By Christina Williamschristina@pasquotankpac.com When was the last time you checked on your own voter registration? Are you listed as active or inactive status? Have you moved and not updated your address on your voter registration? Have you gotten married, divorced, or changed your name? Your voter record needs to be updated. The first step to checking your own record is to go to the state website to check your registration...
CONTINUE READINGHouston, We Have a Problem! Good News, There is a Solution, If We Want It! Our country and our freedoms are under attack. Our nation is more divided than ever before, our debt is almost $30T, our southern border is wide open with illegal aliens and opioids coming across in massive numbers and amounts, and government agencies are creating rules and regulations and exercising their full force against the states,...
CONTINUE READINGBy Christina Williams christina@pasquotankpac.com We enjoy freedoms every day that are taken for granted. Those who have sacrificed and fought for those freedoms no doubt have an instinctual sense of patriotism. Little by little patriotism is being phased out. It’s happening so slowly that we don’t even notice as we go about our daily lives. Once we lose the last bit of patriotism in our country, we won’t be able...
CONTINUE READINGBy Christina Williams, christina@pasquotankpac.com Criticism of government leaders and a lack of confidence in our elected officials is common these days, even at the local level. External conflicts like we sometimes see at public meetings can provide an understanding of other perspectives. Providing a fair hearing of issues at these meetings assures that the needs of the community are heard. The “Public Comments” portion of the agenda at public meetings...
CONTINUE READINGBy Ron Payne, ron@pasquotankpac.com On March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry, at St. John’s Church in Richmond Virginia, addressed the Second Virginia Convention to discuss the Old Dominions strategy in negotiating with the Crown of England. The roughly 120 delegates who filed into Richmond’s St. John’s Church were a veritable “who’s who” of Virginia’s colonial leaders. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were both in attendance, as were five of the six...
CONTINUE READINGWritten by Craig Jones Like most Americans, I am sickened by the images coming out of Afghanistan. I can only hope and pray that all Americans return home safely. I spent 22 years in the U.S. Army and this defeat sickens me. Twenty years of blood that our military shed has been for naught. Al-Qaeda will reemerge, but this time they will be very well-equipped with uniforms, weapons, vehicles, and...
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