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Judge Wilton "Rusty" Duke, Senior Resident Superior Court Judge for District 3A, was the keynote speaker at the Beaufort Patriot TEA Party Thursday (2-16-12).
Traditionally, the individual campuses have exhibited a fixation that "more money is necessary." They don't have it within their DNA to reduce spending, no matter how unjustified prior spending was.
The law on the Fourth Amendment's protection from unreasonable search and seizures is evolving. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers North Carolina) ruled last week on what may become a landmark case.
Those who are students of the law (a.k.a legal scholars—as opposed to practitioners) know full well that the law lags behind society and culture.
Gov. Bev Perdue today announced key leadership changes and consolidation at the Department of Health and Human Services as part of her continued focus to provide the best service for the people of the state.
The N. C. Utilities Commission is giving a green light for the construction of the Pantego Wind Energy project.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled today (1-23-12) that police violated a man's Fourth Amendment right of protection from unreasonable search and seizure when they put a GPS tracking device on his car and monitored his movements for 28 day.
This story may be the most important story of the year...both this year and last, except for who is elected on November 6. And the two stories are inextricably tied together.
A Federal appeals court in Washington has ruled that the public has a right to know what jurors put on questionnaires given them during the jury selection process for a criminal trial.
Mike Easley has cut yet another deal. This time it was not to avoid prison but rather to get his law license back in another year.
This is a follow-up to an earlier article on the turnout at the Chocowinity Town Board Meeting Tuesday (1-3-12) night and the anticipated Beaufort County Commissioner's meeting next Monday night (1-6-12).
The General Assembly will next week debate whether to override Gov. Bev. Perdue's veto of the repeal of the Racial Justice Act (RJA).
Governor Perdue has vetoed the repeal of the "Racial Justice Act." (RJA). The Legislature will meet January 4, 2012 to consider whether to override the veto or not. It should do so.
Yesterday Governor Beverly Perdue vetoed SB 9 "An Act to Reform the Racial Justic Act of 2009 to be consistent with the United State Supreme Court Ruling in McClaskey v. Kemp".
Citing personal and family reasons, Second District State Representative Tim Spear told about 250 Democratic Party faithfuls today that he will not run for re-election next year.
This is just about the most absurd situation we've seen in a long time. We've previously reported on the State Auditor's reports of some of the UNC campuses and they all show clearly that the financial condition of the campuses does not justify any kind of tuition or fee increase.
"As of today, I am suspending my presidential campaign ... however, I am not going to be silenced, and I am not going away!"
The N. C. Senate approved SB 9 Monday (11-28-11) sending the bill to the Governor. The bill effectively guts the so-called Racial Justice Act.
Raleigh - Rep. Bill Cook(R-Beaufort/Pitt), currently serving his first term in the North Carolina House of Representatives, recently gained recognition by two leading state and national conservative organizations for his service in the NC House.
What has become both a most celebrated, and scorned political movement is now at the level of full accountability to the public.
We have previously reported several stories of people who have died after being "tasered," or shocked with a stun gun. Moreover, we have also reported recently that the N. C.
The United States of America may be broken. Are you ready to do your part to pick up the pieces and rebuild us?
The Congressional Super Committee, consisting of six Democrats, six Republicans from both the United States house and Senate is on the brink of failure.
In a case that illustrates how important the election of appellant court judges is in this state, a severely divided N. C. Supreme Court last week let stand a 2010 Court of Appeals (COA) decision that outlawed real estate "impact fees" as a means of building schools.
President Barack Obama once again placed leadership aside to take the opportunity to do what he does best - campaign to friendly crowds. It the President finds an unfriendly crowd, he does what he knows best: he becomes a "man of the People," "really listens to the People."
President Barack Obama's ongoing "soak the rich because they are evil campaign" is finally spawning a cop-cat movement, which was always his intended purpose.
Is a stun gun a dangerous weapon capable of inflicting deadly force? That is a question we have raised here on several occasions and suggested that they should be treated as deadly weapons.
The N. C. Baptist Hospital has dropped its suit against Joseph Vincoli. Ordinarily that would not be big news, at least not outside Forsyth County. But it is big news. Here's why.
U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles ruled today (10-27-11) that John Edwards defense in his campaign finance case must go to trial.
We asserted that Vice President Joe Biden was being dishonest about why Obama's "Jobs Bill" should be passed. He contended that if the bill did not pass that "...murders, rapes and fires" would increase.
The loss was huge, his effort was great: And just what will President Barack Obama do now to regain the essential momentum to retake the campaign trail and secure his re-election?
Congressman and GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul was in Greenville Friday (10-7-11) speaking at a rally at the Greenville Convention center in support of Rep. Walter Jones' re-election bid.
Why the titular "The Amazing Story of the Incredible Shrinking President?" Because the man, who is presiding as the chief executive charged with leading the most influential nation in this most unsettled world, is becoming very small, very quickly.
President Barack Obama, long the liberal and moreover, long the favorite of United States Jews, is now seen having his impregnable block vote of Jewish Americans slip away.
Next month the N.C. General Assembly will reconvene to consider putting several constitutional amendments before the voters of this great state.
The SBI has been investigating voter fraud in Wake County after the Board of Elections there turned over information to the Wake County District Attorney.
For the first time in the history of the United States, the United States Government and their United States Treasury has suffered a debt-rating downgrade at the hands of the Standard and Poor's (S&P) rating service, to AA+.
ometimes we agree with the WDN's editorial position and sometimes we don't. Either way we don't hesitate to say so. We think competition in ideas is just as good as competition in other areas.
We don't know of anyone who has advocated more strongly for reduced state spending than have we. And in general we think the Republican-controlled legislature did a good job of doing just that, with some exceptions.
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