Join the Beaufort County Community College Foundation, Saturday, Aug. 4, for a trip to Durham to see Christie Brinkley in the musical Chicago and tour Duke University's world-famous Lemur Center.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 6:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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They are heralding solutions to education woes, an anemic economy, joblessness and illegal immigration, but Republican congressional and lieutenant governor candidates in North Carolina's July 17 runoff elections lament that their messages will not spark much voter turnout.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 6:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina can improve its dismal 9.4% unemployment rate - currently fourth worst in the nation. To understand what that takes, however, requires an understanding of what makes a state's economy thrive relative to those of other states.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 6:00 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam, House Majority Leader, released the following statements today after the North Carolina House of Representatives voted to override Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of Senate Bill 416, which modifies the procedures for the death penalty.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 5:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When Chief Justice John Roberts released his majority opinion upholding the constitutionality of President Obama's health care bill, the reaction among conservative and libertarian lawyers, scholars, and policy activists was mixed.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 4:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What a sad day when the Supreme Court loses sight of what the Constitution's purpose is to protect the rights of individuals, and not to take them away.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 4:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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An override of Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's budget veto highlighted a day of votes in which the Republican-controlled General Assembly shot down the governor's vetoes three times.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 3:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mrs. Elsie Barrow Chance, 88, a resident of Cross Creek Health Care Center, formerly of 6458 Sladesville-Credle Road, Scranton, died Sunday, July 1, 2012.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 12:49 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Margaret Marie Short Foster, 79, a resident of 1028 Pamlico Beach Road West, Belhaven, died Friday, June 29, 2012, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 12:46 am
By: Announcements
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John Patrick “J.P.” O’Neal, 72, of 6965 Turnpike Road, of the Rose Bay community, died Saturday, June 30, 2012, at Vidant Pungo Hospital, Belhaven.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 12:38 am
By: Announcements
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The Rev. James Edward Wilson was born on Sept. 22, 1914, in the Old Ford Community, Washington, and passed away on June 20, 2012, in Richmond, Va. Rev. Wilson was a resident of Westminster Canterbury, in Richmond, Va.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 12:33 am
By: Announcements
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