Whether your team won or lost a good friend put this week's elections in proper perspective.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 11:44 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Billionaire Bill Gates, who has spent millions advocating for and implementing the Common Core Standards in 44 states and thousands of public schools across the United States, sends his children to a private school where it's hard to find any mention of the increasingly unpopular Common Core.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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For all of the words devoted to our student loan mess (or "crisis" or "bubble"), little has been written on its origins. We know that student loan debt now exceeds $1 trillion and that many young Americans are struggling with a heavy burden, but how things got that way is largely a mystery.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 11:15 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The 2014 ozone (smog) season has come and gone. It started on April 1 and ended on October 31. The results for the season are in. There was not a single monitor location, out of 44 across the state, where the EPA standard of 75 parts per billion of ambient air was exceeded. As far as I can tell, thi
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 10:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A crazy local election season has come and gone, and there is quite a bit of change so fasten your seat belts, and get ready for a wild ride.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 10:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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BCCC's Planning Committee has this week made available to our campus community the new Strategic Directions that were recently approved by the Board of Trustees.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 5:58 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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"Facts are stubborn things," future president John Adams said in court. The occasion for Adams' observation is noteworthy, because Adams had taken the highly unpopular, personally dangerous task of defending Capt. Thomas Preston and eight British soldiers accused of shooting and killing five...
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 5:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A ruling Thursday by the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals on gay marriage restrictions in Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan, and Kentucky could open the door to a US Supreme Court review and offer some hope for advocates of traditional marriage.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 5:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Orpha Smith Chesson, age 95, a former resident of the Big Swamp community, died Thursday, November 13, 2014 at Ridgewood Manor Nursing Home in Washington.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 4:22 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Dennis Ray Modlin, age 59, a resident of 3387 Possum Hill Road, Bath, died Tuesday afternoon, November 11, 2014 as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:57 pm
By: Announcements
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I initially registered as a Democrat because my parents were, but also because you had to be a Democrat if you wanted to vote in North Carolina's primary elections in the 1960s.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:51 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Polling, it is said, is more of an art than a science. Pollsters are among the first to say this — particularly when the products, causes, or candidates they project to succeed fall flat.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On 11-6-2014, at approximately 2230 hours, Patrol Deputies with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office responded to a shots fired called at the residence of Rolando Cariaga, 33 years of age, of 910 Carrow Road in Chocowinity.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With most academic fields, we know what they are about. Political science teaches about political systems and their workings; philosophy about how people have thought on questions such as ethics; literature courses have students read and contemplate worthwhile books.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When Harry Price, co-owner of the BesTreads tire retreading business in Davie County, picked up some tires for retreading under contract from the state Department of Transportation, he noticed that the treading on the used tires wasn't up to standard.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Stop the Jail Committee is pleased with the outcome of the election.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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ECU marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War by installing and then tearing down a replica wall Nov. 3 – 6 on the brickyard near Mendenhall Student Center. The wall divided the city of Berlin, but also stood as a symbol for ongoing political...
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:18 pm
By: ECU News Services
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