Southwest Airlines, known for its humane "person of size" seating policy, was reportedly conned out of an entire row of seats by a Denver man who ate too many tacos. After some quick thinking, airline passenger Adrian Herald ate 17 tacos to score extra seating for free.
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 @ 10:01 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Southwest Airlines announced Friday that they have purchased a Boeing C-17 Globemaster widebody cargo aircraft that's capable of transporting your mom.
Published: Monday, February 26th, 2024 @ 2:40 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Southwest Airlines, with a positive reputation for supporting plus-size travelers, has taken a big step in providing robust support for its largest customers. Starting this week, fliers of size will be given a complimentary bed of hay and a feeding trough.
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2024 @ 1:06 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Southwest Airlines is going viral for their company-wide “Customer of Size” policy, which allows overweight travelers to potentially get extra seats for free if they don’t fit.
Published: Wednesday, January 10th, 2024 @ 8:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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This week, Southwestern Child Development announced it will be closing seven child care centers in North Carolina’s westernmost counties effective Oct. 31, 2023.
Published: Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 @ 12:14 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Southwest Airlines reported a $220 million loss in the fourth quarter and warned investors that fallout from the company’s holiday meltdown would continue.
Published: Saturday, February 4th, 2023 @ 1:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A flight attendant was awarded $5.1 million by a jury on Thursday, finding that Southwest Airlines canned 20-year veteran Charlene Carter for her sincerely held religious beliefs, namely her pro-life views.
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2022 @ 12:43 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Saturday, an Associated Press reporter sparked a national story by claiming that a Southwest Airlines pilot had signed off his greeting last Friday to passengers by saying, “Let’s Go Brandon,” the ubiquitous phrase used as a substitute for “F*** Joe Biden.”
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 @ 6:17 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Wednesday, amidst a lawsuit by the Southwest Airlines pilots to stop the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine job requirement from taking effect — a requirement that some pilots have reportedly argued could affect their ability to do their job if they were to experience side effects.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 10:31 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Tuesday, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines stated they would defy Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order this week barring any employer in the state from requiring COVID-19 vaccines. Both of the airlines are based in Texas.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 11:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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“These open border policies only make it easier for smugglers and transnational criminal organizations to recruit migrants to make the dangerous journey to the southwest border"
Published: Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 @ 8:38 am
By: Thom Tillis
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There is understandably a great deal of attention currently focused on the southwest border.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 9:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Federal law enforcement officials with the U.S. Border Patrol exposed the longest illicit cross-border tunnel ever discovered along the Southwest border on Wednesday in San Diego, California.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 @ 3:47 am
By: Daily Wire
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper visited Southwestern Community College in Sylva to learn about the impact the Finish Line Grants program is making in students’ progress toward good-paying jobs.
Published: Monday, August 26th, 2019 @ 8:13 am
By: Governor's Office
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My husband and I have a vacation to Colorado coming up, and one of my long-time girlfriends is joining us. It all started when Beverly declared she wanted to have a destination birthday party for a milestone birthday.
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2017 @ 4:52 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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As he drove 50 mph across his pasture, it became more and more clear to Mike Corn that the coyote he was chasing was going to make it back to the safety of the trees.
Published: Sunday, May 8th, 2016 @ 4:06 pm
By: Stephanie Butzer
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The following Resolutions were duly adopted by the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners (the "Board"), the governing body of Beaufort County, a political subdivision of the State of North Carolina (the "County"), in a duly called regular meeting on the 7th of July, 2015.
Published: Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 @ 10:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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First, we recommend that the Board direct the County Attorney to petition for Court Order 13 R 85 to be vacated. To leave the Order in force and subject the County to potential contempt of court liability is a potentially serious mistake.
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 3:41 pm
By: Harold Smith
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Tonight in Beaufort County, two Republican commissioners left the board of county commissioners, and two Republican county commissioners took their place, bringing the total to: 4 Republicans, 3 Democrats. As in the past, the Democrats took control of the board and may well remain in control.
Published: Wednesday, December 17th, 2014 @ 6:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Monday evening, the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners voted to stop all spending and construction planning on the proposed new jail by adopting several measures in a resolution presented to the Board by the Stop the Jail Committee.
Published: Sunday, December 7th, 2014 @ 4:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Stop the Jail Committee is pleased with the outcome of the election.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last night, at Beaufort County's General Meeting for October, a majority of Beaufort County Commissioners saw fit to snatch away Commissioner Hood Richardson's constitutional right to his political speech to further their Authoritarian agenda.
Published: Thursday, October 30th, 2014 @ 12:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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These candidates have taken a position to stop the jproposed Southwest County Jail in the Chocowinity Industrial Park.
Published: Thursday, September 18th, 2014 @ 4:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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What was so disturbing about those political consultants, unaffectionately known as the 'Three Stooges' (WSG), is that they participated in the slander of my person through the mailers and the whisper campaign employing only pure lies about my good character.
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 8:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Several years ago the county was refused USDA financing for a justice center at the Minute Man site because the project's sponsors could not demonstrate sufficient community support for the proposal.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 7:29 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Last week I sent you an estimate of the operation expense advantage that could be achieved by a remodeling the Washington courthouse as opposed to building in Chocowinity.
Published: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014 @ 10:32 am
By: Warren Smith
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These are estimated daily expense numbers for the new 176 bed jail as based on an average 140 inmate population, i.e., 110 local inmates plus 30 transfers from state prison system (Al Klemm,: My Turn WDN, March 15, 2014).
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: Warren Smith
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The Southwest County Jail, after the final piece of the puzzle fell into place when Chocowinity's government overruled their advisory board on permitting, was a go.
Published: Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 5:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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