dmccarty
Super Star Member
I have caught WRAL several times mentioning on the "news" that a new office building/complex was opening at a certain location. That is news? No, but its good advert. They where the same station that after a hurricane hit down east, the Highway Patrol was interviewed saying don't travel down there since the roads are still flooded. The very next news segment was telling people to travel down east, it was still open, no damage, yada yada yada... 
Having said that as an example of how bad "news" is these days, the newsies love a story like this. My wife had her car shot by a high powered pellet rifle while she was driving. If the pellet had been a few inches in another direction it would have hit one of my kids. I called it in to the Po Po and the officer taking the report mentioned that they had dozens and dozens of these shootings. Not one word on the news about this at all. After call nothing ever goes wrong in the Perfectly Perfect Cary World.
We called WRAL and they had a reporter and film crew out ASAP. Another station called up as well to get the story.
If there is a good story they will show it.
I think you put too much power in the hands of the realtors. If they where that powerful the legislature would never have passed the law allowing couties to have a transfer tax. The transfer tax vote in my county was resoundingly defeated. I don't think the agents had much to do with it either. I looked at the votes by precinct. The people voting for the tax where the ones in the high growth areas of the county. They moved here and now they don't want anyone else to move here.... And these people now control the county commissioners who are rabidly anti development.
I happened to vote for the tax because it will at least have a chance of slowing the growth of property taxes. Property taxes are just evil. As people in your county are finding out with the new reassessments. Some of the letters to the editors of the local paper have rightfully been asking where is the money from the last tax increase? That is why the increase was improved in the first place and now the county wants a new tax for the same items that where already "paid" for previously.
Remember in my county the commisioners are very anti development and growth but they still play the game. They just have a different agenda but the results are the same, taking money from my pocket. We have a biodiesel plant that was just caught dumping some pretty nasty waste water into the sewers. This is going to cost thousands of dollars to clean up but its been amazing how quiet this has been kept. If this was the Exxon station on the corner we would be hearing about it forever. One of the owners of plant was just caught trying to change domicile so he could vote in the last election. Even though he does not live in town. He wanted to vote for the anti growth faction. He and his girlfriend, who owns another business in town, stated they did not think they had to live in the town to vote there. He also said he thought he was "cool" to dump the waste water in the sewer.
The agent associations are like anyone else. They petition the government to get their view across. Sometimes they win. Sometimes they loose. Right now in my county the other side are doing the same thing and winning.
Later,
Dan
Having said that as an example of how bad "news" is these days, the newsies love a story like this. My wife had her car shot by a high powered pellet rifle while she was driving. If the pellet had been a few inches in another direction it would have hit one of my kids. I called it in to the Po Po and the officer taking the report mentioned that they had dozens and dozens of these shootings. Not one word on the news about this at all. After call nothing ever goes wrong in the Perfectly Perfect Cary World.
We called WRAL and they had a reporter and film crew out ASAP. Another station called up as well to get the story.
If there is a good story they will show it.
I think you put too much power in the hands of the realtors. If they where that powerful the legislature would never have passed the law allowing couties to have a transfer tax. The transfer tax vote in my county was resoundingly defeated. I don't think the agents had much to do with it either. I looked at the votes by precinct. The people voting for the tax where the ones in the high growth areas of the county. They moved here and now they don't want anyone else to move here.... And these people now control the county commissioners who are rabidly anti development.
I happened to vote for the tax because it will at least have a chance of slowing the growth of property taxes. Property taxes are just evil. As people in your county are finding out with the new reassessments. Some of the letters to the editors of the local paper have rightfully been asking where is the money from the last tax increase? That is why the increase was improved in the first place and now the county wants a new tax for the same items that where already "paid" for previously.
Remember in my county the commisioners are very anti development and growth but they still play the game. They just have a different agenda but the results are the same, taking money from my pocket. We have a biodiesel plant that was just caught dumping some pretty nasty waste water into the sewers. This is going to cost thousands of dollars to clean up but its been amazing how quiet this has been kept. If this was the Exxon station on the corner we would be hearing about it forever. One of the owners of plant was just caught trying to change domicile so he could vote in the last election. Even though he does not live in town. He wanted to vote for the anti growth faction. He and his girlfriend, who owns another business in town, stated they did not think they had to live in the town to vote there. He also said he thought he was "cool" to dump the waste water in the sewer.
The agent associations are like anyone else. They petition the government to get their view across. Sometimes they win. Sometimes they loose. Right now in my county the other side are doing the same thing and winning.
Later,
Dan
