Al Klemm, Author at Washington Daily News

Columns

Campaign issues: Beaufort County school board election

Some of the most competitive candidate races are for the Beaufort County Board of Education. There are strong feelings on several issues. They include the ... Read more

by Al Klemm, Wednesday, October 9, 2024 7:44 am

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School Choice Vouchers, the N.C. Opportunity Scholarship Grant Program

The first modern school choice publicly funded voucher program was created in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1990 to solve the success gaps and perceived failures of ... Read more

by Al Klemm, Wednesday, October 2, 2024 8:00 am

Columns

The Federal Reserve, investing and the stock market

The Federal Reserve is the U.S. Central Bank. It was created by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 to establish a monetary system that could ... Read more

by Al Klemm, Wednesday, September 25, 2024 8:00 am

My Turn

Revenue neutral revisited

I recently received an email from Loyd Salter concerning my article on revenue neutral. Lloyd is the Tax Assessor for Beaufort County. Lloyd indicated that ... Read more

by Al Klemm, Wednesday, September 18, 2024 7:45 am

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TV News, then and now

In just four months I’ll reach the age of 80. Some of my older friends say I’m young so I expect to age more rapidly ... Read more

by Al Klemm, Wednesday, September 11, 2024 7:59 am

My Turn

Coming soon, the Nov. 5 election

It’s September and we are creeping up on the 2024 election. We have already had one candidate, Donald Trump, injured from a gunshot wound at a ... Read more

by Al Klemm, Tuesday, September 3, 2024 11:16 am

Columns

The Grace Martin Harwell Senior Center

The Grace Martin Harwell Senior Center (GMHSC) is the latest example of government surprising the people. Whenever a municipality or county changes or takes a service ... Read more

by Al Klemm, Tuesday, August 27, 2024 10:34 am

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Sept. 11, 2001 and now

On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners. The first two airliners crashed into the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New ... Read more

by Al Klemm, Wednesday, August 14, 2024 8:01 am

My Turn

What would I want the Beaufort County School Board to focus on?

What do I want the school board to focus on? I was asked this question recently. I answered education but that doesn’t really mean anything. ... Read more

by Al Klemm, Tuesday, August 6, 2024 12:09 pm

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Outward migration of young people from Beaufort County

Recently, I had a friend of mine express concern about outward migration of young people from Beaufort County. Between 2010 and 2020, Beaufort County’s population ... Read more

by Al Klemm, Wednesday, July 31, 2024 7:11 am

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