For those uninformed and get all their information from the blogs theguy is correct. But do a little investigation on your own and it becomes more evident that the real problem is elected officials that will lie to anyone to get their way or their vote. Grace Caldwell started the problem about 4 or 5 years ago when she tried to get to be mayor and lost. Since then she has been waging a rumor campaign to discredit anyone who opposed her or that she thought might be supporting the old group. She used a longtime resident to get access to the senior population then preyed on their fears to get their vote and now that she has a council that does her bidding, Tyrone is in deep problems. Over 1/3 of the deficit is attributed to the costs of Grace’s handpicked manager and attorney. Don’t believe everything in the blogs, check it out, go to town hall and get a copy of the proposed budget, look at past minutes on line, make up your own mind.

The reader's digest version is that Barry Amos and Valerie Fowler ran the place for 10 years with zero oversight from the past mayors and council members. They had free run of the place to do what they wanted. Essentially, with all of the growth nobody had the presence of mind to consider that the economy might crash one day leaving Tyrone with services, people, and bills that it couldn't afford.

The only real growth that Tyrone has allowed has been residential. Very few businesses that actually produce high revenues for the Town by way of taxes have been allowed because the elected officials and their residents wanted the city to be a bedroom community. They don't want 74 to like like 85 in Fayetteville. No problem there...

However, after the city started to see its population grow, it started to expand its government and services under the advice of Good 'Ol Barry. Now that the building boom has ceased, the city has very little tax base. At 2.9 mills they have the highest taxes in the county, but it does very little good when you only have about 6 or 7 thousand residents and very little tax generating businesses. Now the city has people and services to pay for that it can barely afford.

It doesn't help that several of the commercial buildings that the city has allowed are now empty. Too much of the wrong kind of commercial development that the city's population couldn't support have been allowed to come in only to close their doors. The taxes from these businesses were counted on for future revenue, but since they were allowed in a city where the couldn't survive, that revenue is gone.

The new mayor and council inherited a huge mess and no matter how hard they try, they can't please everyone and now everyone blasts the nice little city in the blogs, making it the laughing stock of the county.