I have always tried to be successful. Back in high school, success meant doing well in classes so that I would get into a good college. Being involved in extracurricular activities or having a job was helpful, but academics were vital. Getting into a top school like Chapel Hill only strengthened...
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 8:19 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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About 1.8 million North Carolinians receive Medicaid benefits, with federal and state taxpayers contributing more than $14 billion a year to the program. Now North Carolina and other states are trying to figure out how to ensure quality care and outcomes, while reducing costs. Katherine Restrepo...
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 5:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest has urged the General Assembly to sustain Governor Pat McCrory's veto of the Reclaim NC Act.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 5:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County resolves that there must be a resolution to the federal government's budget impasse in the United States Senate.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 12:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recently, there has been a buzz about what is to become of Pungo District Hospital, now that Vidant Health, who served as a "White Knight" in 2011 and which may have extended the life of that Hospital, may be looking to cut its losses and close the facility.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 11:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Conceived by former Chancellor Leo Jenkins, named for faithful Pirate philanthropists and stamped with the legends of Stasavich, Dye, Blake, Johnson and others, Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium marks its golden anniversary this fall.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 10:05 am
By: ECU News Services
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Beaufort County Commissioner Gary Brinn offered the false narrative that I, somehow miraculously, had swung 180° to a position that only he could know in his "heart of hearts": 'I had decided that I was in favor of Limited Voting; it was the only way I could get elected.'
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 3:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A day in the life of a juvenile court ... what does it really look like? Is it all about the crazy kids that television dramas portray? Or are they kids that are misunderstood and are innocent about the real effect of their curious behavior? I took a day to travel to a rural northern county here in
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 3:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 3:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The final numbers for Fall Semester 2013 are in and there's good news and bad news for BCCC. Our enrollment reached a new record of 1,985.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 10:11 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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Originally established and owned by Declaration of Independence signer Joseph Hewes in about 1777, the Edenton Ropewalk was the first ropewalk built in North Carolina and was one of the first ropewalks in North America.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 9:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sheriffs from various counties across the state are expressing their support for Governor Pat McCrory's veto of the Reclaim North Carolina Act.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 8:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I am sure 9th district congressman Bob Pittenger's PR people are resorting to heavy drinking by now.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 8:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A high-ranking manager at the UNC School of the Arts will keep her $114,695 a year job despite investigative findings that she improperly gave a state computer to her son for use at college and then obtained another one for herself at taxpayer expense.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Beaufort County Arts Council will present Wilmington artist Elizabeth Darrow in an exhibit at the Washington Civic Center Gallery beginning on Thursday, September 5.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 4:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. William Henry Rollins, age 88, a resident of 2097 Arlington Blvd, Greenville, and formerly of Washington, died Thursday morning August 29, 2013.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 3:58 pm
By: Announcements
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Charlie Edward "Chuck" Godley IV, age 25, a resident of 3687 Wharton Station Road, Washington NC died Tuesday August 27, 2013 as a result of an automobile accident.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 3:33 pm
By: Announcements
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Do you want to go to college but think you have waited too late to start this fall? Or do you want to pick up a class to complete your schedule?
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 3:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Many would consider it bad enough that a majority of the Wake County Board of Education last week approved an ethics policy that could be manipulated or abused to hammer political opponents on the board publicly. But the rest of the story, as radio commentator Paul Harvey famously said, would...
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 8:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Associated Materials Inc. (AMI) will be expanding its manufacturing operation in Lenoir County.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 8:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Fifty years ago, The University of North Carolina passed a Speaker Ban to clamp down on Marxist interlopers trying to poison the young skulls of mush matriculating in Chapel Hill.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 8:14 am
By: Brant Clifton
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On July 15, 2013 at approximately 11:28 pm, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a Burglary at a residence on Terrapin Track Road in Washington.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 7:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Alarmed by what it perceived as a legislative agenda that was encroaching on local school boards' oversight of education, and unnerved by a lack of support from the business community, the North Carolina School Boards Association has created an advocacy organization to protect its interests and...
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 7:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recent modifications to North Carolina's election laws - including changes affecting voter identification, same-day registration, early voting, and absentee ballot applications - would have almost no effect on voter turnout, voting experts say.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 11:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is an old saying, “A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.” After years of mismanagement, our state’s economy is weighed down by $2.5 billion owed to Washington for our unemployment insurance debt.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 10:50 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Mr. William Henry Rollins, age 88, a resident of 2097 Arlington Blvd, Greenville, died Thursday morning August 29, 2013.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 10:25 pm
By: Announcements
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Not too many years ago American schools were the best in the world and our kids were the smartest. But that's not true today.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 10:10 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Mrs. Mary Carliles Shaffer, age 87 a resident of Washington, NC died Wednesday August 28, 2013 at River Trace Nursing Center of Washington.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 9:47 pm
By: Announcements
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Charlie Edward “Chuck” Godley IV, age 25, a resident of 3687 Wharton Station Road, Washington NC died Tuesday August 27, 2013 as a result of an automobile accident.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 9:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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At a small medical practice in the Duplin County town of Wallace, one diagnosis tends to stand out."Diabetes is rampant in eastern North Carolina," said Dr. Mott Blair of Vidant Family Practice-Wallace. "Sometimes it seems like every patient you see has diabetes."
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 9:17 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Mr. James Garland Holliday, age 62, a resident of 87 Water Street, Aurora, NC died Tuesday August 27, 2013 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital of Washington.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 8:11 pm
By: Announcements
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When Watauga High School opened in 2010, Governor Bev Perdue declared that the school was "what education is all about."
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 7:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 6:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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