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The 5th Quarter team getting ready for their kickoff! #ilm #brunsco #pender

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It's about that time! #5thquarter #ilm #brunsco #pender

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'Clarification' interpreted to outrage

A big one--national story--with all sorts of clashing info. Due to misconceptions? Real threats? Decide....

To Heath Clark, it’s not just a new roll of red tape.

He’s worried that if a proposed environmental rule goes into play as federally written, the Wilmington development company he manages will be out millions and millions of dollars in land it can no longer use.

But it’s not just developers on the ropes, he said. It’s farmers, large and small businesses and just about anyone who owns land.

“This is something that people do not understand until they’re affected,” said Clark, manager of Bill Clark Homes of Wilmington, which buys large tracts for homebuilding. “It could be catastrophic, to the point where it will drive the people that are left with land out of business.”

He’s one of several voices across the nation–though he worries they’re relatively few–upset with an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal that opponents say would dramatically increase the amount of area federally regulated for water quality protection. The anxiety is in the thought that good, valuable land will be rendered undevelopable and, as such, worthless.

But the EPA says....

Rest of the story here.

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BHI's croquet haven

Another quick video I produced for The State Port Pilot with limited tools. I'd heard Bald Head Island had globally recognized croquet facilities--though I knew nothing about the sport--and decided to visit a tournament that brought out some of the world's top names.

Again, as I mentioned in the last post, this is not the original upload and it lacks the resolution of the original, which was hosted on the publication’s website before someone in the office bumped it to YouTube in lower quality.

A note about the simple background music: I wrote and recorded it in my home studio, specifically for the video. I gave the rights to the publication.

From June 2010:

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As big as a VW Beetle

A four-minute video I put together for The State Port Pilot newspaper of Southport, N.C., in spring 2010. A leatherback--the world's largest reptile--paid a rare visit to area shorelines and brought quite a crowd.

Unfortunately this isn't the original upload and lacks the resolution of the original, which was hosted on the publication's website before someone in the office bumped it to YouTube in lesser quality (likely per upload time).

For what it's worth, this video won first place in the N.C. Press Association's journalism contest that year.

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Targeting retail

The latest in a run of stories about a growing county in want of more big-name retail. Among challenges: it's right between two plentiful shopping destinations.

Background stories here and here, the latter explaining why the county in question isn't getting a Target store any time soon.

Brunswick County’s retail potential is now under study.

Retail Strategies, a recruitment firm out of Birmingham, Ala., is working to identify the realities, drawbacks and possibilities for the county, whose 115,000-plus residents are dispersed over a large geography of 855 square miles, sandwiched between the shopping destinations of Wilmington and Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Rest of the story here.

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N.C.'s 7th Congressional District primary, pt. 2

Following up on my previous post, here's the GOP profile for North Carolina's 7th District, a widely watched race as the seat's nine-term Democrat chose not to run for re-election.

With primaries in store for both major parties, candidates gunning for North Carolina’s 7th Congressional District seat are having to project their individuality.

On the Republican ticket are three contenders representing the reaches of the district, and each brands himself as a fresh voice the U.S. House of Representatives sorely needs.

Wilmington Republican Woody White, for one, calls himself a man of the “real world” whose approach to service draws from average experiences in family and business and not in ambitions for a political career. He’s also currently chairman of the county commission, here, serving his first term.

Fellow Republican David Rouzer, a former state senator from Johnston County, for another, says his background of work on Capitol Hill, in the legislature and in private roles makes him uniquely qualified and connected for tackling the district’s long-term challenges.

GOP contender number three, the Fayetteville-based Chris Andrade, cites 30 years of military experience (mostly in intelligence), in which failure was never an option and partisanship never an object. He said that kind of quality isn’t common in today’s elected federal leadership.

Rest of the story here.