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There’s a popular saying in our newsroom we reporters utter more often than others and it has to do with begging for forgiveness being easier than asking permission.

It usually has to do with needing access to a story or information that may be behind police tape, on private property or even downright shady.

In politics, this is also the case—you know, the whole shoot first, ask questions later concept.

Just when you thought goats were welcome in Brunswick County, the state steps in to state otherwise.

According to the North Carolina Department of Administration, it’s time to eradicate all feral goats roaming three spoil islands along the Intracoastal Waterway near Ocean Isle Beach.

This came as surprising news to me this week.

It has been my personal experience that just when you think you’ve seen it all—when something or someone is so ridiculous it seems there’s no way things could possibly get any stranger—they do. They always do.

For example, take any situation lately involving former state Sen. R.C. Soles Jr.

Every time he’s in the news, which is increasing in frequency now that he’s no longer in the state Senate, you think it can’t get any stranger.

But it does. It always does.

To the editor:

The sound of weeping is something we hear often at Brunswick Family Assistance. It isn’t easy for some folks to ask for help paying an electric bill or request a box of food. Once independent, hard-working people across all ages and socio-economic levels find it painful to swallow their pride and ask for assistance, something they’ve never done before.