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Providing local, honest news to the Surf City, Holly Ridge, Sneads Ferry, Topsail Island and Hampstead areas of North Carolina


Coastal Common Sense
Dragnet was a black and white TV show from the 60's that starred a detective character named Joe Friday and his famous dead pan tagline...

Kim McGahey
May 2, 20243 min read


Coastal Common Sense April 2024
Please and thank you. Three small words that used to mean so much. In our self-absorbed, personal entitlement culture have we lost the...

Kim McGahey
Apr 4, 20243 min read


Coastal Common Sense
The Topsail Beach Town Commissioners think they have dodged a bullet with the withdrawal of the Olsen family development application for...

Kim McGahey
Mar 1, 20243 min read


Coastal Common Sense 2024
What seems to be perpetual chaos and terminal inactivity in the United States Congress could easily be remedied. By turning the attention...

Kim McGahey
Feb 2, 20243 min read


Coastal Common Sense: Christmas Cookie
Once upon a time in a tiny town down by the ocean, there lived a humble little girl. She wasn't rich and she wasn't famous, but she was...

Kim McGahey
Jan 6, 20243 min read


Coastal Common Sense
Patriotic Americans are watching Joe Biden dismantle all the positive accomplishments that made America great again during the Trump...

Kim McGahey
Dec 1, 20232 min read


Coastal Common Sense
Joe Biden's world is a mess. Just like Obama said years ago, anything Biden touches in his 50 years in office he screws up. And his...

Kim McGahey
Nov 17, 20233 min read


Coastal Common Sense
We live in a time that is filled more with leisure than with work. But what are we doing with our spare time? In past centuries, there...

Kim McGahey
Oct 20, 20233 min read


Coastal Common Sense
The complicit liberal media is full of daily cover-ups maintaining that there is no evidence that the Biden crime family ran an...

Kim McGahey
Oct 5, 20233 min read


Coastal Common Sense
It's finally here. The end of the summer tourist season is officially upon us. All the kids are back in school, all the parents are back...

Kim McGahey
Sep 21, 20233 min read


Coastal Common Sense
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and its pitbulls in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are acting like the Orwellian military...

Kim McGahey
Aug 10, 20232 min read


Coastal Common Sense II
Topsail Island is one of the few remaining unspoiled beaches on the southeast coast. We have to work hard to keep it that way by making...

Kim McGahey
Aug 10, 20232 min read


Coastal Common Sense
There's an undeveloped parcel of land at the very southern tip of Topsail Island. We affectionately refer to it as the Hundred Acre Wood,...

Kim McGahey
Jun 15, 20233 min read


Coastal Common Sense
The whole purpose for the Founding Fathers writing the Declaration of Independence in 1776 was to escape dependency on the British crown...

Kim McGahey
Jun 1, 20232 min read


Coastal Common Sense
When Clark Kent emerged from the phone booth, he promised to serve truth, justice and the American way. When my grandmother promised me...

Kim McGahey
May 19, 20233 min read


Coastal Common Sense
When someone accuses you of what they are guilty of, they suffer from a psychological disorder known as Projection. By definition, they...

Kim McGahey
May 4, 20233 min read
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