">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/\" target=\"_blank\">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'NC Fights PayPal\'s Corporate Bullying', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1392-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 13:53:29', '2016-04-08 13:53:29', '', 1392, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1392-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1433, 1, '2016-04-08 01:00:36', '2016-04-08 05:00:36', '<img class=\" wp-image-1436 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"hormones-matter-to-all-of-us\" width=\"288\" height=\"221\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it\'s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'hormones-matter-for-all-of-us', '', '', '2019-03-12 13:35:12', '2019-03-12 17:35:12', '', 0, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/?p=1433', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1434, 3, '2016-04-08 14:13:40', '2016-04-08 14:13:40', '(PIC)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dieter - Start Here, don\'t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 14:13:40', '2016-04-08 14:13:40', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1435, 3, '2016-04-08 14:15:06', '2016-04-08 14:15:06', '(PIC)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dieter - Start Here, don\'t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 14:15:06', '2016-04-08 14:15:06', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(1437, 3, '2016-04-08 14:19:36', '2016-04-08 14:19:36', '<img class=\" wp-image-1436 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"hormones-matter-to-all-of-us\" width=\"288\" height=\"221\" />(PIC)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dieter - Start Here, don\'t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 14:19:36', '2016-04-08 14:19:36', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1438, 3, '2016-04-08 14:29:53', '2016-04-08 14:29:53', '<img class=\" wp-image-1436 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"hormones-matter-to-all-of-us\" width=\"288\" height=\"221\" />\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to keep it functioning at optimal levels. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it\'s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the in case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do\" target=\"_blank\">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n<center></center><address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 14:29:53', '2016-04-08 14:29:53', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1439, 3, '2016-04-08 14:32:02', '2016-04-08 14:32:02', '<img class=\" wp-image-1436 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"hormones-matter-to-all-of-us\" width=\"288\" height=\"221\" />\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to keep it functioning at optimal levels. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it\'s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the in case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do\" target=\"_blank\">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 14:32:02', '2016-04-08 14:32:02', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1440, 3, '2016-04-08 14:37:36', '2016-04-08 14:37:36', '<img class=\" wp-image-1436 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"hormones-matter-to-all-of-us\" width=\"288\" height=\"221\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it\'s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do\" target=\"_blank\">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 14:37:36', '2016-04-08 14:37:36', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1450, 1, '2018-09-18 01:00:46', '2018-09-18 05:00:46', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1822 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bpa-in-canned-goods-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"bpa-in-canned-goods\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" />Bisphenol A or BPA is found in many everyday items we use. In addition to being suspected of causing cancer, it\'s an estrogen mimicker which can cause the early onset of puberty in girls and feminization of males.\r\n\r\nNegative publicity has caused some manufacturers to eliminate BPA from products like baby feeding bottles and teething rings, but it remains in most plastics and canned goods, where it\'s used to coat the inside of cans.\r\n\r\nManufacturers don\'t want consumers to become frightened, so they\'re lobbying to prevent labeling requirements that would disclose the presence of BPA.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>To tell or not to tell. That is the dilemma and heated debate which is occurring in California over Bisphenol A (BPA) in some of the canned food products sold at grocery stores. The regulators are concerned that wording on the label is too scary.  They claim to be worried that poor customers won’t buy canned food anymore.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/california-to-delay-bpa-warnings-on-canned-foods-because-regulator-says-label-is-too-scary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Activist Post</a></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/extend-life-save-planet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Extend Your Life &amp; Save the Planet!</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/hormones-matter-for-all-of-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hormones Matter for All of Us</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/avoid-knee-replacement-and-pain/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Avoid Knee Replacement and P</span>ain</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'BPA in Canned Goods', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'bpa-in-canned-goods', '', '', '2019-03-12 13:34:14', '2019-03-12 17:34:14', '', 0, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/?p=1450', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1451, 3, '2016-04-08 16:06:46', '2016-04-08 16:06:46', 'http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/', 'DRAFT - Jobs flee Scotland County, America', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1450-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 16:06:46', '2016-04-08 16:06:46', '', 1450, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1450-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1452, 3, '2016-04-29 14:21:36', '2016-04-29 18:21:36', '<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1822 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bpa-in-canned-goods-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"bpa-in-canned-goods\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" />Bisphenol A or BPA is found in many everyday items we use. In addition to being suspected of causing cancer, it\'s an estrogen mimicker which can cause the early onset of puberty in girls and feminization of males.\n\nNegative publicity has caused some manufacturers to eliminate BPA from products like baby feeding bottles and teething rings, but it remains in most plastics and canned goods, where it\'s used to coat the inside of cans.\n\nManufacturers don\'t want consumers to become frightened, so they\'re lobbying to prevent labeling requirements that would disclose the presence of BPA.\n<blockquote>\"<em>To tell or not to tell. That is the dilemma and heated debate which is occurring in California over Bisphenol A (BPA) in some of the canned food products sold at grocery stores. The regulators are concerned that wording on the label is too scary.  They claim to be worried that poor customers won’t buy canned food anymore.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\n<a href=\"http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/california-to-delay-bpa-warnings-on-canned-foods-because-regulator-says-label-is-too-scary.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Activist Post</span></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/extend-life-save-planet/\" target=\"_blank\">Extend Your Life &amp; Save the Planet!</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\n\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'BPA in Canned Goods', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1450-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-04-29 14:21:36', '2016-04-29 18:21:36', '', 1450, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1450-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1453, 3, '2016-04-08 16:09:09', '2016-04-08 16:09:09', '(PIC)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dieter - Start Here, don\'t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>123</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Jobs Flee Scotland County, America', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1450-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 16:09:09', '2016-04-08 16:09:09', '', 1450, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1450-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1454, 3, '2016-04-08 16:23:46', '2016-04-08 16:23:46', '(PIC)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dieter - Start Here, don\'t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>To tell or not to tell. That is the dilemma and heated debate which is occurring in California over Bisphenol A (BPA) in some of the canned food products sold at grocery stores. The regulators are concerned that wording on the label is too scary.  They claim to be worried that poor customers won’t buy canned food anymore.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/california-to-delay-bpa-warnings-on-canned-foods-because-regulator-says-label-is-too-scary.html\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - BPA in Cans', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1450-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 16:23:46', '2016-04-08 16:23:46', '', 1450, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1450-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(1455, 1, '2016-04-08 17:05:11', '2016-04-08 17:05:11', '<img class=\" wp-image-1436 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"hormones-matter-to-all-of-us\" width=\"288\" height=\"221\" />\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it\'s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do\" target=\"_blank\">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 17:05:11', '2016-04-08 17:05:11', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1456, 1, '2016-04-08 17:38:04', '2016-04-08 17:38:04', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the \'shell game\'. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It\'s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. Wow, that sounds like Great News for stressed property owners, but is it?\r\n\r\nSorry, but this is just one more version of the same old shell game. Property Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could go down, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continues to rise, property owners will continue to come out on the losing end.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are plunging in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing annual property tax bills to just keep going up. This shell game is as old as the hills.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be play on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite the fact that you paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when you originally purchased that personal property, Scotland County requires you to continue paying a tax year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price in more ways than one. Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation and dampens existing business and household enthusiasm to replace obsolete or worn out equipment.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way business and residents will ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it\'s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There is no free lunch.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id=\"KonaLink0\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">County </span><span class=\"kLink\">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id=\"KonaLink1\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County Considers Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 17:38:04', '2016-04-08 17:38:04', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1457, 1, '2016-04-08 17:48:57', '2016-04-08 17:48:57', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the \'shell game\'. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It\'s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. Wow, that sounds like Great News for stressed property owners, but is it?\r\n\r\nSorry, but this looks like just another version of the same old shell game. Property Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could go down, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continue to rise, property owners will still come out on the losing end.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are plunging in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing actual property tax bills to keep going up. This is the same old pig, with new lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be played on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite the fact that you paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when originally purchasing that personal property, Scotland County requires you to continue paying a tax year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, as Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation, while dampening enthusiasm for existing enterprises to replace obsolete or worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we\'ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it\'s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There simply is no free lunch.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id=\"KonaLink0\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">County </span><span class=\"kLink\">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id=\"KonaLink1\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County Considers Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 17:48:57', '2016-04-08 17:48:57', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1458, 1, '2016-04-08 17:50:54', '2016-04-08 17:50:54', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the \'shell game\'. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It\'s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. Wow, that sounds like Great News for stressed property owners, but is it?\r\n\r\nSorry, but this looks like just another version of the same old shell game. Property Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continue to rise, property owners still come out on the losing end.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are plunging in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing actual property tax bills to keep going up. This is the same old pig, with new lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be played on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite the fact that you paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when originally purchasing that personal property, Scotland County requires you to continue paying a tax year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, as Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation, while dampening enthusiasm for existing enterprises to replace obsolete or worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we\'ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it\'s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There simply is no free lunch.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id=\"KonaLink0\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">County </span><span class=\"kLink\">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id=\"KonaLink1\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County Considers Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 17:50:54', '2016-04-08 17:50:54', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1459, 1, '2016-04-08 18:03:16', '2016-04-08 18:03:16', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the \'shell game\'. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It\'s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. That sounds like Great News for stressed property owners, but is it?\r\n\r\nProperty Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continue to rise, property owners still come out on the losing end. Despite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are plunging in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing property tax bills to keep going up. This looks like the same old pig, but with new lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be played on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite having paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when first purchasing personal property, Scotland County demands a tax be paid year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, as Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation, while dampening enthusiasm for existing enterprises to replace obsolete or worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we\'ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it\'s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There simply is no free lunch.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id=\"KonaLink0\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">County </span><span class=\"kLink\">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id=\"KonaLink1\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County to Consider Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:03:16', '2016-04-08 18:03:16', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1460, 1, '2016-04-08 18:41:12', '2016-04-08 18:41:12', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the \'shell game\'. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It\'s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. That sounds like Great News, especially for stressed property owners, but is it?\r\n\r\nProperty Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continue to rise, property owners still come out on the losing end. Despite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are plunging in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing property tax bills to keep going up. This looks like the same old pig, but with new lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be played on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite having paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when first purchasing personal property, Scotland County demands a tax be paid year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, as Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation, while dampening enthusiasm for existing enterprises to replace obsolete or worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we\'ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it\'s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There simply is no free lunch.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id=\"KonaLink0\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">County </span><span class=\"kLink\">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id=\"KonaLink1\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County to Consider Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:41:12', '2016-04-08 18:41:12', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1461, 1, '2016-04-08 18:46:59', '2016-04-08 18:46:59', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the \'shell game\'. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It\'s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. That sounds like Great News, but is it?\r\n\r\nProperty Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continue to rise, property owners still come out on the losing end. Despite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are declining in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing property tax bills to go up. It\'s the same old pig, but with new lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be played on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite having paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when first purchasing personal property, Scotland County demands a tax be paid year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, as burdensome taxation discourages new business and household formation, while it dampens enthusiasm for existing enterprises to replace obsolete or worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we\'ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it\'s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There simply is no free lunch.\r\n\r\n\"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id=\"KonaLink0\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">County </span><span class=\"kLink\">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id=\"KonaLink1\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#\"><span style=\"color: #595959;\"><span class=\"kLink\">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span>\r\n\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></address><address><a title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County to Consider Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:46:59', '2016-04-08 18:46:59', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1462, 3, '2016-04-08 18:51:09', '2016-04-08 18:51:09', '<img class=\" wp-image-1436 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"hormones-matter-to-all-of-us\" width=\"288\" height=\"221\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\n</span>\n\nWhile it\'s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\n<blockquote>\"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\n\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do\" target=\"_blank\">Hormone.Org</a></span>\n\n<center></center>&nbsp;\n\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/\" target=\"_blank\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/\">123</a></span></address><address><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"123\" href=\"http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/\">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\n\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\n\n&nbsp;', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:51:09', '2016-04-08 18:51:09', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1463, 3, '2016-04-08 18:51:58', '2016-04-08 18:51:58', '<img class=\" wp-image-1436 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"hormones-matter-to-all-of-us\" width=\"288\" height=\"221\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it\'s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do\" target=\"_blank\">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:51:58', '2016-04-08 18:51:58', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1464, 3, '2016-04-08 18:54:41', '2016-04-08 18:54:41', '<img class=\" wp-image-1436 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"hormones-matter-to-all-of-us\" width=\"288\" height=\"221\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it\'s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do\" target=\"_blank\">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:54:41', '2016-04-08 18:54:41', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1465, 3, '2016-04-08 18:55:47', '2016-04-08 18:55:47', '<img class=\" wp-image-1436 alignleft\" src=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"hormones-matter-to-all-of-us\" width=\"288\" height=\"221\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it\'s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>\"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>\" <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\" target=\"_blank\">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do\" target=\"_blank\">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href=\"http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">email</span></a>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating=\"8361352\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;\">We\'d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:55:47', '2016-04-08 18:55:47', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
